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Restoring naturalness to national parks

Environmental Management, 1985
National park resource management planning requires ecological information describing the objectives to be achieved. This information must be quantitative and unambiguous. Since most acts creating United States national parks, beginning with the Yellowstone National Park Act of 1872, specify that these parks should be maintained in a natural condition,
Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Edward C. Stone
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Wildrock Nature Play Park Audit

2021
This project is a collaborative effort between a University of Virginia graduate student team and Wildrock to audit the existing green spaces in Charlottesville as potential sites of nature play. Wildrock is a three-year old nonprofit nature play and discovery center dedicated to promoting nature play for health and happiness through educational ...
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Park improvements and park activity: a natural experiment.

American journal of preventive medicine, 2012
Parks are an important setting for leisure-time physical activity. Understanding how to attract residents to parks and encourage park users to be physically active is an important public health initiative. Natural experiments are a research priority for investigating whether changes to the physical environment affect physical activity; however, natural
Jenny, Veitch   +4 more
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Measuring Tourism in Natural Parks

2020
Official statistics does not capture the whole volume of tourism, particularly in natural parks without physical boundaries to enter and count visitors. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to use and adjust data from mobile tracking to estimate the size of unmeasured tourism.
Iria Dios-Murcia   +2 more
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Natural history museums, parks, and connection with nature

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2014
Experiences in natural settings, and indirect nature experiences such as films, increase both well-being and environmentally protective behavior. Thus, public facilities such as natural history museums may facilitate pro-environmental behavior changes.
Katherine D. Arbuthnott   +2 more
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Croatia's National Parks and nature parks

2008
Turistička monografija opisuje sve hrvatske nacionalne parkove (Plitvička jezera, Krka, Kornati, Mljet, Brijuni, Sjeverni Velebit, Paklenica i Risnjak) te sve parkove prirode (Kopački rit, Lonjsko polje, Vransko jezero, Telašćica, Velebit, Biokovo, Učka, Papuk, Medvednica, Žumberak - Samoborsko gorje i Lastovo).
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TOMAS National parks and nature parks 2006

2009
Zaštićena prirodna područja, i u svijetu, i u Hrvatskoj, izložena su sve većem pritisku posjetitelja što ima negativne posljedice na zaštićene krajolike, biljni i životinjski svijet. Istodobno, lokalne društvene zajednice od turizma na tim područjima očekuju gospodarske učinke.
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