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Developing a national approach to visitor data collection, management and use for protected areas: thoughts from Australian research and practice [PDF]

, 2008
Information on visitor numbers, activities, expectations and satisfaction is vital for protected areas managers on two counts: to assist in the provision of the services and facilities that visitors need and want; and to determine if managers have been ...
Griffin, T., Darcy, S., Moore, S.A., Crilley, G.   +3 more
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A Robust Dual-Mode Machine Learning Framework for Classifying Deforestation Patterns in Amazon Native Lands

Land
The integrated use of remote sensing and machine learning stands out as a powerful and well-established approach for dealing with various environmental monitoring tasks, including deforestation detection.
Julia Rodrigues, Mauricio Araújo Dias, Rogério Negri, Sardar Muhammad Hussain, Wallace Casaca   +4 more
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Exploring the Role of Private Wildlife Ranching as a Conservation Tool in South Africa: Stakeholder Perspectives

Ecology and Society, 2008
Rich in biological diversity, South Africa's natural habitats are internationally recognized as a conservation priority. Biodiversity loss continues, however, and limited scope to enlarge the state-protected areas, combined with funding shortages for ...
Jenny A. Cousins, Jon P. Sadler, James Evans   +2 more
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Private protected areas exhibit greater bias towards unproductive land compared to public protected areas

Environmental Research Communications
Abstract Globally, private protected areas (PPAs) have become an important tool for biodiversity conservation. While they are expanding in size and number, there is limited evidence on their potential impact on avoiding biodiversity loss, and how this impact compares to the public protected areas (public PAs). The impact of protection is
Roshan Sharma, Simon Jones, Lucy Bastin, Ascelin Gordon   +3 more
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A Generalizable Framework for Building Executable Domain‐Specific Large Language Models Under Data Scarcity: Demonstration on Semiconductor Technology Computer‐Aided Design Simulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A schema‐first alignment framework builds compact, executable domain‐specific language models under data scarcity. Large‐scale synthetic question‐answer generation instills domain knowledge, and a code‐centric IR‐to‐DPO pipeline aligns generation with tool‐executable syntax.
Di Wang, Zhenhua Wu, Yu Liu, Kai Chang, Shaohua Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous tourism in protected areas: issues and possibilities

, 2008
Protected area managers increasingly recognise that the maintenance of both cultural and biological diversity is crucial for ensuring the resilience of social and ecological systems (Berkes, Colding, Folke, 2000).
Hyams, W., Birtles, A., Valentine, P., Rist, P.   +3 more
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Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru

People and Nature
Voluntary land conservation, including privately protected areas (PPAs), is a key component of enabling the future of biodiversity on Earth. Accordingly, the question of motivations has preoccupied conservation social science.
Rocío López de la Lama, Nathan Bennett, Janette Bulkan, Santiago de laPuente, Kai M. A. Chan   +4 more
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Identifying synergies and differences in multistakeholder conservation priorities using participatory mapping interviews

Ecology and Society
Broad-scale deforestation has reduced habitat area and connectivity for wildlife in the Neotropics. Costa Rica has attempted to reverse this trend by developing a network of biological corridors to connect protected areas.
Cody M Cox, Nathan Nibbelink, Wayde C Morse   +2 more
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A Scalable and Resource‐Efficient Pipelined p‐Computer for Probabilistic Ising Machines

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
(a) Block diagram of the portfolio optimization problem: given M assets, the goal is to determine the optimal weights w that maximize the expected return (based on the mean historical assets return u), while minimizing the risk, quantified by the assets covariance matrix S.
Deborah Volpe, Eleonora Raimondo, Andrea Grimaldi, Pedram Khalili Amiri, Stefano Chiappini, Anna Giordano, Mario Carpentieri, Hyunsoo Yang, Massimo Chiappini, Giovanni Finocchio   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Need, Greed or Customary Rights - Which Factors Explain the Encroachment of Protected Areas? Empirical Evidence from a Protected Area in Sulawesi, Indonesia [PDF]

The encroachment of protected areas for agricultural and livestock production is an important challenge for nature conservation in developing countries.
Zeller, Manfred, Birner, Regina, Maertens, Miet   +2 more
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