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Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
Biosphere reserves and nature parks are protected areas that aim to combine nature conservation with human-development goals. These areas provide ideal environments for promoting and testing sustainable ways of living.
Thea Xenia Wiesli, Thomas Hammer, Florian Knaus   +2 more
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Small forms in the landscape of modern urban city parks [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Today, the culture of modern parks and landscaping is relevant and rapidly developing. A modern park is not just a green area for recreation in the spatial environment of the city, it is a zone of comfort, aesthetics, ecology, engineering innovations ...
Mokina Albina, Mokina Anna, Vereshchagina Evelina   +2 more
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Nature-Based Tourism in Asia's Mountainous Protected Areas: A Trans-regional Review of Peaks and Parks. Edited by Thomas E. Jones, Huong T. Bui, and Michal Apollo

Mountain Research and Development, 2022
Reviewed: Nature-Based Tourism in Asia's Mountainous Protected Areas: A Trans-regional Review of Peaks and Parks. Edited by Thomas E. Jones, Huong T. Bui, and Michal Apollo Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021 + 316 pp.
H. Ricardo Grau
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Quantitative assessment of the degree of harmony between humanity and nature for national parks in China: A case study of the Three-River-Source National Park

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionNational parks, defined as the mainstay of the nature reserve system in China, pursue to achieve scientific protection and rational utilization of natural resources.
Yanming Guo, Yanming Guo, Yanming Guo, Xiaojie Liu, Xiaohuang Liu, Xiaohuang Liu, Jiahong Zhang, Haiyan Zhang, Haiyan Zhang, Jiangwen Fan, Nawab Khan, Jiliang Ma   +11 more
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Adopting a cross-scale approach for the deployment of a green infrastructure [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2021
The implementation of a Green Infrastructure (GI) involves several actors and governance scales that need adequate knowledge support. The multifunctionality of GI entails the implementation of a cross-scale approach, which combines assessments conducted ...
Grazia Zulian, Silvia Ronchi, Alessandra La Notte, Sara Vallecillo, Joachim Maes   +4 more
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Nurturing connection with nature: the role of spending time in different types of nature

Ecosystems and People, 2022
Connection with nature has been associated with greater participation in a range of biodiversity conservation behaviours, and is increasingly being recognised as a potentially useful policy tool to address conservation outcomes. Yet, understanding of how
Melissa Anne Hatty, Felix Tinoziva Mavondo, Denise Goodwin, Liam David Graham Smith   +3 more
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Pour des relations apaisées entre les sociétés humaines et la Nature : la voie humaniste des Parcs Naturels Régionaux

Développement Durable et Territoires, 2017
For 50 years, natural parks have shown in their many territories that the protection of the natural heritage is reconcilable with the development of human activities.
Fédération des Parcs naturels régionaux de France
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Towards Integrated Governance of Landscape Development : The Swiss Model of Regional Nature Parks [PDF]

, 2008
Coherent regulation of landscape as a resource is a major challenge. How can the development interests of some actors (eg cable car operators and property developers) be reconciled with those of others (agriculture, forestry) and with conservation of ...
Gerber, J.-D., Knoepfel, P.
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Evaluation of the reality of public open areas in Mosul [PDF]

آداب الرافدين, 1988
Public open areas are places for outdoor recreational activities in the open air, and they are based on an biological need that enables a person to maintain some relationship between the natural environment within an urban setting, and that these ...
Dawood ِAjaj
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Welche Nationalparke braucht Deutschland?

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2022
National parks are the oldest and most popular category of protected areas worldwide. They focus on two main issues: firstly the protection of nature, undisturbed natural processes and the conservation of biodiversity.
Hubert Job
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