scholarly journals A Serious Game for Exploring and Training in Participatory Management of National Parks for Biodiversity Conservation: Design and Experience

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eurico Vasconcelos ◽  
Carlos Lucena ◽  
Gustavo Melo ◽  
Marta Irving ◽  
Jean-Pierre Briot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
And Training ◽  
Conservation Design

SCETF: Serious game surgical cognitive education and training framework

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Cowan ◽  
Hamed Sabri ◽  
Bill Kapralos ◽  
Sayra Cristancho ◽  
Fuad Moussa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education And Training ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Cognitive Education ◽  
And Training

Critical Transport

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1586-1608
Author(s):  
Claudia Ribeiro ◽  
Tiago Antunes ◽  
João Pereira ◽  
Micaela Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Training

At present, medical knowledge is experiencing an exponential growth. This results in serious difficulties to healthcare professionals in keeping up to date. At the same time, medical education is mostly taught using traditional learning methodologies, not always the most efficient. Recently however, there has been a significant increase in the use of computer games for both teaching and training as several published studies are showing that serious games can be more efficient when compared to traditional learning methodologies. Although the current number of serious games used in medical education is still very limited, the authors agree that it's application could lead to the improvement of medical knowledge and skills. This paper describes the serious game Critical Transport which is based on the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care's recommendations for the transport of critically ill patients, as well as the results of a pre/post-test study focused in determining the Critical Transport serious game efficiency as a training tool for training medical students.

Ecotourism and biodiversity conservation - two way track

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Oosterzee
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
National Parks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Nature Appreciation ◽  
Economic Studies

While not denying that tourism has environmental impacts, tourism's potential to aid biodiversity conservation world-wide is great and needs to be harnessed. However, unless precisely explained, the notion of ecotourism clouds the role of tourism in nature conservation. Therefore I define ecotourism as all visits that focus on nature appreciation and the associated infrastructure (park facilities, tours, accommodation, airlines that bring tourists to the area etc.) that supports these visits. This definition, which is used throughout this paper, helps eliminate the false distinction being made between tourism and ecotourism. Tourism, at the international and national political level, has an influential role as a force for biodiversity conservation by being a rationale for plaCing extra land in conservation reserves, or otherwise by sustainably managing natural areas for their natural values. Using World Heritage Areas (WHA) as an example - perhaps even as an indicator of tourism and its impacts on natural areas ? the little information available suggests that tourism is not often a threat, but that warfare, clearing for agriculture, and poaching are. Regions with an intact tourism industry are also those more likely to have an intact ecosystem. National parks do act as a catalyst for tourism growth. The question is whether tourism can deliver the financial means to undertake management to neutralize the impacts of tourism on biodiversity, or, perhaps more importantly, to fund more extensive works for biodiversity conservation? Few rigorous economic studies have been carried out to provide answers to this question; to define the link between biodiversity conservation and tourism, and to explore ways of making tourism maintain and expand the resource on which its profits are based, thus making the industry world-wide a major force for conservation.

The USA national parks in international perspective: have we learned the wrong lesson?

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Schelhas
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Local People ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Extractive Reserves

A highly polarized debate has emerged in the conservation literature about whether national parks in lesser developed countries should follow a strict protectionist model or find ways to accommodate the development and livelihood needs of local people. A number of social science critiques of national park practice and policy in lesser developed countries have argued that one of the chief problems facing national parks in particular, and biodiversity conservation in general, has been the USA national park model, often termed the ‘Yellowstone model’. This model, in which local and indigenous people and uses have been excluded from parks, has been blamed for harming local people, providing benefits to developed country interests at the expense of local people, high costs of park protection, and ineffective biodiversity conservation (Machlis & Tichnell 1985; West & Brechin 1991; Pimbert & Pretty 1995). Alternatives (henceforth referred to as ‘parks and people’ approaches) seek accommodations between parks and local people, and include community-based conservation, which promotes local involvement and/or control in park decision-making, and integrated conservation and development projects, which attempt to ensure conservation by meeting social and economic needs of local people through agroforestry, forestry, tourism, water projects, extractive reserves, and wildlife utilization.

scholarly journals THE STATE OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS AN ELEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS

2020 ◽  
Vol XXII (4) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Siedlecka ◽  
Izabella Sikorska-Wolak
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
And Training

The aim of the article is to present the state of environmental knowledge of young people. Contemporary perception of environmental problems has been evaluated in recent decades. More and more often are the problems related to climate change and our role in activities to maintain the values of the natural environment directly visible. The implementation of the idea of sustainable development not only in economic but also social life creates opportunities for both broadening one’s knowledge and taking actions for nature. Environmental awareness presented in the article is based on the assessment of the state of ecological knowledge. The research, on the basis of which the article was developed, was carried out in 2004 on a group of students from Warsaw University of Life Sciences, and was repeated in 2019. The research was carried out in a group of students of the faculty of Economics. The obtained results indicated that the main sources of acquiring knowledge on topics related to the environment are changing, and the role of education and training in the educational institution is increasing. On the other hand, the level of ecological awareness, expressed in the state of knowledge, varies in terms of subject matter. In the case of defining the five researched terms, it was possible to observe a higher correctness of the assignment of terms and their definition among the respondents from the second survey carried out in 2019. The respondents from the repeated survey also showed a higher level of knowledge in the field of knowledge of national parks in Poland.

scholarly journals Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 295-332
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Briot ◽  
Marta de Azevedo Irving ◽  
José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho ◽  
Gustavo Mendes de Melo ◽  
Isabelle Alvarez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Agent Simulation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Role Playing Game

The objective of this paper is to reflect on our experience in a serious game research project, named SimParc, about multi-agent support for participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our project has a clear filiation with the MAS-RPG methodology developed by the ComMod action-research community, where multi-agent simulation (MAS) computes the dynamics of the resources and role-playing game (RPG) represents the actions and dialogue between stakeholders about the resources. We have explored some specific directions, such as: dialogue support for negotiation; argumentation-based decision making and its explanation; technical assistance to the players based on viability modeling. In our project, multi-agent based simulation focuses on the negotiation process itself, performed by human players and some artificial participants/agents, rather than on the simulation of the resources dynamics. Meanwhile, we have also reintroduced the modeling of the socioecosystem dynamics, but as a local technical assistance/analysis tool for the players.

A Novel Serious Game for Education and Training of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Programming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggelos Marinakis ◽  
Anastasia Katsamaki ◽  
Ioanna Pateraki ◽  
Evangelos Nikolidakis ◽  
Aristomenis Antoniadis
Keyword(s):  
Education And Training ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Computer Aided Manufacturing ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
And Training

PECULIARITIES OF FINANCING NATIONAL NATURAL PARKS IN POLAND AND UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Taras Mykytyn ◽  
Alina Yakymchuk ◽  
Jaroslaw Szymanski ◽  
Dmytro Zaitsev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Natural Ecosystem ◽  
Natural Parks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Total Economic Value ◽  
The Common

The main sources of financing of national natural parks have been defined. The foreign experience in financing national parks has been analysed. The paper presents the history of creating national parks in Ukraine and Poland, gives their short characteristics. The common issues are revealed in the work of national natural parks and their specifics in each state. The basic prospects of development of the protected areas in Ukraine have been ordered. The innovative mechanisms for biodiversity conservation tools were expanded. The methodology approaches to the biodiversity conservation in the Ukraine’s national state accounts were developed and they are based on the new calculations of the economic evaluation of the natural ecosystem functioning. This technique is based on the concept of total economic value of ecosystem functioning.

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