Land evaluation and carbon flux estimation to reinforce natural protected areas: a case study in Southern Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Mendoza-Vega ◽  
Ingmar Messing ◽  
Víctor M. Ku-Quej ◽  
Luciano Pool-Novelo ◽  
Jesús Chi-Quej
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Carbon Flux ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
Flux Estimation

Integrating conservation and socioeconomic development: the potential of community nurseries in Mexican protected areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-317
Author(s):  
Adriana L Luna-Nieves ◽  
Eduardo García-Frapolli ◽  
Consuelo Bonfil ◽  
Jorge A Meave ◽  
Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Natural Protected Areas ◽  
Attractive Option ◽  
Funding Programme ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Governmental Funding ◽  
Economic Improvement

SummaryCommunity nurseries within natural protected areas (NPAs) represent an attractive option to link biodiversity conservation with socioeconomic development, yet their functioning lacks proper assessment. Here, we analyse the national context of community nurseries in Mexican NPAs and suggest a specific framework to evaluate their viability. First, we examine the impact of a major governmental funding programme on these projects. Next, we conduct a case study in a focal nursery to identify challenges faced by its operation. Despite the large number of community nurseries funded by the programme, current performance indicators are not suitable to assess their viability. In turn, the case study reveals this nursery’s partial success, with a clear contribution to social development but a limited impact on economic improvement and vegetation conservation. Regardless of the characteristics of individual community nurseries, we suggest a framework that is potentially useful for evaluating community nursery viability, which enables agencies to detect problems, find solutions and use resources efficiently, while balancing biodiversity conservation and development.

scholarly journals Tourist Mobility at the Destination Toward Protected Areas: The Case-Study of Extremadura

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4853 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Sánchez Martín ◽  
Juan Rengifo Gallego ◽  
Luz Martín Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Shortest Path ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Natural Protected Areas

The use of natural protected areas has been analyzed abundantly in the relevant literature, although on many occasions these areas are studied from the viewpoint of their role as a tourist destination in themselves, while neglecting their role as a tourist attraction that can be visited from the main destination of their stay. In certain specific areas, as in the case of Extremadura, protected areas are often a complementary destination for visitors who are staying in popular tourist hubs. This study is based on data from 4 different spaces (with different degrees in their status as protected areas) about the flow of tourists they generate at the destination. In light of the data, this paper identifies the 41 towns and villages with the most tourists, later to determine their mobility towards natural protected areas. Information was collected from almost 14,000 surveys that were filled at 52 tourist offices. This information allowed us to map the flow of tourists from their places of stay to the protected areas analyzed here, which resulted in the mapping of relevant networks by means of a Geographic Information System following the criterion of shortest path available. The results here clearly demonstrate that each area has a varying capacity to attract visitors, although in a large proportion of cases, the 60-min isochrone is a boundary beyond which the number of visitors drops significantly.

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