scholarly journals Managing Tourist Time-Space Movements in Recreational Areas. A comparative study of a protected natural park in the French Alps and the « De Hoge Veluwe ». Dutch National Park using the same methodology / Gérer les mouvements spatio-temporels des touristes dans les espaces récréatifs ; étude comparée à partir d'une méthodologie commune, dans les espaces protégés de montagnes françaises et un parc national néerlandais

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Chardonnel ◽  
W. G. M. van der Knaap
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
National Park ◽  
French Alps ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Time Space

A Comparative Study of Tradeoffs among Trail Attributes at Acadia National Park

2009 ◽  
pp. 256-266
Author(s):  
Kerri Cahill ◽  
Jeἀrey Marion ◽  
Steven Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
National Park ◽  
Acadia National Park

MATING AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR IN DENDROBATID FROGS FROM CORCOVADO NATIONAL PARK, COSTA RICA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Behaviour ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Summers
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
National Park ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Aggression ◽  
Conspecific Male ◽  
Male Aggression ◽  
Corcovado National Park

Abstract1. Mating and aggressive behaviour was observed in four species of dendrobatid frogs in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica: Colostethus nubicola, Colostethus talamancae, Phyllobates vittatus and Dendrobates granuliferus. 2. Males of both species of Colostethus were more likely to respond to call playbacks than male P. vittatus or D. granuliferus. Male D. granuliferus were less likely to be found calling than males of the other species. Conspecific male-male aggression was observed in P. vittatus, but not in the other species. 3. Females were more active during courtship in P. vittatus. Female-female aggression was observed on one occasion in P. vittatus. Females were more likely to reject males than the reverse in all species. 4. These observations suggest that sexual conflict occurs in P. vittatus, but not in C. nubicola or C. talamancae.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Martin Blatt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
World War ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Park Service ◽  
National Park System

Abstract These four essays critique Ken Burns's PBS documentary series The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Burns has over the last several decades established himself as the central producer of PBS multi-part documentaries, addressing such topics as the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and World War II. National Park Service (NPS) leadership recognized the promotional opportunities for the NPS and aligned themselves closely with Burns and PBS. Critical discussion in the essays focuses in three areas: the treatment of Native Americans; the reverential treatment of “nature” in the national parks, and the distorted focus on the natural park in the West as the embodiment of the National Park system.

scholarly journals VALORACIÓN ECONÓMICA DEL PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL CORALES DE PROFUNDIDAD

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Higinio Maldonado ◽  
Rafael Cuervo Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
National Park ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Hypothetical Scenario ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Deep Sea Corals

Deep-sea corals, also called cold-water corals, provide a variety of ecosystem services, including habitat for numerous species and being a source of biodiversity. Despite their importance, these ecosystems are under threat because of trawling and exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. According to the gap analysis conducted by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Research of Colombia (Invemar), during the first decade of the XXI century in Colombia, less than 2% of the known deep coral coverage was found under some category of conservation inside the System of National Natural Parks. In 2013, the Corales de Profundidad National Natural Park was established, and it is located in the Colombian Caribbean Sea, next to the departments of Córdoba, Sucre and Bolivar, close to the Corales del Rosario and San Bernardo National Natural Park. The biological knowledge of these ecosystems is new, as well as the importance of these ecosystems expressed in economic and social terms. Carrying out an exercise that captures the economic value of ecosystem services provided by deep-sea corals in the new national park becomes relevant. The objective of this study is to make a first approach to estimate this value. Given the difficulty of accessing these ecosystems, the benefits provided by them are not directly tangible and are not revealed through markets. In fact, the provided services are related to benefits not associated with direct use (non-use values, such as option and existence values, and indirect use values). Stated preference methods are used to estimate the economic value associated with this type of services; with these methods the strategy is to create a hypothetical scenario and ask respondents to reveal their willingness to pay for the feasibility of these conservation scenarios. The contingent valuation method is the chosen one, whose main instrument for information collection is household surveys. The average estimated willingness to pay per household is around US$58 (110000 COP using the average exchange rate for the third quarter of 2014, when data was collected, COP/USD: 1878) per year. Based on these results, it is possible to calculate the willingness to pay for the entire population of the study, Bogotá citizens. This value is around US$95 million annually (178 billion COP per year). When this value is compared with the budget assigned to this national park, the latter represents less than 1% of the economic value associated with the flow of benefits generated by the park. The lack of resources assigned to this area becomes evident as well as the need to identify and implement alternative funding sources to ensure financial sustainability of the park

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