scholarly journals How do local people value ecosystem service benefits received from conservation programs? Evidence from nature reserves on the Hengduan Mountains

2021 ◽  
pp. e01979
Author(s):  
Yuqing Liu ◽  
Su Zhou ◽  
Yongzhe Chen ◽  
Hao Cheng ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Local People ◽  
Hengduan Mountains ◽  
Conservation Programs

scholarly journals STRATIFIKASI PENGGUNAAN TAJUK OLEH YAKI (Macaca nigra) DI CAGAR ALAM TANGKOKO DUASUDARA SULAWESI UTARA

ZOOTEC ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Sylvia Laatung
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Local People ◽  
Habitat Condition ◽  
Hunting Pressure ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Macaca Nigra ◽  
The Future

THE USE OF SHOOT STRATIFICATION OF YAKI (Macaca nigra) at DUASUDARA TANGKOKO NATURE RESERVE NORTH SULAWESI. The Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra) habitat at the Tangkoko and Duasudara Nature Reserves in North Sulawesi Indonesia has been the focus of periodic assessment since the late 1970s.  Ongoing habitat loss and hunting remain the primary threats to the macaques in these adjacent reserves.  Surveyed on habitat condition (including vegetation stratum utilization profile) and the interaction between yaki and local people around the nature reserve were conducted over a four-month period. Methods used diagram for habitat profile and interviewed for interaction between yaki and local people. They used stratum A and B frequently (65.21%) in the forest and prefer big trees, with many branch to sleep. The spread of population depends on the availability of resources in the forest. Without increased efforts to reduce hunting pressure and habitat loss, the future of this population is in question. Keywords: The use of shoot stratification, macaca nigra, nature reserve

scholarly journals Opportunities for Systematically Valuing Ecosystem Service Benefits Produced by Federal Conservation Programs

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-191
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Benefit Transfer ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Conservation Programs ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Ecosystem Service Valuation

Federal agencies invest taxpayer dollars every year in conservation programs that are focused on improving a suite of ecosystem services produced on private lands. A better understanding of the public benefits generated by federal conservation programs could help improve governmental efficiency and economic welfare by providing science-based evidence for use in policy decision-making regarding targeting of federal conservation investments. Of specific concern here are conservation investments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). While previous research has shown that efficiency gains are possible using cost-benefit analysis for targeting conservation investments, agency-wide implementation of this approach by policy makers has been constrained by the limited availability of location-specific information regarding conservation benefits. Cost-effective opportunities for integrating location-specific ecosystem service valuation research with USDA conservation decision-making include: (1) institutionalizing funding of comparable studies suitable for benefit transfer, (2) utilizing non-traditional data sources for research complementing benefit transfer, and (3) creating a state-of-the-art program for developing and communicating research in ecosystem service valuation exemplifying the highest standards of scientific conduct.

scholarly journals Construction of Ecological Security Patterns in Nature Reserves Based on Ecosystem Services and Circuit Theory: A Case Study in Wenchuan, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 3220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianying Xu ◽  
Feifei Fan ◽  
Yanxu Liu ◽  
Jianquan Dong ◽  
Jixing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Landscape Connectivity ◽  
Circuit Theory ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Security Patterns

Facing the demands of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service improvement, the spatial pattern optimization of nature reserves has always been a research topic of interest. However, there remains a lack of methodological guidance in the planning of nature reserves and the surrounding areas. To promote the landscape sustainability of nature reserves, we constructed ecological security patterns (ESPs) with two scenarios as a case study in Wenchuan, China. In detail, the ecological sources were identified by ecosystem service evaluation, and the resistance surface was characterized by the habitat quality. The ecological corridors were determined based on circuit theory and the minimum cumulative resistance model. The ecological sources were mainly aggregated in the protected areas, with an area of more than 1000 ha; the high-resistance values were mainly in the area with dense roads or high elevation. There were 21 corridors in the scenario of only optimizing the nature reserve, while 31 corridors were identified when considering non-nature reserves, and the landscape connectivity was enhanced accordingly. The result supported constructing the ESPs between nature and non-nature reserves in Wenchuan to further protect pandas, and a methodological contribution was made to understand the differences of ESPs between them, thus supporting a methodological formulation of sustainable landscape patterns.

scholarly journals Art from Flotsam

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Robert Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Local People ◽  
Northern California ◽  
State Parks

For thirty years Northern California hosted several informal galleries in which local people constructed unsigned sculpture from flotsam. The work received considerable media publicity. The premier gallery was in Emeryville, but several other locations around the Bay were used, along with subsidiary galleries in Arcata and North Bend, OR. All these tidal galleries have become state parks, nature reserves, or otherwise closed to sculpture-building. Given the creative energy of people in the area, future galleries in other tidal locations are likely to arise.

scholarly journals The Ecosystem Service Valuation and Federal Conservation Special Issue of ARER

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Daniel Hellerstein ◽  
Luanne Lohr
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conservation Programs ◽  
Nonmarket Goods ◽  
Ecosystem Services Valuation ◽  
Ecosystem Service Valuation

AbstractValuing the ecosystem services delivered by conservation and stewardship programs is of interest within USDA and across the federal government. Answering these types of questions requires accurate and scientifically sound measures of Ecosystem Service Values (ESVs). While there is a rich literature on valuation of nonmarket goods, it is often difficult to use for the ESVs provided by USDA and other federal agencies. To advance understanding of the use of ESVs in conservation programs, this special issue of ARER presents selected papers from a 2019 workshop entitled “Applications and Potential of Ecosystem Services Valuation within USDA – Advancing the Science.”

Elementy współpracy polskich Wojsk Specjalnych i polskiego kontrwywiadu wojskowego w operacjach typu COIN. Casus Afganistanu

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Machniak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Local People ◽  
Remedial Action ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Efficiency Criterion ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Political Economic

A COIN operation involves both insurgents and local people. Its main goal is to neutralize all conditions enabling the development of insurgent movements or conducive to their development. In COIN operations, the basic efficiency criterion is the destruction or significant reduction of the opponent’s effectiveness and its ability to use local people for its own purposes. Military counterintelligence is responsible for analyzing the capabilities and organizational structure of the enemy’s reconnaissance system, including terrorist organizations or rebels, and planning undertakings that neutralize enemy activities, achieved, among others by recognizing its capabilities and taking remedial action on this basis. Anti-partisan operations constitute a coordinated effort to combat guerrilla activities in the theatre of war of a varied military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and social character, aimed against insurgents and against their impact on the state and the society.

An Important Relationship between Tourism and Hospitality: A Questionnaire Based Survey on Local People, Kolkata, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Shriya Das Mahapatra ◽  
R. K. Patra
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Management ◽  
Local People ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Industry Relationship

It has already been known that recent past tourism depends consistently on hospitality. The present study was aiming to identify the tourism and hospitality industry relationship on the basis of annual income, duration and stay types, tenure of tour, an analysis based survey among local people of Kolkata, India. The survey was done through a questionnaire, which was assessed through random sampling of 200 residents of urban city. The results indicated that lower the income groups but highest duration of stay but tenure of tour may be more than twice per year. In conclusion, people of Kolkata fond of tour because of suitable hospitality management in the tourist spots. Therefore, tourism and hospitality has a close relationship to enhance growth for revenue generation, employment generation, etc.

Conservation and Preservation of Nature Reserves, Monuments andSpecial Architectural or Historic Interest in Nigeria: Towards Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Developed Nations

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.

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