scholarly journals Visitors’ Perception of the Overcrowding of a Protected Natural Area: A Case Applied to the Natural Reserve “Garganta de los Infiernos” (Caceres, Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9503
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Mateos ◽  
Felipe Leco ◽  
Antonio Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Personal Profile ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Tourism Activity

The main objective of this research is to analyse the perception of visitors in protected natural areas struggling with mass tourism. An exhaustive analysis is carried out of both the tourist activity and the profile of the tourists in the Garganta de los Infiernos Natural Reserve (Extremadura, Spain). It studies variables such as the number of visitors, their personal profile, their perception of the protected area after the visit, etc. The method used was non-experimental, descriptive, qualitative and analytical, and it allowed for a better understanding of the profile of the visitors: sex, age, origin, professional profile, etc. The results show the visitors’ conviction about the need to properly manage areas of public use, mainly due to the notable and partly uncontrolled growth of tourism activity during certain periods of the year. On the other hand, the relevance of the actions of the Governing Board of the Natural Reserve is highlighted, as it guarantees public participation and channels the opinions of the main partners involved in the management of the protected area, to ensure a responsible management of tourism activity and improve its quality.

Pricing Beach Congestion

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco López-del-Pino ◽  
José M. Grisolía
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
High Degree

There is a growing need for instruments to control and reduce the impacts of the increasing number of tourists visiting protected natural areas. Among these economic instruments, the use of access fees can have positive effects on enhancing environmental sustainability by reducing the number of visitors. Access fees are also a source of financing the management costs of a protected area. Among the negative impacts of tourism, users of beaches perceive congestion as a factor in reducing the final value of the touristic experience. This article analyses the perception of locals of an access fee to enter the small Canary island of Lobos, a protected natural area with high quality beaches, whose quietness is endangered by an increasing number of visitors, clearly exceeding the current carrying capacity. We approached the problem using different tools: firstly, we looked at visitors’ opinions on the website TripAdvisor to identify whether congestion is perceived as a problem; secondly, we carried out an opinion survey using Likert-type scale questions to capture opinions about crowding and pricing; and finally, we used a discrete choice experiment to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) for accessing the island and reducing congestion. The results reveal a high degree of perception of congestion and the potential of an entrance fee as an effective tool in reducing that congestion and thus generating resources to cover the maintenance costs of the protected area.

scholarly journals Territorial dynamics and boundary effects in a protected area of the Central Iberian Peninsula

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Heras ◽  
Paloma Fernández-Sañudo ◽  
Nieves López-Estébanez ◽  
María Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Boundary Effect ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Mountain Landscape ◽  
New Crops ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
The City

AbstractWe analysed the main changes in land use over a 21 year period within the perimeter of a Protected Natural Area (PNA) and outside this perimeter. The area is characterised by its Mediterranean mid-mountain landscape and its piedmont, which extends almost as far as the city of Madrid. We employed cartography of land use and plant formation from 1980 and 2001. We identified land uses and their changes in this time period in order to determine the principal territorial dynamics (scrub encroachment, urban development, forest encroachment, new pastures and new crops). Subsequently, we performed a comparative analysis between the changes inside and those outside the protected area. The results show that there is a boundary effect between the protected area and the surrounding zone, which is more notable in the areas where urban development has intensified. This kind of research serves to establish whether or not a PNA contributes to protecting and conserving natural resources as compared to what occurs in the unprotected surrounding area, which tends to be subjected to more aggressive dynamics.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS – AN OVERVIEW OF METHODOLOGIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Avramovic
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Protected Area Management ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Key Words Evaluation ◽  
Area Management

Literature contains numerous methods for assessing the effectiveness of protected area management, which are classified in seven categories. The methods differ primarily in the manner of data collection and the manner of implementing protection. This paper analyzes three methods (Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool, Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management, and Protected Areas Benefit Assessment Tool), which we consider to practically applicable in the evaluation and assessment of protected area management in Serbia. Key words: evaluation, effectiveness, protected natural area, methods, management.

scholarly journals Research on the continuation of mining works in the license perimeter of the Peşteana Nord quarry

2022 ◽  
Vol 354 ◽  
pp. 00058
Author(s):  
Daniela Ionela Ciolea ◽  
Vasile Bobei ◽  
Tiberiu Rusu ◽  
Ioana Ionel ◽  
Tudor Andrei Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
The North ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Mining Works

Exploitation works at the North Pesteana Quarry is located in areas with mineral energy resources, and contributes to ensuring the country’s energy security, based on an efficient system of supply of primary resources, production, transport, distribution and supply, to ensure food of all consumers in terms of accessibility, availability and affordability of prices, taking into account the evolution of the quality of the environment. The exploitation surface is isolated from the protected area Jiu Corridor ROSCI0045 through the neighborhoods from the eastern limit-the regularization channel of the river Jiu and the villages Balteni, Peșteana Jiu, Cocoreni, Olari and the neighborhoods from the western limit - the villages Valea cu Apa, Pesteana de Jos, Hotaroasa, Urdari. Lignite mining works do not affect the integrity of the protected natural area; by carrying out the works, the artificial barriers between the natural and the anthropic terrain are not created. The paper presents the results of the research undertaken in 2019 through the technical expertise in File no. 14666/3/2017*, Archive of the Bucharest Tribunal [1]. Measures are proposed to prevent, reduce and, where possible, offset significant adverse effects on the environment, including: measures for the protection of water quality, air quality, protection against noise and vibration, in the field of soil and subsoil quality, biodiversity and measures for the rehabilitation of the land for its subsequent use, etc.

scholarly journals CREATION OF “KULINDA” SCIENTIFIC AND TRAINING STATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF INVOLVEMENT OF THE REGIONAL PROTECTED NATURAL AREA INTO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-299
Author(s):  
N.V. Pomazkova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Training Station ◽  
And Training

One of the main principles of “green economy” is the organization of business activity in such a way as to enhance welfare of people and provide for social equity while considerably decreasing risks of the environmental degradation. The purpose of the article is to study possibilities and conditions of involvement of the regional protected natural area being created into social and economic development. “Kulinda” scientific and training station in the Chernyshevsky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory is being created for preservation and study of the unique location where Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus dinosaur fossils have been found. The station is referred to the new category of regional specially protected natural areas. The performed studies have confirmed the conservation value of the territory and necessity of specially protected natural area creation in the Chernyshevsky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory. The nearest rural settlement (village of Novoilinsk) is an area with an unfavorable socio-economic situation: low standard of living, unemployment, and annual outflow of population. Development of tourism on the basis of natural resources and areas of interest of the scientific and training station is viewed as a possibility to involve population of villages being abandoned into the economic activity. The article analyzes available opportunities and perspective directions of tourism for the object: geological (geotourism), academical (scientific), educational, agricultural (agrotourism), and ecological tourism. In addition, the article considers negative factors hindering the development of rural areas and the scientific and training station: lack of financing, poor transport accessibility, imperfection of service infrastructure, and seasonality of the scientific and training station activity. The author makes a conclusion that development of tourism in specially protected natural areas can become a growing point for economy of rural regions through the development of associated service industries and can contribute to the growth of educational activity of the population.

scholarly journals Primer registro del murciélago desértico sureño (Bauerus dubiaquercus) en el Estado de Tabasco, México

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Rodrigo García Morales ◽  
Víctor Manuel Santiago-Plata ◽  
Freddy Pérez-Garduza ◽  
Elizabeth Pérez-Netzahual ◽  
María Cristina Ricardez-Ines
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Evergreen Forest ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Key Words Chiroptera

Resumen El murciélago pálido tropical (Bauerus dubiaquercus) es una especie poco conocida. Existe escasa información sobre su distribución en México, encontrándose sólo registros esporádicos en los estados de Campeche, Guerrero, Nayarit, Quintana Roo y Veracruz. En septiembre de 2017 se capturó y fotografió un ejemplar de B. dubiaquercus en el ejido Niños Héroes, municipio de Tenosique de Pino Suarez, Tabasco, México. Éste se localiza dentro del área natural protegida Cañón del Usumacinta y representa el primer registro documentado de la especie en Tabasco y el más reciente en la región sureste de México, lo que contribuye al conocimiento de la especie. Palabras clave: Área Natural Protegida, Chiroptera, selva mediana perennifolia, Vespertilionidae AbstractThe southern desert bat (Bauerus dubiaquercus) it’s a little known species. There is little information about its distribution in Mexico, with sporadic records in the states of Campeche, Guerrero, Nayarit, Quintana Roo and Veracruz. In September 2017, an individual of B. dubiaquercus was captured and photographed in the Ejido Niños Héroes, municipality of Tenosique de Pino Suarez, Tabasco, Mexico. This is located within the protected natural area Cañon del Usumacinta and represents the first documented record in Tabasco of the species and the most recent in the southeast region of Mexico, thus contributing to the knowledge of the species. Key words: Chiroptera, medium evergreen forest, natural protected area, Vespertilionidae

scholarly journals Complex nature monuments of the south slope of the great Caucasus and their ecotourism importance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Shahla Ismayilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Practical Importance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
State Control ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
South Slope ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

İncluding multifunctional specially protected natural areas to the complex type of natural preserves enriches the composition of their species and improves its scientific and practical significance. As the study area has rich dendro flora, large areas were taken under state control as a specially protected natural area. In recent years, with a great increase in tourists to this area and the raising of tourism development to the state policy level (2011 year was declared tourism year) the relevance of comprehensive studies of these specially protected areas has greatly increased. It has been important to include them in the tourism routes under serious control. From this point of view, it has a great scientific and practical importance to study the natural preserves both comprehensively and purposefully.

scholarly journals Organization of Geoparks in Russia and Peculiarities of their Legal Regime

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
E. V. Luneva
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Status ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

The paper examines the features of the international status of "UNESCO Global Geopark" that are important for the development of Russian legislation regulating Geoparks. The criteria for the status of a “UNESCO Global Geopark” that affect the national legal regime of the Geopark include the criterion for the presence of geological objects with a protected status on its territory. The author has analyzed the references to national legislation contained in the criteria for UNESCO Global Geoparks. The paper highlights the differences between the UNESCO Global Geopark, the World Heritage Site and the Biosphere Reserve, analyzes the cases of overlaps between the Geopark concept and the concept of a World Heritage site or a biosphere reserve. Also, the author shows that the term Geopark is extremely rarely used in federal legislation (single strategic planning documents) in the context of the need arising in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to regulate the processes of creation and functioning of Geoparks. The author has proven the connection between the Russian legislation on Geoparks, regardless of the further fate of its development, with the legislation on specially protected natural areas.The author determines four possible types of organization and functioning of geoparks in Russia: 1) a geopark as a tourist and recreational zone; 2) a geopark without a legal regime for a tourist and recreational zone and without a legal regime for a specially protected natural area; 3) a geopark with a legal regime of a specially protected natural area in the form of a state paleontological, mineralogical or geological reserve; 4) a geopark as an independent category of a specially protected natural area approved by regional regulatory legal acts. The author specifically describes the legal regime of each type of the Geopark. The author makes suggestions and recommendations for the development of federal and regional legislation on Geoparks in Russia.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of territorial protection of habitats of rare and endangered species of flora and fauna in Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Анна Алексеевна Рыбакова
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Rare And Endangered Species ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Rare And Endangered ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Living Organisms

В данной статье произведен обзор имеющихся в Российской Федерации механизмов территориальной охраны мест обитания редких и находящихся под угрозой исчезновения таксонов живых организмов. Одной из основных и первостепенных функций систем особо охраняемых природных территорий является сохранение биологического разнообразия региона. При этом, особо охраняемая природная территория предстает средством территориального управления, имеющим свой юридический механизм создания и функционирования. Here I provide an overview of the mechanisms of territorial protection of habitats of rare and endangered species of living organisms available in the Russian Federation. One of the main and paramount functions of the systems of specially protected natural areas is the preservation of the biological diversity of the region. At the same time, a specially protected natural area appears as a means of territorial administration, which has its own legal mechanisms of appearance and functioning

scholarly journals LEPIDOPTERA (INSECTA) OF PROPOSED SPECIALLY PROTECTED NATURAL AREA ‘BELOKURIKHA NATURE PARK’ (NORTHERN ALTAI). FIRST RESULTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
S.V. Vasilenko ◽  
A.V. Volynkin ◽  
L.S. Snigireva ◽  
P.Ya. Ustjuzhanin ◽  
E.A. Kuchina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
First Results ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Nature Park

<span>149 Lepidoptera species from 16 families were reported for the territory of the proposed protected area "Belokurikha Natural Park</span><span>"</span><span>. This list is the primary data on the fauna of Lepidoptera in the region. Most of the species belongs to Euro-Siberian and Transpalaearctic groups.</span>

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