Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency

MKS Smith, IPJ Smit, LK Swemmer, MM Mokhatla… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) play a critical role in safeguarding Earth's biodiversity and
contributing to human wellbeing. Maintenance of ecological intactness, financial viability …

No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks

CN Souza, AC Rodrigues, RA Correia… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of digital content has become a powerful tool to evaluate and track macro-scale
trends in human-nature relations. This is an emerging field of study known as conservation …

Harnessing artificial intelligence technology and social media data to support Cultural Ecosystem Service assessments

L Egarter Vigl, T Marsoner, V Giombini… - People and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs), such as aesthetic and recreational enjoyment,
as well as sense of place and cultural heritage, play an outstanding role in the contribution …

Using social media to assess recreation across urban green spaces in times of abrupt change

T Grzyb, S Kulczyk, M Derek, E Woźniak - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
For most of the world's population, urban green spaces (UGS) offer the easiest form of
contact with nature. Such environments deliver a wide variety of Recreational Ecosystem …

Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms

I Jarić, U Roll, R Arlinghaus, J Belmaker, Y Chen… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities.
Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the analysis of online …

[HTML][HTML] What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?

U Schirpke, E Tasser, M Ebner, U Tappeiner - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural and artificial lakes provide multiple cultural ecosystem services (CES), but they are
largely underrepresented in CES assessments, which mostly focus on individual large lakes …

Which environmental features contribute to positive and negative perceptions of urban parks? A cross-cultural comparison using online reviews and Natural …

S Huai, T Van de Voorde - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 - Elsevier
Assessing the perceptions of urban parks and understanding the relationships between
environmental features and park perceptions are critical to the design and management of …

Are social media data and survey data consistent in measuring park visitation, park satisfaction, and their influencing factors? A case study in Shanghai

S Huai, S Liu, T Zheng, T Van de Voorde - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the importance of urban parks for recreation, it is critical to understand how they are
used and perceived. Currently, relatively few studies have examined the public's activities …

Assessing post-disaster recovery using sentiment analysis: The case of L'Aquila, Italy

D Contreras, S Wilkinson, N Balan… - Earthquake …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Memorial days of disasters represent an opportunity to evaluate the progress of recovery.
This article uses sentiment analysis (SA) to assess post-disaster recovery on the 10th …

What is “big data” and how should we use it? The role of large datasets, secondary data, and associated analysis techniques in outdoor recreation research

DT Dagan, EJ Wilkins - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2023 - Elsevier
With researchers increasingly interested in big data research, this conceptual paper
describes how large datasets, secondary data, and associated analysis techniques can be …