Social media data is increasingly used as a proxy for human activity in different
environments, including protected areas, where collecting visitor information is often …

The global challenges of sustainability are transforming the economy of the 21st Century.
Economic, social, and environmental sustainability impacts regulators and businesses …

Managing ecotourism through appropriate zoning is critical for land use planning. This study
is the first to integrate a geographic information system (GIS) with a Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy …

Community-based ecotourism (CBET) has emerged as an alternative that seeks to integrate
environmental, cultural, social, and economic sustainability through community participation …

Many biodiversity-ecosystem services studies omit cultural ecosystem services (CES) or use
species richness as a proxy and assume that more species confer greater CES value. We …

Charismatic megafauna are arguably considered the primary attractor of ecotourists to sub-
Saharan African protected areas. However, the lack of visitation data across the whole …

We used locally-sourced and other relevant information to value ecosystem services
provided by South Africa's terrestrial, freshwater and estuarine habitats. Our preliminary …

The concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multi-scale
processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on …

With the growing demand for cultural ecosystem services around the world, many countries
and regions have recognized the importance of the scenic beauty of villages and have …

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) provide a useful frame for exploring the benefits that
people derive from visiting protected areas. The role that management authorities play in …