The Galápagos Islands face the challenge of conserving their biodiversity while moving toward a more sustainable tourism model. In August 2024, after 24 years without changes, the entrance fee for the Galápagos National Park and Marine Reserve was updated: from USD 100 to USD 200 for foreign...

This Atlas embodies years of work by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in collaboration with its partners in Africa and further afield to share the knowledge acquired over the many years of work around protected areas in Africa. It aims at providing technical and scientific input of...

The EU Blue Parks Community under the EU Mission 'Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030' brings together EU Member States' national, regional and local authorities, European marine networks, businesses, and research and innovation projects to collaborate on marine protection and restoration in EU...

Most people consider parks important for their quality of life, yet systematic causal evidence is missing. We exploit exogenous variations in their use values to estimate causal effects. Using a representative household panel with precise geographical coordinates of households linked to...

The rapid rise of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and recharging infrastructure in Europe, driven by the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) and the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), underscores the need for robust fire safety measures in covered parking...

This policy brief summarises key findings from the project Hidden Barriers to Conservation-Addressing Social Acceptability to Enhance Effective Management in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, conducted by Heriot-Watt University with the support of The Rufford Foundation, in collaboration with the...

Protected areas are crucial for landscape-scale conservation, but striking a balance between centralised guidance (heteronomy) and local autonomy (self-determination) is essential. This balance is particularly important for parks that cross administrative boundaries or impose land-use...

The expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a core focus of global conservation efforts, with the "30x30" initiative to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 serving as a prominent example of this trend. This paper examines a series of proposed MPA network expansions of various sizes and...

Tourism projects may have both positive and negative consequences for communities that live in and around protected areas. Protected area managers, project proponents and community members should be made aware of these possibilities during the design phase, risks should be identified, and then...

This Atlas embodies years of work by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in collaboration with its partners in Africa and further afield to share the knowledge acquired over the many years of work around protected areas in Africa. It aims at providing technical and scientific input of...

The National Integrated Protected Area System (NIPAS) Act of 1992 legislated the identification and classification of 17 protected areas in the country. This was amended by the Expanded National Integrated Protect Area System (E-NIPAS) in 2018 which increased coverage to more than a hundred. A...

Studies on residents' ecological conservation behaviors primarily focus on personal and socio-economic factors, neglecting crucial psychological aspects like intentions and perceptions. To address this gap, this study investigates the implementation of the ecological resettlement policy in the...

This study examines the socio-economic externalities of two representative industrial parks(IPs) in Ethiopia: the privately-owned Eastern Industrial Park (EIP) and the state-owned Bole Lemi Industrial Park (BLI),especially on their distinct social and economic impacts. This study adopts a...

This article examines the application of one of the forms of modern public management-public-private partnership (PPP)-in the forestry sector. This contributes to the search for new forms and methods that uphold the principles of sustainable development, decentralization, liberalization and...

This study investigates the association between job satisfaction and personnel performance in Nigeria's National Park Service, highlighting key associates and implications for organizational effectiveness.

This exploratory study addresses the lack of literature on circular value networks in sustainable tourism ecosystems. The authors argue that circular, cross-industrial value networks can optimize the use of both tangible and intangible resources within a tourism region, fostering sustainable...

Green marketing is a tool used to encourage the promotion of goods or services, which mainly seeks to safeguard the environment from social, political, and economic activities. The objective of this study was to design green marketing strategies to promote nature tourism in the Coto de Caza El...

In European marine environments, various fishing gears contact the seabed, including mobile bottomcontacting gears (MBCGs) towed across the seabed. This study evaluates innovative alternatives to bottom trawling in EU marine protected areas (MPAs), examining their effectiveness, feasibility, and...

Purpose - Mangrove forests are one of the most bio-diverse and productive wetland environments on earth. However, these unique tropical forest environments that occupy coastal areas are among the most threatened habitats globally. These threats include logging, conversion of land for agriculture...

Nature-based tourism offers several positive effects, including bringing tourists closer to nature and increasing environmental awareness among them, creating new sources of employment, diversifying local and regional economies, promoting the conservation of local ecosystems, and protecting...

Green infrastructure has emerged as an opportunity to balance sociocultural and ecological benefits, alongside the potential for biodiversity conservation in cities. However, key design challenges that remain unsolved including 1) how to effectively balance biodiversity conservation and...

National parks are rare natural resources that provide refuges for wildlife, harmonious ecology, and leisure activities. These protected areas, which include a variety of ecosystems, habitats for wildlife, and geological wonders, have been set aside to preserve and highlight the beauty of the...

Conservation of biodiversity at the field, farm and landscape levels is one of the agroecological principles. In Europe low-intensity farming practices which promote farmland biodiversity are financially supported by different agri-environment measures as part of the rural development policy...