Buffer Zones Around Protected Areas: A Brief Literature Review

A systematic review of motivational values and conservation success in and around protected areas.

In conservation projects in and around protected areas (PAs), a suite of policy instruments are used to promote conservation behavior in local people. Few studies have related psychological research on motivational values to conservation in PAs. We conducted a systematic review of 120 peer-reviewed articles to assess the relative frequencies of policy instruments that aimed to foster intrinsic ...

Protected areas – protected species?

Wild life: The elusive fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is the top predator in the dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, but very little was known about its biology until the 1990s. The presence of volunteer groups studying its role in the forest’s ecology has also helped to protect its habitat. (Photo: Earthwatch/ Luke Dollar.) The world’s latest national park has just been created in the east of Russ...

Right Ventricular Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy in Children: Brief Review Literature

      Right ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (RVNC) is a genetic heterogeneous cardiomyopathy. Despite the increasing number of RVNC cases, the classification and natural history of this disorder are not completely clear. Also, because the pathogenic non-compaction cannot be easily differentiated from normal trabeculations, it is usually hard to accurately measure the prevalence of RV ...

A Brief Terrain Rendering Literature Review

Rendering terrain data is an important application area in computer graphics. Much early work in computer graphics was motivated by building flight simulators. This is a very taxing application, which requires real-time rendering of potentially very large databases. In addition, terrain rendering is important for geographic information systems and architectural landscape previewing systems. The...

FRI BRIEFINGS Nanotechnology: A Brief Literature Review