Mangrove forest ecosystems confer various advantages to human populations, including but not limited safeguarding against tsunamis and abrasion, sequestering carbon, serving as fish breeding grounds, providing recreational opportunities. The provision of welfare stimulation economic growth for local population can be facilitated by the or tourism value. Nevertheless, significance mangrove fores...

Where they dominate coastlines, seagrass beds are thought to have a fundamental role in maintaining populations of exploited species. Thus, Mediterranean seagrass beds are afforded protection, yet no attempt to determine the contribution of these areas to both commercial fisheries landings and recreational fisheries expenditure has been made. There is evidence that seagrass extent continues to ...

The recovery of marine megafauna can lead to improved ecosystem function and services, but not all stakeholders may benefit equally. Quantifying the local economic value a species’ presence appeal broader range when developing conservation strategies. This study aims examine effect recreational activities have on region, determine what role southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) had visito...

A nationwide recreational fishing survey in Sweden was used to estimate the benefits of Sweden. The targeted Swedish population and, consequently, sample contained a large fraction zero days. To consider this, zero-inflated Poisson model estimations. Swedes fished about 15.6 million days 2013, which two-thirds were spent on inland fishing, and one-third marine coastal fishing. Expected consumer...

Estuary Ecosystem, the second largest estuary in North America and home to hundreds of species of ecological, commercial, and recreational value. Unlike other estuaries in the Mid-Atlantic, the Delaware estuary’s tide range is greater than the ocean tide range, generally about 2 meters. Beaches account for 52 percent of the bay’s shore, with marsh and eroding peat accounting for most of the rem...

The Nasorosso project of the Italian Youth Department and the National Institute of Health, aimed to raise awareness about drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol among club goers with a series of initiatives. Within the framework of the project, blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was measured on 106,406 individuals before and after clubbing in 66 different recreational sites from 11...

this method is based on assigning some weghing values for natural, cultural, and recreational resources of a site for national parks. numerical value are used to determine whether a particular area is suitable for the of national parks. delfi technique is also employed to reduce the subjectivity as well as, bias in site selection, criteria used in parts of the world for this p~ are the basis of...