participatory conservation, as bottom-up management, is currently the most acceptable modelfor management of protected areas across the world. social context is a central issue in the sustainablemanagement of conservation areas. it is also crucial to introducing participatory conservation. the newapproach therefore recognizes rural communities as key partners in biodiversity management and seek...

inappropriate patterns and drastic changes in land-use have caused the severe environmental crisis. therefore, it is necessary to accomplish any plan in relation to establishment of different activities with respect to land capabilities and land-use evaluation thought. in this study, ecological capabilities and the site selection of land uses in babolrood basin, mazandaran province were evaluat...

Introduction Resources-based tourism is often an economic necessity in natural resources-dependent communities. Tikal National Park, located in the Petén region of northern Guatemala (Figure 1), contains an ancient Mayan urban center and was declared a mixed cultural–natural World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1979 (National G...

In his celebrated Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura published over the period 1537–1575 Sebastiano Serlio introduced four techniques for constructing ovals which have thereafter been applied by many architects across Europe. Using various geometric forms (i.e. the triangle, square, and circle) as a basis they produced ovals made up from four circular arcs. This paper analyses both Serlio’s construct...

one of the purposes of ecotourism is to relax and aspirate the natural energy. sacred and energetic sites are the locations for experiencing the relaxation. since 2005 the ecotourism for aspirating the natural energy or spiritual ecotourism has been developed in iran. there are some places in iran which have a kind of energy as subtle energy for increasing personal health and awareness. these p...

Ethics committee approval was obtained for the research from Committee of Sirnak University on 09.04.2021 (No:2021/32). The main purpose is to examine relationship between people's ecotourism awareness and their perception, who living in Şırnak province. In this context, data were collected by questionnaire April 10 May 30, 2021 using quantitative method. Data through WhatsApp, Facebook, e-mail...

Tourism resources in the Northern Piedmont in the Qinling Mountains (NPQM) are quite abundant and play an important role in the development of the tourist industry in Shaanxi Province. Based on reviewing the status quo of ecotourism in the NPQM and existing issues, this paper puts forward countermeasures and recommendations for sustainable development of ecotourism in the NPQM. Firstly, a syste...