Over the past decades, a number of national policies and international conventions have been implemented to promote the expansion of the world's protected area network, leading to a diversification of protected area strategies, types and designations. As a result, many areas are protected by more than one convention, legal instrument, or other effective means which may result in a lack of clari...

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This paper investigates how the introduction of user fees and defensive expenditures changes the complex dynamics of a discrete-time model, which represents the interaction between visitors and environmental quality in an open-access protected-area OAPA . To investigate this issue more deeply, we begin by studying in great detail the OAPA model, and then we introduce the user fee β and the defe...

The advent of location-based technologies deployed in protected areas provides both visitors and managers of such areas with new opportunities. In this paper we investigate the potential for mining individual tracks of visitors’ geospatial lifelines to both extract information describing aggregated patterns of group behaviour and characterise individual actions. Methods to spatio-temporally clu...

Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu To cite this article: Wei Liu, Christine A. Vogt, Frank Lupi, Guangming He, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jianguo Liu (2015): Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2015.1071380 To link to this a...

Excitement among social scientists about the discovery of randomized controlled trials has been tempered by the recognition that experimental research and related designs may be infeasible, prohibitively expensive, or even unsuitable for an enormous range of questions of interest to social science and policy (1–3). Recourse to matching-based statistical approaches can enable more transparent ca...

Covering almost a quarter of Brazil, the Cerrado is the world's most biologically rich tropical savanna. Fire is an integral part of the Cerrado but current land use and agricultural practices have been changing fire regimes, with undesirable consequences for the preservation of biodiversity. In this study, fire frequency and fire return intervals were modelled over a 12-year time series (1997-...