Forest ecosystems in Tanzania vary from mountain to riverine forests along the eastern arc mountain range, to miombo and acacia woodlands found across the country, to mangroves on the coast. Forests are important to Tanzanian economy and society due to the diverse goods and services they provide, including wood, water, fodder, medicine, fuel, food, shelter, employment, recreation, various habit...

BACKGROUND Increasing access to health and social services through service-integration approaches may provide a direct and sustainable way to improve health and social outcomes in low-income families. METHODS We did a community-based randomized trial evaluating the effects of two service-integration practices (healthy family lifestyle and recreational activities for children) among low-income...

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Human demand for ecosystem services dominates changes and impacts the temporal–spatial patterns of their trade- offs. In process urbanization, supply service, regulation cultural service are difficult to improve in synergy city its surrounding areas, which is tough urban construction development. This study took Chaobai River basin located Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei megaregion northern China as rese...

This report provides some economic background information on the size and recent growth of the Cairns/FNQ regional economy with special reference to the Recreation and Personal Services sector, incorporating tourism. This information provides background for an assessment of the regional economic impact of the Cairns casino, which may be undertaken using the input-output approach.

This paper discusses the empirical and theoretical underpinnings of the travel cost method (TCM) for estimating nonmarket benefits at an outdoor recreation site. The conventional TCM model is simple to use and provides results that are easy to interpret. However, it does not describe the actual behavior of recreationists as they purchase goods and services for the purpose of making trips to an ...

Rangelands are the main sources of forage for livestock feeding by localpeople. Beside forage production, rangeland ecosystems provide many other goods andservices such as medicinal plants, recreation, soil and water conservation, wildlife habitat,fishing, hunting, hiking, etc. Nevertheless, there are no much information about the waythat local communities think about the rangelands goods and s...

The recreational use of the Tonto National Forest, Ari­ zona was investigated by using data on ethnic and racial subgroups. The Tonto is a Class 1 urban proximate forest adjoining the large, culturally diverse population of the Phoenix. An on-site survey of 524 recreating groups found sufficiently large numbers of Anglos (n=425) and Hispanics (n=82) who participated in our study. Analyses indic...

this study aims at assessing the impact of land use change (from forest areas to forest parks) on some silvicultural characteristics of stands under recreational land use in boloran natural forest park, kuhdasht. for this purpose, three zones including non-recreation, extensive recreation and intensive recreation regions were chosen. in each zone 30 sample plots in a systematic random design (1...