Above: In many wilderness areas, recreational access must be limited so that visitors can experience solitude and pristine ecosystems. One challenge facing wilderness managers is finding the balance between access and preservation that maximizes those values. D av id N . C ol e monitoring conditions, implementing restricted permit systems or other visitor management techniques, educating visito...

Domestication of dogs, buffaloes (?), elephants, and fowls occurred in India between 6000 and 4500 BC. Strong archaeological evidence is available for existence of an advanced civilization in Mohenjo-daro, Harappa (now in Pakistan) and certain other places in northern India around 2500 BC. The people of these civilizations had both humped and humpless cows, buffaloes, elephants, goats, fowl, et...

Flood conditions present dangers for canoe camping, with the highest risk injury or death related to water submersion of paddlers. Other hazards can exist at high stages as well. This essay discusses preparation risks associated travel during record flood in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. It examines unique aspects paddling through submerged forests, route detours necessitated by flooding...

The Pleistocene Fluvial-lacustrine of Ait Hajji Formation is located in South East of Tiddas, and in the Quaternary deposits of the Moroccan Central Plateau. These outcrops represent on a geomorphosite of great importance for the study of geological heritage, and for a natural eco-tourism valorization in Morocco. For to aim a natural tourism promotion, for indigenous peoples, this geomorphosite...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether there is an increased positive effect on children's attitude when they are taught about the environment in an outdoor/hands-on setting versus an indoor traditional classroom setting. The study focused on grade four students in the Clark County School District. Half of the group was comprised of students that were taught about the environment usin...

ŠVEC, R., PÍCHA, K., WHITE BARAVALLE GILLIAM, V. L., NAVRÁTIL, J., DOLEŽALOVÁ, H.: The impact of visitor segments on the perception of the quality of the product of accommodation establishments. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2012, LX, No. 7, pp. 399–408 The aim of the paper is to evaluate diff erences in the quality perception among particular segments of demand. Data for analysis...

Adze quarries and sources are some of the most visible, unique well-preserved Polynesian archaeological sites where stone technology, intensification production, other aspects economy, social organisation ritual practices anchored together on landscape. The production exchange adzes associated with complex interaction networks connecting islands archipelagos up to 4000 km distant making amongst...

Tourism ranks among the most important economic activities in world. Recent figures from World Organisation (UNWTO, 2018) show that number of international tourist trips reached nearly 1.4 billion 2018, generating an impact estimated US$ 1.7 (and 10 per cent jobs world). Despite fast growth many competitive destinations, Europe is still main destination with 51% arrivals and 39% total income ge...

Emerald ash borer (EAB) is thought to have arrived in North America and European Russia at least 10 years prior detection. Despite heightened awareness that EAB could invade Great Britain (GB), detection the early stages of establishment difficult, initial symptoms might be mistaken for Chalara dieback. Our results suggest if partial resistance Fraxinus excelsior does not significantly dampen p...

Many firms run into crises that threaten their existence. These crises result partly from properties of the firms themselves and partly from properties of the firms' environments. The crises arise and grow stronger partly because top managers hold incorrect beliefs. To make crises rarer, top managers should listen to dissenters and to forthright subordinates, convert happenstance events into le...