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INTRODUCTION Sustainable park management encompasses the requirement to provide equal opportunities for access and usage of the park, regardless of age, gender or nationality of the visitors. It thereby presents opportunities as well as problems for today’s heterogeneous global cities. The research presented here is part of the project “Sustainable design, management and appropriation of urban ...

Despite the fact that national parks and other protected areas are mostly adopting the sustainable development process, it was found that sustainability has yet to be perceived pragmatically in these areas. Due to its process, this paper presents a monitoring framework approach to develop and implement indicators for sustainable tourism. To illustrate the application of the framework, a set of ...

abstract amusement programming, accomplishing ecological and/or environmental plans, in addition to establishing recreational centers, are of the important issues in regional and large-scale management of each country. herein, lack of financial resources to establish amusement areas, has led the natural resource management system to valuate such resources based upon new scientific methods. meas...

one of the problems in forest park management, planning, and design is the tendency to consider recreation independent from aesthetic preferences and ecological objectives. this paper presents the findings of an examination of recreational activities in relation to aesthetics and ecological potentials in siangtan forest park in iran. although protected areas constitute most of this 591 ha park,...

Livelihood encompasses the resources and capabilities that individuals households utilize to ensure their survival enhance well-being. This study examined impact of Bole Lemi Industry Park on livelihood systems in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It focused how establishment industrial park affected livelihoods displaced communities. A survey was conducted 379 household heads who were by park, ensuring r...

in this study, sustainable management of saravan park of gilan was planned in the form a decision support system model in 3 periods of 10 years for different states of park and considering the economics, ecological and social criteria. in the first, using fuzzy analytic hierarchy programming, desirable level of economics, ecological and social criteria in their composite utility value in differ...

abstract this paper carried out to study determinants of willingness to pay and ecotourism value of tandoreh natioral park using cross section data of 144 households of dargaz and ghochan and contingent value method and logit model in 2008. results showed that age and entrance offer have negative effect and income have positive effect on willingness to pay for ecotourism in tandoreh natioral pa...

This paper analyzes nonlinear cointegrating regressions as have been recently analyzed in a paper by Park and Phillips in Econometrica. I analyze the consequences of removing Park and Phillips’ exogeneity assumption, which for the special case of a linear model would imply the asymptotic validity of the least squares estimator for linear cointegrating regressions. For the linear model, the unli...