Cultural ecosystem services for development of nature-based tourism in Bulgaria

Nikolova, Mariyana; Stoyanova, Velimira; Varadzhakova, Desislava; Ravnachka, Aleksandra

doi:10.3897/jbgs.e78719

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“…The paper "Recreational ecosystem services for the development of nature-based tourism in Bulgaria" presents an assessment of natural heritage potential to provide goods and services to develop different kinds of nature-based tourism in Bulgarian tourist regions. The results show that only 37 municipalities of 265 have no one natural heritage site, and all the rest have natural recourses to develop nature-based tourism of different types (Nikolova et al 2021b). The results may help optimize the tourist regions' policy and development priorities regarding better and sustainable use of the natural heritage.…”

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confidence: 96%

Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

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Nedkov²,

Borisova³

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Section: Opportunities To Solve Specific Challenges For the Development Of Recreation And Tourismmentioning

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Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

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Nedkov²,

Borisova³

et al. 2021

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“…The assessment result shows very high capacity of the mountain ecosystems in Bulgarian National Parks to generate flow of RRCES (Nikolova et al 2021b). The expert-based assessment applied in the cited study use scale from 0 to 5 and the results show that 50% of the selected services exceed 4 scores, Fig.…”

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“…The studies focused on the assessment of RRCES are much more in Bulgaria (Nedkov et al 2014;Nedkov et al 2018;Ihtimanski et al 2020;Hristova and Stoycheva 2021;Hristova 2020;Dodev et al 2021;Grigorov et al 2021;Nedkov et al 2021a;Nedkov et al 2021b;Nedkov et al 2022;Silvestriev et al 2021;Zhiyanski et al 2021;Nikolova et al 2021b;Nikolova et al 2021c) than those on the accounting of these services, and very few of them are dealing with the protected areas (Assenov et al 2016b). However, in most of the published papers, the accounts referee the mountain ecosystems (Koulov et al 2017;Assenov et al 2017;Assenov et al 2016a;Ivanova et al 2016;Grigorov and Assenov 2015;Assenov et al 2016b).…”

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Valuation of recreation-related cultural ecosystem services provided by Pirin National Park, Bulgaria

Nikolova¹

2022

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The aim of this study is to propose a method for accounting of the recreation-related cultural ecosystem services (RRES) provided by protected areas of category National Parks оn the example of Pirin National Park (Pirin NP), Bulgaria in accordance with the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework and the System of National Accounts (SNA) principles. The suggested Tourist consumption products – based method measure the value of actual recreation-related ecosystem services (RRES) flow as a difference between demand and supply of RRES provided by a protected area. It is based on respective indicators: Total tourism products consumption by the visitors of the NP (demand) and Expenditures for maintenance of the asset’s ecosystems (supply). The results show that the average value of RRES flow is estimated on BGN 170 Million for the period 2015 – 2019. The proposed method for valuation of RRES in protected areas of category National Park gives reliable results, based on a minimum of data which are public or easily accessible.

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“…Moreover, according to Nedkov (2017) and Nikolova et al (2021a) the ecosystem services concept provides a scientific framework, which links the natural heritage with the social system. In addition, Nikolova et al (2021b) note that the ecosystem approach is recommended for maintaining a good balance between the potential of the natural heritage to provide cultural ES and the need for recreation.…”

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How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

Prodanova¹,

Varadzhakova²

2022

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Ecosystems representing the Natural Heritage (NH) are considered in this study as an important source of ecosystem goods and services for human well-being. On that spatial base, we conducted an expert-based assessment and mapping of their potential to provide ecosystem services (ES) for recreational purposes in Bulgaria. Twelve experts participated in the expert-based assessment by filling individual matrices for the potential of the NH to provide ES. We analysed the results i.e. individual scores by comparing them, and calculating the minimum, the maximum and the range scores between them. We calculated the mean individual experts’ scores by ecosystem types and subtypes for nine prioritized ecosystem services for recreation – 2 provisioning, 2 regulating and 5 cultural. The results show that individual experts have different perceptions for some ecosystems and their services due to their different scientific expertise. This follows from the quite high ranges i.e., 4 or 5 units between maximum and minimum score per spatial unit. There are: (i) significant variations in scoring of Grasslands, Wetlands, Croplands, Rivers and lakes, and Urban ecosystems; and (ii) considerable similarities about Woodland and forest, Sparsely vegetated lands and Marine ecosystems. To compare the spatial discrepancies between the experts’ scores, we map them individually. A final integrated map represents the potential of the NH in Bulgaria to provide ecosystem services for recreation with an average score above 3.00. The main outcomes of our study are the analyses we made on the individual and the group experts’ scores.

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Cultural ecosystem services for development of nature-based tourism in Bulgaria

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

Valuation of recreation-related cultural ecosystem services provided by Pirin National Park, Bulgaria

How individual scores affect the final expert-based assessments of ecosystem services: Range and mean scores analysis of natural heritage supply maps

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