The effect of minimum impact education on visitor spatial behavior in parks and protected areas: An experimental investigation using GPS-based tracking

Kidd, Abigail M.; Monz, Christopher; D’Antonio, Ashley; Manning, Robert E.; Reigner, Nathan; Goonan, Kelly; Jacobi, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.07.007

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“…Some are oriented toward the definition or analysis of indicators of management efficiency (Addison et al, 2015;Aung et al, 2004;Calado et al, 2016;Cook et al, 2014), or of financial efficiency (Cornejo et al, 2016). Others are more interested in direct management and propose technical tools in order to facilitate manager's work and decision-making (D'Antonio et al, 2013;Del Carmen Sabatini et al, 2007;Kidd et al, 2015;Lin and Li, 2016;Lopez y Royo et al, 2009).…”

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Advocacy coalitions and protected areas creation process: Case study in the Amazon

Nicolle

Leroy

2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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Protected areas are the cornerstones of conservation policies worldwide. However, only few researches are led to analyse the way they emerge, except for criticising top-down governmental choices. Yet, the historical approach and strategic analysis of public policy building over the long term allows a better understanding of the stakes of action capacity of these policies. We therefore mobilize the advocacy coalition framework to show that protected areas creation is always due to coalitions of actors who belong to different professional fields and act at different scales but nevertheless share common stakes. On the basis of a comparative study in French and Brazilian Amazon, we show that if all coalitions for protected areas share a common objective of limited deforestation, they are still very different according to the type of conservation they promote (strict biodiversity conservation, population-based conservation or sustainable forest management). We also show that the ability of the coalitions to build efficient public policies is highly depending on internal factors (i.e. their ability to gather strategic resources) and on external factors (i.e. socio-political context and international pressure). Finally, the comparative analysis of coalitions pleading for the same type of protected areas in two different countries allows us to insist on the importance of qualitative embedded researches when it comes to understand why some protected areas have more chances to reach environmental effectiveness in one socio-political context than in another one.

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Advocacy coalitions and protected areas creation process: Case study in the Amazon

Nicolle

Leroy

2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…1 There is substantial literature on how education in different disciplines relates to people’s choices (see Chambaere et al, 2013, for end-of-life research; Kidd et al, 2015, for pro-environment behavior analysis; Nafría et al, 2015, for an eParticipatory decision-making study; and Petroman et al, 2015, for food consumption).…”

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Education and Decision-Making: An Experimental Study on the Framing Effect in China

Fan

2017

Front. Psychol.

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China’s higher education expansion policy has been in effect for almost two decades. Under this policy, a growing number of youths have gained access to higher education, which aims to train students to be more rational. This study examines human rationality at a Chinese college through an experiment based on the risky-choice framing effect. The basic results show no classical framing effect with regard to individual decisions for the entire sample in a benchmark setting. However, when the participants’ roles were manipulated and subsamples were investigated, a significant framing effect was found that appeared to be role-related and that varied by sex. These results help to elucidate evaluations of the effects of China’s higher education policy and may assist in guiding further policy reforms.

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“…Hikers returned the GPS units to researchers after completing their hikes, and the track data, recorded as points on the landscape, were processed in GIS software. Extensive experience with GPS visitor tracking by the authors and others suggests little evidence of behavior bias by study participants (Beeco and Hallo 2014;Kidd et al 2015). All data points collected in a given study were combined and converted into a kernel density map (for a glossary of specialist terminology, see Panel 1) and classified into areas of low, medium, and high levels of recreation disturbance.…”

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Wildland recreation disturbance: broad‐scale spatial analysis and management

Gutzwiller

D’Antonio

Monz

2017

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Wildland recreation that does not involve animal harvests (non‐consumptive recreation) often influences various components of natural systems, including soils, water, air, soundscapes, vegetation, and wildlife. The effects of non‐consumptive recreation on wildlife have typically been assessed at spatial scales that are not only much smaller than the overall distributions of this disturbance but also much smaller than the areas that species use during a season or year. This disparity in scales has prevented effective assessment and management of broad‐scale recreation disturbance for many species, especially wildlife. We applied three software systems (ArcGIS, FRAGSTATS, and Conefor) to demonstrate how metrics commonly measured by landscape ecologists can be used to quantify broad‐scale patterns of non‐consumptive recreation. Analysts can employ such metrics to develop predictive models of how recreation disturbance – by itself and in additive or interactive combinations with other landscape characteristics – may affect wildlife responses across large areas. In turn, these models can inform decision making in broad‐scale recreation management.

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The effect of minimum impact education on visitor spatial behavior in parks and protected areas: An experimental investigation using GPS-based tracking

Cited by 58 publications

References 26 publications

Advocacy coalitions and protected areas creation process: Case study in the Amazon

Advocacy coalitions and protected areas creation process: Case study in the Amazon

Education and Decision-Making: An Experimental Study on the Framing Effect in China

Wildland recreation disturbance: broad‐scale spatial analysis and management

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