Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Naidoo, Robin; Adamowicz, Wiktor L.

doi:10.1017/s1355770x0400186x

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“…For example, this technique was employed to examine tourists' preferences associated with ecotourism development [11,12], tourists' preferences for biodiversity conservation and scenic beauty [13], and tourist preferences for ecotourism development in protected areas [14,15]. Furthermore, some other studies used this approach to evaluate the tourists' preferences for effective attributes associated with tourism resources [16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

2017

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Abstract:The implementation of rural tourism membership can aid in boosting economic growth in rural areas. This study examines households' preferences for rural tourism experience in association with sales of local agricultural products. Using a choice experiment method developed by experimental designs, this paper examines households' preferences to trade off purchasing costs of local agricultural products against various benefits provided by the rural tourism membership. The methods utilized in this paper represent an effective approach to evaluate the value of local tourism resources and the influence of these resources on the local economy. In empirical estimation we applied econometric approaches that allow for different preferences by incorporating income and residence effects into the models. Findings reveal that respondents place a premium on tourism attributes such as invitation seats and outdoor adventure tickets when choosing a tourism membership. We also find that the economic impacts associated with inducing higher-level tourism membership are substantial. This paper illustrates the potential for the development of a strategy associated with rural tourism management to enhance the local economy.

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Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

2017

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“…Of course, most recreation activities depend on built infrastructure, accessibility, and other factors, but the fundamental importance of ecological conditions has been widely demonstrated (76)(77)(78)(79). For a specific example, Fuller et al (77) surveyed visitors to urban/suburban parks and found that psychological well-being (gauged by factors derived from park visitor's reports, including reflection, identity, and attraction) was positively correlated with the species richness and habitat diversity in the park.…”

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“…In support of such assessments, emerging visitor simulation models can determine the effects of changes in environmental characteristics on visitor behavior in space and time (81)(82)(83)(84), information that is also essential for assessments of impacts of use on affected ecosystems. At finer scales, assessments of particular activities at particular sites can be extended to detailed models that quantify the specific contributions of setting characteristics, such as scenic beauty or the probability of wildlife encounters (78,88), fitting the capture tier of the model of TEEB (16). More comprehensive approaches, including qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as in-depth interviews and tape recordings, to capture immediately recalled leisure experiences (89), on-site measurements of hiking experiences via questionnaires (89), and computer-animated choice experiments for recreational trail preferences (90) can further guide and help to justify ecosystem protection policies.…”

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Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

Daniel

Muhar

Arnberger

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunities for operationally defining cultural services in terms of socioecological models, consistent with the larger set of ES. Such models explicitly link ecological structures and functions with cultural values and benefits, facilitating communication between scientists and stakeholders and enabling economic, multicriterion, deliberative evaluation and other methods that can clarify tradeoffs and synergies involving cultural ES. Based on this approach, a common representation is offered that frames cultural services, along with all ES, by the relative contribution of relevant ecological structures and functions and by applicable social evaluation approaches. This perspective provides a foundation for merging ecological and social science epistemologies to define and integrate cultural services better within the broader ES framework.natural capital | scenic beauty | cultural landscapes | tourism | spiritual value

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“…T o inform decision makers about how they can best allocate resources to maintain and enhance ecosystem services, scholars need to develop a better understanding of how policy interventions actually affect the supply of ecosystem services. In the last two decades, scholars have made important advances in defining, measuring, and valuing ecosystem services across time and space (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7). These measures and values have in turn been used as conservation planning and resource management decision tools (8)(9)(10)(11).…”

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Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation

Ferraro

Hanauer

Miteva

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Scholars have made great advances in modeling and mapping ecosystem services, and in assigning economic values to these services. This modeling and valuation scholarship is often disconnected from evidence about how actual conservation programs have affected ecosystem services, however. Without a stronger evidence base, decision makers find it difficult to use the insights from modeling and valuation to design effective policies and programs. To strengthen the evidence base, scholars have advanced our understanding of the causal pathways between conservation actions and environmental outcomes, but their studies measure impacts on imperfect proxies for ecosystem services (e.g., avoidance of deforestation). To be useful to decision makers, these impacts must be translated into changes in ecosystem services and values. To illustrate how this translation can be done, we estimated the impacts of protected areas in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand on carbon storage in forests. We found that protected areas in these conservation hotspots have stored at least an additional 1,000 Mt of CO 2 in forests and have delivered ecosystem services worth at least $5 billion. This aggregate impact masks important spatial heterogeneity, however. Moreover, the spatial variability of impacts on carbon storage is the not the same as the spatial variability of impacts on avoided deforestation. These findings lead us to describe a research program that extends our framework to study other ecosystem services, to uncover the mechanisms by which ecosystem protection benefits humans, and to tie cost-benefit analyses to conservation planning so that we can obtain the greatest return on scarce conservation funds.T o inform decision makers about how they can best allocate resources to maintain and enhance ecosystem services, scholars need to develop a better understanding of how policy interventions actually affect the supply of ecosystem services. In the last two decades, scholars have made important advances in defining, measuring, and valuing ecosystem services across time and space (1-7). These measures and values have in turn been used as conservation planning and resource management decision tools (8-11). The degree to which policies and programs have affected these services and values in the past remains poorly understood, however (12, 13). Without an evidence base for the impacts of real policies and programs on ecosystem services, the insights from modeling and valuation are not as informative to decision makers as they could be.A separate and more recent literature focuses on estimating the impacts of conservation policies and programs on environmental and social outcomes (reviewed in refs. 14 and 15). Scholars working in this impact evaluation literature strive to eliminate rival explanations for the empirical patterns observed, so that any correlations between programs and outcomes can be confidently attributed to causal relationships; however, these studies do not estimate impacts on ecosystem services, but rather estima...

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Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

Cited by 145 publications

References 43 publications

Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

Measuring the Economic Impact of Rural Tourism Membership on Local Economy: A Korean Case Study

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation

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