Facilitating hikers’ mobility in protected areas through smartphone app: a case of the Hoge Kempen National Park, Belgium

Shaker, Muhammad; Hermans, Elke; Cops, Veerle; Vanrompay, Yves; Adnan, Muhammad; Maes, Roeland; Yasar, Ansar-Ul-Haque

doi:10.1007/s00779-020-01367-6

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“…The safety provided by these measures could enhance people's motivation to travel to public transport stations on foot or by bicycle (Bosworth et al 2020), which also seems conceivable in our study areas. In addition, a wide range of digital and smart innovations, such as apps for car sharing and hiking routes (Shaker et al 2021), self-driving small buses, collective taxis (Imhof, Vogel, and Ruiz 2009), electric mobility (such as e-scooters, electric bicycles, and electric rental cars) (Mart ın et al 2019) can further promote rural mobility (Bosworth et al 2020;Eckhardt et al 2018;Porru et al 2020;Sieber et al 2020). Accordingly, we propose that park management advise municipalities with a view to introducing alternative, sustainable, and digital mobility options, and seek cooperation with providers of electric vehicles and digital solutions, for example.…”

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Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland

Wiesli

Hammer

Knaus

2022

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Biosphere reserves and nature parks are protected areas that aim to combine nature conservation with human-development goals. These areas provide ideal environments for promoting and testing sustainable ways of living. The goal of this study was to determine how park management can best contribute to the quality of life of residents. The article presents the results of a survey in Switzerland of 2,409 residents of a biosphere reserve and two regional nature parks on the provision of quality of life. The results indicate that the quality of life in the parks is generally high. The identified dimensions that constitute this quality of life, their perceived importance, and the needs expressed by residents suggest that park management can help to increase and safeguard extant conditions by offering activities that improve health, social relations, and sustainable mobility. Awareness of how park management can contribute to the quality of life of park residents sustainably enables the setting of new priorities that have joint outputs that can be positive for both nature and people.

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Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland

Wiesli

Hammer

Knaus

2022

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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“…The management of the protected areas comprises of planning and consolidation of mobility strategies. An elegant mobility network enhances the visitors' experiences through guidance, by ensuring time-saving, safety, and by the provision of detailed information about the route [25]. Concerning all other proposed strategies, the respondents were found less interested as compared to the aforementioned ones.…”

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Impact of Transport Network Changes on Tourism in Protected Areas: A Case Study of Ayubia National Park, Pakistan

Shaker¹,

Adnan²,

Hermans³

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The inflow caused by tourists in peak seasons exerts an uncontrollable pressure on the existing infrastructure. The Ayubia National Park in Pakistan faces traffic delays and capacity restraints on the connecting roads in peak season. The study focuses on the formulation of critical strategies by deploying amendments in the transport network. The methodology contains three parts: 1) a questionnaire was designed to inquire about several variables from the visitors; 2) the second part was traffic count data collection and analysis. Based on the response collected, the impact of multiple strategies on the network was analyzed using TransCad; 3) in the third part, the results obtained were shared with experts to gain their valuable opinions. It was observed that the time of the day based access restriction to heavy vehicles could lead to dropping the Volume to capacity ratio from 1.7 to 1.2. However, The experts were also of the view that network changes can enhance and improve the visitors' experience.

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“…There is more to learn about how this impacts on various dimensions of people's time in nature, such as developing skills for navigation, and the experience of solitude [2]. Mobile mapping technologies have the potential to increase hikers' mobility [50] and the potential impacts on protected areas are not yet well understood [37]. There has been extensive interest in mobile applications to promote learning about nature [4] and for enabling the public to contribute, as citizen scientists, to ecological work aligned with Sustainable Development Goals [23].…”

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Digital Technologies in Nature

Webber

Oliver

Smith

et al. 2021

Eight International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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This workshop explored the design and deployment of digital technologies in nature. We sought to facilitate interdisciplinary dialog to explore how technology use may impact wildlife and change relations between humans, wildlife, and the environment, as well as to identify current design challenges and future opportunities for technology use in nature. Participant presentations shared uses of technologies for ecology, conservation, education, advocacy, and artistic engagement with nature. Through presentations and discussions, we explored opportunities and challenges associated with expanding deployment of sensors, drones, and mobile technologies in the natural world. Designing for natural settings requires collaboration between researchers and practitioners in �ields such as animal-computer interaction (ACI), human-computer interaction (HCI), ecology, environmental psychology, arts, conservation technology and environmental management, as well as meaningful inclusion of local communities and non-human stakeholders. As an output of this workshop, we aim to establish a venue for interdisciplinary discussion on the challenges, tensions and ethical issues that arise in designing digital technologies for natural environments.CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing→Human computer interaction (HCI);

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Facilitating hikers’ mobility in protected areas through smartphone app: a case of the Hoge Kempen National Park, Belgium

Cited by 8 publications

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Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland

Improving quality of life for residents of biosphere reserves and nature parks: management recommendations from Switzerland

Impact of Transport Network Changes on Tourism in Protected Areas: A Case Study of Ayubia National Park, Pakistan

Digital Technologies in Nature

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