Governance and Management of Protected Areas in Vietnam: Nature-Based Tourism in Mountain Areas

Bui, Huong T.; Phạm, Liên; Jones, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76833-1_9

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“…Building an eco-surplus culture is a plausible way to ease the funding allocation problems faced by the domestic government (e.g., widespread but insufficient budget allocation, lack of priority) and international organizations (e.g., large but site-specific funding) (Bovarnick et al, 2010 ; Bui et al, 2021 ). By financing social marketing and demarketing programs, public awareness-raising campaigns, educational activities, and pro-environmental entertaining platforms (e.g., commercial games), the government and international organizations can increase the aggregate pool of money that visitors are willing to pay at a regional scale, which indirectly generates finance for protected areas in the region.…”

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“…Nonetheless, there remain many constraints. Domestic government subsidies are widespread but insufficient and lack priority, whereas international aids are large but can only focus on large, site-specific projects (Bui et al, 2021 ). As a result, tourism is endorsed by many scientists as a sustainable financing source for biodiversity conservation in protected areas if it is effectively managed (Jones et al, 2021 ; Whitelaw et al, 2014 ).…”

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Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas

Nguyen

Jones

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The rapidly declining biosphere integrity, representing one of the core planetary boundaries, is alarming. In particular, the global numbers of mammals, birds, fishes, and plants declined by 68% from 1970 to 2016. One of the most widely accepted measures to halt the rate of biodiversity loss is to maintain and expand protected areas that are effectively managed. However, doing so requires substantial finance derived from nature-based tourism, specifically visitors from urban areas. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) for conducting analysis on 535 Vietnamese urban residents, the current study examined how their biodiversity loss perceptions can affect their willingness to pay for the entrance fee and conservation in protected areas. We found that perceived environmental degradation, loss of economic growth, loss of nature-based recreation opportunities, and loss of knowledge as consequences of biodiversity loss indirectly affect the willingness to pay through the mediation of the attitude towards conservation. Notably, perceived knowledge loss also has a direct positive influence on the willingness to pay for the entrance fee and conservation. In contrast, perceived loss of health is negatively associated with the attitude towards conservation. Based on these findings, we suggest that building an eco-surplus culture among urban residents by stimulating their subjective cost-benefit judgments towards biodiversity loss can be a promising way to generate more finance from nature-based tourism for conservation in protected areas and ease the domestic government’s and international organizations’ funding allocation problems. Eco-surplus culture is a set of pro-environmental attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people to reduce negative anthropogenic impacts on the environment and conserve and restore nature.

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Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas

Nguyen

Jones

2022

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“…In Vietnam, decentralization efforts have been made to empower local communities to participate in national parks' tourism activities (Bui et al, 2021). (Ly & Nguyen, 2017;Pham, 2016).…”

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“…The domestic government's subsidies are widespread but insufficient and lack priority, whereas international aids are large but can only focus on large, site-specific projects (Bui, Pham, & Jones, 2021). Solely assuring the operation and conservation finance within the park is inadequate for biodiversity conservation, as local people rely on the protected areas' resources for livelihood.…”

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Investigating urban residents' involvement in biodiversity conservation in protected areas: Empirical evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen¹

2023

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Biodiversity provides many benefits to humans in general and urban residents in particular. However, the rising population, income, and wildlife product consumption demands contribute to the deliberately organized illegal wildlife trade expansion. Protected areas are designated mainly for biodiversity conservation but face financial constraints for management activities. The increased illegal wildlife trade and lack of financing in protected areas can negatively affect biodiversity levels. Thus, the current dissertation is dedicated to answering the question: “How can we mitigate biodiversity loss in protected areas by better involving urban residents in biodiversity conservation?”To answer this question, the dissertation comprises three studies and data collection about the psychology and behaviors related to biodiversity and conservation among urban residents.

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Multi-Criteria Model to Assess the Potentials of Cat Ba National Park to Develop Tourism Tied to Conservation

Thu,

Van

et al. 2024

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For a sustainable tourist destination, a multi-criteria assessment is essential. The assessment results are the basis for managers to make optimal development decisions for the destination. In particular, for the nature-based tourist sites (protected areas, national parks), the assessment of tourism potentials will establish the basis for protecting, monitoring ecosystems, and managing the tourism sustainable development calendar. The Multi-Criteria Method and additional methods were applied to assess tourism potentials as well as to propose conservation measures for Cat Ba National Park in Vietnam. Through the assessment of six criteria (location/accessibility, attractiveness, tourist capacity, environmental sustainability, travel duration, and tourism infrastructure/tourism technology), the results indicate that Cat Ba National Park (Vietnam) is an attractive tourist destination with a good tourist capacity, a convenient location for tourists to move, and a long tourism time of the year. However, Cat Ba National Park is a place where environmental sustainability is still limited; its exploitation needs to be considered along with its conservation, degradation prevention, and ecosystem monitoring.

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Governance and Management of Protected Areas in Vietnam: Nature-Based Tourism in Mountain Areas

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Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas

Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas

Investigating urban residents' involvement in biodiversity conservation in protected areas: Empirical evidence from Vietnam

Multi-Criteria Model to Assess the Potentials of Cat Ba National Park to Develop Tourism Tied to Conservation

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