The importance of invertebrates in assessing the ecological impacts of hiking trails: A review of its role as indicators and recommendations for future research

Leote, Pedro; Cajaíba, Reinaldo Lucas; Moreira, Helena; Gabriel, Ronaldo; Santos, Mário

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108741

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“…Moreover, hiking can contribute, combined with physical exercise, positively to the reduction of blood pressure and weight loss; mentally, it can help to reduce depression and bring well-being and social contact [6,13], and that is why it has become a popular form of tourism [14]. It helps to maintain physical condition [15] as well as to escape from everyday life by discovering new places and reducing the stress created by everyday obligations [16]. The benefit of hiking, in addition to the health and improvement of human life, can reduce the costs governments intend to be spent on public health [17].…”

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Attitudes and Views of Citizens Regarding the Contribution of the Trail Paths in Protection and Promotion of Natural Environment

Kantartzis

Lemonakis

Malesios

et al. 2022

Land

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In recent decades, large sections of trail paths throughout Greece have been maintained, revived, and marked, creating a wide network with a total length of approximately 3500 km. The trail paths are one of the main levers of tourism development as they contribute to the preservation, protection, and promotion of the countryside, cultural heritage, and tradition, to the more effective protection and management of areas of exceptional natural beauty and sensitive ecosystems with wildlife. This paper investigates the view of the citizens of the regional unit of Evros, Greece, on the contribution of the trail paths to the protection and promotion of the cultural and natural environment. The research was conducted with the use of a structured questionnaire and through personal interviews. The data were collected and analyzed with the use of descriptive statistical methods as well as multivariate analysis techniques. The results of the research show that the attitudes of citizens to the contribution of paths in the protection and promotion of the cultural and natural environment are directly or indirectly influenced by various factors. In particular, age directly affects the view of citizens towards the trail paths, with the younger ones having more positive views. Other important predictors of citizens’ views were the type of activity in the trail path, with citizens using them for leisure activities or using the easy roots having more positive views towards them.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Attitudes and Views of Citizens Regarding the Contribution of the Trail Paths in Protection and Promotion of Natural Environment

Kantartzis

Lemonakis

Malesios

et al. 2022

Land

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“…Τrails are infrastructures for tourism development, provide access to areas with natural and cultural resources [7], global leisure activity [8] as well as wildlife observations [9]. However, trampling can also have negative consequences, such as soil compaction and erosion [10][11], impact on fauna [12] and flora [13].…”

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Hierarchy of Hiking Trails using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to highlight the natural environment

Daoutis,

Kantartzis,

Tsiantikoudis

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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Hiking on trails is an activity to improve the quality of human life, a strategy for the development of the tourist activity and highlighting the natural wealth of region. The present study deals with the hiking trails of the Municipality of Samothrace (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece). In this study, the trails were classified based on criteria with the contribution of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, which determined the weights of the criteria. Seven criteria (Starting Elevation, Summit Elevation, Slope, Degree of Difficulty, Length, Hiking Time, and Starting Point Distance from the City) which are considered important for the selection of a hiking trail by hikers were compared pairwise and based on the results the hiking trails classified. The Analytical Hierarchy Process can help and guide both managers and people who make decisions about the sustainable use and protection of the natural environment, and hikers who consider the criteria for trail selection. In this way, priorities can be set for the maintenance of existing trails and the design of new ones.

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“…Given the demographic shift towards urbanization, cities are likely to increase in importance and will be the main grounds for the SDGs’ implementation [ 9 ]. In fact, 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas—a number that is expected to increase to approximately 59% by 2030.…”

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Contribution of Home Gardens to Sustainable Development: Perspectives from A Supported Opinion Essay

Santos

Moreira

Cabral

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Home gardening has a long history that started when humans became sedentary, being traditionally considered an accessible source of food and medicinal plants to treat common illnesses. With trends towards urbanization and industrialization, particularly in the post-World War II period, the importance of home gardens as important spaces for growing food and medicinal plants reduced and they began to be increasingly seen as decorative and leisure spaces. However, the growing awareness of the negative impacts of agricultural intensification and urbanization for human health, food quality, ecosystem resilience, and biodiversity conservation motivated the emergence of new approaches concerning home gardens. Societies began to question the potential of nearby green infrastructures to human wellbeing, food provisioning, and the conservation of traditional varieties, as well as providers of important services, such as ecological corridors for wild species and carbon sinks. In this context. and to foster adaptive and resilient social–ecological systems, our supported viewpoint intends to be more than an exhaustive set of perceptions, but a reflection of ideas about the important contribution of home gardens to sustainable development. We envision these humble spaces strengthening social and ecological components, by providing a set of diversified and intermingled goods and services for an increasingly urban population.

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The importance of invertebrates in assessing the ecological impacts of hiking trails: A review of its role as indicators and recommendations for future research

Cited by 11 publications

References 110 publications

Attitudes and Views of Citizens Regarding the Contribution of the Trail Paths in Protection and Promotion of Natural Environment

Attitudes and Views of Citizens Regarding the Contribution of the Trail Paths in Protection and Promotion of Natural Environment

Hierarchy of Hiking Trails using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to highlight the natural environment

Contribution of Home Gardens to Sustainable Development: Perspectives from A Supported Opinion Essay

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