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  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,890 Views
22 Pages

Perspectives on Sustainable Resource Conservation in Community Nature Reserves: A Case Study from Senegal

  • Liliana Pacheco,
  • Sara Fraixedas,
  • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares,
  • Neus Estela,
  • Robert Mominee and
  • Ferran Guallar

16 November 2012

The coalescing of development and conservation has recently given rise to community-based conservation. Under this framework, sustainable livelihood strategies are incorporated into conservation goals on the basis that the integration of local priori...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,863 Views
18 Pages

Harnessing Community Science to Support Implementation and Success of Nature-Based Solutions

  • Ludwig Paul B. Cabling,
  • Kristian L. Dubrawski,
  • Maleea Acker and
  • Gregg Brill

28 November 2024

Community science (CS), a type of community-based participatory research, plays a crucial role in advancing wide-reaching environmental education and awareness by leveraging the collective power of volunteer participants who contribute to research ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,530 Views
15 Pages

25 July 2017

Bogda Nature Reserve is a World Heritage Site (WHS) in Xinjiang, China. Potential conflicts between community development and heritage conservation are important topics to study and may have an impact on the sustainable development of heritage sites....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,640 Views
16 Pages

25 September 2024

The expansion of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to an increase in impervious surfaces, intensifying stormwater management challenges, especially in informal settlements situated in ecologically sensitive areas like wetlands. This urban growth h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Views
18 Pages

The Importance of the Protected Area for the Life of the Local Community—A Case Study of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve

  • Dragan Novaković,
  • Igor Trišić,
  • Snežana Štetić,
  • Adina Nicoleta Candrea and
  • Svetlana D. Živković-Radeta

27 September 2025

The Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve encompasses five municipalities and several settlements. This significantly protected region has a strong relationship between its ecosystem and the people who live there. The local population benefits from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,917 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2019

Designing policies for the sustainable development of social-ecological systems with complex human–land relations requires integrated management and nexus thinking; China’s national parks are typical social-ecological systems. Ecosystem s...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,831 Views
14 Pages

Community, Natural Resources, and Sustainability: Overview of an Interdisciplinary and International Literature

  • Hua Qin,
  • Martha Bass,
  • Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad,
  • David Matarrita-Cascante,
  • Christine Sanders and
  • Barituka Bekee

3 February 2020

The Special Issue Community, Natural Resources, and Sustainability seeks to engage in an interdisciplinary and international dialogue on the interrelationships of society, natural resources, and sustainability at the community level. In addition to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,198 Views
16 Pages

Characteristics and Species Diversity of Semi-Natural Plant Communities on Langqi Island

  • Yang Liu,
  • Yunteng Huang,
  • Yingxue Wang,
  • Chunxiao Wang,
  • Zixin Xiao,
  • Siyuan Shen,
  • Jiyi Zeng and
  • Chuanyuan Deng

24 December 2023

(1) Background: Islands are relatively independent and fragile ecosystems with unique habitats. Studying the relatively stable semi-natural plant communities on islands can enrich island vegetation data and provide an understanding of the factors aff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,328 Views
16 Pages

Community as Story and the Dynamic Nature of Community: Perceptions, Place, and Narratives about Change

  • Michael R. Cope,
  • Paige N. Park,
  • Jorden E. Jackson,
  • Kayci A. Muirbrook,
  • Scott R. Sanders,
  • Carol Ward and
  • Ralph B. Brown

22 February 2019

We present a theoretical discussion conceptualizing “community as story”—narratives that create and recreate one’s definition of and relationship to their community. We use a variety of disciplinary sources and representative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,487 Views
10 Pages

The management of natural resources has become a crucial agenda item at the community level of every country, due to the importance of a community’s direct involvement in the stewardship of these resources. The sustainable management of natural resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,946 Views
19 Pages

Participatory Mapping as a Didactic and Auxiliary Tool for Learning Community Integration, Technology Transference, and Natural Resource Management

  • Ricardo Eaton-González,
  • Jorge Andrade-Sánchez,
  • Tatiana Montaño-Soto,
  • Paola Andrade-Tafoya,
  • Diana Brito-Jaime,
  • Krystal González-Estupiñán,
  • Andrea Guía-Ramírez,
  • Jesús Rodríguez-Canseco,
  • Argelia Teon-Vega and
  • Silvia Balderas-López

Participatory mapping is a tool for community work linked to natural resource management. It is an auxiliary for diagnosis and data acquisition from communities and their natural resources. In Baja California, there are several indigenous communities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,491 Views
22 Pages

Soil fungal communities are pivotal components in ecosystems and play an essential role in global biogeochemical cycles. In this study, we determined the fungal communities of a natural larch forest and a manual plantation larch forest in Heilongjian...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,450 Views
10 Pages

1 January 2023

Soil microbial community plays a major role in removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from soil, and bioremediation potentially offers an attractive and economic approach to the clean-up of polluted areas. To evaluate the contribution of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,694 Views
21 Pages

Human Communities in Protected Natural Areas and Biodiversity Conservation

  • Elizabeth Olmos-Martínez,
  • Heidi Leticia Romero-Schmidt,
  • María del Carmen Blázquez,
  • Camilo Arias-González and
  • Alfredo Ortega-Rubio

31 May 2022

Using socioecological concepts and within a historical biodiversity conservation context, this research study reviews the main interactions between human communities and protected natural areas (PNAs) to describe their different stages over time and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,739 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Health Through Access to Nature: How Effective are Interventions in Woodlands in Deprived Urban Communities? A Quasi-experimental Study in Scotland, UK

  • Catharine Ward Thompson,
  • Aldo Elizalde,
  • Steven Cummins,
  • Alastair H. Leyland,
  • Willings Botha,
  • Andrew Briggs,
  • Sara Tilley,
  • Eva Silveirinha de Oliveira,
  • Jenny Roe and
  • Peter Aspinall
  • + 1 author

15 June 2019

High prevalence of poor mental health is a major public health problem. Natural environments may contribute to mitigating stress and enhancing health. However, there is little evidence on whether community-level interventions intended to increase exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,479 Views
16 Pages

Biodiversity of Soil Bacterial Communities from the Sasso Fratino Integral Nature Reserve

  • Lara Mitia Castronovo,
  • Sara Del Duca,
  • Sofia Chioccioli,
  • Alberto Vassallo,
  • Donatella Fibbi,
  • Ester Coppini,
  • Piero Chioccioli,
  • Giacomo Santini,
  • Marco Zaccaroni and
  • Renato Fani

12 November 2021

The Sasso Fratino Integral Nature Reserve (Italy) aims to protect nature and territory. Since no anthropic activities are allowed, it represents a good model to study the bacterial community of a wild environment. The aim of this work was to characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,823 Views
15 Pages

1 September 2023

The ecological process of natural regeneration in forests is achieved by altering the relationship between community diversity and abiotic factors, thereby influencing the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Phoebe bournei is a unique and endang...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,559 Views
9 Pages

In the last decade, real-time access to data and the use of high-resolution spatial information have provided scientists and engineers with valuable information to help them understand risk. At the same time, there has been a rapid growth of novel an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,573 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2019

Solutions to sustainability transitions tend to be applicable for specific regions but not the whole of society. Limitations on what may be sustained also exist, and preferences will vary among people in different places. Because of these differences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,948 Views
25 Pages

Fine-Scale Mapping of Natural Ecological Communities Using Machine Learning Approaches

  • Parth Bhatt,
  • Ann Maclean,
  • Yvette Dickinson and
  • Chandan Kumar

25 January 2022

Remote sensing technology has been used widely in mapping forest and wetland communities, primarily with moderate spatial resolution imagery and traditional classification techniques. The success of these mapping efforts varies widely. The natural co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,805 Views
12 Pages

Women in Need—The Nature of Social Support in an Online Community

  • Vanja Ida Erčulj and
  • Tinkara Pavšič Mrevlje

30 August 2023

Some women, especially victims of violence, seek support in online groups. The objective of this research was to investigate the nature of the social support women receive in such online communities. For this purpose, all the posts from a large onlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,728 Views
11 Pages

10 November 2021

As the flagship species of biodiversity protection, the giant panda has an umbrella protection function. China is committed to building a natural protection system with national parks as the main body to achieve sustainable development. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,234 Views
16 Pages

Observations on Earthworm Communities and Soils in Various Natural and Man-Affected Ecosystems

  • Christina Chalkia,
  • Evangelia Vavoulidou,
  • Csaba Csuzdi,
  • Christina Emmanouil,
  • Alexandros Dritsoulas and
  • Anastasios Katsileros

Earthworms are important members of the soil fauna since they regulate fundamental soil functions such as organic matter breakdown, fertility, structure and water balance. However, so far, their community assemblages have been poorly investigated in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,502 Views
19 Pages

Development of Community-Level Capacity of Resilience to Natural Hazards for Environmental- and Social-Justice-Challenged Communities: 1. Approach, Concepts, and Assessment of Existing Information

  • J. Kevin Summers,
  • Rachelle Sanderson,
  • Rachelle Trahan,
  • Kendra Hendricks,
  • Mia Ruffin,
  • Adam Williams,
  • Andrea Lamper,
  • Mason Lowery and
  • Linda C. Harwell

23 January 2024

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to withstand such hazards is a vital justice aspect of environmental mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,397 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating Communities’ Willingness to Participate in Ecosystem Conservation in Southeast Tibetan Nature Reserves, China

  • Lingxia Xu,
  • Wanyun Xu,
  • Chao Jiang,
  • Huxuan Dai,
  • Qiaoqi Sun,
  • Kun Cheng,
  • Chun-Hung Lee,
  • Cheng Zong and
  • Jianzhang Ma

28 January 2022

Southeast Tibet is significant in maintaining key ecological functions and providing irreplaceable ecosystem services but is also extremely vulnerable and susceptible to the impacts of human activities. Understanding the attitudes of local residents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,808 Views
21 Pages

Establishing a comprehensive management framework to manage the risk from natural hazards is challenging because of the extensive affected areas, uncertainty in predictions of natural disasters, and the involvement of various stakeholders. Applying r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,900 Views
28 Pages

19 December 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the tourism potential of Kroczyce municipality, Poland, with a focus on its natural attractions and their role in fostering sustainable tourism. Kroczyce, chosen for its pristine natural features, presents an ideal case f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,295 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2021

It can be difficult for people to perform the behaviors necessary to address sustainability challenges because selfish actions are often more appealing than choices that benefit nature and future generations. Although many useful approaches to pro-en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,232 Views
19 Pages

Soil microorganisms significantly influence the energy flow and material cycle of soil ecosystems, making them highly susceptible to environmental changes, such as those induced by mining activities. Studying the succession of soil microbial communit...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,453 Views
14 Pages

There has been increasing interest over the past decade with regard to the health and wellbeing implications of time spent outdoors in nature for children. Universal systematic reviews of evidence report benefits to physical health, social-emotional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,739 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2023

The paper illustrates how the recovery and valorisation of protected natural areas can constitute, for the local communities of small inland areas in Italy, a flywheel of sustainable development with beneficial effects for the entire ‘country s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,834 Views
13 Pages

A Natural Moisture Gradient Affects Soil Fungal Communities on the South Shore of Hulun Lake, Inner Mongolia, China

  • Xin Chen,
  • Yujue Wang,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Yushu Zhang,
  • Yuting Shen,
  • Xiaojia He and
  • Chunwang Xiao

10 May 2023

Soil moisture content (SWC) can change the diversity and composition of soil fungal communities by affecting soil texture and soil nutrients. To explore the response of soil fungal communities to moisture in the grassland ecosystem on the south shore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,410 Views
16 Pages

6 April 2023

Semi-natural grasslands (SNGs) are an essential part of European cultural landscapes. They are an important habitat for many animal and plant species and offer a variety of ecological functions. Diverse plant communities have evolved over time depend...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,651 Views
24 Pages

An Overview of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) for Ageing in Place

  • Jiaxuan E,
  • Bo Xia,
  • Connie Susilawati,
  • Qing Chen and
  • Xuechun Wang

As an alternative to ageing at home in the community, naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have great potential to facilitate ageing in place; however, they have not attracted much research attention. This study conducts an overview of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,578 Views
17 Pages

Successional Development of Fungal Communities Associated with Decomposing Deadwood in a Natural Mixed Temperate Forest

  • Clémentine Lepinay,
  • Lucie Jiráska,
  • Vojtěch Tláskal,
  • Vendula Brabcová,
  • Tomáš Vrška and
  • Petr Baldrian

25 May 2021

Deadwood represents an important carbon stock and contributes to climate change mitigation. Wood decomposition is mainly driven by fungal communities. Their composition is known to change during decomposition, but it is unclear how environmental fact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,433 Views
23 Pages

5 June 2014

The urban and the rural are increasingly interconnected. Rural areas have become places of consumption, as leisure and recreation have become important functions of rural areas. There are also indications that increased urbanisation even leads to a s...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,783 Views
12 Pages

2 September 2021

As most older Australians prefer to age-in-place, providing sustainable and age-friendly communities poses a significant challenge to urban policymakers. The naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) have organically emerged as a collaborati...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
678 Views
18 Pages

Natural Climate Solutions (NCSs) represent a critical tool for addressing climate change, yet their long-term success is threatened by inadequate consideration of community impacts in current verification standards. While Article 6 of the Paris Agree...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,415 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Zoning Designations on Bird Communities: A Case Study of National Nature Reserves in Guangdong Province

  • Myung-Bok Lee,
  • Xuebing Zhao,
  • Xianli Che,
  • Yanyan Zhao,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Zhifa Liu,
  • Daojian Chen,
  • Min Zhang and
  • Fasheng Zou

7 April 2024

One of the main management strategies of China’s nature reserve is “zonation”, dividing reserves into three zones (core, buffer, and experimental zones) to which different levels of restrictions on anthropogenic activities are appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,261 Views
23 Pages

14 April 2022

Much has been debated regarding the environmental and economic aspects that conform the pillars of sustainability in nature-based solutions (NbSs). However, the social implications are lagging behind in both theory and practice. NbSs are not inherent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,740 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2024

The frequency of natural disasters has increased recently, posing a huge threat to human society. Rapid, accurate, authentic, and comprehensive acquisition and transmission of disaster information are crucial in emergency response. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,214 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2022

In montane environments, as elevation increases, the combination of hydrothermal factors changing and vegetation types changing can cause changes to the soil mite community. To reveal the influence of different vertical vegetation types on the struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,881 Views
15 Pages

Most older individuals prefer to age in place during their later years; however, achieving this aspiration presents significant challenges. Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) represent a potential option for promoting healthy aging, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,049 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2020

Conservation of natural protected areas (NPA), including national parks (NP) in socio-ecological contexts, as spaces essential to the conservation of ecosystems can be closely linked to the adaptive capacity and resilience of the communities associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,070 Views
18 Pages

The Potential Application of Natural Clinoptilolite-Rich Zeolite as Support for Bacterial Community Formation for Wastewater Treatment

  • Lacrimioara Senila,
  • Alexandra Hoaghia,
  • Ana Moldovan,
  • Iulia Anamaria Török,
  • Dalma Kovacs,
  • Dorina Simedru,
  • Calin Horea Tomoiag and
  • Marin Senila

20 May 2022

The aim of this study was to investigate the use of natural zeolite as support for microbial community formation during wastewater treatment. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermal decomposition and differential thermogravimetric curves (TGA/DGT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
809 Views
15 Pages

24 June 2025

Background: As global ageing accelerates, countries worldwide are increasingly facing social and economic challenges posed by rising older populations. Many nations are responding by optimizing healthcare systems, strengthening community-based ageing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
13,567 Views
26 Pages

Since the early 1970s, Ian McHarg’s design-with-nature concept has been inspiring landscape architects, community and regional planners, and liked-minded professionals to create designs that take advantage of ecosystem services and promote environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,268 Views
12 Pages

The present study aimed to investigate the association between bone diseases and community water fluoridation (CWF). An ecological study with a natural experiment design was conducted in Cheongju, South Korea, from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2013....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,131 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2025

This study focuses on a typical chemically contaminated site in the southeastern coastal region of China, investigating the natural attenuation mechanisms of benzene and o-toluidine in groundwater through high-throughput sequencing, physicochemical a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,490 Views
49 Pages

A Novel Approach to Integrating Community Knowledge into Fuzzy Logic-Adapted Spatial Modeling in the Analysis of Natural Resource Conflicts

  • Lawrence Ibeh,
  • Kyriakos Kouveliotis,
  • Deepak Rajendra Unune,
  • Nguyen Manh Cuong,
  • Noah Mutai,
  • Anastasios Fountis,
  • Svitlana Samoylenko,
  • Priyadarshini Pattanaik,
  • Sushma Kumari and
  • Benjamin Bensam Sambiri
  • + 2 authors

6 March 2025

Resource conflicts constitute a major global issue in areas rich in natural resources. The modeling of factors influencing natural resource conflicts (NRCs), including environmental, health, socio-economic, political, and legal aspects, presents a si...

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