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17 Citations
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Formation Mechanism of Tourists’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in Wuyishan National Park, China, Based on Ecological Values

  • Youcheng Chen,
  • Sunbowen Zhang,
  • Peng Peng,
  • Shuisheng Fan,
  • Jingxuan Liang,
  • Jing Ye and
  • Yongqiang Ma

29 April 2024

The establishment of a new type of natural protected area system with national parks as the main body is an inevitable trend of current development, and it is also an important ways to build a more beautiful China. During tourist visits, the national...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
868 Views
27 Pages

15 September 2025

Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics and driving forces of ecosystem service values (ESVs) is essential for managing complex socioecological systems, particularly in biodiversity-rich mountainous protected areas. This study investigates the evol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,531 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of Ecosystem Services Value in a National Park Pilot

  • Xiaodi Zhao,
  • Youjun He,
  • Chao Yu,
  • Danyun Xu and
  • Wentao Zou

22 November 2019

Based on the pilot ecosystem analysis of Qianjiangyuan National Park, the ecosystem services function value index system was determined; multiple methods such as market value method and shadow engineering method were used to evaluate the four major c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,562 Views
17 Pages

Valuing Our National Parks: An Ecological Economics Perspective

  • Paul C. Sutton,
  • Sophia L. Duncan and
  • Sharolyn J. Anderson

29 March 2019

The annual budget for the United States National Park Service was roughly $3 billion in 2016. This is distributed amongst 405 National Parks, 23 national scenic and historic trails, and 60 wild and scenic rivers. Entrance fees and concessions generat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,246 Views
23 Pages

Assessing the Qualitative Value of Parks and Green Spaces in Kalamazoo County, MI, USA

  • Samuel Herman Ayivi,
  • Nicholas L. Padilla and
  • Lucius F. Hallett

10 April 2025

Researchers, policy- and decision-makers, and planners have historically focused on the monetary value of parks and green spaces (either as costs or potential sale value). In this article, we argue that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,908 Views
17 Pages

20 September 2018

National parks are protected areas where special efforts are taken to conserve wildlife species and their habitats. However, the management of parks presents many diverse challenges. One effective mitigation strategy is understanding and improving th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
29 Pages

19 December 2025

Amidst the paradigm shift in park city development from quantitative metrics to spatial performance, urban complex parks—a novel green space type developed privately yet fulfilling public functions—present an innovative approach to park p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,846 Views
16 Pages

18 May 2025

Urban parks are important places, reflecting the culture of residential communities. The role of urban parks in providing cultural experiences and creating local cultural value is becoming increasingly prominent. Based on attention restoration theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,280 Views
13 Pages

The allocation of resources towards the development and enhancement of urban parks offers an effective strategy for promoting and improving the health and well-being of urban populations. Investments in urban parks can result in a multitude of health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,544 Views
15 Pages

24 June 2021

The protection of industrial cultural heritage is related to sustainable urban development. Cultural and creative parks (CCPs) are a way for many cities to protect their industrial cultural heritage. In the context of CCPs, this study examines the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,079 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2024

National parks serve as critical practical sites for advancing the concept of “harmonious coexistence between humans and nature” and hold a strategic role in establishing global ecological security barriers. Scholars and decision-makers have expresse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,356 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2021

Urban forests offer multiple functions: they can balance negative effects from the environment and provide the public with a place for leisure and recreation. Hence, urban forests are crucial to urban ecology and have been widely studied. In addition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,026 Views
25 Pages

31 January 2025

The realization of natural resource value serves as a critical entry point for advancing rural revitalization within the framework of ecological civilization construction, representing an essential approach to balancing ecological conservation and ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,835 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2023

The decline in semi-natural grasslands has resulted from reduced traditional use, leading to a marked decrease in their overall area. Despite being located within Japan’s core protected area system, the effectiveness of natural parks in conserv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,190 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2024

The construction of China’s national park system is an important part of the ecological civilization development strategy, and the behavior of the subjects in the national park has a great impact on its sustainable development. Environmentally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,930 Views
15 Pages

22 June 2021

Simplifying and popularizing the preservation values (valuation methods) of national parks—based on the premise of accuracy—shows stakeholders the importance of national parks, and is the basis for exploring sustainable use and development mechanisms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,555 Views
17 Pages

20 July 2023

Valuing the nonuse value of a national forest park (NFP) is critically important to obtain a better understanding of its total economic value, beyond focusing solely on the recreation value. This paper estimates the nonuse value of an NFP based on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,865 Views
15 Pages

As highly developed nature, an urban lake park will be a place required to integrate various functions such as health promotion, recreation, and cultural exchange by focusing on ecological aspects. We applied latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,117 Views
33 Pages

16 May 2025

The value network of the high-tech park constitutes a value co-creation system where multiple entities facilitate knowledge transformation through interaction, thereby achieving collaborative innovation. The reasonable distribution of collaborative i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,722 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2021

Ecotourism is becoming increasingly important in natural parks because it raises the value of the environment for the visitor. The present study aimed to (i) establish the factors of the perceived value in ecotourism and (ii) analyze the predictive r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,328 Views
19 Pages

7 January 2023

The value of ecosystem services and service capabilities continue to improve, and the way to form a path of resource industrialization development has become one of the important directions of sustainable development. This paper mainly takes the cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,281 Views
17 Pages

3 October 2022

Despite their ecological value, wetland parks can be expensive to preserve and maintain, so local governments endeavor to design financially sustainable models by exploiting the ecotourism value of wetland parks. This trend has been facilitated by te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,350 Views
26 Pages

3 October 2023

Urban historical parks represent important cultural touristic objectives that are part of a city’s own identity. However, currently, the image of these areas in the eyes of contemporary citizens does not always meet their needs and expectations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,314 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2022

The emergence of theme parks is enriching the tourist experience in the COVID-19 period. This study rethinks the impact of theme park image on tourist-perceived value (functional, social, and emotional value) and behavioral intention during COVID-19....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,565 Views
16 Pages

Estimation of the Value of Forest Ecosystem Services in Pudacuo National Park, China

  • Yue Chen,
  • Weili Kou,
  • Xianguang Ma,
  • Xiaoyan Wei,
  • Maojia Gong,
  • Xiong Yin,
  • Jingting Li and
  • Jianqiang Li

24 August 2022

Forest ecosystems play an important role in maintaining the stability of the biosphere and improving the ecological environment. The valuation of forest ecosystem services provides data to support the implementation of forest ecosystem conservation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,707 Views
20 Pages

26 October 2025

Historic urban public parks have evolved into multifunctional spaces that integrate cultural heritage and contemporary urban life. Understanding public perception of their heritage value is crucial for sustainable management. This study proposes a no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,028 Views
20 Pages

29 September 2024

Urban forest parks serve as significant venues for tourists’ leisure and recreation. The experiences and perceptions of tourists in these parks considerably influence their attitudes and behaviors. While numerous studies have investigated the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,453 Views
24 Pages

20 September 2023

Power generator manufacturers play a critical role in maintaining electric flow for sustainable product and service production. The aim of this study is to extract the criteria necessary for a generator manufacturer to evaluate and select its supplie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2026

In 2021, China integrated over 80 nature reserves to establish the Giant Panda National Park (GPNP), creating the world’s largest contiguous habitat for giant panda conservation. To evaluate whether this unified management framework effectively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,781 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2023

With the increase in carbon emissions in the tourism industry, more tourism enterprises need to make sustained investments in clean energy and green technologies. From the perspective of theme park revenue and operational management, such investments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
786 Views
24 Pages

1 July 2025

As critical zones for ecological conservation, national parks necessitate integrated management of transportation corridors (TCs) and ecosystem service value (ESV) to advance ecological civilisation. This study investigates the TC-ESV mutual construc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,101 Views
16 Pages

12 October 2022

Due to the lockdown and restrictions on public activities and gatherings amid COVID-19, parks received renewed attention because of their importance and irreplaceable functions as healthy outdoor recreation. This study aims to explore the values refl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,363 Views
11 Pages

14 January 2021

The study aimed at estimating the variability of perception of the Wielkopolski National Park (WNP) value among different groups of society. The study was based on questionnaires conducted in 2018. Analyses were carried out on the basis of 1350 recor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,002 Views
20 Pages

Increase in the Value Added of Land Due to the Establishment of Industrial Parks

  • Vaida Vabuolytė,
  • Marija Burinskienė,
  • Sílvia Sousa,
  • Olga Petrakovska,
  • Mykola Trehub and
  • Michela Tiboni

30 July 2021

Industrial parks (IPs) are a frequently used regional policy tool to increase economic viability and social equality. Successful functioning of such areas can increase land use efficiency and, by attracting investment, create high added value nationw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
988 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2025

This study applies the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) to estimate the non-use value of Laojun Mountain National Park, a culturally and ecologically significant site within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage region of northwestern Yunnan, Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,663 Views
15 Pages

2 December 2021

Estimating the economic value of ecosystem services has become one of the most fertile areas in ecological economics. In this paper, we propose a novel method of using a tourist satisfaction model to evaluate the recreational services being embedded...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,672 Views
14 Pages

17 September 2008

Value benefit analysis (VBA) is a psychometric instrument for finding the best compromise in forestry multiple-use planning, when the multiple objectives cannot be expressed in the same physical or monetary unit. It insures a systematic assessment of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,806 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, urban forest parks are becoming increasingly significant for recreation and relaxation, not just for urban residents but also for tourists. This study empirically examined the structural relationships among first-time vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,471 Views
28 Pages

20 April 2022

This paper assesses how residents of a developing city in the Global South, recognize and value the multiple diverse cultural ecosystem services associated with freshwater ecosystems, as provided by different landscape features originating in an urba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,801 Views
19 Pages

11 April 2025

Water-Regulating Ecosystem Services (WRES) play a crucial role in maintaining water quality and preventing soil erosion, particularly in watershed areas that are vulnerable to Land Use Land Cover Changes (LULCC) and climate change. This study focuses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,205 Views
18 Pages

Perceived Health Benefits and Willingness to Pay for Parks by Park Users: Quantitative and Qualitative Research

  • Claire Henderson-Wilson,
  • Kah-Ling Sia,
  • Jenny Veitch,
  • Petra K Staiger,
  • Penny Davidson and
  • Peter Nicholls

Whilst a growing body of evidence demonstrates people derive a range of health and wellbeing benefits from visiting parks, only a limited number of attempts have been made to provide a complementary economic assessment of parks. The aim of this explo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,943 Views
23 Pages

22 June 2021

Krakow is a city of high landscape values, which has found confirmation in the entry onto the UNESCO heritage list. Its cultural landscape requires protection and clarification within the context of intensive tourist use and a rapid pace of urban spa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,353 Views
28 Pages

3 July 2023

The rapid expansion of the cultural industry and the escalating demand for innovation have led to a growing attention on the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review and prospectus of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
22 Pages

5 March 2025

Tourist perceived value is an important antecedent to loyalty by enhancing satisfaction, revisiting intentions, and recommendations, thereby promoting sustainable development of forest parks. However, existing research has not sufficiently examined t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,627 Views
14 Pages

Disparities in Quality of Park Play Spaces between Two Cities with Diverse Income and Race/Ethnicity Composition: A Pilot Study

  • Gavin R. Jenkins,
  • Hon K. Yuen,
  • Emily J. Rose,
  • Amy I. Maher,
  • Kristina C. Gregory and
  • Megan E. Cotton

This study investigated the differences in the quality of park play spaces between an affluent and a non-affluent community in a large US Southeastern metropolitan area. Two cities were purposefully selected to reflect differences in household income...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,923 Views
13 Pages

29 May 2024

Mechanical parking lots and spaces are known as the “energy saver” of urban space because of their small footprint, high efficiency, and environmental protection. However, the location and number of mechanical parking lots and space plann...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,280 Views
15 Pages

A Multidimensional Evaluation Approach for the Natural Parks Design

  • Vincenzo Del Giudice,
  • Pierfrancesco De Paola,
  • Pierluigi Morano,
  • Francesco Tajani and
  • Francesco Paolo Del Giudice

17 February 2021

The design of a natural park is generated by the need to protect and organize, for conservation and/or for balanced growth, parts of the territory that are of particular interest for the quality of the natural and historical–cultural heritage. The ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2026

The cultural services of urban cultural landscape ecosystems are easily perceived by visitors, and their quantitative assessment and exploration of influencing factors can provide a scientific basis for the optimization of urban cultural landscapes....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,501 Views
27 Pages

3 August 2023

This paper investigates university students’ motivations in nature park conservation, an area that has received limited research attention compared to other pro-environmental behaviours. By formulating a set of research hypotheses, an extended...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,871 Views
17 Pages

29 March 2023

Wetlands are valuable urban resources and can provide various ecosystem services for cities. In order to face the continuous urbanization and market economy environment, relevant government-related management, decision-makers, and stakeholders can ma...

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