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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,008 Views
22 Pages

3 February 2023

The compilation of plans for the protection and utilization of natural resource assets owned by the general population is of great practical significance in supporting the preservation and appreciation of natural resource assets, preventing the loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,524 Views
17 Pages

21 September 2022

The impacts of climate change put pressure onto environmental and natural resources, which in turn increases the vulnerability of ecosystems and human communities. This makes social participation essential for biodiversity conservation. This article...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,224 Views
19 Pages

Institutional, Ecological, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Sustainability—Evidence from Ponjavica Nature Park

  • Vladica Ristić,
  • Igor Trišić,
  • Snežana Štetić,
  • Marija Maksin,
  • Florin Nechita,
  • Adina Nicoleta Candrea,
  • Marko Pavlović and
  • Andreea Hertanu

12 May 2024

The Nature Park Ponjavica (NP) is the habitat of strictly protected plant and animal species, located in AP Vojvodina, in southern Banat (Northern Serbia). The area of the park covers 302.96 ha. Protection zones I, II, and III have been established i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,646 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Sustainable Tourism on Resident and Visitor Satisfaction—The Case of the Special Nature Reserve “Titelski Breg”, Vojvodina

  • Igor Trišić,
  • Snežana Štetić,
  • Adina Nicoleta Candrea,
  • Florin Nechita,
  • Manuela Apetrei,
  • Marko Pavlović,
  • Tijana Stojanović and
  • Marija Perić

26 March 2024

The Special Nature Reserve “Titelski Breg” (TB) is a protected area (PA) of category I, located in the AP of Vojvodina in the south-eastern part of Bačka. The reserve covers an area of 496 ha. A protection zone covering an area of 86...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,980 Views
17 Pages

6 July 2023

The ecological environments of nature reserves with desert ecosystems are fragile, and it is necessary to implement scientific and effective ecological compensation strategies. However, the development of an ecological compensation theory for desert...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,185 Views
24 Pages

28 November 2024

The establishment of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China marks the integrated installation of centralized and unified supervision of agricultural natural resource assets. It is of great practic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,038 Views
33 Pages

23 August 2025

Natural resource assets inherently integrate tripartite synthesis of legal, economic, and ecological attributes. They serve dual critical functions as foundational elements supporting the evolution of new-quality productive forces and pivotal mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,962 Views
15 Pages

La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone is a suitable case study to analyze the impact and sustainability of geotourism on a protected volcanic field, as it has allowed the transformation of a poorly known territory into one of the best known and most visited geos...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,849 Views
5 Pages

Blue Accounting to Enhance the Quality of Sustainability Report

  • Andhita Yukihana Rahmayanti and
  • Dewi Kartika Sari

Natural resources from the sea and the preservation of the maritime environment are the most important parts of developing a blue economy. Indonesia is a maritime country with an area of 6,400,000 km2 of water. The sea is a source of Indonesia’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,593 Views
24 Pages

30 October 2024

As a key component of natural resources, marine resource assets have become increasingly important in the construction of today’s ecological civilization. Firstly, the statements of the assets and liabilities for marine resources are constructe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,341 Views
39 Pages

Designing Cultural Routes as a Tool of Responsible Tourism and Sustainable Local Development in Isolated and Less Developed Islands: The Case of Symi Island in Greece

  • Aspasia E. Fafouti,
  • Anastasia Vythoulka,
  • Ekaterini T. Delegou,
  • Nikolaos Farmakidis,
  • Maria Ioannou,
  • Komninos Perellis,
  • Antonis Giannikouris,
  • Nikolaos A. Kampanis,
  • George Alexandrakis and
  • Antonia Moropoulou

11 August 2023

Responsible tourism practices promote the idea that responsibility refers to both visitors and local communities, ensuring the protection and conservation of the natural environment and cultural heritage and contributing to a better quality of life....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,602 Views
24 Pages

5 January 2021

This study shows that an integrated ecological and cultural corridor network can help guide city development strategies to better preserve ecological and cultural assets. Traditionally, protection zones and suitable development areas are often identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,212 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2025

This study investigates whether green assets can serve as safe havens for dirty assets in the context of carbon and energy futures markets. Using daily data from April 2021 to June 2025, the analysis focuses on four key instruments: carbon emissions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,903 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2019

Urban rail transit systems are highly prone to disruptions of various nature (e.g., accidental, environmental, man-made). Railway networks are deemed as critical infrastructures given that a service interruption can prompt adverse consequences on ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,088 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas—Application of the Prism of Sustainability Model

  • Igor Trišić,
  • Florin Nechita,
  • Danka Milojković and
  • Snežana Štetić

14 March 2023

Research on the impact of protected areas on sustainable tourism development is undeniable. It means that protected areas should be significant tourism destinations for the success of sustainable tourism. The improvement of natural values, reduction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,989 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2021

Many of the environment and natural resources that constitute key “safe operating spaces”, as designated by planetary boundaries, are being exploited by a handful of large firms with considerable market share. In this paper, we discuss ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,625 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2024

The article focuses on the development of a universal method for the appraisal of values of a natural landscape in administrative division units. The Dobre Miasto municipality serves as a case study. The municipality lies in the heart of Warmia, a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,743 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2016

The aim of this study is to reveal the resource values that the rural areas host, and with a very disciplined approach, to discuss opportunities to benefit from those values in terms of ecotourism practices specific to Papart Valley. As a first step...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,766 Views
19 Pages

Cross-Chain Asset Transaction Method Based on Ring Signature for Identity Privacy Protection

  • Shuhui Zhang,
  • Ruiyao Zhou,
  • Lianhai Wang,
  • Shujiang Xu and
  • Wei Shao

14 December 2023

In recent years, the rapid development of blockchain technology has facilitated the transfer of value and asset exchange between different blockchains. However, achieving interoperability among various blockchains necessitates the exploration of cros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,939 Views
14 Pages

Analysis and Ranking of IT Risk Factors Using Fuzzy TOPSIS-Based Approach

  • Haya Mesfer Alshahrani,
  • Saud S. Alotaibi,
  • Md Tarique Jamal Ansari,
  • Mashael M. Asiri,
  • Alka Agrawal,
  • Raees Ahmad Khan,
  • Heba Mohsen and
  • Anwer Mustafa Hilal

10 June 2022

In today’s age of information and communication technology (ICT), many companies are using advanced digital technologies as well as the application of information technology to grow the company and effectively manage their processes. The risk m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,272 Views
17 Pages

Eco-Asset Variations and Their Driving Factors in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China, under the Context of Global Change

  • Xingming Yuan,
  • Bing Guo,
  • Miao Lu,
  • Wenqian Zang,
  • Chuan Liu,
  • Baoyu Wang and
  • Xiangzhi Huang

The Qinghai–Tibet plateau (QTP), as the “roof of the world” and the “Asian Water Tower”, provides important ecological resources for China and other Asian countries. The changing trend of ecological assets and their domi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
23,106 Views
27 Pages

23 April 2014

This paper analyses the multiplicity of image rights in Europe and the classical conflictual relationship between the right to one’s own image and copyright law. First, the paper analyses the main mechanisms of legal protection of a person’s image in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
9,183 Views
10 Pages

Framework for Sustainable Recovery of Tourism in Protected Areas

  • Hasita Bhammar,
  • Wendy Li,
  • Christel Maria Moller Molina,
  • Valerie Hickey,
  • Jo Pendry and
  • Urvashi Narain

5 March 2021

Tourism in protected areas was a fast-growing segment within the global travel and tourism industry prior to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a development pathway, tourism generated foreign exchange for countries endowed with natu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,082 Views
45 Pages

This article addresses citizens’ psychological health disparities in pandemic-stricken Japan from the perspective of positive psychology with a collective/political perspective. Our analysis of three internet surveys in 2020 and 2021 in Japan i...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,403 Views
15 Pages

18 January 2021

The importance of tourism for development is widely recognized. Travel restrictions imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought tourism to a halt. Tourism is one of the key sectors driving change in Africa and is based exclusively on natur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,263 Views
24 Pages

13 September 2023

Advances in research on environmental problems and public awareness of them have led to renewed concern about the need to establish mechanisms and figures to protect and manage sites so that geoecological processes remain outside the dynamics of anth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,336 Views
27 Pages

Remote Sensing as a Sentinel for Safeguarding European Critical Infrastructure in the Face of Natural Disasters

  • Miguel A. Belenguer-Plomer,
  • Omar Barrilero,
  • Paula Saameño,
  • Inês Mendes,
  • Michele Lazzarini,
  • Sergio Albani,
  • Naji El Beyrouthy,
  • Mario Al Sayah,
  • Nathan Rueche and
  • Abla Mimi Edjossan-Sossou
  • + 3 authors

13 August 2025

Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks, energy facilities, and urban installations, is increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change. Remote sensing technologies, namely satellite imagery, offer solutions for monitoring,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,151 Views
25 Pages

5 January 2022

The German state of Baden-Württemberg boasts outstanding geo-, bio-, and archaeological diversity, and hosts two of the world’s oldest geoparks. Based on this case study, we explore why the outstanding geoheritage has not been valorized to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,733 Views
17 Pages

27 August 2022

Virtually every country has a problem with preserving protected wild animals, and some countries have their way of protecting animals through legal measures. Animals are a nation’s wealth, just as are forest timber and non-timber forest product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,886 Views
19 Pages

Valuation of Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development of Hani Terraces: A Rice–Fish–Duck Integrated Farming Model

  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Gangchun Xu,
  • Nannan Shen,
  • Zhijuan Nie,
  • Hongxia Li,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Yunchong Gong,
  • Yanhui He,
  • Xiaofei Ma and
  • Hongyan Zhang
  • + 3 authors

As a complementary and symbiotic agro-ecological cycle system, a nature-based integrated rice–fish–duck farming ecosystem was developed in the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces. The main research objective was to evaluate the ecosystem services b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,647 Views
18 Pages

Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network

  • Oday A. Hassen,
  • Ansam A. Abdulhussein,
  • Saad M. Darwish,
  • Zulaiha Ali Othman,
  • Sabrina Tiun and
  • Yasmin A. Lotfy

15 October 2020

Blockchain technology has been commonly used in the last years in numerous fields, such as transactions documenting and monitoring real assets (house, cash) or intangible assets (copyright, intellectual property). The internet of things (IoT) technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,021 Views
15 Pages

1 September 2025

The expansion of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is a central pillar of Italy’s climate and energy transition strategy. However, the actual availability of land for PV deployment is heavily influenced by a complex regulatory framework that impos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,217 Views
27 Pages

A Case Study on the Danube Limes in Serbia: Valorisation and Cartographic Analyses of Selected Tourism Products

  • Jasmina M. Jovanović,
  • Marko Stojanović,
  • Tanja Janković,
  • Siniša Drobnjak,
  • Dejan Djordjević,
  • Radoje Banković,
  • Milan Radovanović,
  • Ljiljana Živković,
  • Tamara Gajić and
  • Dunja Demirović Bajrami
  • + 2 authors

27 January 2022

Cultural assets in the area of the Danube Limes in Serbia are an integral part of the world heritage “Roman Empire Borders”. The research presented in this paper includes the tourist and cartographic visualization of 19 Roman sites in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,245 Views
20 Pages

Valuation of the Vocationality of Cultural Heritage: The Vesuvian Villas

  • Fabiana Forte,
  • Vincenzo Del Giudice,
  • Pierfrancesco De Paola and
  • Federica Troisi

28 January 2020

The Vesuvian Villas are a system of architectural assets that, due to important artistic, historical and typological characteristics, have relevance that is not only local. However, due to ineffective management policies and insufficient financial re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,592 Views
19 Pages

26 August 2022

Assigning a monetary value to a landscape improves its importance. It helps to realize the magnitude of the benefits that can be obtained and represents the basis for applying protection and improvement policies. As a case study, we considered Marina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
5,674 Views
28 Pages

5 September 2021

The protection of artistic and cultural heritage is a major challenge due to its peculiarities and its exposure to significant natural hazards. Several methodologies exist to assess the condition of artistic heritage and to protect it from exceptiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,779 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2021

The rate of landcover change linked to deforestation and forest degradation in tropical environments has continued to surge despite a series of forest governance policy instruments over the years. These informed the launch of one of the most importan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
681 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
26 Citations
5,736 Views
19 Pages

15 January 2020

Three courtyards nine halls is an important cultural asset in eastern Zhejiang. This paper takes Three courtyards nine halls dwellings in the eastern part of Zhejiang province of China as the research object, collecting data with field research, meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,013 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2022

The concept of Ecosystem Service Value (ESV) is indispensable when balancing the need for economic development and ecological protection, because it can clarify the ecological assets and values provided by a region. The study of spatio-temporal varia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,248 Views
22 Pages

Coastal Adaptation Pathways and Tipping Points for Typical Mediterranean Beaches under Future Scenarios

  • Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla,
  • Vicente Gracia and
  • Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla

Coastal zones experience increasing climatic and human pressures, which lead to growing risks and tipping points (TPs) under future scenarios and natural resource scarcity. To avoid crossing TPs with irreversible coastal losses, this paper proposes t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,178 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,516 Views
36 Pages

1 February 2023

It is important to assess the factors that affect firms’ strategies for environmental improvement. Taking China’s pilot of officials’ off-office accountability audit of natural resource assets (hereafter accountability audit) that c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,221 Views
24 Pages

Cultural Heritage at Risk in World Conflicts: Digital Tools’ Contribution to Its Preservation

  • Grazia Neglia,
  • Mariarosaria Angrisano,
  • Ippolita Mecca and
  • Francesco Fabbrocino

9 November 2024

Cultural heritage is, today, particularly exposed to the devastation resulting from natural phenomena, but it is even more exposed to the destruction caused by man-made ones. Consequently, it is critical to adopt suitable and concrete provisions for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,946 Views
17 Pages

Above the Ravines: Flood Vulnerability Assessment of Earthen Architectural Heritage in Quito (Ecuador)

  • Francesca Trizio,
  • Julio Garzón-Roca,
  • Miguel Ángel Eguibar,
  • Paola Bracchi and
  • Francisco Javier Torrijo

23 November 2022

Floods represent one of the most threatening risks for earthen architectural heritage. Developing risk assessment tools is considered crucial to mitigate the risk and to protect heritage buildings. Due to its hygroscopic nature, earthen architecture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
31,649 Views
29 Pages

An Integrated Cyber Security Risk Management Approach for a Cyber-Physical System

  • Halima Ibrahim Kure,
  • Shareeful Islam and
  • Mohammad Abdur Razzaque

30 May 2018

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a combination of physical system components with cyber capabilities that have a very tight interconnectivity. CPS is a widely used technology in many applications, including electric power systems, communications, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,526 Views
28 Pages

Forecasting of Wildfire Probability Occurrence: Case Study of a Mediterranean Island of Italy

  • Davide Berardi,
  • Marta Galuppi,
  • Angelo Libertà and
  • Mara Lombardi

29 January 2025

The growing need to address natural and human-induced disasters while protecting territory remains a key focus for the scientific community. Effective emergency management, especially during wildfires, requires coordinated responses to safeguard live...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,390 Views
31 Pages

This article seeks to demonstrate the value of landscape character assessment in addressing the unique needs of remote areas, located at national insular borders, with lower levels of development and economic activity. The paper assesses and presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,019 Views
20 Pages

Redundant Photo-Voltaic Power Cell in a Highly Reliable System

  • Bertalan Beszédes,
  • Károly Széll and
  • György Györök

The conversion of solar energy into electricity makes it possible to generate a power resource at the relevant location, independent of the availability of the electrical network. The application of the technology greatly facilitates the supply of el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,120 Views
16 Pages

Application of Set Pair Analysis in a Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Resource Assets: A Case Study of Wuhan City, China

  • Jingdong Zhang,
  • Yanan Li,
  • Chaoyang Liu,
  • Zhiguang Qu,
  • Fei Li,
  • Zhaofei Yang,
  • Luping Jiang and
  • Jiatian Fu

18 August 2019

With the rapid development of the social economy, China is suffering from severe water scarcity due to improper management. Evaluation of water resource value is a crucial issue for innovative management in regional water resources. In this paper, in...

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