The security exception: Development and militarization in Laos's protected areas
Challenges for Guides Training and Accreditation in Protected Areas: Picinguaba Nucleus in Serra do Mar State Park. Strategies to introduce innovative processes that enhance the participation of communities in tourism benefits gain particular relevance in protected areas (PAs). The article presents a critical study of regulatory and legal instrumen...
Pygmy populations occupy a vast territory extending west-to-east along the central African belt from the Congo Basin to Lake Victoria. However, their numbers and actual distribution is not known precisely. Here, we undertake this task by using locational data and population sizes for an unprecedented number of known Pygmy camps and settlements (n =...
Carbon Dioxide (co2) Emissions by Visitors to the Delta do Parnaíba Conservation Area (Piauí State, Brazil). Climate change represents the focal point of the contemporary crisis between society and nature, and will soon come to affect all human activities. In light of this critical new situation, the planning and administration of protected areas m...
De afgelopen jaren hebben het Rijk en de provincies onderzocht hoe ze drinkwaterbronnen beter kunnen beschermen. Inmiddels is landelijk besloten om gebiedsdossiers in te zetten voor het halen van de doelen van de Europese Kaderrichtlijn Water (KRW). Afgesproken is om vóór 2015 voor iedere winning een gebiedsdossier op te stellen. Dit helpt om in ru...
In hydrosedimentology studies the determination of the trace element concentrations at the study site is imperative, since this background can be used to assess the enrichment of sediments with these elements. This enrichment can be the result of the natural process of geological formation or of anthropogenic activities. In the latter case, guideli...
Published in Ecology and evolution
Climate change affects both habitat suitability and the genetic diversity of wild plants. Therefore, predicting and establishing the most effective and coherent conservation areas is essential for the conservation of genetic diversity in response to climate change. This is because genetic variance is a product not only of habitat suitability in con...