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Adaptive capacity represents a crucial component in the assessment of a region’s vulnerability to climate change. The term adaptive capacity is only fuzzily defined, and determining it is difficult and often neglected in previous studies. In this paper, a newly developed adaptive capacity...
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The Ricardian approach has been applied to many different geographic contexts and most applications concern large countries. Only few studies deal with Europe. This paper applies the Ricardian approach to measure the impact of climate on the agricultural system of a small Italian Alpine region...
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This paper analyses different direct payments system for the Swiss alpine region based on the multi-agent model SWISSland. Moreover, the future demand and management of the alpine pastures are simulated under different scenarios until 2020. In the model, agents are representing existing summer...
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Griechenland befindet sich im südöstlichen Teil von Europa und bildet in einer der größten Halbinseln von Südeuropa (die restlichen zwei sind westlich die Iberische und im Zentrum die Italienische Halbinsel) einen Teil der balkanischen Halbinsel. Griechenland hat eine Fläche von 131.957...
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Advocates of national park are often of the opinion that benefits from ecotourism will compensate people whose … distance of their homes to a national park and future economic benefits from ecotourism when eliciting their willingness to pay … for rural road that could help improve access to the park for ecotourism. The possibilities for designing an ecotourism …
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Over the past two decades, ecotourism has emerged as an important conservation strategy, especially in the Tropics … about the sustainability of ecotourism in terms of distributions of income to local people and degradation of ecosystems … ecotourism at the country scale for Belize, Central America. The model includes state variables for natural ecosystems and …
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In general, tourism plays a significant role in the economy of archipelagos and islands. The Autonomous Region of the Azores has a great potential for tourism, offering multiple attractions, both natural and cultural, creating a big challenge for a sustainable tourism policy since little...
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Ecotourism potentially provides a sustainable approach to tourism development in national parks. The paper focuses on … ecotourism impacts and the status of wildlife within the Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole) situated in Karnataka. It … of the tribal people in the park. Field exploration was undertaken to identify the impacts of ecotourism. The results …
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ecotourism, putting the emphasis on the code of conduct of the ecotourist. Also, in the content of this article there can be …
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