With rapid urban expansion and loss of open space, attractive local landscapes will continue
to gain importance in location decisions and on political agendas. The present study reviews …

The US national park system includes 423 sites covering more than 85 million acres of land
and some of the most iconic landscapes in the country. The parks host approximately 320 …

As global efforts to protect ecosystems expand, the socioeconomic impact of protected areas
on neighboring human communities continues to be a source of intense debate. The debate …

Protected areas are a key tool for conservation policy but their economic impacts are not
well understood. This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly …

The intent of this research is to explore changes in US rural poverty rates from 1990 to 2000.
Using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) I focus on spatial variations in the role of …

National parks and reserves are globally popular approaches to protecting biodiversity and
the supply of ecosystem services. Because these protected areas limit agricultural …

Bolivia has experienced a rapid proliferation of protected areas over the past several
decades. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data, we estimate the impacts of …

Do protected areas (PAs) increase or reduce the welfare of rural households? This study
assesses this key question in environmental economics through a meta-analysis of studies …

Contemporary resource management practice and rural development planning increasingly
emphasize the integration of resource extractive industries with non‐market‐based …

Based on the characteristics of underdeveloped areas, this paper selects the panel data of
15 underdeveloped counties in Anhui Province from 2013 to 2019 and uses the panel …