Walk on the wild side: estimating the global magnitude of visits to protected areas

A Balmford, JMH Green, M Anderson, J Beresford… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
How often do people visit the world's protected areas (PAs)? Despite PAs covering one-
eighth of the land and being a major focus of nature-based recreation and tourism, we don't …

The importance of landscape characteristics for the delivery of cultural ecosystem services

LE Ridding, JW Redhead, TH Oliver… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The importance of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) to human wellbeing is widely
recognised. However, quantifying these non-material benefits is challenging and …

A global map of coastal recreation values: Results from a spatially explicit meta-analysis

A Ghermandi, PALD Nunes - Ecological economics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper examines the welfare dimension of the recreational services of coastal
ecosystems. First, we construct a global database of primary valuation studies that focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial dimensions of recreational ecosystem service values: A review of meta-analyses and a combination of meta-analytic value-transfer and GIS

JP Schägner, L Brander, ML Paracchini, J Maes… - Ecosystem Services, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates spatial determinants of recreational ecosystem service values by
combining Geographic Information System (GIS) and meta-analysis, and by presenting the …

Modelling and mapping spatial heterogeneity in forest recreation services

M Termansen, CJ McClean, FS Jensen - Ecological economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Modelling and spatial mapping of recreation services require attention to both demand and
supply factors. This paper combines recreational choice modelling and economic valuation …

Economic analysis for the UK national ecosystem assessment: synthesis and scenario valuation of changes in ecosystem services

IJ Bateman, AR Harwood, DJ Abson, B Andrews… - Environmental and …, 2014 - Springer
We combine natural science modelling and valuation techniques to present economic
analyses of a variety of land use change scenarios generated for the UK National …

Predicting outdoor recreation demand on a national scale–The case of Switzerland

F Willibald, MJ van Strien, V Blanco, A Grêt-Regamey - Applied Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Residents of industrialized countries place increasingly more value on outdoor recreation.
For many alpine and remote municipalities, revenues from tourism and recreation belong to …

Valuing recreational ecosystem service flow in Finland

T Lankia, L Kopperoinen, E Pouta… - Journal of outdoor …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study we defined the spatial allocation for the value of recreation ecosystem services
in Finland. The Finnish National Outdoor Recreation Demand Inventory, a representative …

Ecosystem service and dis-service impacts of increasing tree cover on agricultural land by land-sparing and land-sharing in the Welsh uplands

A Hardaker, T Pagella, M Rayment - Ecosystem services, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing tree cover on agricultural land is recognised as a potential mechanism to
enhance ecosystem services. In this case study, we assessed and mapped the impacts on …

Not just the Big Five: African ecotourists prefer parks brimming with bird diversity

HN Eyster, R Naidoo, KMA Chan - Animal Conservation, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecotourism helps sustain protected areas (PAs) that in turn conserve Africa's declining
fauna. Identifying ecotourist preferences and which species and landscapes benefit from …