A national park revisited. Assessing change in recreational use of Arthur's Pass National Park
Attendance ; Enquiry ; Form of transport ; Motivation ; Nature park ; New Zealand ; Period of stay ; Social change ; Tourism
Using a replicative format the paper documents the findings of two visitation studies undertaken in that park fifteen years apart. The findings suggest that, despite some strong elements of stability, there are indications of considerable change
in use patterns at this site. The data presented support the thesis that the park is undergoing a transition initially shaped by wider social and economic pressures and manifest by increasing use for commercial purposes and an intensification of use.
About 35,000 people living in and around Langtang National Park north of Kathmandu are dependent on agriculture for their livelihood, but incursions from wildlife in the park cause depredations on their fields and herds. A study of conflict
Communities and transfrontier parks in the Southern African Development Community : the case of Limpopo National Park, Mozambique
Local development ; Mozambique ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Rural community ; Tourism ; Trans-border area
The merger of three national parks - South Africa's Kruger, Mozambique's Limpopo and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou - into an 89000 km2 conservation area - the great Limpopo Transfrontier Park - is supposed to boost tourism, protect biodiversity and promote
Kakadu and Uluru : aboriginal lands in Australia's national parks
Aborigines ; Australia ; Ethnic group ; Land appropriation ; Landed property;Landed estate ; Natural park ; Nature conservation
An important juncture in the evolution of planning and management policies for Australia's national parks was the return to aboriginal ownership of designated areas of Kakadu and Uluru parks. - (DWG)
Leisure ; Mental picture ; Natural park ; Nature conservation ; Perception ; Tourism ; United States
In the late nineteenth century, national parks in the USA were seen as places imbubed with romantic ideas of the picturesque and sublime and belief in the restorative powers of nature. These ideas about parks linger in the American consciousness
The wonders and origins of four national parks in the southern United States
Leisure ; National park ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Nature reserve ; Southern United States ; Tourism ; United States
Between 1921 and 1941, four national parks were established in the USA : Hot Springs (Arkansas) ; Great Smokey Mountains (Tennessee-North Carolina) ; Shenandoah (Virginia) ; and Mammoth Cave (Kentucky). All the parks depended on private and state
National park protection in relation to the ecological zonation of a neighbouring human community : an example from northern Peru
Agriculture ; Andes ; Applied ecology ; Community ; Ecosystem ; Environment ; Land use ; National park ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Peru ; Resource management ; Vegetation
Empirical data on plants, vegetation types and land-use in different ecological zones of Pataz (Department of La Libertad), Peru, next to Rio Abiseo National Park. Problems of resource extraction by people who live near park boundaries. - (DWG)
Creating Yellowstone : mountains in the early park years
Historical geography ; Montana ; Nature conservation ; Nature park ; Nineteenth Century ; Resource management ; Tourism ; United States of America
Essay explores the relationship between national parks and nearby residents by reconstructing how locals from Montana shaped the world's first national park-Yellowstone. They played roles as explorers of the bizarre, as tourists identifying key
attractions, as trail cutters and road builders establishing the human landscape, as entrepreneurs guiding the tourism infrastructure, and as arbiters over the extent of federal protection over park wildlife and resources. - (SLD)
The national park programme during the collapse of the GDR and its subsequent development
Environmental conservation ; Environmental management ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; National park ; Nature conservation ; Nature park
The national park programme, which was initiated in eastern Germany in 1990 was pursued vigorously and developed remarkably. At the moment, approximatively 23% of the total surface of the new Länder is taken up by large protected areas, since 1990
four biosphere reservations, two national parks and twenty nature parks were added. Without any doubt the national park programme has improved nature protection in leaps and bounds, not only in the eastern parts, but also it has provided stimuli
Belated honor to a prophet : Newburgh's Downing Park
Cultural geography ; Historical geography ; Landscape esthetics ; Planned landscape ; United States ; Urban park
Description of the collaborative work of two famous American landscape architects, F. Olmstead and C. Vaux, to create a public park in the small city of Newburgh, New York. - (DWG)
Central Michigan University's glacial park : instruction through landscaping
With the aid of earthmoving equipment, the university campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA, has created a landscaped park of sculpted landforms that morphologically resemble drumlins, moraines, eskers, and kames. This park is used as an easily