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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 02-02-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15032678
Abstract: Identifying and quantifying ecotourism opportunities are critical processes in sustainable tourism planning, which is challenging, since ecotourism is a Complex Adaptive System (CAS). This study investigated Ecotourism Opportunities Measurements (EOMs) in the literature and mapped the research trends to provide practical implications for research in this area. A systematic quantitative literature review began with a scientometric analysis in CiteSpace to examine the existing knowledge and the state of the art in EOMs. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol was then applied to refine the initial search results, and snowballing was used to collect additional articles. The refined set was then thematically coded and quantitatively analyzed. Our findings show that existing studies on ecotourism opportunities predominantly focus on the impacts of ecotourism on the environment, stakeholders’ contributions toward ecotourism development, sustainability, and responsible behavior of local communities in ecotourism promotion. In addition, five dimensions have been identified under which ecotourism opportunities can be measured, including nature, environmental education rotection, sustainability, socio-cultural benefits, and tourist satisfaction. Existing scales or indices assess potential destinations qualitatively rather than quantitatively. In contrast, an index-based approach might help to solve the challenges of evaluating ecotourism opportunities as a CAS, as well as to quantitatively assess potential destinations to support decision-making related to ecotourism promotion.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2017
Publisher: Journal of Spatial Information Science
Date: 25-06-2020
Publisher: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
Date: 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-10-2018
Abstract: The internationalization of higher education results in 4.6 million students attending colleges and universities outside their home countries. In the United States and other countries, there is significant underrepresentation of women among inbound international higher education students. Gender equality in education cannot be achieved so long as women are underrepresented in participation in this important educational venue. To better understand the drivers of gender inequalities in international higher education, this study examines the low participation rate by women coming to the United States by comparing it with participation data for women coming to the United Kingdom and Germany. Gender participation rates from both source regions and countries vary by destination country. By exploring the geography of gender inequality in international higher education, decision makers can better understand barriers to achieving international gender equality goals.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-09-2018
DOI: 10.3390/RS10091446
Abstract: Research on the contribution of understory components to the total above ground biomass (AGB) has to date received very little attention because most prior biomass estimation studies have ignored small regenerating trees beneath the main canopy with the assumption that their contribution to biomass is generally negligible. Only a few biomass studies have emphasized a considerable contribution to biomass of understory components in forest ecosystems. However, this study of native, tropical, deciduous forest biomass in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was able to explore the contribution of small regenerating trees to total biomass by exploiting a large field inventory of hundreds to thousands of in idually-counted small regenerating trees per hectare. Thus, this study investigated the influence of small regenerating tree biomass on models of the relationship between total AGB and remote sensing data. These analyses were trained with and without topographic variables derived from ASTER-GDEM. Our results demonstrate that the inclusion of small regenerating understory trees (R2 = 0.42, NRMSE or %RMSE = 30.5%) provides a quantifiable improvement in total estimated AGB compared to using only large woody canopy trees (R2 = 0.21, NRMSE or %RMSE = 36.6%) when correlating field-based biomass measurements with optical image-derived variables. All analyses show that the inclusion of terrain factors made an important contribution to biomass modeling. This study suggests that for young, open forests where there are many small regenerating trees, the contribution of understory biomass should be taken into consideration to improve total AGB estimation.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 18-10-2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2240911
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2011
DOI: 10.1068/A4360
Abstract: Considerable policy action has focused on the social patterning of health, especially the health risks associated with low income. More recent attention has turned to transport, food systems, workplaces, and location, and the way their intersections with social position and income create health inequalities. Time is another dimension that structures what people do yet the way in which time contours health has been neglected. This paper explores (a) how time might influence health, and (b) the way in which time scarcity complicates current understandings of health inequalities. Alongside other meanings, time can be thought of as a health resource. People need time to access health services, build close relationships, exercise, work, play, care, and consume—all activities that are fundamental to health. There is evidence that the experience of time pressure is directly related to poorer mental health. Lack of time is also the main reason people give for not taking exercise or eating healthy food. Thus, another impact of time scarcity may be its prevention of activities and behaviours critical for good health. We investigate whether time scarcity, like financial pressure, is socially patterned, and thus likely to generate health inequality. The experience of time scarcity appears to be linked to variations in time devoted to employment or caring—activities closely bound to gender, status, and life course. One reason that time scarcity is socially patterned is because of the way in which caring is valued, allocated, and negotiated in households and the market. Adding paid employment to caring workloads is now normative, transforming the allocation of time within families. But caring requires a close interlocking with others' needs, which are often urgent and unpredictable, creating conflict with the linear, scheduled, and commodified approach to time required in the workplace. We review the evidence for the possibility that these time pressures are indeed contributing to socially patterned health inequalities among people caring for others. We also explore the potential for time scarcity to compound other sources of health inequality through interplays with income and space (urban form, transportation networks and place of residence). People who are both time and income poor, such as lone mothers, may face compounding barriers to good health, and the urban geography of time-scarce families represents the embedding of time–money–space trade-offs linked to physical location. In Australia and the US, poorer families are more likely to live in mid to outer suburbs, necessitating longer commutes to work. These suburbs have inferior public transport access, and can lack goods and services essential to health such as shops selling fresh foods. We conclude with a tentative framework for considering time and health in the context of policy actions. For ex le, social policy efforts to increase workforce participation may be economically necessary, but could have time-related consequences that alter health. Similarly, if cities are to be made livable, health promoting, and more equitable, urban designers need to understand time and time–income–space trade-offs. Indeed, many social policies and planning and health interventions involve time dimensions which, if they remain unacknowledged, could further compound time pressures and time-related health inequality.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2000
Publisher: North American Cartographic Information Society
Date: 13-06-2019
DOI: 10.14714/CP91.1551
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-03-2022
DOI: 10.3390/GEOGRAPHIES2020012
Abstract: This article explores a potential exploitation of fully polarimetric radar data for the management of rubber plantations, specifically for predicting tree circumference as a crucial information need for sustainable plantation management. Conventional backscatter coefficients along with Eigen-based and model-based decomposition features served as the predictors in models of tree girth using ten regression approaches. The findings suggest that backscatter coefficients and Eigen-based decomposition features yielded lower accuracy than model-based decomposition features. Model-based decompositions, especially the Singh decomposition, provided the best accuracies when they were coupled with guided regularized random forests regression. This research demonstrates that L-band SAR data can provide an accurate estimation of rubber plantation tree girth, with an RMSE of about 8 cm.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2017
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Wadern/Saarbruecken, Germany
Date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-08-2015
Abstract: From 1966 to 1971 the First Australian Task Force was part of the counterinsurgency c aign in South Vietnam. Though considered a small component of the Free World effort in the war, these troops from Australia and New Zealand were in fact the best trained and prepared for counterinsurgency warfare. However, until now, their achievements have been largely overlooked by military historians. The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam sheds new light on this c aign by examining the thousands of small-scale battles that the First Australian Task Force was engaged in. The book draws on statistical, spatial and temporal analysis, as well as primary data, to present a unique study of the tactics and achievements of the First Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Further, original maps throughout the text help to illustrate how the Task Force's tactics were employed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-2020
DOI: 10.3390/RS12111781
Abstract: Satellite images provide an accurate, continuous, and synoptic view of seamless global extent. Within the fields of remote sensing and image processing, land surface change detection (CD) has been amongst the most discussed topics. This article reviews advances in bitemporal and multitemporal two-dimensional CD with a focus on multispectral images. In addition, it reviews some CD techniques used for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The importance of data selection and preprocessing for CD provides a starting point for the discussion. CD techniques are, then, grouped based on the change analysis products they can generate to assist users in identifying suitable procedures for their applications. The discussion allows users to estimate the resources needed for analysis and interpretation, while selecting the most suitable technique for generating the desired information such as binary changes, direction or magnitude of changes, “from-to” information of changes, probability of changes, temporal pattern, and prediction of changes. The review shows that essential and innovative improvements are being made in analytical processes for multispectral images. Advantages, limitations, challenges, and opportunities are identified for understanding the context of improvements, and this will guide the future development of bitemporal and multitemporal CD methods and techniques for understanding land cover dynamics.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 08-12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-09-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPLACE.2015.04.001
Abstract: The upward trend of chronic illness in working age populations calls for better understanding of the difficulties chronically ill people face with workforce participation. Existing research focuses primarily on physical limitations and employer attitudes about chronic illness. Here we use a space-time approach to illuminate the importance of negotiating logistical challenges and embodied rhythms when balancing work and chronic illness. We draw from time geography and rhythmanalysis in analysing interviews from a qualitative case study of 26 in iduals living with chronic kidney disease in Australia. Difficulties with paid work arise from: (1) competition for space-time resources by employers and health services (2) arrhythmias between the body, work and health services and (3) the absence of workplace rhythms on which to 'hook' health activities. Implications for workplaces and health services design are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2019
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-01-2018
DOI: 10.3390/RS10010129
Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Date: 09-2009
Abstract: Signal detection theory (SDT) is a framework used by psychologists to study decision making under uncertain conditions. While we often know a great deal about how different methodological choices can affect the outcome of an analysis, we know less about how information end users interpret and understand competing outcomes in the context of the decisions they are trying to make. We contend that such information would be useful and assert that SDT analysis is one method of building this understanding. We provide an introduction to SDT methods and an ex le of the methods applied to a navigation experiment, discuss why SDT may be useful for GIScientists, and provide several ex les of other potential application areas.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Location: United States of America
Start Date: 03-2010
End Date: 09-2017
Amount: $325,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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