The relationship between people’s activities and values with the protection level and biodiversity
Tolvanen, Anne; Kangas, Katja; Tarvainen, Oili; Huhta, Esa; Jäkäläniemi, Anne; Kyttä, Marketta; Nikula, Ari; Nivala, Vesa; Tuulentie, Seija; Tyrväinen, Liisa (2020-05-14)
Anne Tolvanen, Katja Kangas, Oili Tarvainen, Esa Huhta, Anne Jäkäläniemi, Marketta Kyttä, Ari Nikula, Vesa Nivala, Seija Tuulentie, Liisa Tyrväinen, The relationship between people’s activities and values with the protection level and biodiversity, Tourism Management, Volume 81, 2020, 104141, ISSN 0261-5177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104141
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020063046393
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Abstract
We investigated how people’s recreational activities, values, and land use preferences are related to the protection level, biodiversity and cultural heritage values of nature-based tourism areas in northern Finland. We assessed peoples’ opinions using a public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) and analyzed the data together with spatial biodiversity and cultural heritage data from the same area. Associations between the PPGIS place markings with the protection level and biodiversity values were quite low, and for the cultural heritage sites they were altogether missing. Negative preferences were often marked in areas with high numbers of sites rated as pleasant and they overlapped with each other, indicating conflicting preferences. Since most activities are not noticeably related to the protection level or biodiversity values of a site they can be planned so as to protect the biodiversity of the area.
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