Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) is an incentive-based program established in Canada to pay farmers for their voluntary delivery of ecosystem services (ES). All seven ALUS programs across the country were examined...Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) is an incentive-based program established in Canada to pay farmers for their voluntary delivery of ecosystem services (ES). All seven ALUS programs across the country were examined using a standardized case-study approach based on site visits, reading internal documents, attending program meetings, and engaging in semi-structured interviews with program administrators, participating farmers, and advisory board members. Direct content analysis was used to highlight recurrent themes and emerging lessons in relation to the salient particulars of program physical location, administration framework, delivery of ES, and development and receipt by communities. Our three major findings are: 1) Overall, ALUS has been judged by participants to be a very successful program, whose strength is that it is completely voluntary, non-permanent, and readily adaptable to each location’s environmental conditions, economic funding base, and cultural milieu. 2) One serious shortcoming of all ALUS programs is a general lack of quantifiable data on their ability to increase ES. Instead, environmental benefits are either assumed or based on the idea that the areal extent of enrolled land is the sole measure of its environmental worth. 3) It may be that the social impact of ALUS is its greatest success. In this regard, for farmers, it is the process of engaging in land-use decision making and the recognition of their role as environmental stewards that is a bigger motivation for participating in an ALUS program than the modest financial incentives which they receive.展开更多
Community participation of tourism development in ethnic tourism destinations has great significance to promote the evolution of national tourism.Based on the empowerment theory,this study constructs a theoretical mod...Community participation of tourism development in ethnic tourism destinations has great significance to promote the evolution of national tourism.Based on the empowerment theory,this study constructs a theoretical model between tourism empowerment,social capital,tourism impact,and residents’willingness to participate tourism development.Taking Dong Village of Zhaoxing County in Southeast Guizhou Province of China as the case,structural equation model is applied to test the hypothetical relationships.Results show that economic,psychological,and social empowerment is related to residents’perception of tourism positive influence and their willingness to participate tourism development.In addition,positive tourism impact and social capital are also significant driving forces to enhance residents’initiative in tourism development.The higher social capital mainly comes from residents’perceived social empowerment.This study provides theoretical guidance for encouraging residents of ethnic tourism destinations to participate tourism and then promote local tourism development.展开更多
文摘Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) is an incentive-based program established in Canada to pay farmers for their voluntary delivery of ecosystem services (ES). All seven ALUS programs across the country were examined using a standardized case-study approach based on site visits, reading internal documents, attending program meetings, and engaging in semi-structured interviews with program administrators, participating farmers, and advisory board members. Direct content analysis was used to highlight recurrent themes and emerging lessons in relation to the salient particulars of program physical location, administration framework, delivery of ES, and development and receipt by communities. Our three major findings are: 1) Overall, ALUS has been judged by participants to be a very successful program, whose strength is that it is completely voluntary, non-permanent, and readily adaptable to each location’s environmental conditions, economic funding base, and cultural milieu. 2) One serious shortcoming of all ALUS programs is a general lack of quantifiable data on their ability to increase ES. Instead, environmental benefits are either assumed or based on the idea that the areal extent of enrolled land is the sole measure of its environmental worth. 3) It may be that the social impact of ALUS is its greatest success. In this regard, for farmers, it is the process of engaging in land-use decision making and the recognition of their role as environmental stewards that is a bigger motivation for participating in an ALUS program than the modest financial incentives which they receive.
基金supported by the Grant of China National Natural Science Foundation(No.72074053).
文摘Community participation of tourism development in ethnic tourism destinations has great significance to promote the evolution of national tourism.Based on the empowerment theory,this study constructs a theoretical model between tourism empowerment,social capital,tourism impact,and residents’willingness to participate tourism development.Taking Dong Village of Zhaoxing County in Southeast Guizhou Province of China as the case,structural equation model is applied to test the hypothetical relationships.Results show that economic,psychological,and social empowerment is related to residents’perception of tourism positive influence and their willingness to participate tourism development.In addition,positive tourism impact and social capital are also significant driving forces to enhance residents’initiative in tourism development.The higher social capital mainly comes from residents’perceived social empowerment.This study provides theoretical guidance for encouraging residents of ethnic tourism destinations to participate tourism and then promote local tourism development.
