The Mogao Grottoes, also known as the Mogao Caves or the Thousand Buddhas Caves, is located at the southeast of Dunhuang, northwestern China. It is a very important cultural heritage site on the Silk Road and was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987. Mogao Grottoes is a Buddhist shrine with 45,000 square meters of wall paintings and 3,000 sculptures within 492 cave temples from the 4th to 14th centuries; it is also known as the world’s largest existing cave temple with the richest content of Buddhist art. In 1900, the Library Cave was discovered, in which more than 50,000 well-preserved manuscripts, silk paintings, and other relics of important academic research value were. With its long history and profound culture, Mogao Grottoes became a hot tourist destination in China. A growing numbers of visitors, especially in recent years, bring great challenges for heritage preservation and tourism at Mogao. Dunhuang Academy developed a preservation and utilization project in order to cope with this conflict between preservation and tourism, ensure the heritage is well, and develop sustainable tourism. This paper analyzes the current visitor management methods and the risks from visitors and evaluates the proposals for cave carrying capacity, visitor capacity management, visitor flow management, and a visitor center, including the good points of each and the potential problems associated with the caves preservation, site security, and visitors’ experiences. Finally, the paper discusses the overall project and proposes a recommendation for visitor management and developing sustainable tourism at Mogao Grottoes. / text

Στην παρούσα εργασία πραγματοποιήθηκε πετρογραφική μελέτη των σπηλαιοθεμάτων του σπηλαίου της Αλιστράτης, με σκοπό την άντληση πληροφοριών από τα σπηλαιοθέματα για τις παλαιοκλιματολογικές συνθήκες. / In this present paper we study Alistratis' cave speleothems petrographicly, with the purpose of obtaining information from these speleothems for paleoclimatic conditions.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Environmental Biology, 2006. / "January 2006" Includes copies of author's previously published works. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed June 9, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-111).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1985. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1., p. 258-272).

The Cory site (FaNq-75) is a multicomponent Middle Period site located in Saskatoon in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada. The site was excavated in 2001 by Stantec Consulting Ltd. as part of a remediation program for a SaskWater pipeline project. Four occupation levels were identified with one complete and two fragmentary projectile points identified. Level II of the Cory site contained a complete projectile point, which was an atypical Gowen point, and was radiocarbon dated to 5910 ± 60 rcybp. The collection from the site was obtained from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum for a more thorough analysis as part of this thesis. Three new radiocarbon dates were obtained for previously undated levels of the site. In addition to the description of the Cory site, this thesis also reviews the published material from a number of Middle Period sites on the Northern Plains. This review led to a reconsideration of the traditional classification of Middle Period archaeological cultures. Previously, the Gowen complex and the Oxbow complex had been considered separate, but related entities. In this thesis, a new classification is proposed with the Gowen complex and the Oxbow complex combined into a single archaeological culture.

“Reported as the fastest growing sectors of the global economy, tourism is rapidly growing in the developing countries for they seek to boost foreign investments and financial reserves” (Third World Network, 1999). Tourism is further being supported by World Tourism Organization as a key tool through which to address the problem of poverty in the developing countries (1987). Lesotho has been exposed to tourism development since 1966 independence. The country has over the years seen changes in the processes of tourism development particularly the shift from promotion of the country as an exclusive natural destination to the addition of other tourist possessions in the tourism package. This thesis is an assessment of Lesotho‟s standing as a tourism destination. In particularly it attempted to confirm the tourism integrity of the Ha Kome Caves; checked the tourism resources and facilities offered by the place; examined how heritage and culture resources are being exploited for tourism and investigatd the tourism impact on the area. Edward Inskeep‟s model has been used as a viable tool to assess value of the key heritage and culture attractions and resources presented by Ha Kome village. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / am2014 / Historical and Heritage Studies / unrestricted

En s’appuyant sur la révision des assemblages de micromammifères (Soricomorphes, Erinaceomorphes, Chiroptères et Rongeurs) provenant de plusieurs sites du sud de la France (Caune de l’Arago, grotte du Lazaret, Baume Moula-Guercy) et de l’étude originale d’un gisement du sud-ouest de la péninsule ibérique (grotte de Maltravieso), ce travail a pour objectif principal de reconstituer l’évolution des paléoenvironnements et des paléoclimats, en Europe méridionale, au cours du Pléistocène moyen, entre 600 et 130 ka BP. Dans le but de tester la fiabilité des reconstitutions paléoécologiques, des analyses taphonomiques ont été réalisées sur les assemblages osseux de micromammifères, et ont permis de déterminer l’origine des accumulations en mettant en évidence l’intervention de rapaces nocturnes opportunistes et plus spécialisés. Les analyses paléoécologiques, basées sur l’utilisation de différentes méthodes, montrent que l’alternance de cycles glaciaires, caractérisés par un climat froid ou frais et des espaces découverts, et interglaciaires, plustempérés et montrant la fermeture des milieux, a eu un impact important sur la distribution des espèces de micromammifères en Europe méridionale, en relation avec la géographie et la topographie de chaque site. Des communautés « non-analogues » sont identifiées, mêlant taxons de zones froides et taxons tempérés, et témoignent du rôle de zone refuge tenu par ces régions. Elles montrent également que différentes phases de dispersions ont affectés lapaléobiodiversité au cours du Pléistocène moyen, notamment dans les zones d’extension maximale d’espèces lors des phases glaciaires. / Based on the review of micromammals associations (Soricomorphs, Erinaceomorphs, Chiropters and Rodents) from several sites in southern France (Arago Cave, Lazaret Cave, Moula-Guercy cave) and from the study of an original deposit in south-west of the Iberian Peninsula (Maltravieso cave), the main aim of this work is to reconstruct the evolution of palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates in southern Europe, during Middle Pleistocene between 600 and 130 ka BP. In order to assess the reliability of palaeoecological reconstructions, taphonomic analysis have been performed on micromammals bones, and have allowed to highlight the involvement of opportunistic and specialized owls in the originof accumulations. Palaeoecological analysis, based on the use of different types of methods, showed that the alternating glacial cycles, characterized by cold or cool climates and open spaces, and interglacial, more temperate with closed environments, had an essential impact on the distribution of micromammals species in southern Europe, in relation to geography and topography of each site. “Non-analogue” communities are identified, combining temperate and cold zones taxa, reflecting the role of refugia area of these regions. They also show that dispersal events have affected palaeobiodiversity during the Middle Pleistocene, particularly in the areas of maximum expansion of species during the glacial phases.