Yu-Fai Leung

Bio

Yu-Fai uses geospatial analytics to advance the science and practice of sustainable visitor (recreation and tourism) management in parks and protected areas. He develops visitor use and impact indicators, monitoring protocols and efficacy evaluation tools for protected areas in the United States and abroad. His interests include examining how park use and environmental factors influence patterns and intensity of visitor impacts, and how such impacts influence subsequent visitor behavior and experience.

Publications

• Characterizing the association between child malnutrition and protected areas in sub-Saharan Africa using unsupervised clustering , Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2023)
• GetDiv - a call for a global coordinated study on plant diversity changes on nature trails , JOURNAL OF ECOTOURISM (2023)
• Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior? , JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM (2023)
• Spatial heterogeneity of child malnutrition, proximity to protected areas and environmental variabilities in Zimbabwe , GeoJournal (2023)
• The future of sustainable polar ship-based tourism , Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures (2023)
• Addressing the food security and conservation challenges: Can be aligned instead of apposed? , Frontiers in Conservation Science (2022)
• Behavioural responses of two penguin species to human presence at Barrientos Island, a popular tourist site in the Antarctic Peninsula region , ANTARCTIC SCIENCE (2022)
• Experiencing Antarcticness: Slow tourists, fast penguins, and timeless landscapes , Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (2022)
• GIS&T in Recreation Planning and Management , Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2022)
• Tourists’ motivations, learning, and trip satisfaction facilitate pro-environmental outcomes of the Antarctic tourist experience , Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (2022)