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Universidad Católica de Valencia

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Updated 15th June 2026

Tuesday, November 3rd

Pre-Conference Workshops

11.00-14.00. Tips for publishing your first academic paper, by Catherine Pickering, Prof. Catherine Pickering. Griffith University, Australia.

12.00-14.00. Carrying Capacity Beyond the Number: Challenges and Transfer to Real Management Contexts. INEFC-Lleida Team.

12.00-14.00. Capacidad de carga más allá de las cifras: retos y aplicación a contextos de gestión reales (in Spanish). INEFC-Lleida Team

14.30 Pre-Conference lunch

17.00. Opening session (Beneficencia building)

17.30. Keynote speaker. Prof. Tuuli Toivonen. University of Helsinki. Visitor monitoring in the age of mobile big data: what we’ve learned over ten years of research

18. 20. Keynote speaker. Shira Standfield. Parks Canada. From Barriers to Belonging: Creating Accessible Visitor Experiences in Parks and Protected Areas (on-line)

19.30. Opening dinner. UCV. Guillem de Castro, 94

Wednesday, November 4th

9.30. Keynote speaker: prof. Estela Farías-Torbidoni. INEFC-Lleida. Managing overcrowding without excluding. Lessons from two decades of monitoring public use in protected areas.

10.20. Coffee-break and Oral presentations

13.00. Lunch

14.30 Oral presentations

17.00 Workshops

18.30 Free dinner on town

Thursday, November 5th

9.30 h. Plenary session. Keynote speaker: Dr. Carles Sanchís Ibor. UPV: Mired in Conflict: Territorial Governance in l’Albufera Natural Park

10.20. Coffee-break and Oral presentations. 1

3.00. Transfer to L'Albufera Natural Park. Packet lunch.

14.00. Thematic visits.

17.30. Transfer to Farewell Dinner (Casual dress dinner)

Friday, November 6th

9.30. Oral presentations

11.00. Coffee-break. Oral presentations.

12.30. Closing session

13.30. Lunch

Thematic Sessions

  • Co-creating Knowledge and Community around Coastal Blue Spaces and Recreation
  • Digitization of cycling
  • Socioeconomic monitoring of tourism in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: insights from the Global North and Global South
  • Applications of mobile big data and AI for visitor monitoring and management
  • Striking a Balance: Advancing Sound and Light Research for Sustainable Visitor Management in Parks and Protected Areas. 
  • Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence for Efficient Monitoring of Recreational Facilities in Protected Areas
  • PPGIS for balancing visitor experience and sustainable area management in times of change
  • Addressing overtourism challenges in recreational and protected areas - diagnosis, problems, solutions
  • Impacts of climate change on tourism in recreational and protected areas
  • Sustainable governance through novel visitor monitoring practices
  • Carrying Capacity Beyond the Number: Challenges and Transfer to Real Management Contexts
  • Advancing Visitor Flow Monitoring through an Integrated and Holistic Approach
  • Signage, Messaging, and Visual Communication in Visitor Use Management Research: Fresh Approaches
  • Environmental monitoring and tourism management in Marine Protected Areas 
  • Inclusive Outdoor Activities.
  • Orienteering in Protected Natural Areas.
  • Workshop. Towards Co-Creation and Co-Management: Engaging Outdoor Practitioners in EUROPARC Protected Areas.
  • Marine Protected Area Monitoring in the Americas: USA and Brazil Case Studies
  • Monitoring Partnerships in Protected Areas: Evidence, Impacts and Pathways for Governance
  • Human-Nature Connections. The potential of relational perspectives in catering for visitors’ care and stewardship of recreational landscapes.
  • Environmental Values and Visitor Behavior on Social Media: Evidence, Influence, and Implications for Conservation
  • Supporting Soundscape Management through Research and Education