Managing Outdoor Recreation Case Studies in the National Parks

Outdoor recreation continues to grow in popularity in the United States and around the world. Perhaps this is best manifested in the nearly 300 million annual visits to the US national parks. While we should celebrate this popular interest in parks and related areas, it also presents the chall...

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Những tác giả chính: Manning, Robert E, Anderson, Laura E
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שפה:English
יצא לאור: CABI 2014
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גישה מקוונת:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37127
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סיכום:Outdoor recreation continues to grow in popularity in the United States and around the world. Perhaps this is best manifested in the nearly 300 million annual visits to the US national parks. While we should celebrate this popular interest in parks and related areas, it also presents the challenging and increasingly urgent issue of how to manage outdoor recreation in ways that protect the integrity of park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. These can be affected in many ways, and it is imperative that impacts be minimized. While parks are established to provide opportunities for outdoor recreation, they must also be protected. Again, the US national parks offer a quintessential example; the 1916 Organic Act creating the US National Park Service dictates that national parks are to be managed “in such manner and such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” This book addresses the issue of managing outdoor recreation to protect park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. The book is organized into three parts. Part I com- prises five chapters that draw on the scientific and professional literature in parks and outdoor recreation to develop a systematic and creative approach to outdoor recreation management. Chapter 1 reviews several conceptual frameworks that can be used to understand the chal- lenges in managing outdoor recreation and to organize thinking about managing outdoor rec- reation. Chapter 2 identifies and reviews the potential impacts that outdoor recreation can have on park resources, the quality of the visitor experience, and park facilities and services. Chapter 3 outlines the strategies and practices that can be used to manage outdoor recreation, while Chapter 4 assesses the efficacy of a range of management practices. Chapter 5 organizes the information presented in the previous chapters into a series of matrices that can be used to encourage and guide a systematic and creative program of outdoor recreation management. The matrices are further elaborated in Appendices A1 through A4.