Hasil untuk "Recreation leadership. Administration of recreation services"

Ulrike Pröbstl, Wolfgang Haider

Jake Van Deursen, Noah Creany, Christopher Monz et al.

This article examines the challenge of preserving ecological conditions and maintaining accessibility in parks and protected areas (PPA). Drawing from empirical research that analyzes the social concept of recreation specialization, the selective channeling of interests and abilities into a specific recreational activity. This study aims to better understand recreation behavior across a sample population of recreationists in urban-proximate park settings at the Nature Reserve of Orange County, CA. Multivariate classification methods and an exploratory factor analysis assisted in the summarization of survey data, grouping recreationists based on commonalities and varying expressions of involvement, commitment, and skill. A one-way analysis of variance demonstrated significant and positive relationships across specialization types and various behavioral characteristics, supporting empirical research conducted in wildland settings. More specifically, positive relationships were found between specialization and recreation ecology attitudes, resource use and dependency, management perceptions, conservation knowledge, Nature Reserve/park values, and self-reported specialization. Trends displayed at an activity specific level in this research demonstrate that specialization dynamics vary according to activity type, which further endorses the idea that specialization is composed of unique social expressions that do not necessarily depict a developmental process or progression of behavior, attitudes, and preferences. Beyond identifying the ways in which specialization dynamics can influence recreation behavior and providing recreation managers with guidance to inform site-specific decisions, evidence from this study shows that measuring self-reported specialization can be as effective as implementing a multivariate classification approach. A novel result that can influence the way this concept is measured in future studies.

Samantha L. Powers, Nicholas A. D. Pitas, Andrew J. Mowen

Local residents are the primary stakeholder for municipal parks and recreation who have the potential to influence funding and policy through their participation, voting, and advocacy. Research has suggested that individuals are more likely to support parks and recreation and view them as essential when they perceive they provide benefits that address their own as well as broader community needs. This panel study investigated Pennsylvania residents and the extent they considered parks and recreation an essential community service during the COVID-19 pandemic. It further assessed the rationale for why parks and recreation were considered either essential or non-essential during this time period. A majority of respondents (54%) felt local parks and recreation were an essential service in their community during the pandemic based primarily on their perceived contributions to physical health, mental health and wellbeing, and the safe provision of recreation opportunities. Conversely, parks and recreation were considered non-essential when they had been closed, when individuals were unsure of what services were actually provided during the pandemic, or they were perceived as unsafe or unsanitary given the presence of COVID-19. Findings provide evidence of the contributions provided by local parks and recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest influenceable factors associated with perceptions of whether parks and recreation are an essential community service.

David Fazzino

The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DEWA) is among the busiest National Park Service (NPS) units with millions of annual visitors. In this book, David Fazzino uses oral history and archival work to consider the ramifications of government land takings, done half a century ago to uproot families and communities across 70,000 acres in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Fazzino situates these land takings in historical context to explain the ways places have been taken, both physically and ideologically, in the name of progress, development, wilderness, and recreation. The author contrasts legal valuations, measured along utilitarian and material lines, with lived valuations which account for place as experiential, intimate, personal, and relational. Fazzino also considers the ruins of what was and the remains of past lives in the valley to suggest inclusive possibilities of future management regimes in DEWA and federal public lands more broadly.

N.I. Pavlov

David Fazzino

The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DEWA) is among the busiest National Park Service (NPS) units with millions of annual visitors. In this book, David Fazzino uses oral history and archival work to consider the ramifications of government land takings, done half a century ago to uproot families and communities across 70,000 acres in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Fazzino situates these land takings in historical context to explain the ways places have been taken, both physically and ideologically, in the name of progress, development, wilderness, and recreation. The author contrasts legal valuations, measured along utilitarian and material lines, with lived valuations which account for place as experiential, intimate, personal, and relational. Fazzino also considers the ruins of what was and the remains of past lives in the valley to suggest inclusive possibilities of future management regimes in DEWA and federal public lands more broadly.

Zoltán Szabó

Világviszonylatban felértékelődtek az egészségmegőrzéssel kapcsolatos turisztikai utazások. Az eddigi kutatások kevés figyelmet fordítottak az utóbbi időben a magyar lakosság egészségmegőrzéshez kötődő belföldi utazásaira. A jelen kutatás célja feltárni a magyar lakosság egészségmegőrzés motivációjú belföldi utazásainak változását a 2015–2019 közötti években, az egészségturizmus fejlesztésére vonatkozólag. Jelen tanulmány a Központ Statisztkai Hivatal szekunder forrásainak elemzésével vizsgálja Magyarországon az egészségmegőrzés motivációjú belföldi utazások változását. Az eredmények alapján megállapítást nyert, hogy az egészségmegőrzéssel összefüggő belföldi utazások jellemzői az utóbbi években jelentősen megváltoztak. A kutatási eredmények ismeretében javasolt az egészségmegőrzéshez kötődő belföldi utazások hatékony növelése érdekében kidolgozni egy új egészségmegőrzési turizmus stratégiát.

Justin Hall, Jeremy Jostad

Kenneth E. Mobily, Rodney B. Dieser

Zsuzsanna Bukta

Susan G. Zieff, Angela Lumpkin, Claudia Guedes et al.

Richard Kraus

Gary C. Hunt

Chris Cousens

Alan E. Watson, H. Ken Cordell

Howard G. Danford

B. E. Phillips