Growing demand for outdoor recreation puts pressure on highly-frequented peri-urban areas. In the Netherlands, a more equal distribution of recreationists has been proposed by Dutch government to relieve overcrowded hotspots. Devising landscape planning strategies that redirect flows requires reliable data areas people currently use and what would also be suitable recreation. Such may not avail...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented disruption to daily life for large swaths of individuals and resulted in potentially widespread implications individuals' health wellbeing. This study utilized online survey avid outdoor recreationists understand the psychosocial factors influencing recreationist behaviors during across rural, urban cluster, communities United States. Confirmat...

Different forms of outdoor recreation have different spatiotemporal activity patterns that may have interactive or cumulative effects on wildlife through human disturbance, physical habitat change, or both. In western North America, shrub-steppe habitats near urban areas are popular sites for motorized recreation and nonmotorized recreation and can provide important habitat for protected specie...

due to the different factors and complexity of their effects on healthy and sustainability of urban forest, this study has been tried by means of determining effective factors in ecosystem, and dividing sorkhe hesar man made forest park to homogeneous units according to natural factors (slope, aspect, high, soil depth, mixture and pure planting system) and human factors (amount of irrigation an...

Excessive mental and physical health challenges among immigrant women in Norway call for a response. Interaction with nature has proven to benefit well-being women, but knowledge about the determinants of such behavior this target group is scarce. This study thus aims explore influences on outdoor recreation Norway. Data were gathered through individual interviews 14 from Iran (2), Poland Pales...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org W recreation and tourism activities in parks, wilderness, and protected areas continue to show trends of increasing participation (Cordell 2008; Balmford et al. 2009). Associated with this rise in visitation are anthropogenic disturbances that result in environmental impacts, which in turn raise concerns as to whether recreation and...