Past research on ethnicity in outdoor recreation has focused on park use and participation in recreation activities. Explanations of differences in park use and participation rates by minorities and non-minorities have emphasized the marginality and ethnicity hypotheses. A different approach can be used that emphasizes visitor’s expectations and preferences for appropriate behaviors at an urban...

This paper uses multidimensional environmental value orientations as the segmentation bases for analyzing a natural destination tourism market of the National Forest Recreation Areas in Taiwan. Cluster analyses identify two segments, Acceptance and Conditionality, within 1870 usable observations. Independent sample t test and crosstab analyses are applied to examine these segments’ forest value...

Collegiate recreation and intercollegiate athletics have an impact on individual, group, and community development of students who are participants, employees, and athletes and learn leadership within these environments. This chapter explores and applies leadership frameworks in recreation and athletics.

This paper examines how an improved water quality affects the demand for recreation in the Stockholm archipelago. Accomplishing the improvement by reducing nutrient emissions is costly, and is economically motivated only if benefits are great enough to cause a social gain. It is thus of great importance to estimate the benefits from improved water quality. In the present study, water quality is...

ity communities, and to adapt site attributes to better reflect ethnic preferences, increased use by Hispanics and Asians is prompting managers to search for innovative ways to respond to the different natural resource values held by minority visitors (Tierney et al. 1998, Chavez 2001, Chavez 2002). For example, in southern California, some national forest recreation managers have implemented “...

ecreation managers make and act on decisions, often implicit, about the conditions, management approaches, and visitor experiences that are most appropriate for the individual recreation areas they administer. As demand for recreation, particularly in wilderness, backcountry, and wild river settings, has increased, such decisions have become more difficult, complex, and contentious. We believe ...

This study examines whether different social and marginalized groups in American society (minorities, women, rural dwellers, immigrants, low income, less educated) perceive more constraints or barriers to outdoor recreation participation than White middle-class males. Logistic regressions were applied to data from the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment to model the probability th...

The essence of specialization theory, first published in The Journal of Leisure Research in 1977 (Bryan) and subsequently expanded in a 1979 monograph (Bryan), is that outdoor recreation participants can be placed on a continuum from general interest and low involvement to specialized interest and high involvement. Each level of specialization carries distinctive behaviors and orientations. The...