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Author :Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch. Park Use Research Section Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Programme of research on visitation to national parks by : Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch. Park Use Research Section
Download or read book Programme of research on visitation to national parks written by Canada. National and Historic Parks Branch. Park Use Research Section and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Relating Park Visitor Experience to Level and Degree of Environmental Concern Within a Social-psychological Framework by : Janice Sook Hing Auyong
Download or read book Relating Park Visitor Experience to Level and Degree of Environmental Concern Within a Social-psychological Framework written by Janice Sook Hing Auyong and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spatial Econometrics by : Harry Kelejian
Download or read book Spatial Econometrics written by Harry Kelejian and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Econometrics provides a modern, powerful and flexible skillset to early career researchers interested in entering this rapidly expanding discipline. It articulates the principles and current practice of modern spatial econometrics and spatial statistics, combining rigorous depth of presentation with unusual depth of coverage. Introducing and formalizing the principles of, and ‘need’ for, models which define spatial interactions, the book provides a comprehensive framework for almost every major facet of modern science. Subjects covered at length include spatial regression models, weighting matrices, estimation procedures and the complications associated with their use. The work particularly focuses on models of uncertainty and estimation under various complications relating to model specifications, data problems, tests of hypotheses, along with systems and panel data extensions which are covered in exhaustive detail. Extensions discussing pre-test procedures and Bayesian methodologies are provided at length. Throughout, direct applications of spatial models are described in detail, with copious illustrative empirical examples demonstrating how readers might implement spatial analysis in research projects. Designed as a textbook and reference companion, every chapter concludes with a set of questions for formal or self--study. Finally, the book includes extensive supplementing information in a large sample theory in the R programming language that supports early career econometricians interested in the implementation of statistical procedures covered. Combines advanced theoretical foundations with cutting-edge computational developments in R Builds from solid foundations, to more sophisticated extensions that are intended to jumpstart research careers in spatial econometrics Written by two of the most accomplished and extensively published econometricians working in the discipline Describes fundamental principles intuitively, but without sacrificing rigor Provides empirical illustrations for many spatial methods across diverse field Emphasizes a modern treatment of the field using the generalized method of moments (GMM) approach Explores sophisticated modern research methodologies, including pre-test procedures and Bayesian data analysis
Book Synopsis Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas by : Paul F. J. Eagles
Download or read book Tourism in National Parks and Protected Areas written by Paul F. J. Eagles and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism by : Dorceta E. Taylor
Download or read book Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism written by Dorceta E. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Park Visitation Study by : Swayne Cates
Download or read book A Park Visitation Study written by Swayne Cates and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences by : Guangqing Chi
Download or read book Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences written by Guangqing Chi and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences shows researchers and students how to work with spatial data without the need for advanced mathematical statistics. Focusing on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists, Guangqing Chi and Jun Zhu explain what each method is and when and how to apply it by connecting it to social science research topics. Throughout the book they use the same social science example to demonstrate applications of each method and what the results can tell us.
Book Synopsis National Parks of the United States by : Charles Howard Richardson Phd
Download or read book National Parks of the United States written by Charles Howard Richardson Phd and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National Parks of the United States" examines why visitation will always vary among the national parks just as it did at the time this is covered by this study, the early 1950s. It explores the factors that attract visitors to the National Parks and those that have no bearing on the action of visitors. There is a rank correlation method that reveals the relative degree of attraction among factors that are responsible for the number of visitors flocking to each of the national parks. Because the central problem examined by this study is that of accounting for variations in the numbers of visitors to the various national parks of the United States, the analysis employs some widely accepted hypotheses concerning national park visitation. By reviewing such factors as nearly fishing streams, the availability of campsites, and the populations of towns near each park, this study paints a picture of what attracts visitors to one park over another. The natural beauty of each of these parks also provides the backdrop for the facilities that are made available and thus have a tremendous impact upon visitor attendance and activities such as hiking, camping, fishing, and climbing.
Book Synopsis America's National Park System by : Lary M. Dilsaver
Download or read book America's National Park System written by Lary M. Dilsaver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.
Book Synopsis Yellowstone National Park Visitor Study by : Margaret Littlejohn
Download or read book Yellowstone National Park Visitor Study written by Margaret Littlejohn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Measuring Recreational Visitation at U.S. National Parks with Crowd-sourced Photographs by : Carrie Sessions
Download or read book Measuring Recreational Visitation at U.S. National Parks with Crowd-sourced Photographs written by Carrie Sessions and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land managers rely on visitation data to inform policy and management decisions. However, visitation data is often costly and burdensome to obtain, and provides a limited depth of information. In this paper, we assess the validity of using crowd-sourced, online photographs to infer information about the habits and preferences of recreational visitors by comparing empirical data from the National Park Service to photograph data from the online platform Flickr for 38 National Parks in the western United States. Using multiple regression analysis, we find that the number of photos posted monthly in a park can reliably indicate the number of visitors to a park in a given month. Through additional statistical testing we also find that the home locations of photo-takers, provided voluntarily on an online profile, accurately show the home origins of park visitors. Together, these findings validate a new method for measuring recreational visitation, opening an opportunity for land managers worldwide to track and understand visitation by augmenting current data collection methods with crowd-sourced, online data that is easy and inexpensive to obtain. In addition, it enables future research on how visitation rates change with changes in access, management or infrastructure, weather events, or ecosystem health, and facilitates valuation research, such as travel cost studies.
Book Synopsis National Park Management - A study of US National Parks with particular emphasis on sustainable tourism by : Roland Oberdorfer
Download or read book National Park Management - A study of US National Parks with particular emphasis on sustainable tourism written by Roland Oberdorfer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Good, Klagenfurt University (OPM (Organisations-, Personal- und Managemententwicklung)), language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction „In order to sustain our global environment and improve the quality of living in our human settlements, we commit ourselves to sustainable patterns of production, consumption, transportation and settlement development, pollution prevention, respect for the carrying capacity of eco-systems, and the preservation of opportunities for future generations“(1) (Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, June 1996). National Parks in the United States and almost all over the world are being subjected to a paradigm shift in park conservation and management. In the early years of National Parks, conservation strategies and management actions were based on a belief that parks were static landscapes, isolated from human activities and adjacent lands, and that they were meant solely for the pleasure of visitors. Attempts to resolve system dysfunctions - wrought by erroneous views and the consequences of subsequent management policies, such as predator removal and fire suppression - were approached one species at a time. Today, this paradigm is slowly shifting to a knowledge-based understanding of ecosystems as es now recognize the need to include people as part of the system and to address causes, rather than symptoms, of system dysfunction by managing whole ecosystems, not just single species. However, National Park Management is not just limited to conservation strategies. National Park Management includes a widespread variety of management activities such as the most essential activities like park system planning, land protection, natural resource management (biological resource management, fire management, water resource management, air resource management, geologic resource management, soundscape and lightscape management), cultural resource management (e.g. archeological resources, cultural landscape, ethnographic resources, historic structures), wilderness preservation and management, interpretation and education, tourism/visitor management, and park facilities management. It is clear that in each park the emphasis of management activities should be adapted to the needs of the park, its problems and challenges. However, the next generation of park managers will need to be able to tolerate ambiguity, manage change, manage tourism patterns, set and communicate priorities, handle controversy, and understand political processes. [...]
Book Synopsis Managing Outdoor Recreation by : Robert E. Manning
Download or read book Managing Outdoor Recreation written by Robert E. Manning and published by Cabi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global popularity of outdoor recreation and ecotourism is on the increase. At present, there is little systematic information on the management practices that have been successful in National Parks. This book presents the issue of how to manage outdoor recreation in ways that protect the integrity of park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. Using case studies drawn from the U.S. National Park System, it illustrates a range of successful management approaches that can be applied worldwide.
Book Synopsis A Self-administered Park Visitor Survey Technique by : T. J. Kovacs
Download or read book A Self-administered Park Visitor Survey Technique written by T. J. Kovacs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Visition and Barriers of Racial Minority Groups to U.S. National Parks by : Yun Liang
Download or read book Visition and Barriers of Racial Minority Groups to U.S. National Parks written by Yun Liang and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this dissertation was to utilize mixed methods, including big data analytics and qualitative analysis, to understand visitation patterns and barriers of racial minority visitor groups to U.S. national parks. According to National Park Service (2020), U.S. national parks attract 327.5 million visits in 2019. However, despite an increase of 156% in U.S. national park visitation compared to the visitation of 50 years ago, most visitors of U.S. national parks are middle-class white; racial minority groups, such as African Americans, and low-income people are less likely to visit U.S. national parks, suggesting a lack of representation and diversity among U.S. national park visitors compared to the general American population. Traditional approaches to understand visitation patterns and visitor behaviors in U.S. national parks rely on count data and visitor survey. However, these approaches have several limitations, such as substantial time and financial costs, certain data collection periods and locations, etc. More recently, mobile device data, a new data source, has been adopted for monitoring visitors in tourism or park-related research. However, few studies validated mobile device data with traditional visitor surveys or count data. Chapter 2 combined mobile device data with the American Community Survey. It assessed mobile device data's validity in a national park context with three approaches: Points of Interest (POIs), visitor demographics, and temporal visitation patterns. The results revealed that only half of the POIs inside the national park are valid. Compared to traditional visitor surveys, mobile device data are limited due to platform bias and the exclusion of international visitors, resulting in discrepancies in visitor demographics, such as education level and income level. Conversely, mobile device data have strong correlations with count data regarding monthly and daily visitation patterns. The results suggest that with careful consideration, mobile device data can serve as an additional and complementary source of information to traditional survey data for understanding visitor demographics and temporal visitation patterns. Chapter 3 explored and compared visitor demographics, travel behaviors, and how diverse visitor groups change their travel behaviors to U.S. national parks before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in three U.S. national parks by mobile device data. The findings indicated that visitors reduced travel distance to Yellowstone National Park, however, visitors are more likely to visit national parks within driving distance of major metropolitan areas. Additionally, White visitors are less likely to be influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic to visit U.S. national parks, however, there were mixed results on travel behaviors of racial minority groups to visit the parks. Future research suggests that middle and small-size national parks can be beneficial by mobile device data to monitor visitor demographic compositions and behaviors. In additional to big data approaches, by utilizing a qualitative analysis, Chapter 4 investigated barriers of African Americans to visit U.S. national parks to understand the low visitation of African Americans in U.S. national parks and seek suggestions for NPS to better serve the African American community. Six categories, including historical factors, cultural factors, economic issues, spatial issues, knowledge issues, and racial discrimination, were identified as the barriers for African Americans to visit U.S. national parks. The study also provided related suggestions for NPS to better serve the group of people, such as building a long-term partnership with the community and offering discounts for the entrance fees or related programs of national parks.
Book Synopsis Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability by : Bob R. O'Brien
Download or read book Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability written by Bob R. O'Brien and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the US National Park Service’s efforts to allow for as many visitors as possible in the parks that are kept in as natural a state as possible. “Yosemite Valley in July of 1967 would have had to be seen to be believed. There was never an empty campsite in the valley; you had to create a space for yourself in a sea of cars, tents, and humanity. . . . The camp next to ours had fifty people in it, with rugs hung between the trees, incense burning, and a stereo set going full volume.” Scenes such as this will probably never be repeated in Yosemite or any other national park, yet the urgent problem remains of balancing the public's desire to visit the parks with the parks’ need to be protected from too many people and cars and too much development. In this book, longtime park visitor and professional geographer Bob O’Brien explores the National Park Service’s attempt to achieve “sustainability,” a balance that allows as many people as possible to visit a park that is kept in as natural a state as possible. O’Brien details methods the NPS has used to walk the line between those who would preserve vast tracts of land for “no use” and those who would tap the Yellowstone geysers to generate electricity. His case studies of six western “crown jewel” parks show how rangers and other NPS employees are coping with issues that impact these cherished public landscapes, including visitation, development, and recreational use./
Book Synopsis Climate Change by : Kelsey E. Jolley
Download or read book Climate Change written by Kelsey E. Jolley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has the potential to critically impact tourist visitation rates and the seasonal timing of visitation to national parks of the United States. An increase in visitation into the 'shoulder seasons' of spring and fall may be a likely outcome of higher temperatures during the summer (Amelung et al. 2007). Increases in precipitation may further alter visitation patterns to certain national parks (Lise and Tol 2002). This study analyzed the impact of past climate change in 35 national parks within the United States. Temperature, latitude, and visitation data were used to analyze potential correlations between climate change and park visitation. Using kurtosis values and Spearman correlations, the seasonal nature of park attendance can be evaluated. Parks were grouped into regions to facilitate comparisons between climate zones. Results from the analysis indicate that park visitation is diffusing out from the peak summer months but it is not noticeably increasing during the 'shoulder seasons'. Some parks are exhibiting a strong correlation between climate factors and visitation while others are not.
