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  1. Applying Recreation Survey Results to Recreation Planning for Water-Based Recreation Areas in California

    This paper focuses on identifying applications of recreation survey results in the context of water-based recreation planning. Recreation researchers have sometimes been criticized for conducting research that is weak in applied value (Cordell 1999). The paper also focuses on the important, but sometimes forgotten role that private entities play (e.g., Pacific Gas and...

    Author(s):
    Garrett Duncan; John Mintz; Douglas Rischbieter; John Baas
    Year:
    2004
    Keywords:
    applications of recreation, recreation areas, recreation management, planning strategies
    Source:
    Proceedings of the Fourth Social Aspects and Recreation Research Symposium; 2004 February 4-6; San Francisco, California. San Francisco State University. 114-118

  2. A model for evaluating dispersed outdoor recreation use estimation

    An outdoor recreation use simulator (ORUS) has been developed to simulate dispersed recreation survey data similar to that collected by the National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Project's survey of the national forests of the U.S.A. Statistical distributions are used to represent the various behaviors of recreationists during their visit to a dispersed area. The...

    Author(s):
    Stanley J. Zarnoch; Donald B. K. English; Susan M. Kocis
    Year:
    2004
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    Source:
    In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas, June 16-20, Rovaniemi, Finland, eds. Sievanen, Tuija; Erkkonen, Joel; Jokimaki, Jukka; Saarinen, Jarkko, Tuulentie, Seija; Virtanen, Eija

  3. Outdoor recreation participation trends

    As part of the national assessment of outdoor recreation trends, the authors have taken a look at participation patterns and levels of participation across activities and across segments of our society. The primary source of data is the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (NSRE). The NSRE is the latest in the continuing series of National Recreation...

    Author(s):
    H. Ken Cordell; R. Jeff Teasley; John C. Bergstrom; Jack Martin; Jim Bason; Vernon R. Leeworthy
    Year:
    1999
    Keywords:
    outdoor recreation, participation, trends
    Source:
    In: Cordell, H. Ken; Betz, Carter ; Bowker, J.M.; and others. Outdoor recreation in American life: a national assessment of demand and supply trends. Champaign, IL: Sagamore Publishing: 219-321.

  4. Outdoor Recreation Constraints: An Examination of Race, Gender, and Rural Dwelling

    We assess whether traditionally marginalized groups in American society (African-Americans, women, rural dwellers) perceive more constraints to outdoor recreation participation than other groups. A series of logistic regressions are applied to a national recreation survey and used to model the probability that individuals perceive certain constraints to...

    Author(s):
    Cassandra Y. Johnson; J. Michael Bowker; H. Ken Cordell
    Year:
    2001
    Keywords:
    Source:
    Southern Rural Sociology Vol. 17, 2001, pp. 111-133
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