Outdoor Recreation And Outdoor Education, Parts Of A Bigger Whole. Outdoor Recreation (ORCA) And Outdoor Education (AOEC)

Minority Participation in Outdoor Recreation

Outdoor Recreation Facilities in Natural Environments

Government and semi-government authorities in Australasia who own or control outdoor recreation facilities in natural environments are showing increasing interest in outdoor structures. Typical are national park authorities who have a range of facilities ranging from viewing platforms regularly subject to crowd loadings to rope crossings for streams on remote bushwalking tracks frequented by on...

Social capital in an outdoor recreation context.

This study examined social capital development in three all-terrain vehicles (ATV) clubs in Maine using an adapted version of Lin's (2001) social capital theory model. The structural components of social capital identified included collective assets and individual assets in the form of normative behavior and trust relationships. Also identified were counter-norms for individual ATV riders ident...

The Social and Outdoor Recreation Contexts for Southern Wildlife

Southern U.S. forests contribute to sustaining and adding quality to human life in many important ways. From before, during, and continuing now well after early European settlement of the South, native and immigrant populations in the South have lived in, off of and with forests as a major feature of their landscape. One of the important ways people benefit from the forests of the South is thro...

Wtp and the Rationality of Consumers regarding Outdoor Recreation

The premise of the rationality of consumers is examined in this paper, by analyzing responses to a study regarding outdoor recreation. On-site surveys were performed in parks in the Upper Galilee area in the north of Israel. We inquired about the willingness to pay (WTP) entrance fee to a planned park, the Hula Project. The mean value, NIS 30, is much higher than entrance fee to existing parks ...