Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover tourism marketing, fish and wildlife, place meaning, leisure and demographics, nature-based tourism, methods, leisure motives, outdoor recreation management, outdoor recreation among specific populations, leisure constraints, environmental attitudes and values, leisure cognition, environmental education, wildland-urban interface issues, and attribute evaluation and preference.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• Big game hunting practices, meanings, motivations and constraints: a survey of Oregon big game hunters
• Differences in reported satisfaction ratings by consumptive and nonconsumptive recreationists: A comparative analysis of three decades of research
• Place attachment and recreation demand on the west branch of the Farmington River
• Motivations and sensation seeking characteristics of recreational storm chasers
• Korean American males' interracial contact experiences during serious leisure activity
• The multiple meanings associated with the football tailgating ritual
• An application of importance-performance analysis to recreational storm chasing
• Physical activity in Georgia state parks: A pilot study
• Valuing state parks: Accounting for diverse visitor perspectives
• Agrileisure: Exploring the "fun" of local food
• A naturalistic inquiry into the social world of whitewater kayakers
• An exploratory study of the application of sense of community in a local festival
• Constraints and motivations related to fishing along the Lake Ontario coast
• Conflict and normative sanctions among Galapagos fishermen
• Angler segmentation using perceptions of experiential quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
• Perceptions of relative attractiveness of nature-based tourism assets: A comparison between CVB directors and visitors
• Perceptions of public forest managers concerning trail use by off-highway vehicle riders in the northeast United States
• A visitation-based profile of agritourism farms in Missouri
• The leisure style of Canadian rural recreation participants: An analysis based on three different rural leisure settings
• Managing outdoor recreation conflict on the Squamish, British Columbia Trail Network
• How place attachments influence recreation conflict and coping behavior
• Perceived community benefits from recreation resources: From scale development to validation
• Measuring the educational impact of Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids (PEAK): The development and implementation of a new scale
• Recreation partnerships on national forests: The influences of institutional commitment and urban proximity on agency capacity
• Enjoying green cities: Assessing visitors' attitude and preferences of urban forests in Washington, D.C.
• Mapping urban tourist experience zones in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina
• Determinates of clustering across America's national parks: An application of the Gini coefficients
• Exploring the relationship between outdoor recreation activities, community participation, and environmental attitudes
• The impact of park development on the lives of local inhabitants within Gros Morne National Park
• Roadside camping on forest preserve lands in the Adirondack Park: A qualitative exploration of place attachment and resource substitutability
• Classification of forest-based ecotourism areas in Pocahontas County of West Virginia using GIS and pairwise comparison method
• Parks and the urban heat island: A longitudinal study in Westfield, Massachusetts
• Climate change and environmentally responsible behavior on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
• Australian community members' attitudes toward climate change impacts at the Great Barrier Reef
• Purchase decision involvement: Event management segments and related event behavior
• Reinventing "retrotels": using engaged scholarship to market nostalgia tourism in rural New Hampshire

Citation

Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; Watts, Clifton E., Jr., eds. 2012. Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-94. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 261 p.