Proceedings of the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover management and planning, economics of outdoor recreation and tourism, tourism, characteristics of outdoor recreationists, ethnicity and culture, methodological issues, and marketing and management in outdoor recreation and tourism.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• Keynote address: discipline and chaos
• Recreational leasing of industrial forestlands in New York State
• Environmental attitude-behavior correspondence between different types of forest recreationists
• Support for recreational trail development and community attachment: a case of the Soucook River Watershed
• Human territoriality: an examination of a construct
• What's happening in our parks?
• Open space and imagination
• Opinions of elk viewers on a proposed Pennsylvania elk hunt
• The role of non timber forest products: a case study of gatherers in the eastern United States
• Degraded visibility and visitor behavior: the case of New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest
• Estimating relative values for multiple objectives on private forests
• Cost consideration as a factor affecting recreation site decisions
• Attendance structure and economic impact of the National Road Festival
• A comparison of tourists and local visitors to National Estuarine Research Reserve sites
• Individuals' interpretation of constraints: a new perspective on existing theory
• Culture, heritage and tourism destination choices
• A measurement of the experience preferences of central Appalachian mountain bicyclists
• Effect of balanced information on attitudes towards open ocean aquaculture development in New England
• Use and users of the Appalachian Trail: a geographic study
• A comparison of recreation conflict factors for different water-based recreation activities
• Scuba diving & underwater cultural resources: differences in environmental beliefs, ascriptions of responsibility, and management preferences based on level of development
• Recreation safety in municipal parks - Bloomington, Indiana and Tsukuba, Japan: a comparison study of risk management
• The meaning of leisure: conceptual differences between Americans and Koreans
• Universal campsite design: an opportunity for adaptive management
• A life to risk: cultural differences in motivations to climb among elite male mountaineers
• Outdoor recreation behaviors and preferences of urban racial/ethnic groups: an example from the Chicago area
• Evaluating multiple dimensions of visitors' tradeoffs between access and crowding at Arches National Park using indifference curve analysis
• Effective survey automation
• Weighting issues in recreation research and in identifying support for resource conservation management alternatives
• Intervention for the collaborative use of Geographic Information Systems by private forest landowners: a meaning-centered perspective
• Estimating social carrying capacity through computer simulation modeling: an application to Arches National Park, Utah
• Does the suggestion that respondents recall events chronologically significantly influence the data collected?
• Importance-performance analysis: an application to Michigan's natural resources
• The eastern states exposition: an exploration of Big E tourist expenditures
• Sustainable tourism development: the case study of Antalya, Turkey
• The role of avocational archaeology and history in managing underwater cultural resources: a Michigan case study
• Tornado chasing: an introduction to risk tourism opportunities
• Community based open space planning: applications of a GIS
• A spatial analysis of wilderness campsites in Lyell Canyon, Yosemite National Park
• Interpretation programming in the NYS Forest Preserve campgrounds: successful consensus building, partnership, and regional management
• Don't be thru-hiking; start Uhiking^sm
• Using technology to develop connections between individuals, natural resources, and recreation
• Monitoring visitor satisfaction: a comparison of comment cards and more in-depth surveys
• The forest service's recreation agenda: comments on the roles of research and state and private forestry in the Northeast
• Development of a use estimation process at a metropolitan park district
• Nature speaks - an exploratory study of nature as inspiration
• Great gulf wilderness use estimation: comparisons from 1976, 1989, and 1999
• New England's travel & tourism markets: trends in the geographic target markets in the 90's
• Notes on my trip through Nebraska, or some alternative marketing principles for parks and recreation

Citation

Kyle, Gerard. 2001. Proceedings of the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Kyle, Gerard, comp., ed. 2001. Proceedings of the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-276. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 307 p.