Measuring park visitation vulnerability to climate extremes in U.S. Rockies National Parks tourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-57
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Jedd ◽  
Michael J. Hayes ◽  
Carlos M. Carrillo ◽  
Tonya Haigh ◽  
Christopher J. Chizinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Park Visitation

Measuring park visitation vulnerability to climate extremes in U.S. Rockies National Parks tourism

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Jedd ◽  
Michael J. Hayes ◽  
Carlos M. Carrillo ◽  
Tonya Haigh ◽  
Christopher J. Chizinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Park Visitation

scholarly journals Use of Multiple Methods: An Examination of Constraints Effecting Ethnic Minority Visitor Use of National Parks and Management Implications

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina S. Roberts ◽  
Donald A. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Park Visitation ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Visitor Use ◽  
Recreation Participation

Understanding outdoor recreation participation and national park visitation by members of ethnic minority groups has been a particular focus of outdoor recreation researchers for the past twenty years. Attracting ethnic minorities, and understanding their recreation needs and interests, demands a multi-faceted approach and sustained commitment not only by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) but by other resource management agencies as well.

scholarly journals Multifaceted interactions between urban humans and biodiversity-related concepts: A developing-country dataset

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Minh-Hoang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Recreation Demand ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Wildlife Trade ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Public Parks ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Park Visitation

Abstract Urban humans and biodiversity-related concepts are interacting with each other in many negative and positive ways. The biodiversity provides a wide array of provision and cultural-ecological services to urban residents, but it is being overexploited to the point of crisis. The crisis is largely driven by the expanding illegal wildlife trade in developing countries with a high urbanization rate and biodiversity level like Vietnam. While supply-side measures are ineffective in reducing biodiversity loss, researchers have suggested demand-side measures as supplements, such as social marketing campaigns and law enforcement in urban areas. Moreover, urban residents are also potential visitors to urban public parks and national parks, which helps generate finance for biodiversity preservation and conservation in those places. Understanding how urban residents' perceptions towards biodiversity and biodiversity-related behaviors can help improve the effectiveness of conservation efforts and sustainable urban development. Thus, this article presents a dataset of 535 urban residents' wildlife consumption behaviors, multifaceted perceptions and interactions with biodiversity-related concepts, and nature-based recreation demand. The dataset is constructed with six major categories: 1) wildlife product consumption, 2) general biodiversity perceptions, 3) biodiversity at home and neighborhood, 4) public park visitation and motivations, 5) national park visitation and motivations, and 6) socio-demographic profiles. These resources are expected to support researchers in enriching the lax literature regarding the role of urban residents in biodiversity conservation and preservation, and help policymakers to find insights for building up an “eco-surplus culture” among urban residents through effective public communication and policymaking.

scholarly journals Using Mobile Device Data to Track the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Spatiotemporal Patterns of National Park Visitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9366
Author(s):  
John A. Kupfer ◽  
Zhenlong Li ◽  
Huan Ning ◽  
Xiao Huang
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Spatiotemporal Patterns ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Park Visitation ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Parks Management

Effective quantification of visitation is important for understanding many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national parks and other protected areas. In this study, we mapped and analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of visitation for six national parks in the western U.S., taking advantage of large mobility records sampled from mobile devices and released by SafeGraph as part of their Social Distancing Metric dataset. Based on comparisons with visitation statistics released by the U.S. National Park Service, our results confirmed that mobility records from digital devices can effectively capture park visitation patterns but with much finer spatiotemporal granularity. In general, triggers of visitation changes corresponded well with the parks’ management responses to COVID-19, with all six parks showing dramatic decreases in the number of visitors (compared to 2019) beginning in March 2020 and continuing through April and May. As restrictions were eased to promote access to the parks and the benefits associated with outdoor recreation, visitation in 2020 approached or even passed that from 2019 by late summer or early autumn at most of the parks. The results also revealed that parks initially saw the greatest increases in visitation after reopening originating from nearby states, with visitorship coming from a broader range of states as time passed. Our study highlights the capability of mobility data for providing spatiotemporally explicit knowledge of place visitation.

scholarly journals Biocultural nation making: Biopolitics, cultural-territorial belonging, and national protected areas

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862199518
Author(s):  
James Stinson ◽  
Elizabeth Lunstrum
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
National Population ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
Park Visitation ◽  
National Production ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Conservation Organizations

While the academic literature on biopolitics has investigated how the life of the population and its biological capacities have increasingly become the target of political concern and intervention largely at the scale of the nation, the literature on nations and nationalism has explored nations as cultural-territorial units including questions of their emergence, ongoing production, and impacts. What these share is a similar if not nearly identical object of analysis: the nation or national population. These, however, are realms of scholarly debate that have largely, and quite surprisingly, bypassed one another. This paper advances the concept of biocultural nation making to bridge these debates and illustrate that nation making is at once biological and cultural-territorial and that these are deeply intertwined. We ground this in the experience of Canadian national parks, highlighting how “natural” environments like national parks are key sites of biocultural, and increasingly neoliberal, national production. Here, state conservation organizations promote park visitation as a means of, first, enabling an active, healthy, and economically productive national population. Second, parks are promoted on the grounds that they enable the experience of distinctively Canadian landscapes and places of national inclusion especially as park visitorship is expanded to include nontraditional visitors including immigrants, urban communities, and the youth. Parks, in short, have become vehicles of biocultural, and increasingly neoliberal, nation making. While there are indeed affirmative aspects to this, we also highlight hidden exclusions tied to the embrace of neoliberal logic, the limits of multiculturalism, and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous communities.

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