Studies in outdoor recreation : search and research for satisfaction / by Robert E. Manning.
"For Fifteen Years, Studies in Outdoor Recreation has been a standard text in courses on parks and outdoor recreation and has served as an invaluable reference for park and recreation managers." "This new edition has been completely revised to present the most recent information in th...
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Oregon State University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Search for Satisfaction: An Introduction to Outdoor Recreation Research
- Social Aspects of Outdoor Recreation: Use and Users
- Recreation Use and Users
- Outdoor Recreation Activity
- Use Distribution and Dynamics
- Social Correlates of Outdoor Recreation
- Cultural Influences on Outdoor Recreation
- Descriptive Aspects of Outdoor Recreation: Attitudes, Preferences, and Perceptions
- Visitor Attitudes and Preferences
- Developed Areas
- Backcountry and Wilderness Areas
- Perceptions of Environmental Impacts
- Visitor Versus Manager Perceptions
- Carrying Capacity: An Organizational Framework
- Origins of Carrying Capacity
- Carrying Capacity and Recreation
- Limits of Acceptable Change
- Management Objectives and Indicators and Standards of Quality
- Carrying Capacity Frameworks
- The Status of Carrying Capacity
- Crowding in Outdoor Recreation: Use Level, Perceived Crowding, and Satisfaction
- Concern with Crowding
- Empirical Studies of Crowding
- The Satisfaction Model
- Testing the Satisfaction Model
- Expanding the Satisfaction Model
- An Expanded Crowding Model
- Indicators and Standards of Quality: A Normative Approach
- A Normative Approach
- Norm Theory and Methods
- Indicators of Quality
- Standards of Quality
- Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- Motivations and Benefits in Recreation: A Behavioral Approach
- Early Explorations
- A Behavioral Approach to Recreation
- Empirical Tests of the Behavioral Approach
- Benefits-Based Management
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues.