Outdoor recreation and forest management: A plea for empirical data | Zendy

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Outdoor recreation and forest management: A plea for empirical data

Author(s) -

Howard W. Harshaw,

Stephen R.J. Sheppard,

Robert Kozak

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the forestry chronicle

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1499-9315

pISSN - 0015-7546

DOI - 10.5558/tfc83231-2

Subject(s) - recreation , plea , stakeholder , environmental resource management , sustainability , environmental planning , data collection , normative , forest management , business , corporate governance , geography , forestry , political science , public relations , sociology , environmental science , ecology , social science , finance , law , biology

For many people, outdoor recreation provides one of the main opportunities to experience, interact with, and learn about forested landscapes. Yet public recreation use of forests in Canada is not yet well understood; knowing more about this important forest stakeholder group would help to address aspects of social sustainability in forest management. Four considerations for explicitly addressing outdoor recreation interests in forest land-use planning and for the collection of recreation data are presented: (1) normative; (2) pragmatic; (3) economic; and (4) governance. Approaches for the collection of recreation-use characteristics are also discussed. Key words: outdoor recreation, data collection, sustainable forest management, social values

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