Outdoor recreation and forest management: A plea for empirical data

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 as...

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Published in:Forestry chronicle 2007-04, Vol.83 (2), p.231-238
Main Authors: Harshaw, H.W, Sheppard, S.R.J, Kozak, R.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
data collection
forest management
forest recreation
forests
land use planning
literature reviews
outdoor recreation
social benefit
social impact
social sustainability
stakeholders
surveys
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0015-7546
1499-9315
DOI:10.5558/tfc83231-2