Author : Simon Bell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135211213
In an increasingly urbanised world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Based on a study of forest recreation from across Europe, the editors bring together the expertise of more than 80 leading professionals and academics to provide a clear and concise guide to best practice.
Author : Ulrike Pröbstl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642031455
Here is, for the first time, a Europe-wide overview of the state of recreation and nature tourism in forests. It describes the current situation and conflicts in the different regions of Europe and provides solutions illustrated by good practice examples.
Author : Xavier Font
Publisher : CABI
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781845933036
Annotation. The demand for ecotourism and outdoor recreation is increasing, and the pressures on land use are becoming more obvious. A large part of the experience of ecotourism and recreational landscape depends on the maintenance of forested land. Effective management of tourism and recreation in forests can provide extra income to help offset the costs of sustainable timber production and encourage biodiversity conservation.This multi-author book considers the compatibility between tourism, forestry and conservation, the management of natural resources and the involvement of stakeholders and the community. Issues are presented through case studies from a range of countries and topics covered include National Parks, peri-urban forestry and wilderness management, as well as practitioner-oriented contributions.
Author : Tuija Sievänen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category :
ISBN : 9289326581
Forest related social values such as recreation values are growing in importance in North European countries. Our urbanized societies need social services from forests and other nature areas. One of the key ecosystem services is the recreation environment provided by forests. Possibilities to enhance commercial recreational use of forests has been recognized, particularly among private forest owners, who have new opportunities for new types of forest-related entrepreneurship. This report provides a review of social indicators in forestry, particularly concerning nature-based recreation and tourism in North European countries. The common interest among scientists and other experts was to discuss how to develop social indicators and to monitor changes to social benefits in forestry and forest use. In all countries, there is a challenge to develop monitoring systems to produce inventory data for statistics that are required in a way that provid es comparable social indicators. It is timely to enhance standardization and harmonization of social indicators for monitoring and management of sustainable forestry and forest use, and for sustainable nature-based recreation and tourism.
Author : Peter Fredman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317984927
Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors within tourism across Europe and elsewhere. This demand has created opportunities for nature-based tourism to develop as an economic diversification tool within regions rich in natural amenities. But nature-based tourism is not only about tourism businesses and tourists visiting nature. The natural environment as a basis for tourism involves many challenges related to local communities, public access, nature protection and the management of natural resources. This book covers a broad set of topics in contemporary nature-based tourism from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Areas discussed are innovation, fishing rights and supply of angling, recreation experience preferences, national park attractions, the cultural clash between established outdoor recreational use and new tourism activities, the Right of Public Access as opportunity and obstacle, preferences of tourism landscapes, controversies around wilderness development, management of hiking trails, eco-tourism certification, and financing of recreational infrastructure. This book was published as a special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287126511
Author : Dr Jean-Christophe Dissart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472416228
Bringing together scholars from the fields of planning, economics, sociology, management studies and geography, this book examines cross-cutting issues in tourism and recreation with the aim of developing an extended view of leisure time. Focusing mainly on France with comparison to the experience of Northern and Southern European countries and North America, it combines a diverse range of case studies to address issues such as contrasting rural dynamics, changing public policies, sustainable development imperatives, evolving user behaviour and increasingly diverse recreation activities and stakeholder organization.
Author :
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9289327855
A Nordic Workshop on “Ecosystem Services in Forests – how to assess and value them” was held in Oslo Thursday the 13th of September 2012. During the day, 13 presentations were made, and altogether 41 participants had the opportunity to discuss the way forward and to formulate issues and research fields as recommendations to the Nordic Council of Ministers. This report presents a synthesis of the presentations and provides a brief summary of issues that were raised in the discussions. The workshop addressed both current knowledge of services as well as challenges and possibilities related to assessment and valuation, and challenged participants to formulate new and important issues based on their respective fields of expertise.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Leisure
ISBN :
Author : Trevor Fenning
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400770766
This book addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by the world’s forests posed by climate change, conservation objectives, and sustainable development needs including bioenergy, outlining the research and other efforts that are needed to understand these issues, along with the options and difficulties for dealing with them. It contains sections on sustainable forestry & conservation; forest resources worldwide; forests, forestry and climate change; the economics of forestry; tree breeding & commercial forestry; biotechnological approaches; genomic studies with forest trees; bio-energy, lignin & wood; and forest science, including ecological studies. The chapters are contributed by prominent organisations or individuals with an established record of achievement in these areas, and present their ideas on these topics with the aim of providing a ready source of information and guidance on these topics for politicians, policy makers and scientists for many years to come.
