This chapter examines the winter tourism offers at the Tatra National Park in Poland as well as the management challenges, including zoning of winter recreation, visitor monitoring, user conflicts, risk and safety, and cooperation for nature conservation.

This chapter focuses on the symbolism and affinity apportioned to place by a variety of recreational groups and how this can contribute towards management, for example encouraging participation in voluntary income schemes (VIS), where the tourist/recreationalist helps contribute financially towards ...

This chapter extracts an emerging set of principles that can be used to guide management of outdoor recreation. These principles draw on both the scientific and professional literature reviewed in Part I of the book and are illustrated with examples from the case studies presented in Part II. These ...

This book addresses the issue of managing outdoor recreation to protect park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. The book is organized into three parts. Part I comprises five chapters that draw on the scientific and professional literature in parks and outdoor recreation to develop ...

This chapter reviews several conceptual frameworks that can be used to understand the challenges in managing outdoor recreation and to organize thinking about managing outdoor recreation. These include: the dual mission of parks; common property resources; carrying capacity; limits of acceptable...

This chapter identifies and reviews the potential impacts that outdoor recreation can have on park resources (soil, vegetation, water, wildlife, air, natural quiet, natural darkness, and historical/cultural resources), the quality of the visitor experience (crowding, conflict, and depreciative...

This chapter organizes the information presented in the previous chapters into a series of matrices that can be used to guide a systematic and creative programme of outdoor recreation management. A management matrix is presented for each of the following four management strategies: (1) limiting...

This chapter organizes the information presented in previous chapters into a series of matrices that can be used to encourage and guide a systematic and creative programme of outdoor recreation and park management.

This chapter indicates that an analysis of UK national parks differs from those in other parts of the world because they are 'lived in' and the majority of land is in private ownership. The chapter highlights partnership working and a collaborative approach to developing an integrated management...

This book addresses the issue of managing outdoor recreation to protect park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. The book is organized into three parts. Part I comprises five chapters that draw on the scientific and professional literature in parks and outdoor recreation to develop ...