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  • Not in our park! Local community perceptions of recreational activities in peri-urban national parks

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    Author(s)
    Rossi, Sebastian Dario
    Pickering, Catherine Marina
    Byrne, Jason Antony
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    Pickering, Catherine M.
    Year published
    2016
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    Increased pressure to allow more recreational activities in peri-urban national parks may impact local communities. We surveyed residents living in local communities near six peri-urban national parks (IUCN Category II) in Queensland, Australia. We assessed their sense of place, their perceptions of different types of visitors’ activities, and interactions between attitudes and perceptions. Most respondents, including national park users and non-users, perceived non-motorised recreational activities as appropriate but perceived motorised activities negatively. Overall, negative perceptions were related to a respondent's sense ...
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    Increased pressure to allow more recreational activities in peri-urban national parks may impact local communities. We surveyed residents living in local communities near six peri-urban national parks (IUCN Category II) in Queensland, Australia. We assessed their sense of place, their perceptions of different types of visitors’ activities, and interactions between attitudes and perceptions. Most respondents, including national park users and non-users, perceived non-motorised recreational activities as appropriate but perceived motorised activities negatively. Overall, negative perceptions were related to a respondent's sense of place. Respondents with a stronger sense of place had more positive perceptions of non-motorised activities but more negative perceptions of motorised activities than respondents reporting a weaker sense of place. Results suggest that people identifying with their local national park may have a small ‘latitude of acceptance’ for motorised activities. We found limited displacement due to recreational conflicts; most respondents still visited these parks. The methods used here, if applied to other peri-urban national parks, could help determine a local community's recreational activity thresholds, offering park managers a way to potentially diminish conflict and enhance visitors’ experiences.
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    Journal Title
    Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2015.1132397
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    © 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (AJEM) on 12 April 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2015.1132397
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
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    Environmental sciences
    Human society
    Other human society not elsewhere classified
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/123757
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