کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1058462 947118 2009 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Visitor perceptions of rural landscapes: A case study in the Peak District National Park, England
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی های تجدید پذیر، توسعه پایدار و محیط زیست
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Visitor perceptions of rural landscapes: A case study in the Peak District National Park, England
چکیده انگلیسی

Maintaining national parks is an integral policy tool to conserve rare habitats. However, because national parks are funded by taxpayers, they must also serve the needs of the general public. Increasingly, and thanks to today's diverse society, there is evidence that this creates challenges for park managers who are pulled in two opposing directions: to conserve nature on the one hand and to meet different visitor expectations on the other. This tension was explored in the Peak District National Park, a rural landscape dominated by heather moorland and sheep farming in Northern England where research was conducted to determine how social class and ethnicity shaped perceptions of the park. Results uncovered that social class played a very strong role in shaping perceptions of this region with ‘middle class’ respondents reacting far more favourably to the park than people from more working class backgrounds. We observed ethnicity playing a similar role, though our results are less significantly different.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Management - Volume 90, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 1195–1203
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