An Integrated Method Used to Value Recreation Land–a Case Study of Sweden

There is a strongly symbiotic relationship between TR (Tourism and recreation) activities and land use in macro- scale. This paper developed an alternative method for delimiting the spatial extent of recreation activity in the landscape by integrating the assessment of land development intensity into the approach to assess accessibility of recreation activity. Two factor groups of social and natural comprising 6 separate sets were formed to account for the land development intensity index with the example of Sweden. Land development intensity zones were divided by lowest, very low, low, middle, high, very high and highest. According to spatial decision matrix, six patterns are eventually divided by urban and rural residence, front-country, backcountry, remote, semi-primitive, primitive. The approach provides a beneficial tool for recreational management zoning.