Forest Tourism and Recreation: Case Studies in Environmental Management

Readership
Advanced students, researchers and practitioners in environmental planning, rural geography and management of tourism, outdoor recreation and forestry

Main Description
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.

Main Contents
• Recreation, conservation and timber production: a sustainable relationship?, X Font and J Tribe
Part 1: Issues and Problems
• The survival of a forest fragment: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore, J C Henderson
• Competing interests on a former military training area: a case from Estonia, M Reimann and H Palang
• Hypotheses about recreational congestion: tests in the Forest of Dean (England) and wider management implications, C Price and M Chambers
• Balancing tourism and wilderness qualities in New Zealand’s native forests, G Kearsley
• A review of ecology and camping requirements in the ancient woodlands of the New Forest, England, D Johnson and A Clark
• Ecotourism on the edge: the case of Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, C Minca and M Linda
• Eco-tourism in tropical rainforests: an environmental management option for threatened resources?, S Evans
• Wilderness management in the forests of New Zealand, C M Hall and J Higham
• From Wasteland to Woodland to “Little Switzerland”: environmental and recreational management in place, culture and time, P Cloke and O Jones
Part 2: Strategies and Solutions
• Forest tourism: putting policy into practice in the Forestry Commission, R Broadhurst and P Harrop
• Recreation, forestry and environmental management: the Haliburton Wild Life Reserve, Ontario, Canada, L Anders Sandberg and C Midgley
• Writing an environmental plan for the Community Forest of Mercia, England, G Hunt
• Forest tourism and recreation in Nepal, T Sofield
• Planning for the compatibility of recreation and forestry: recent developments in woodland management planning within the National Trust, D Russell
• Beyond carrying capacity - introducing a model to monitor and manage visitor activity in forests, S McArthur
• Implementing environmental management systems in forest tourism: the case of Center Parcs, B Collins