ISBN:
9789048198603
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 230 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social indicators research series vol. 43
Series Statement:
Social Indicators Research Ser. v.43
Parallel Title:
Print version Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Social indicators
;
Quality of life
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known. The applicability of indicator systems for natural resource and natural resource area management within the parks and recreation arena is very high, including urban parks and recreation programs and their influence on quality of life. Tourism is also an area that needs much more work in terms of assessing impacts as well as developing indicators for gauging progress in the long term. A
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; About the Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Indicators and Standards in Parks and Outdoor Recreation; 3 Leisure and Relationship to Quality-of-Life Satisfaction; 4 Publicly Accessible Space and Quality of Life: A Tool for Measuring the Openness of Urban Spaces; 5 Expectancy Theory in Quality-of-Life Leisure Indicators Influences for Integrated Resource Management; 6 Development of a Tourism and Quality-of-Life Instrument; 7 Sustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism; 8 Island Awash Sustainability Indicators and Social Complexity in the Caribbean
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Tourism-Specific Quality-of-Life Index: The Budapest Model10 Stakeholder Involvement in Destination Level Sustainable Tourism Indicator Development: The Case of a Southwestern U.S. Mining Town; 11 The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing Indicator Models for Sustainable Tourism Management: Lessons from Ireland; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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