Effects of climate variation and water levels on reservoir recreation

Boyer, Tracy A.; Melstrom, Richard T.; Sanders, Larry D.

doi:10.1080/10402381.2017.1285375

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“…Therefore, Google should control for the climate in their mobility data to demonstrate the real changes in park visitation directly due to the pandemic. Such practices are now fairly standard in leisure research (i.e., Boyer et al., 2017 ; Pan and Yang, 2017 ).…”

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Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

Rice

Pan

2021

Wellbeing, Space and Society

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In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the daily lives of people around the world. In an effort to quantify these changes, Google released an open-source dataset pertaining to regional mobility trends—including park visitation trends. Changes in park visitation are calculated from an earlier baseline period for measurement. Park visitation is robustly linked to positive wellbeing indicators across the lifespan, and has been shown to support wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this dataset offers vast application potential, containing aggregated information from location data collected via smartphones worldwide. However, empirical analysis of these data is limited. Namely, the factors influencing reported changes in mobility and the degree to which these changes can be directly attributable to COVID-19 remain unknown. This study aims to address these gaps in our understanding of the changes in park visitation, the causes of these changes (e.g., safer-at-home orders, amount of COVID-19 cases per county, climate, etc.) and possible impacts to wellbeing by constructing and testing a spatial regression model. Results suggest that elevation and latitude serve as primary influences of reported changes in park visitation from the baseline period. Therefore, it is surmised that Google's reported changes in park-related mobility are only partially the function of COVID-19.

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Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

Rice

Pan

2021

Wellbeing, Space and Society

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“…Therefore, Google should be controlling for seasonality in their mobility data to demonstrate the real changes in park visitation directly due to the pandemic. Such practices are now fairly standard in recreation and tourism research (i.e., Boyer et al, 2017;Pan & Yang, 2017).…”

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Understanding drivers of change in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of Big data

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Pan²

2020

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In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the daily lives of people around the world. In an effort to quantify these changes, Google released an open-source dataset pertaining to regional mobility trends—including park visitation trends. This dataset offers vast application potential, containing aggregated information from location data collected via smartphones around the world. However, empirical analysis of these data is limited. Namely, the factors causing reported changes in mobility and the degree to which these changes can be directly attributable to COVID-19 remain unknown. The goal of this study is to address these gaps in our understanding of both the changes in park visitation and the causes of these changes. Results suggest that seasonality, not the COVID-19 pandemic, serves as the primary driver of reported changes in park visitation. Specifically, latitude-driven seasonal changes significantly influence visitation trends. Median age of a county is also a statistically significant driver.

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“…Similarly, some reservoirs express a greater sensitivity to fluctuating water levels than others (Ward et al, 1996). Visitation and expenditures both decline with decreasing water levels and increasing air temperature over a high threshold (Boyer et al, 2017).…”

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Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West

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From hampering the ability of water utilities to fill their reservoirs to leaving forests parched and ready to burn, drought is a unique natural hazard that impacts many human and natural systems. A great deal of research and synthesis to date has been devoted to understanding how drought conditions harm agricultural operations, leaving other drought‐vulnerable sectors relatively under‐served. This review aims to fill in such gaps by synthesizing literature from a diverse array of scientific fields to detail how drought impacts nonagricultural sectors of the economy: public water supply, recreation and tourism, forest resources, and public health. We focus on the Intermountain West region of the United States, where the decadal scale recurrence of severe drought provides a basis for understanding the causal linkages between drought conditions and impacts. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Value of Water Science of Water > Water Extremes

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Effects of climate variation and water levels on reservoir recreation

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

Understanding drivers of change in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of Big data

Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West

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