The Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Areas Recreation: A Multi-Region Snapshot and Agency Comparison

Brice, Becky; Fullerton, Christopher; Hawkes, Kelsey L.; Mills‐Novoa, Megan; O’Neill, Brian; Pawlowski, Wincenty M.

doi:10.3375/043.037.0111

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“…This likely misrepresents the reality of the nonlinear socioecological relationships between recreation and climate (Dundas and von Haefen 2020) and highlights the need for larger scale studies beyond arbitrary political boundaries (e.g. a national park boundary) (Brice et al 2017). Further, this demonstrates the importance of taking into account coupled social and ecological systems.…”

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Mapping and modeling the impact of climate change on recreational ecosystem services using machine learning and big data

Manley

Egoh

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The use of recreational ecosystem services is highly dependent on the surrounding environmental and climate conditions. Due to this dependency, future recreational opportunities provided by nature are at risk from climate change. To understand how climate change will impact recreation we need to understand current recreational patterns, but traditional data is limited and low resolution. Fortunately, social media data presents an opportunity to overcome those data limitations and machine learning offers a tool to effectively use that big data. We use data from the social media site Flickr as a proxy for recreational visitation and random forest to model the relationships between social, environmental, and climate factors and recreation for the peak season (summer) in California. We then use the model to project how non-urban recreation will change as the climate changes. Our model shows that current patterns are exacerbated in the future under climate change, with currently popular summer recreation areas becoming more suitable and unpopular summer recreation areas becoming less suitable for recreation. Our model results have land management implications as recreation regions that see high visitation consequently experience impacts to surrounding ecosystems, ecosystem services, and infrastructure. This information can be used to include climate change impacts into land management plans to more effectively provide sustainable nature recreation opportunities for current and future generations. Furthermore, our study demonstrates that crowdsourced data and machine learning offer opportunities to better integrate socio-ecological systems into climate impacts research and more holistically understand climate change impacts to human well-being.

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Mapping and modeling the impact of climate change on recreational ecosystem services using machine learning and big data

Manley

Egoh

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…example, depends on a combination of snowpack and spring melt timing. Though some recreationists will continue to engage in water-dependent activities regardless of the water conditions, others will be displaced spatially to an area of more resource abundance, temporally to a different time period when the resource may be more bountiful, topically to a different activity not requiring such resources, or totally displaced [7,42,43].…”

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Visitation to national parks in California shows annual and seasonal change during extreme drought and wet years

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This study examines the influence of drought indicators on recreational visitation patterns to National Park Service units in California (USA) from 1980 to 2019. We considered mountain, arid, and coastal park types across a climate gradient where seasonal recreational opportunities are directly or indirectly dependent on water resources. Significant departures from the normal hydroclimate, reflected by drought or unusually wet conditions, can lead visitors to change their behavior, including recreating at a different time or place. Drought conditions can facilitate earlier seasonal access at higher elevation parks, but displace visitors in other seasons and parks. Wetter-than-average conditions can displace visitors due to snowpack or flooding, but also facilitate other activities. We found a decrease in annual visitation at popular mountain parks including Yosemite (-8.6%) and Sequoia and Kings Canyon (-8.2%) during extreme drought years due to lower-than-average attendance in peak summer and fall months. Extreme wet years also had significantly reduced annual visitation in Sequoia and Kings (-8.5%) and Lassen Volcanic (-13.9%) due to declines in spring and summer use as snowpack restricts road access. For arid parks, drought status did not have a statistically significant effect on annual visitation, although extreme drought led to less use during the hottest months of summer at Death Valley, and extreme wet conditions at Pinnacles led to less visitation throughout the year (-16.6%), possibly from impacts to infrastructure associated with flooding. For coastal park units, extreme drought led to year-round higher levels of use at Redwood (+27.7%), which is typically wet, and less year-round use at Channel Islands (-23.6%), which is relatively dry, while extreme wet years led to higher levels of annual use at Channel Islands (+29.4%). Collectively, these results indicate the effect of extreme drought or wet years on park visitation varies by park depending on geography and recreational activities offered.

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“…Im internationalen Vergleich kommen Brice et al (2017), die die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Erholungsaktivitäten überprüfen, zu einer Liste möglicher betroffener Aktivitäten. Aus ihrer Sicht sind im Sommer vor allem Wassersportarten, Beobachtung von wild lebenden Tieren, Wanderaktivitäten, aber auch kulturtouristische Aktivtäten, Fischerei und Jagd potenziell betroffen.…”

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Outdooraktivitäten und damit zusammenhängende Einrichtungen im Sommer und in den Übergangszeiten

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Der Sommertourismus in Österreich trägt wesentlich zu der großen Bedeutung des Tourismus insgesamt bei. So hat die Zahl der Nächtigungen in den Sommermonaten in Österreich 2018 erneut einen Höchstwert erreicht. Mit bisher 68,67 Mio. Nächtigungen liegt die Sommersaison 2018 (Mai bis September) um 2,2 % über dem Vorjahresniveau. Auch die Zahl der Ankünfte stieg in der vergangenen Sommersaison um 2,9 % auf 21,70 Mio. (Statistik Austria 2018). Mehr Nächtigungen wurden auch im September 2018, also außerhalb der eigentlichen Sommersaison festgestellt. Im September 2018 nahm die Zahl der Gäste um 2,0 % auf 3,86 Mio. zu, Gästenächtigungen stiegen um 1,4 % auf 11,24 Mio. Zu diesem Ergebnis trugen die ausländischen Herkunftsmärkte mit einem Plus von 1,6 % auf 7,86 Mio. bei. Die Nächtigungszahlen wichtiger Herkunftsländer, wie Deutschland (+1,2 %), Schweiz und Liechtenstein (+3,5 %) sowie der Niederlande (+2,1 %), erhöhten sich weiter. Die Zahl der inländischen Gästenächtigungen stieg ebenfalls um 0,9 % auf 3,38 Mio. (Statistik Austria 2018).

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The Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Areas Recreation: A Multi-Region Snapshot and Agency Comparison

Cited by 11 publications

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Mapping and modeling the impact of climate change on recreational ecosystem services using machine learning and big data

Mapping and modeling the impact of climate change on recreational ecosystem services using machine learning and big data

Visitation to national parks in California shows annual and seasonal change during extreme drought and wet years

Outdooraktivitäten und damit zusammenhängende Einrichtungen im Sommer und in den Übergangszeiten

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