‘We live in nature all the time’: Spatial justice, outdoor recreation, and the refrains of rural rhythm

Johansen, Pia Heike; Fisker, Jens Kaae; Thuesen, Annette Aagaard

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.025

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“…There is a well-established international literature on inequalities in outdoor recreation participation, yet much of the research focuses either on urban greenspace or on outdoor recreation in the countryside by a geographically undifferentiated base of users or with an implicit focus on urban visitors to rural nature (Johansen et al, 2021). Consequently, less is known about issues of inequality and exclusion in relation to rural residents' outdoor activity specifically.…”

Section: Inequality and Inclusion In Outdoor Recreation Participation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Outdoor recreation and the well-being of rural residents

Colley¹,

Currie²,

Irvine³

2023

Rural Quality of Life

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Living surrounded by 'nature' and close to opportunities for outdoor recreation is both a benefit of rural living for many and a driver of counterurbanisation, including through second-home ownership (Adamiak et al., 2017;Halfacree, 2012). The COVID-19 pandemic has further heightened awareness of the value and potential of rural spaces as sites for healthy living, working, recreation and domestic food production (Weeden, 2020). As such, the natural environment has been implicated as a driver of higher levels of subjective well-being in rural areas (Gilbert et al., 2016;Verheij et al., 2008). However, simplistic narratives on the virtues of living in nature, which play into the nostalgic notion of the rural idyll, can distract from the less-than-idyllic realities of rural life (Shucksmith, 2018), and well-being in rural communities will be heavily influenced by individual and place-based circumstances.This chapter explores the contributions that outdoor recreation and access to nature more generally make to well-being in rural areas using Scotland as a case study. In Scotland, rights of access to the land for recreational purposes (the 'right to roam') is well established. Current policy around outdoor recreation therefore focuses on promoting uptake of opportunities for outdoor recreation. This objective cross-cuts policy areas including environment and natural resources, health, spatial planning and tourism and is being delivered through initiatives such as the 'Our Natural Health Service' programme, led by NatureScot (Scotland's nature agency), which aims to increase public awareness of the benefits of outdoor activity and embed nature-based health promotion initiatives into health and social care services.Against this policy background, we present a rural viewpoint on relationships between natural environments and well-being, a field of research which has hitherto focused largely on urban settings and populations. The chapter begins by outlining theories linking outdoor 22

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Section: Inequality and Inclusion In Outdoor Recreation Participation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Outdoor recreation and the well-being of rural residents

Colley¹,

Currie²,

Irvine³

2023

Rural Quality of Life

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“…New settlements, landscapes and spaces emerged along with new industries and infrastructures. Transformations, struggles and power relations change the possibilities for both public and private actors to shape spaces of everyday life in their own right, and to plan for improved quality of life (Barraclough, 2013;Lefebvre, 1996;Nordberg, 2020;Johansen et al, 2021). From this background, the aim of this chapter is to critically discuss how rural landscapes and built environments historically have changed during the development of Sweden as a welfare state and to explore how planners and architects today can include plural centralities and practices to generate fairer conditions for participation in the spatial production of quality of life in its own right.…”

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“…The diverse spatial environment that falls outside the few geographical locations that fulfil the imaginaries of the vibrant urban and recreational rural, is a landscape that in many ways can be regarded as an industrialised rurban (rural-urban) void between the stereotyped visions of sustainable and successful society (Björling, 2017). Seen from the ambition of improved rural (and urban) quality of life as freedom of action to achieve a life that is desirable and the possibility to influence the surrounding living environment, the focus on narrow visions of the urban and rural risks making spatial planning blind to real rural 'rhythms' (Johansen et al, 2021), exclude spaces of the rural everyday life 'in its own right' (Barraclough, 2013) and constrain official planning to contribute to rural potentials and 'capabilities' (Björling & Fredriksson, 2018;Nordberg, 2020).…”

Section: Nils Björlingmentioning

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Planning for quality of life as the right to spatial production in the rurban void

Björling¹

2023

Rural Quality of Life

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“…Rhythm analysis has also been applied in a range of fields, including the daily life and daily travel of citizens or rural residents [16,17], urban retail landscapes for shopping [18], tourism, and air pollution [19]. For instance, human daily circadian rhythms were explored for native Brazilians who are living without electricity in summer and winter [20]. Rural rhythm was found to be vague and diffuse by analyzing the local ways of habitation.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Rhythms and Its Relevant Analysismentioning

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“…The three paths are superimposed in Figure 4b. The set of road nodes for path ab (R ab ) is (7,8,9,12,13,20,25,30,34). Every two consecutive nodes represent a road segment; thus, R ab has eight segments.…”

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Spatiotemporal Polyrhythm Characteristics of Public Bicycle Mobility in Urban Chronotopes Context

Chen

Jiang

2021

IJGI

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Cycling rhythm performance is the result of a complex interplay between active travel demand and cycling network supply. Most studies focused on bicycle flow, but little attention has been paid to cycling rhythm changes for public bicycles. Full sample data of origin–destination enables an efficient description of network-wide cycling mobility efficiency in urban public bicycle systems. In this paper, we show how the spatiotemporal characteristics of cycling speed reveal the performance of cycling rhythms. The inference method of riding speed estimation is proposed with an unknown cycling path. The significant inconsistency of docking stations in cycling rhythm was unraveled by the source–sink relationship comparison. The asymmetry of the cycling rhythm on the path is manifested as the rhythm difference among paths and bidirectional inconsistency. We found that cycling rhythm has a temporal multilayer and spatial mismatch, which shows the inflection points of the cycling rhythm where the travel behavioral preference changes and the exact road segments with different rhythms. This finding suggests that a well-designed cycling environment and occupation-residential function should be considered in active transport demand management and urban planning to help induce active travel behavior decisions.

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‘We live in nature all the time’: Spatial justice, outdoor recreation, and the refrains of rural rhythm

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Outdoor recreation and the well-being of rural residents

Outdoor recreation and the well-being of rural residents

Planning for quality of life as the right to spatial production in the rurban void

Spatiotemporal Polyrhythm Characteristics of Public Bicycle Mobility in Urban Chronotopes Context

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