1. Introduction / Rhonda Phillips and Megha Budruk -- 2. Indicators and standards in park and outdoors recreation / Robert E. Manning -- 3. Leisure and relationship to quality-of-life satisfaction / Ariel Rodríguez -- 4. Publicly accessible space and quality of life: a tool for measuring the openness of urban spaces / Jeremy Németh and Stephan Schmidt -- 5. Expectancy theory in quality-of-life leisure indicators - influences for integrated resource management / Bill Field -- 6. Development of tourism and quality-of-life instrument / Kathleen L. Andereck and Gyan Nyaupane -- 7. Sustainability indicators for managing community tourism / HwanSuk Chris Choi and Ercan Sirakaya Turk -- 8. Island awash - sustainability indicators and social complexity in the Caribbean / Sam Cole and Victoria Razak -- 9. Tourism-specific quality-of-life index: the Budpest model / László Puczkó and Melanie Smith -- 10. Stakeholder involvement in destination leval sustainable tourism indicator development: the case of a southwestern U.S. mining town / Donna Myers, Megha Budruk and Kathleen L. Andereck -- 11. The trials and tribulations of implementing indicator models for sustainable tourism: lessons from Ireland -- Index.
Summary:
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. All three areas are an integrated discipline and most programs throughout the developed world are housed co-jointly. This volume includes articles from researchers across the globe who are conducting innovative work in these areas.
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