B Derrick Taff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1574072 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Derrick Taff |
| NOMBRES | B Derrick |
| APELLIDO | Taff |
| FIRMA | TAFF B D |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9536-527X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Night lights versus conservation dreams
Nature-based noctourism includes all forms of nature-based tourism at night, for which natural darkness is critical to both the visitor experience and the protection of cultural and natural resources. Yet, artificial light at night is a known landscape scale pollutant that hinders these tourism activities. Even protected areas are not immune to the effects of light pollution, including on-site and nearby community lighting. Efforts to prevent or …
Integrating aircraft tracking, acoustic data, and surveys to evaluate park aircraft noise
Noise from low-flying aircraft has negative impacts on nature-based tourist experiences, wildlife, and communities in tourist destinations worldwide. Within the United States, some national parks, such as Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA), experience a high volume of low-flying overflights, including from tourism activities like flightseeing tours. We utilized flight tracking data to identify overflight patterns, acoustic monitoring to est…
Exploring Stakeholder perspectives in protected areas and gateway communities
As the primary method of accessing the south side of the Alaska Range, aviation plays a critical role in providing visitor access to some of the most spectacular regions of Denali National Park and Preserve. In recent years, flightseeing and glacier-landing tourism in Denali has grown considerably, bringing with it several benefits, impacts, and challenges being felt both within the national park and in the gateway community of Talkeetna, Alaska.…
An exploratory study on Chinese tourists’ visitation to a U.S. National Park
This study adopts semi-structured interviews in Grand Teton National Park (GRTE) in the United States and aims to understand Chinese tourists’ decision-making processes and experiences. The results reveal that geographic distances, China's unique technical infrastructure and policies influence Chinese tourists’ information sources and reasons for visiting GRTE. Their information sources are unique, and their decisions for visiting GRTE are ad-hoc…
“Pick your team wisely”
Values, Ideologies, Attitudes, and Preferences for Relative Allocations to Park and Recreation Services
Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences …
Pavement treatment type influences visitor experiences related to vehicular road sound in Death Valley National Park
In many parks and protected areas around the globe, reducing human-caused sounds is a critical component to providing quality visitor experiences. However, very little research examines the effect of vehicular road sounds on visitor experiences. Additionally, emerging pavement treatments have the potential to provide a new management tool for reducing impacts from vehicular road sounds. In this research, intercept surveys of visitors in Death Val…
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife
Burgeoning urbanization, development and human activities have led to reduced opportunities for nature experience in quiet acoustic environments. Increasing noise affects both humans and wildlife alike. We experimentally altered human‐caused sound levels in a paired study using informational signs that encouraged quiet behaviours in week‐on, week‐off blocks on the trail system of Muir Woods National Monument, California, USA to test if the sounds…
Emic Views of Community Resilience and Coastal Tourism Development
Coastal communities are among the most rapidly changing, institutionally complex, and culturally diverse in the world, and they are among the most vulnerable to anthropogenic change. While being a driver of anthropogenic change, tourism can also provide socio-economic alternatives to declining natural resource-based livelihoods for coastal residents. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of small-scale cruise tourism on coastal commun…
Understanding emerging adult identity development through work at a residential outdoor environmental education program
Most previous research on residential outdoor environmental education (ROEE) programs has focused on the outcomes associated with student participation in these learning experiences. In contrast to these previous studies, this research takes an interpretivist approach to understand how work as a short-term instructor in a ROEE setting may also uniquely support learning and development for this population as well. A sample of former short-term ins…
The impact of protective masks on outdoor recreation crowding norms during a pandemic
The continued demand for outdoor recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge to park and protected area managers. Numerous strategies have been suggested to reduce the risk of transmission among outdoor recreationists; however, evaluations of acceptability of these strategies and their impacts on perceptions of visitor density have not been empirically examined. The purpose of this study is to examine how varying levels of protec…
Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds
Levenhagen, M. J., Z. D. Miller, A. R. Petrelli, L. A. Ferguson, Y.-H. Shr, B. Taff, K. M. Fristrup, C. J. W. McClure, S. Burson, M. Giamellaro, P. Newman, C. D. Francis, and J. R. Barber. 2021. Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds? Ecology and Society 26(2):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12277-260232
Protected areas and noise abatement
Identifying recreational ecosystem service areas of concern in Grand Canyon National Park
Beyond benefits
The challenge of managing protected areas to purvey benefits through visitor experiences has been a major subject of research within the fields of recreation and leisure. Driver and others have advocated for the benefits approach to leisure with relative success. However, this largely-social approach discounts the role of the setting in purveying benefits and the tradeoffs managers must make between ecological and visitor wellbeing. In an emergin…
A comprehensive method for evaluating the impacts of race events on protected lands
Human actions in protected areas impact both the human and natural side of coupled human and natural systems. While this is broadly accepted, research projects that measure both social and ecological impacts of activities are rare. This study used an integrated approach to understand the social, ecological, and economic impacts of small-scale race events on two state forests in Pennsylvania. Trail conditions were assessed before and after each ev…
The role of values, ideologies, and attitudes in shaping public support for privatization in local park and recreation services
As tax-based funding for local public park and recreation services becomes increasingly scarce, alternative funding strategies such as privatization have become progressively more relevant. Although a promising alternative funding mechanism, privatization is simultaneously a potentially contentious issue. As such, understanding the factors that drive acceptance of or opposition to such practices is of interest to practitioners and researchers. Th…
Understanding Visitor Motivations at Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
National park sites draw tourism all across the United States. Although large natural parks see much attention, most national park units are actually designed to protect and interpret unique cultural and historic resources. As an example of this, the National Park Service administers numerous presidential historic sites. However, we know very little about the people who visit them. Understanding visitor motivations to presidential historic sites …
Leisure Perceptions of Combat Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
Framed within the Theory of Planned Behavior, researchers examined the relationship between military life, deployment, and leisure engagement. Following a constant comparative analytic framework, we transcribed and coded semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews with 10 combat veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and member check interviews. Twenty-five themes emerged from the interviews, 10 of which were unique to the …
Values, Ideologies, Attitudes, and Preferences for Relative Allocations to Park and Recreation Services
Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences …
The role of values, ideologies, and attitudes in shaping public support for privatization in local park and recreation services
As tax-based funding for local public park and recreation services becomes increasingly scarce, alternative funding strategies such as privatization have become progressively more relevant. Although a promising alternative funding mechanism, privatization is simultaneously a potentially contentious issue. As such, understanding the factors that drive acceptance of or opposition to such practices is of interest to practitioners and researchers. Th…
The impact of protective masks on outdoor recreation crowding norms during a pandemic
The continued demand for outdoor recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge to park and protected area managers. Numerous strategies have been suggested to reduce the risk of transmission among outdoor recreationists; however, evaluations of acceptability of these strategies and their impacts on perceptions of visitor density have not been empirically examined. The purpose of this study is to examine how varying levels of protec…
Emic Views of Community Resilience and Coastal Tourism Development
Coastal communities are among the most rapidly changing, institutionally complex, and culturally diverse in the world, and they are among the most vulnerable to anthropogenic change. While being a driver of anthropogenic change, tourism can also provide socio-economic alternatives to declining natural resource-based livelihoods for coastal residents. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of small-scale cruise tourism on coastal commun…
Understanding emerging adult identity development through work at a residential outdoor environmental education program
Most previous research on residential outdoor environmental education (ROEE) programs has focused on the outcomes associated with student participation in these learning experiences. In contrast to these previous studies, this research takes an interpretivist approach to understand how work as a short-term instructor in a ROEE setting may also uniquely support learning and development for this population as well. A sample of former short-term ins…
A comprehensive method for evaluating the impacts of race events on protected lands
Human actions in protected areas impact both the human and natural side of coupled human and natural systems. While this is broadly accepted, research projects that measure both social and ecological impacts of activities are rare. This study used an integrated approach to understand the social, ecological, and economic impacts of small-scale race events on two state forests in Pennsylvania. Trail conditions were assessed before and after each ev…
Leisure Perceptions of Combat Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
Framed within the Theory of Planned Behavior, researchers examined the relationship between military life, deployment, and leisure engagement. Following a constant comparative analytic framework, we transcribed and coded semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews with 10 combat veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and member check interviews. Twenty-five themes emerged from the interviews, 10 of which were unique to the …
Leisure Perceptions of Combat Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
Framed within the Theory of Planned Behavior, researchers examined the relationship between military life, deployment, and leisure engagement. Following a constant comparative analytic framework, we transcribed and coded semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews with 10 combat veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and member check interviews. Twenty-five themes emerged from the interviews, 10 of which were unique to the …
Understanding Visitor Motivations at Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
National park sites draw tourism all across the United States. Although large natural parks see much attention, most national park units are actually designed to protect and interpret unique cultural and historic resources. As an example of this, the National Park Service administers numerous presidential historic sites. However, we know very little about the people who visit them. Understanding visitor motivations to presidential historic sites …
A comprehensive method for evaluating the impacts of race events on protected lands
Human actions in protected areas impact both the human and natural side of coupled human and natural systems. While this is broadly accepted, research projects that measure both social and ecological impacts of activities are rare. This study used an integrated approach to understand the social, ecological, and economic impacts of small-scale race events on two state forests in Pennsylvania. Trail conditions were assessed before and after each ev…
The role of values, ideologies, and attitudes in shaping public support for privatization in local park and recreation services
As tax-based funding for local public park and recreation services becomes increasingly scarce, alternative funding strategies such as privatization have become progressively more relevant. Although a promising alternative funding mechanism, privatization is simultaneously a potentially contentious issue. As such, understanding the factors that drive acceptance of or opposition to such practices is of interest to practitioners and researchers. Th…
Protected areas and noise abatement
Identifying recreational ecosystem service areas of concern in Grand Canyon National Park
Beyond benefits
The challenge of managing protected areas to purvey benefits through visitor experiences has been a major subject of research within the fields of recreation and leisure. Driver and others have advocated for the benefits approach to leisure with relative success. However, this largely-social approach discounts the role of the setting in purveying benefits and the tradeoffs managers must make between ecological and visitor wellbeing. In an emergin…
Pavement treatment type influences visitor experiences related to vehicular road sound in Death Valley National Park
In many parks and protected areas around the globe, reducing human-caused sounds is a critical component to providing quality visitor experiences. However, very little research examines the effect of vehicular road sounds on visitor experiences. Additionally, emerging pavement treatments have the potential to provide a new management tool for reducing impacts from vehicular road sounds. In this research, intercept surveys of visitors in Death Val…
Ecosystem services enhanced through soundscape management link people and wildlife
Burgeoning urbanization, development and human activities have led to reduced opportunities for nature experience in quiet acoustic environments. Increasing noise affects both humans and wildlife alike. We experimentally altered human‐caused sound levels in a paired study using informational signs that encouraged quiet behaviours in week‐on, week‐off blocks on the trail system of Muir Woods National Monument, California, USA to test if the sounds…
Emic Views of Community Resilience and Coastal Tourism Development
Coastal communities are among the most rapidly changing, institutionally complex, and culturally diverse in the world, and they are among the most vulnerable to anthropogenic change. While being a driver of anthropogenic change, tourism can also provide socio-economic alternatives to declining natural resource-based livelihoods for coastal residents. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of small-scale cruise tourism on coastal commun…
Understanding emerging adult identity development through work at a residential outdoor environmental education program
Most previous research on residential outdoor environmental education (ROEE) programs has focused on the outcomes associated with student participation in these learning experiences. In contrast to these previous studies, this research takes an interpretivist approach to understand how work as a short-term instructor in a ROEE setting may also uniquely support learning and development for this population as well. A sample of former short-term ins…
The impact of protective masks on outdoor recreation crowding norms during a pandemic
The continued demand for outdoor recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic presents a challenge to park and protected area managers. Numerous strategies have been suggested to reduce the risk of transmission among outdoor recreationists; however, evaluations of acceptability of these strategies and their impacts on perceptions of visitor density have not been empirically examined. The purpose of this study is to examine how varying levels of protec…
Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds
Levenhagen, M. J., Z. D. Miller, A. R. Petrelli, L. A. Ferguson, Y.-H. Shr, B. Taff, K. M. Fristrup, C. J. W. McClure, S. Burson, M. Giamellaro, P. Newman, C. D. Francis, and J. R. Barber. 2021. Does experimentally quieting traffic noise benefit people and birds? Ecology and Society 26(2):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12277-260232
“Pick your team wisely”
Values, Ideologies, Attitudes, and Preferences for Relative Allocations to Park and Recreation Services
Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences …
An exploratory study on Chinese tourists’ visitation to a U.S. National Park
This study adopts semi-structured interviews in Grand Teton National Park (GRTE) in the United States and aims to understand Chinese tourists’ decision-making processes and experiences. The results reveal that geographic distances, China's unique technical infrastructure and policies influence Chinese tourists’ information sources and reasons for visiting GRTE. Their information sources are unique, and their decisions for visiting GRTE are ad-hoc…
Exploring Stakeholder perspectives in protected areas and gateway communities
As the primary method of accessing the south side of the Alaska Range, aviation plays a critical role in providing visitor access to some of the most spectacular regions of Denali National Park and Preserve. In recent years, flightseeing and glacier-landing tourism in Denali has grown considerably, bringing with it several benefits, impacts, and challenges being felt both within the national park and in the gateway community of Talkeetna, Alaska.…
Integrating aircraft tracking, acoustic data, and surveys to evaluate park aircraft noise
Noise from low-flying aircraft has negative impacts on nature-based tourist experiences, wildlife, and communities in tourist destinations worldwide. Within the United States, some national parks, such as Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA), experience a high volume of low-flying overflights, including from tourism activities like flightseeing tours. We utilized flight tracking data to identify overflight patterns, acoustic monitoring to est…
Night lights versus conservation dreams
Nature-based noctourism includes all forms of nature-based tourism at night, for which natural darkness is critical to both the visitor experience and the protection of cultural and natural resources. Yet, artificial light at night is a known landscape scale pollutant that hinders these tourism activities. Even protected areas are not immune to the effects of light pollution, including on-site and nearby community lighting. Efforts to prevent or …
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