Patrick C West
Biographic Data
| ID | 314786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick C West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick C |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Outdoor Recreation and Family Cohesiveness
Outdoor recreation produces many kinds of highly valued social effects. One of these effects appears to be stronger family cohesiveness. Previous research supports the hypothesis that leisure activity and group cohesiveness are related. This study of family campers at St. Croix State Park, Pine County, Minnesota, was designed to test the hypothesis that mutual outdoor recreation helps sustain and increase family cohesiveness by inducing social in…
Beyond the Square Wheel
Metadata only record
Reinventing a Square Wheel
This article presents a critical review of recent writings that argue that people-oriented approaches to conservation have largely failed to achieve their main goal--the protection of biological diversity. Based on an analysis of this problem, authors of these works conclude that biodiversity conservation initiatives should place renewed emphasis on authoritarian protection of national parks and other protected areas to safeguard critically threa…
Fish consumption and the elderly
This article discusses literature and an empirical study in Michigan related to the possibility that the elderly may be a group within the general population of sport anglers that needs special attention in fish consumption advisories. Levels offish consumption by the elderly (reviewed from literature) were not found to be conclusively determined. There is strong research support for the hypothesis that prescription drug chemicals are retained an…
Introduction
Natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty in America
This article explores the role of power theories of natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty. In particular, it examines the role of large‐scale interest groups that can dominate public natural resource bureaucracies and become one cause of rural poverty. Both the degree of domination and the forms of domination of natural resource agencies are examined. Through a comparative analysis of numerous agencies, interest groups, and resou…
Introduction
Introduction
Protected areas, resident peoples, and sustainable conservation
Social impact assessment and environmental conflict management
Chapter 18
Urban region parks and black minorities
This paper compares participation in Detroit city parks and surrounding regional parks by black and white Detroit residents. Black Detroit residents participate more than whites in Detroit city parks, but less than whites in surrounding region parks. The paper explores a variety of explanations for these findings including "marginality"; (economic barriers), subcultural preferences, and interracial relations. Marginality plays some role in explai…
The social impact of transportation in Urban Regions
Status Differences and Interpersonal Influence in the Adoption of Outdoor Recreation Activities
The research note examines the role of interpersonal influence in the diffusion and adoption of new recreation activities, and the role of status differences (as measured by occupational prestige rankings) in the interpersonal influence process. The study found that social influence occurs primarily within the same or closely adjacent status groups, and that influencers tend to have the same or slightly higher status than adopters
A test of the projection accuracy of the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand∗
This paper tests the accuracy of outdoor recreation demand projections made from 1970–1975 data to 1980, using the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand analysis. In most cases, the projections accurately predicted the direction of participation rate trends. For the most part, projections based on the status group dynamics approach were more accurate than projections based on other standard prediction methods (straight line projecti…
A nationwide test of the status group dynamics approach to outdoor recreation demand
Nationwide survey data from 1972 and 1977 were reanalyzed to investigate the outdoor recreation participation trends of respondents from various status groups. Results indicate that subgroup participation rates often change radically over time, and this change is not random. Trends were found that concur with past regional findings and are consistent with the “status group dynamics approach” to the analysis of outdoor recreation demand. This appr…
Perceived crowding and attitudes toward limiting use in backcountry recreation areas
The relationship between perceived crowding and the desire to further limit established carrying capacities is examined from a study of users of the Sylvania Recreation Area. The relationship is found to be weak, especially among those users with low education. Possible explanations in terms of expressed crowding as a status group convention are discussed. It is concluded that user limitation decisions cannot be directly derived from studies of p…
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation
Reinventing a Square Wheel
This article presents a critical review of recent writings that argue that people-oriented approaches to conservation have largely failed to achieve their main goal--the protection of biological diversity. Based on an analysis of this problem, authors of these works conclude that biodiversity conservation initiatives should place renewed emphasis on authoritarian protection of national parks and other protected areas to safeguard critically threa…
Beyond the Square Wheel
Metadata only record
Urban region parks and black minorities
This paper compares participation in Detroit city parks and surrounding regional parks by black and white Detroit residents. Black Detroit residents participate more than whites in Detroit city parks, but less than whites in surrounding region parks. The paper explores a variety of explanations for these findings including "marginality"; (economic barriers), subcultural preferences, and interracial relations. Marginality plays some role in explai…
Outdoor Recreation and Family Cohesiveness
Outdoor recreation produces many kinds of highly valued social effects. One of these effects appears to be stronger family cohesiveness. Previous research supports the hypothesis that leisure activity and group cohesiveness are related. This study of family campers at St. Croix State Park, Pine County, Minnesota, was designed to test the hypothesis that mutual outdoor recreation helps sustain and increase family cohesiveness by inducing social in…
Natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty in America
This article explores the role of power theories of natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty. In particular, it examines the role of large‐scale interest groups that can dominate public natural resource bureaucracies and become one cause of rural poverty. Both the degree of domination and the forms of domination of natural resource agencies are examined. Through a comparative analysis of numerous agencies, interest groups, and resou…
Social impact assessment and environmental conflict management
A nationwide test of the status group dynamics approach to outdoor recreation demand
Nationwide survey data from 1972 and 1977 were reanalyzed to investigate the outdoor recreation participation trends of respondents from various status groups. Results indicate that subgroup participation rates often change radically over time, and this change is not random. Trends were found that concur with past regional findings and are consistent with the “status group dynamics approach” to the analysis of outdoor recreation demand. This appr…
Status Differences and Interpersonal Influence in the Adoption of Outdoor Recreation Activities
The research note examines the role of interpersonal influence in the diffusion and adoption of new recreation activities, and the role of status differences (as measured by occupational prestige rankings) in the interpersonal influence process. The study found that social influence occurs primarily within the same or closely adjacent status groups, and that influencers tend to have the same or slightly higher status than adopters
Perceived crowding and attitudes toward limiting use in backcountry recreation areas
The relationship between perceived crowding and the desire to further limit established carrying capacities is examined from a study of users of the Sylvania Recreation Area. The relationship is found to be weak, especially among those users with low education. Possible explanations in terms of expressed crowding as a status group convention are discussed. It is concluded that user limitation decisions cannot be directly derived from studies of p…
Protected areas, resident peoples, and sustainable conservation
A test of the projection accuracy of the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand∗
This paper tests the accuracy of outdoor recreation demand projections made from 1970–1975 data to 1980, using the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand analysis. In most cases, the projections accurately predicted the direction of participation rate trends. For the most part, projections based on the status group dynamics approach were more accurate than projections based on other standard prediction methods (straight line projecti…
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation
Perceived crowding and attitudes toward limiting use in backcountry recreation areas
The relationship between perceived crowding and the desire to further limit established carrying capacities is examined from a study of users of the Sylvania Recreation Area. The relationship is found to be weak, especially among those users with low education. Possible explanations in terms of expressed crowding as a status group convention are discussed. It is concluded that user limitation decisions cannot be directly derived from studies of p…
A nationwide test of the status group dynamics approach to outdoor recreation demand
Nationwide survey data from 1972 and 1977 were reanalyzed to investigate the outdoor recreation participation trends of respondents from various status groups. Results indicate that subgroup participation rates often change radically over time, and this change is not random. Trends were found that concur with past regional findings and are consistent with the “status group dynamics approach” to the analysis of outdoor recreation demand. This appr…
A test of the projection accuracy of the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand∗
This paper tests the accuracy of outdoor recreation demand projections made from 1970–1975 data to 1980, using the status group dynamics approach to recreation demand analysis. In most cases, the projections accurately predicted the direction of participation rate trends. For the most part, projections based on the status group dynamics approach were more accurate than projections based on other standard prediction methods (straight line projecti…
Status Differences and Interpersonal Influence in the Adoption of Outdoor Recreation Activities
The research note examines the role of interpersonal influence in the diffusion and adoption of new recreation activities, and the role of status differences (as measured by occupational prestige rankings) in the interpersonal influence process. The study found that social influence occurs primarily within the same or closely adjacent status groups, and that influencers tend to have the same or slightly higher status than adopters
The social impact of transportation in Urban Regions
Chapter 18
Urban region parks and black minorities
This paper compares participation in Detroit city parks and surrounding regional parks by black and white Detroit residents. Black Detroit residents participate more than whites in Detroit city parks, but less than whites in surrounding region parks. The paper explores a variety of explanations for these findings including "marginality"; (economic barriers), subcultural preferences, and interracial relations. Marginality plays some role in explai…
Protected areas, resident peoples, and sustainable conservation
Social impact assessment and environmental conflict management
Introduction
Introduction
Natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty in America
This article explores the role of power theories of natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty. In particular, it examines the role of large‐scale interest groups that can dominate public natural resource bureaucracies and become one cause of rural poverty. Both the degree of domination and the forms of domination of natural resource agencies are examined. Through a comparative analysis of numerous agencies, interest groups, and resou…
Introduction
Fish consumption and the elderly
This article discusses literature and an empirical study in Michigan related to the possibility that the elderly may be a group within the general population of sport anglers that needs special attention in fish consumption advisories. Levels offish consumption by the elderly (reviewed from literature) were not found to be conclusively determined. There is strong research support for the hypothesis that prescription drug chemicals are retained an…
Beyond the Square Wheel
Metadata only record
Reinventing a Square Wheel
This article presents a critical review of recent writings that argue that people-oriented approaches to conservation have largely failed to achieve their main goal--the protection of biological diversity. Based on an analysis of this problem, authors of these works conclude that biodiversity conservation initiatives should place renewed emphasis on authoritarian protection of national parks and other protected areas to safeguard critically threa…
Outdoor Recreation and Family Cohesiveness
Outdoor recreation produces many kinds of highly valued social effects. One of these effects appears to be stronger family cohesiveness. Previous research supports the hypothesis that leisure activity and group cohesiveness are related. This study of family campers at St. Croix State Park, Pine County, Minnesota, was designed to test the hypothesis that mutual outdoor recreation helps sustain and increase family cohesiveness by inducing social in…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works)