Evaluating Instream Flows for Recreation

Instream flow can affect recreation quality and is a major issue on rivers where humans manage flows through dams and diversions. The structural norm approach offers a theoretical and methodological model for collecting, organizing, and analyzing evaluative information that relates flow and recreation quality. This article reviews work from several flow-recreation studies that have used this approach, extending it beyond social impact contexts and illustrating its adaptability to other natural resource issues. The article reviews the general structural norm approach and how it has been adapted to examine instream flows for recreation, and provides a list of studies that have utilized it. A review of methods issues describes study types, question formats, and purposive sampling. A review of key findings focuses on incremental relationships between flows and recreation quality, differences in evaluations by craft, skill level, or type of opportunity, the concept that recreation opportunities occupy niches in the flow regime, and emerging hypotheses about relationships between flows and aesthetics. Keywords: Instream Flows Flow-RECREATION Relationships Flow Evaluations Norms

Adaptability · Craft · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Management · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Recreation · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Ecology · Environmental Science · Fish Ecology and Management Studies · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

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