Leisure Activities and Rural Community Change

Valuation and Use of Rural Space among Permanent Residents and Second Home Owners

Bibliographic Data

ID4446179
AuthorsKati Pitkänen (0000-0003-4725-748X, Department of Geography and Economic History Umeå University Finland, corresponding author), Czesław Adamiak (0000-0003-3307-5079, Department of Spatial Management and Tourism Faculty of Earth Sciences Nicolaus Copernicus University ul. Lwowska 1 87‐100 Toruń Poland), Greg Halseth (0000-0003-0114-2601, Geography Program University of Northern British Columbia Prince George, British Columbia, Canada 3333 University Way Prince George British Columbia Canada V2N 4Z9)
Year2014
Volume54
Issue2
Pages143-166
Publication date2014-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12023
OpenAlexW2145396782
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited54

Rural communities are getting more diversified in terms of people's backgrounds, sources of livelihood and interests towards the rural landscape. A common way to discuss rural community change has been to contrast in-migrants and seasonal residents with long-term rural residents. In this article, we aim to challenge this segmentation. We ask what it is to be a dweller in the modern countryside and how much the residential status has to do with people's interests and use of space. Based on a postal survey in a case study area in Finland, we look into the differences in the valuation of different leisure activities performed in rural space between second home owners and permanent residents. After dividing permanent residents and second home owners into further subgroups based on their spatial and temporal possibilities to engage in rural leisure, we found that there are no specific activities or groups of activities typical for certain groups of rural leisure space users. Differences between local residents and second-home owners are rarely explained by this simple dichotomy, rather the differences are better explained by spatial and temporal accessibility

Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Valuation (finance) · Finance · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability

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