The Role of Temperature and Air Quality in Outdoor Recreation Behavior
A Social-Ecological Systems Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4488280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris A B Zajchowski (0000-0002-9909-2624, Twitter (United States)), Forrest South, J Rose (0000-0003-3171-7242, Twitter (United States)), Eleanor Crofford |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 512-531 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00167428.2021.1897811 |
| OpenAlex | W3133860430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 63 |
Ambient air pollution and rising global temperatures pose dual threats to the health and well-being of urban residents, in part, through dissuading them from engaging in healthy, outdoor physical activity. We leveraged a social-ecological systems (SES) framework to explain weather-dependent, outdoor recreation in the wildland-urban interface of Salt Lake City, Utah. Using 24-hour trail camera monitoring for 32 days, we measured trail use and ambient temperature. Additionally, we accessed particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) data to assess the impact of air quality on outdoor recreation behaviors. Curvilinear regression analysis illustrated temperature predicted 45.9 percent of the variance in outdoor recreation use, while bivariate analyses show particulate matter and ozone also served as substantial predictors. These results further parameterize components of this complex SES, and help demonstrate the utility of trail cameras in collecting localized thermal measurements, along with temporal and activity-specific distributions in use
Air pollution · Air quality index · Bivariate analysis · Environmental resource management · Geography · Meteorology · Particulates · Recreation · Wildland–urban interface · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Ecology · Environmental Science · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Urban Green Space and Health
Navigating Social-Ecological Systems
Dynamic Sustainabilities
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk
Outdoor Recreation, Nature-Based Tourism, and Sustainability
A second generation climate index for tourism (CIT)
Integrating Social Science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems
Implications of Global Climate Change for Tourism Flows and Seasonality
More Inclusive Parks Planning
A typology for the classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services
Critical sustainability
How to evaluate the effects of climate change on tourism
Motivations for pleasure vacation
Weather Studies in Outdoor Recreation and Nature-Based Tourism
Sensitive Leisure
Recreation substitutability
Beach Recreation, Cultural Diversity and Attitudes toward Nature
Can you take me higher?”
Human Bycatch
Air Quality and Visitor Behavior in U.S. Protected Areas
Smoggy with a Chance of Altruism
Inequities in the quality of urban park systems
Air quality and the visitor experience in parks and protected areas
The impacts of weather on tourist travel
Climate and visitation to Utah's 'Mighty 5' national parks
Environmental Injustice and Religion
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |