Quality of Leisure, Quality of Life, and the Policy Implications of Outdoor Recreation Resources

• In Event: Environment Policy as Personal and Political

Brief Overview

By shaping individual and organizational locating decisions, outdoor recreation resources shape the size and composition of local populations, which in turn influence communities’ social and economic dimensions in positive and problematic ways.

Authors

• David Paul Carter, University of Utah

• James N. Maples, Eastern Kentucky University, Division for Regional Economic Assessment and Modeling