Event details

Date

21/08/2012 - 24/08/2012

Location

Djurhamn (Stockholm), 139 02
Sweden

Language(s)

English

Theme

Non-member event - International participation encouraged

Target audience

Researchers, public sector and industry managers, consultants, planners and members of NGO’s dealing with visitor management in recreational and protected areas

Organizor details


Organisor contact

Friluftsliv i förändring

info@mmv2012.se

Venue detail


Venue address

Seregårdsvägen 1
(Djurönäset Conference Center)
Djurhamn (Stockholm), 139 02
Sweden

6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas

The MMV conference provides a forum for presentations and other exchanges of ideas and experiences related to the monitoring and management of visitors in recreation and protected areas. The emphasis is on policies, problems, practices and innovative solutions, and will therefore be of equal relevance to managers and researchers.

The MMV conference covers a broad range of topics, including: Developments in visitor monitoring - Social patterns in outdoor recreation participation - Children and nature: experiences, learning and health - Outdoor recreation in urban proximate nature - Spatial planning, resolving conflicts and safeguarding access - Integrating outdoor recreation and nature conservation - Education, outdoor learning and communicating nature - Nature experiences and environmental awareness - Environmental values and attitudes in outdoor recreation - Commercialization of nature - The economics of outdoor recreation - Managing tourism impacts on destination communities - Methodological and theoretical developments in outdoor recreation research

 

KEY DATES

1 January 2012: Deadline for session proposals ​

15 March 2012: Deadline for abstracts for oral and poster presentations

 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Professor Peter Fredman, Mid-Sweden University

Professor Marie Stenseke, University of Gothenburg

 

More information about session proposals and the programme can be found on the conference website: http://www.mmv2012.se/index.html

 

 

Status

in planning

Link(s)

Conference website

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