Topics
The overall purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for constructive discussions related (but not necessarily limited) to the following topics:
- Visitor information and visitor management
- Visitor monitoring methods, modeling and data management
- Causes of leisure mobility and tourism
- Economic and social effects of recreation and nature tourism
- Visitor/user conflicts and other behavior studies
- Sustainability and carrying capacity studies in recreational settings
- Recreational impacts on park ecosystems
- Nature tourism: concepts and experiences in recreational and protected areas
- Park tourism in protected areas and poverty reduction
Symposia (subject to alterations)
A number of paper sessions (S), panel sessions (P) and workshops (W) for oral presentations and posters will be organized by the conveners stated below.
| Full session title | Short session title (related to registration form) |
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1. Bridging the Ecological and Social Science Divide in Visitor Impact Monitoring and Management (S/P)
Bruno Baur (Basel, Switzerland), Sanjay K. Nepal (College Station, TX-USA) , Michael A. Schuett (Texas, TX-USA) |
1. Bridging the Ecological and Social Science Divide |
| 2. Exploring the Foundation of Human-Wildlife Conflict at Park and Protected Areas (S)
Mike Manfredo (Fort Collins, CO-USA) and Frank Jensen (Hoersholm, Denmark) |
2. Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| 3. Good Solutions between Sports, Nature and Landscape (S)
Margit Mönnecke (Rapperswil, Switzerland) |
3. Nature Sports and Landscape |
| 4. Tourism and poverty reduction in recreational and protected areas (S)
Yves Hausser (Lullier, Switzerland) |
4. Poverty Reduction |
| 5. Participation Processes in Recreational and Protected Areas (S)
Ulrike Pröbstl (Vienna, Austria) |
5. Participation |
| 6. Protected Areas and New Paradigms of Regional Development (S)
Ingo Mose (Oldenburg, Germany) 6. New Regional Development
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| 7. Recreation Ecology and Visitor Impact Research: Past, Present and Future (P)
Christopher Monz (Blacksburg, VA-USA) |
7. Visitor impacts |
| 8. Requirements for Recreation and their Integration into Landscape Planning (S)
Matthias Buchecker (Birmensdorf, Switzerland) |
8. Requirements for Recreation |
| 9. Simulating Recreational Behaviour - on Agents and Environment (W)
Andreas Muhar (Vienna, Austria), Hans Skov-Peterson (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Randy Gimblet (Tucson, AZ-USA) |
9. Simulating Recreational Behaviour |
| 10. The Relevance of Landscape and its Images for Visitor Information and Management (S)
Norman Backhaus (Zurich, Switzerland) and Marcel Hunziker (Birmensdorf, Switzerland) |
10. Landscape and its images |
| 11. The Significance of Visitor Monitoring Data for Management, Planning and Policy (P)
Arne Arnberger (Vienna, Austria),Tuija Sievänen (Helsinki, Finland), Joel Erkkonen (Rovaniemi, Finland) |
11. Monitoring Data |
Besides, further sessions for oral and poster presentations will be organized with regard to the submitted abstracts and the conference topics.
For the more practice oriented audience the SANU holds within the scope of MMV3 the seminar
'Besucherlenkung in nationalen Pärken' (Management of Visitor Flows in National Parks). This seminar is held in German.
Convening a symposium:
From Wednesday to Friday (Sept. 13th to 15th) three parallel sessions will take place.
It will be the responsibility of the session conveners to find presenters with according topics. Nevertheless, the organizers will decide on the final presentations and appropriate arrangement into the different sessions. The length of these sessions will vary according to the number of contributions. The range should generally lie between 2 and 4 hours.