Belonging and Welcomeness in State and Community Parks: Visitation Impacts and Strategies for Advancing Environmental Justice

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104149

Sammie L. Powers , Andrew J. Mowen , Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers

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Abstract

Feeling unwelcome in parks can serve as a constraint to visitation, and unjust historical and contemporary events occurring on park lands (e.g., segregation, redlining, racial violence) can perpetuate a legacy of exclusion, undermining the ability for diverse visitors to feel a sense of belonging. However, there has been limited quantitative assessment or comparison of welcomeness or belonging in different park contexts. We compared welcomeness and belonging at community and state parks by race/ethnicity; examined the relationships between welcomeness, belonging, and park visitation; and explored ways to increase welcomeness. Data were collected via Qualtrics panel surveys. We found significant racial/ethnic differences in welcomeness and belonging at state parks, but not community parks. Welcomeness and belonging were positive predictors of state park visitation, with belonging also a positive predictor of community park visitation. We discuss management implications for increasing welcomeness and belonging in state parks and other wildland recreation contexts.

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州立和社区公园的归属感和欢迎度：游览影响和促进环境正义的策略

在公园里感到不受欢迎可能会限制游客的游览，而在公园土地上发生的不公正的历史和当代事件（如种族隔离、红线、种族暴力）可能会延续排斥的传统，削弱不同游客的归属感。然而，对不同公园背景下的欢迎度或归属感的定量评估或比较还很有限。我们按种族/民族比较了社区公园和州立公园的欢迎度和归属感；研究了欢迎度、归属感和公园游览量之间的关系；并探讨了提高欢迎度的方法。数据通过 Qualtrics 小组调查收集。我们发现，在州立公园，欢迎度和归属感存在明显的种族/民族差异，但在社区公园则没有。欢迎度和归属感是州立公园游客量的正向预测因素，而归属感也是社区公园游客量的正向预测因素。我们讨论了在州立公园和其他野外娱乐环境中提高欢迎度和归属感的管理意义。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.