This thesis questions the nature of National Park use in New Zealand. In particular it focuses on the summertime visitors to Arthur's Pass National Park and the legislative dilemma of providing for both preservation and ...

This study examines the use of the Summit Road area for recreation, and the demands this is making on management and administration. Recreational use focuses on the Summit Road and the adjacent areas of public and private ...

A small mountainous country Nepal has a large amount of natural resources. It has been recognised a Himalayan paradise in the minds of millions of Foreign tourists. A small country, which has a population of fifteen million, ...

The first volume of these studies concentrated on the needs, behaviour and wants of New Zealand mountain recreationists. It was the conception of Dr Robert Aukerman of Colorado State University in his leadership of this ...

Current resource development in New Zealand is unprecedented in its pace and scale. Development activities have implications for other resource uses and for future generations. Conflicts generated must be recognized and a ...

Because we are dealing with two quite different types of walkways, two systems were used, sometimes individually, sometimes in combination. With the rural walkways we adopted an approach of stationing the interviewer at ...

The steady growth in leisure and outdoor recreation over the past three decades has made the task of recreation planning and management more complex. (Stankey and Wood 1982) Areas which provide for outdoor recreation ...

For the purposes of this dissertation, some horse trekkers in the Canterbury area were questioned. People who were the main contributors of information, were from Pony Clubs, Bridleways and Concessionaries. Individuals ...

Physical, biological and cultural information relevant to the management of the Eastern Hutt Hills (an area of steep lowland hill country flanking the Lower Hutt urban area) is described. The vegetation maps and descriptions ...

The Copland Track has always held an attraction for people. A main divide crossing of the Southern Alps from the alpine landscape of the Mount Cook region to the rainforests of the West Coast makes the Copland one of New ...