PhD Thesis: Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas.

Hansen, A.S. (2016). Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas. Doctoral thesis. Institutionen för Ekonomi och samhälle, Avdelningen för kulturgeografi. Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet.

This PhD thesis concerns the role and importance of outdoor recreation monitoringin the management of coastal and marine areas in Sweden – a topic that in spite itsimportance has eluded attention, both in research circles and in area management.To address this situation, the objective of the thesis is to develop a knowledge base onoutdoor recreation monitoring in coastal and marine areas, with special attention givento current research knowledge on the topic as well as monitoring practices and needson a management level. This requires both a theoretical and methodological anchoringof the work with outdoor recreation monitoring, which in the thesis is done by givingattention to central geographic landscape theory as well as an applied research approach.