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

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.