NIGK14010U Outdoor Recreation - Planning and Management
MSc Programme in Nature Management
This course will focus on planning, management and governance of
outdoor recreation. Outdoor recreation is high on today’s
policy, research and planning agenda. First of all, planning
authorities have focus on the link between outdoor recreation,
active living and public health. Danish forests alone receive more
than 75 million visits annually, and opportunities for outdoor
recreation are an integrated part of afforestation policy,
municipal landscape planning, urban green space planning, national
agricultural policy, and nature policy. Furthermore, access to
nature and green spaces with opportunities for outdoor recreation
plays a key role in peoples’ choice of settlement, and development
of outdoor recreation opportunities contribute to rural development
by delivering economic benefits to rural societies.
The following themes will be included: public countryside access,
nature protection, conflicts between user groups, zoning and
multifunctional landscape approaches, public participation and
collaboration between stakeholders, management of outdoor
recreation facilities, monitoring and mapping of outdoor recreation
including usages of interviews, surveys, GIS, GPS, and App’s in
order to support planning and management of outdoor recreation.
The course will have an international set-up and include examples
and cases from Denmark and other countries.
Knowledge
- Analyze outdoor recreation as a product of a human-nature relationship (the interrelationships of outdoor recreation activities, motivations, expectations, facilities, and natural settings).
- Identify areas of conflict which planning and management must address.
- Explain and describe outdoor recreation planning frameworks.
- Describe and reflect on key actors, user groups and stakeholders in relation to creating opportunities and regulating outdoor recreation.
- Discuss strenghts and weaknesses of methods for visitor monitoring and mapping
Skills
- Apply a variety of planning frameworks for management of outdoor recreation, including approaches for monitoring and assessing outdoor recreation.
- Identify relevant partners and key stakeholders in the establishment of collaborative partnerships for outdoor recreation planning.
- Identify key players and potential issues related to the formulation of policy and planning documents with relevance for outdoor recreation planning and management.
Competencies
- Apply the main points of theory and evidence-based knowledge about outdoor recreation to planning practice and areas of conflict.
- Plan, organize and coordinate a process from planning to realization and management of specific projects, objectives or initiatives for outdoor recreation.
- Apply and justify the choice of specific methods and adapt them to current planning practice and management situations, including consideration of the actors that are relevant to involve and when in the process.
- Fill out various operational roles within the outdoor recreation sector such as a manager or consultant, including lead and advice on the initiation, development and implementation of professional or interdisciplinary networks and partnerships.
Main teaching book: Manning, R.E. 2011. Studies in Outdoor Recreation. Search and Research for Satisfaction. Third Ed. Oregan State University Press.
Selected chapters from: Pigram, J.J. & Jenkins, J.M. 2006.
Outdoor Recreation Management. Second ed. Routledge
+ additional up-to-date articles on selected issues
- Category
- Hours
- Class Exercises
- 8
- Exam
- 24
- Excursions
- 12
- Lectures
- 42
- Preparation
- 110
- Theory exercises
- 10
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 25 minThe student have 24 hours to prepare a presentation (15 min), followed by a discussion (10 min) of the presentation in relation to the syllabus and the core areas of competence of the course.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
Several internal examiners.
Criteria for exam assesment
The assement is based on the intended learning outcomes.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NIGK14010U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- B
- Course capacity
- 40 students
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Geosciences and Management
Contracting department
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Course responsibles
- Anton Stahl Olafsson (asol@ign.ku.dk)
Lecturers
Frank Søndergaard Jensen; Søren Præstholm; Ole Hjorth Caspersen; Berit Charlotte Kaae; Dorthe Hedensted Lund; Hans Skov-Petersen