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Applied Recreation Geography

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Applied Geography: Issues, Questions, and Concerns

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Recreation geography can be loosely defined as ‘…the systematic study of recreation patterns and processes in the landscape’ (Smith 1983, p. xiii). However, the subdiscipline investigates leisure-related phenomena in general, and recreation geographers have investigated the geographic aspects of such diverse phenomena as international travel and tourism (Boniface and Cooper 1987; Matley 1976), collegiate sports recruiting (Rooney 1980), urban recreation systems (Lovingood and Mitchell 1978), and recreational boating patterns (Heatwole and West 1982).

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Janiskee, R.L., Mitchell, L.S. (1989). Applied Recreation Geography. In: Kenzer, M.S. (eds) Applied Geography: Issues, Questions, and Concerns. The GeoJournal Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0471-2_11

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