Residing in the city, living on the fringe of the forest: differentiated forest leisure activities, significant urban adjustments

Lepillé, Romain; Evrard, Barbara; Bussi, Michel; Féménias, Damien

doi:10.1080/14927713.2017.1339363

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“…The field observation work (n≈150) 6 suggested it would be best not to administer a questionnaire in places that forest rangers call fixation points (parking lot, forest entrance). Indeed, as these are urban forests, a good number of the visitors do not arrive by car and park in the designated lots, but instead they enter the forest by various paths near their places of residence (Lepillé et al, 2017b). We therefore favoured two methods of face-to-face administration: at the time of a sports challenge (trail running and orienteering) and in sports clubs before an outing (mountain biking, Nordic walking and hiking).…”

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Forest: the ‘Other’ Stadium?

Lepillé

2023

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Discussing the digital transition in urban forests (Lepillé et al., 2017a) in a thematic issue that focuses on this process in mountain spaces may seem incongruous. On the contrary, this article aims to create a dialogue on the frequentations and digital uses in different spaces in order to bring out the common points and differences with regard to the meaning and place that the use of digital technology has taken on in natural spaces.Forest and stadium: is the comparison relevant? We can defend the idea that the forest corresponds to several criteria for defining a stadium within the meaning of the sports code. 1 Indeed, the forest is "an asset belonging to a public or private entity." 2 Moreover, it is to a certain extent "especially designed or used, permanently or temporarily, for the purpose of sporting activity." Forests are equipped, particularly when they are in close proximity to cities, to accommodate sporting activities. Not least, these facilities are either "open to practitioners free of charge or for a fee." Although state forests are free to the public, in other private forests paid activities are offered (tree climbing, paintball, etc.). Beyond the forest, in this sense, all natural spaces, and therefore the mountains, might be compared to stadiums, when these-as we will see in the case of the forest-become, among other things, measuring tools. This detour through the definition of stadiums offers a stimulating metaphor because the leisure sports practices that we studied has led us to consider the forest as a stadium where we measure ourselves − against others or against ourselves − with benchmarks of time and distance that we find in a forest that has become increasingly more mediated by digital tools.

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Forest: the ‘Other’ Stadium?

Lepillé

2023

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“…After reviewing the relevant references and reports, critical factors for choosing a suitable forest recreation area were determined to be the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region, the distance to the forest recreation area, the traveler's preference for the forest recreation area, area (size), and total costs (including the ticket price, parking fee, etc.). 8 – 9 , 48 , 49 The number of pandemic prevention measures at the forest recreation areas was not included because they were all government-operated, so their pandemic prevention measures were not different. In addition, the ease of social distancing was not compared due to the large areas of these forest recreation areas.…”

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“…7 In addition, travelers' demographic backgrounds affect their objectives. 8 Different objectives lead to different considerations when choosing suitable nature-based leisure travel destinations. Nevertheless, common considerations include season, costs, travel time, and other factors.…”

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Type-II fuzzy approach with explainable artificial intelligence for nature-based leisure travel destination selection amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Lin

Chen

2022

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During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is difficult for travelers to choose suitable nature-based leisure travel destinations because many factors are related to health risks and are highly uncertain. This research proposes a type-II fuzzy approach with explainable artificial intelligence to overcome this difficulty. First, an innovative type-II alpha-cut operations fuzzy collaborative intelligence method was used to derive the fuzzy priorities of factors critical for nature-based leisure travel destination selection. Subsequently, a type-II fuzzy Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje method, which is also novel, was employed to evaluate and compare the overall performance of nature-based leisure travel destinations. Furthermore, several measures were taken to enhance the explainability of the selection process and result. The effectiveness of the proposed type-II fuzzy approach was evaluated in a regional experiment conducted in Taichung City, Taiwan, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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