European Forest Recreation and Tourism

Simon Bell is Senior Research Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, where he is a director of the OPENspace research centre, Associate Professor at the Estonian University of Life Sciences and also a landscape consultant.Murray Simpson is a geographer based at the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford.Liisa Tyrväinen is Professor of Nature Tourism at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. Tuija Sievänen is a forester and researcher with the Finnish Forest Research Institute in Helsinki. Ulrike Pröbstl is Professor of Landscape Planning at the University of Applied Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna.

• Introduction 1. Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism in Europe: Context, history, and current Situation Part 1 2. Evaluating the Economic and Social Benefits of Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism 3. Integrating Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism into the Rural Economy 4. Instruments for Developing Recreation and Nature Tourism in Forests Part 2 5. Monitoring of Forest Recreation Demand 6. Assessing and Planning the Supply of Opportunities for Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism Part 3 7. Strategic Planning of Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism 8. The Recreation Planning Process 9. Site Planning and Design for Recreation and Nature Tourism