MMV 2012 - Stockholm, Sweden

August 21-24, 2012

Hosting Institutions

Mid-Sweden University
Prof. Peter Fredman
peter.fredman@miun.se

University of Gothenburg
Prof. Marie Stenseke
marie.stenseke@geography.gu.se

Conference Themes

The MMV conference provides a forum for presentations and other exchanges of ideas and experiences related to the monitoring and management of visitors in recreation and protected areas. The emphasis is on policies, problems, practices and innovative solutions, and will therefore be of equal relevance to managers and researchers.
The main theme of the conference is Outdoor Recreation in Change - Current Knowledge and Future Challenges. This is to reflect not just changes in outdoor recreation participation and behavior alone, but also changes in management of recreational areas and society in general that will impact the future of outdoor recreation. In particular, we welcome presentations on the following sub-themes:

• Developments in visitor monitoring
• Trends and social patterns in outdoor recreation participation
• Children and nature: experiences, learning and health
• Outdoor recreation in urban proximate nature
• Spatial planning, resolving conflicts and safeguarding access
• Integrating outdoor recreation and nature conservation
• Education, outdoor learning and communicating nature
• Nature experiences and environmental awareness
• Environmental values and attitudes in outdoor recreation
• Commercialization of nature
• The economics of outdoor recreation
• Managing visitor impacts on destination communities
• Methodological and theoretical developments in outdoor recreation research
• Management and Visitor Experience in Europe's Wilderness Areas
• Communities in change
• Interpretation as strategic communication in protected area management
• Recreation "betwixt" and "between"
• Risk, saftey and rescue in a changing outdoor arena
• Recent Advances in Visitor Monitoring: GPS tracking and GIS technology
• Financing of nature and landscape protection through tourism
• Values of outdoor recreation - Economics, perceptions, attitudes and beyond
• Tourism, hiking trails and local developement
• Visitor monitoring in a landscape context

Keynote Speakers

• Dr. Katrina Myrvang Brown, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland UK: Managing difference in shared recreational space: understanding the role of the body, movement and emotion
• Professor Thomas A Heberlein, University of Wisconsin, USA and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Attitudes, norms and the art of visitor management
• Professor Susan Moore, Murdoch University, Australia: Current and future issues in natural area tourism
• Professor Klas Sandell, Karlstad University, Sweden: Outdoor recreation in change - What about Sweden?
• Secretary General Bi Puranen, World Values Survey Association: Values change the world
• Director Rauno Väisänen, Natural Heritage Services, Metsähallitus, Finland: Challenges of visitor monitoring and management in protected areas.

Links

• MMV 6 - Conference Proceedings (PDF, 4,4 MB)
• MMV 6 Website