TY - JOUR
T1 - Park Visitors’ Place Attachment and Climate Change-related Displacement
T2 - Potential Shifts in Who, Where, and When
AU - Perry, Elizabeth E.
AU - Xiao, Xiao
AU - Nettles, John M.
AU - Iretskaia, Tatiana A.
AU - Manning, Robert E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded through the Vermont State Parks and supported by the MacIntire-Stennis collaboration at the University of Vermont.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Visitation to parks will change with increasing climate changes. We examined how place attachment may influence different types of climate-induced displacement at both the park and park system level. Previous research suggests that visitors who have greater place attachment to parks within a system may be more likely to tolerate changed environmental conditions before they are displaced from the system entirely or change their choice of park or time of visit within it. Our study, based on the Vermont State Parks system (U.S.), used an on-site visitor questionnaire to examine potential system, spatial, and temporal displacements resulting from ranges of five regionally specific probable manifestations of climate change. As hypothesized, we found that those with lower place attachment were more likely to be displaced. Specifically, these visitors would be more likely to shift their visitation to more southern and lower elevation parks to avoid increased rainfall, earlier/later in the season to avoid higher day or night time temperatures, and out of the park system entirely with more days above 90 F or biting insects. Our approach to examining climate change, place attachment, and displacement has relevance for considering how these three areas impact tourism and visitor use management, as well as utility for managers of these destinations.
AB - Visitation to parks will change with increasing climate changes. We examined how place attachment may influence different types of climate-induced displacement at both the park and park system level. Previous research suggests that visitors who have greater place attachment to parks within a system may be more likely to tolerate changed environmental conditions before they are displaced from the system entirely or change their choice of park or time of visit within it. Our study, based on the Vermont State Parks system (U.S.), used an on-site visitor questionnaire to examine potential system, spatial, and temporal displacements resulting from ranges of five regionally specific probable manifestations of climate change. As hypothesized, we found that those with lower place attachment were more likely to be displaced. Specifically, these visitors would be more likely to shift their visitation to more southern and lower elevation parks to avoid increased rainfall, earlier/later in the season to avoid higher day or night time temperatures, and out of the park system entirely with more days above 90 F or biting insects. Our approach to examining climate change, place attachment, and displacement has relevance for considering how these three areas impact tourism and visitor use management, as well as utility for managers of these destinations.
KW - Displacement
KW - Nature-based tourism
KW - Place attachment
KW - State parks
KW - Vermont
KW - Visitor use management
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U2 - 10.1007/s00267-021-01480-z
DO - 10.1007/s00267-021-01480-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 33991206
AN - SCOPUS:85105926800
SN - 0364-152X
VL - 68
SP - 73
EP - 86
JO - Environmental Management
JF - Environmental Management
IS - 1
ER -