Thinking Outside the Park: Connecting Visitors’ Sound Affect in a Nature-Based Tourism Setting with Perceptions of Their Urban Home and Work Soundscapes
| Autor: | Karen Beeftink, Trace Gale, Andrea Ednie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Soundscape
Healthy Parks Healthy People (HPHP) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Applied psychology urban density TJ807-830 Urban density 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 soundscapes Affect (psychology) 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Perception 0502 economics and business GE1-350 Quality (business) sustainable tourism Sustainable tourism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Visitor pattern 05 social sciences Environmental sciences Work (electrical) perceived affective quality protected areas Psychology 050212 sport leisure & tourism |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 12 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 6572, p 6572 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13126572 |
| Popis: | This study examined the potential for Perceived Affective Quality (PAQ pleasantness, eventfulness, familiarity) soundscape measures developed within urban settings to enrich current soundscape management approaches within protected areas (PAs). Drawing on the premise that people bring experiences from other life contexts into PA settings and PA visitors are increasingly coming from urban areas, research integrated urban visitors’ soundscape perceptions of their home and work acoustic environments with their perceptions of acoustic environments in PAs. Two-phased survey research (n = 333) separated visitors into urban density groups and compared PAQ variables across home, work, and PA contexts. Significant differences resulted, both in ratings of the three acoustic contexts (PA, home, work) for all three PAQ components and between urban density groups. The importance of pleasantness was confirmed across all contexts however, alone, this dimension lacked sufficient contrast to interpret the complexity of soundscape perceptions, especially considering diverse Healthy Parks, Healthy People (HPHP) visitor experience scenarios and goals. Thus, managers should consider (1) additional PAQ variables that can provide more useful and contrasting information (2) incorporating methods that integrate PAQ measures across visitors’ different acoustic contexts, and (3) including urban density measures within HPHP research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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