Pitt, D.G., 1989, The attractiveness and use of aquatic environments as outdoor recreation places, in: Altman, I., E. Altman & E.H. Zube, ‘Public places and spaces’, Plenum Press, New York
- Author : Pitt, D.G.
- Year : 1989
- Published in Book : Public places and spaces
- Pages : 217-254
- Abstract in English : An essay on significance of water to recreation. This chapter use a transactional model of people interacting, with environments from different psychological, social, physical, and managerial contexts as a framework to examine the recreation experience of aquatic environments. Lake, rivers, and coastal waters and their associated land resources are examined as sources of attraction as well as settings for water-dependent outdoor recreation behaviour. The chapter examines pertinent characteristics of environment, recreationists, and context as these sets of characteristics frame recreational transactions with aquatic environments in predominately rural or natural settings.
- Comments/Notes : Transactional model: It is difficult to find a good definition of the transactional model fitting landscape and planting design education. The term is for example used in development psychology, psychotherapy, pedagogy, communication, software development and general business: An approached from human science may be: The assumption that behaviour or development is influenced by reciprocal interaction between people (recreants, users) and there environments (landscapes). A change in people may trigger a change in the environment, which in turn affects people and so on. In this way, both the people and the environment change over time and affect each other in a reciprocal fashion. KEYWORDS: recreation, water, water bodies, use, environmental psychology. UTILITY: lecturers/teachers, academic research.