Early Call for Papers (CFP)
Please mark your calendars for the 2025 Southeast Environment and Recreation Research (SERR) conference being held at beautiful Unicoi State Park & Lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. We are excited about having the conference back at a state park where there will be ample opportunities for outdoor adventures as well as social gatherings around the lodge campfire. Don't worry, everyone will have individual hotel-style rooms and Wi-Fi.
When: March 23-25, 2025
Where: Uncoi State Park & Lodge outside of Helen, GA
What: Sessions at SERR include empirical, conceptual, or theoretical work related to:
- Sustainable tourism
- Leisure and recreation behavior
- Management of leisure programs and services
- Methodological aspects of recreation and tourism research
- Nature-based travel and tourism
- Outdoor recreation and education
- Park, protected area, and equivalent reserves planning & management
- Parks, physical activity, and health
- Recreation economics or policy
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
Who: Graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, agency planners, land managers, and researchers are all strongly encouraged to attend the conference and submit a proposal for an oral or poster presentation.
A call for abstracts will be made in the upcoming weeks. More details will be available
Personal Note: I attended this conference in the late 1980s and found it very useful in my academic career.
"Validation of Recreation Quality Monitoring Measurements by River Zones.” Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Asheville, NC. February 1988.
"Monitoring Recreation Quality River Zones.” Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Asheville, NC. February 1987.