ISSRM 2011 dates set

Direct details from the International Association for Society and Natural Resources:

Save the Dates!

Dear ISSRM Participants and Members of IASNR,

We are excited to announce that for 2011 IASNR will be hosting TWO ISSRM Symposia to encourage broader participation from across the globe.

ISSRM 2011 – June 4-8, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
www.issrm2011madison.iasnr.org

ISSRM 2011 - June 13-17, 2011
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
www.issrm2011malaysia.iasnr.org

You can also find us on Facebook:
Madison: ISSRM 2011 Madison
Malaysia: ISSRM2011

These are certain to be exciting meetings and we hope that you will plan to attend one, and perhaps even both, in 2011. Please continue to check the websites for important updates on abstract submission deadlines, registration information, lodging and travel information, and other exciting updates.

If you have any questions about the Madison, Wisconsin, meetings please email the conference organizers at: ISSRM2011.Madison@gmail.com

If you have any questions about the Sabah, Malaysia, meetings please email the conference organizers at: ISSRM2011@ums.edu.my

ISSRM 2017

International Association for Society and Natural Resources

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International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) June 19-22, 2017 in Umeå, Sweden Symposium Theme: Contested Spaces: Bridging Protection and Development in a Globalizing World Greetings, Call for Organized Session Proposals: Proposals for Panels, Paper Sessions, Book Review Sessions, and Workshops are invited now – the deadline for submission isOctober 31, 2016, at midnight (Central Standard Time). Proposals from any area of societal relationships to environment and natural resources are welcome. Organized sessions are an opportunity to bring together a group of scholars around a particular topic. They can be a collection of 3-5 oral presentations with or without a discussant, a panel of experts on a given topic, a roundtable discussion, an author-meets-critics session, a workshop, or propose your own idea. Panels and paper sessions will last 75 minutes each. The organizer(s) should recruit participants and include these in the session proposal. Organized sessions will be highlighted and given priority in the program. Please submit your session proposal electronically by going to the ISSRM 2017 webpage and click on “Add” next to “Session Proposals” on the right side of the page. Please note: a login account is required before a session proposal can be submitted; you must also be logged into your account to submit a session proposal. Call for Abstracts: Abstract submissions for organized sessions, individual papers and posters are now open and due December 1, 2016, at midnight (Central Standard Time). Individual paper and poster abstracts can be submitted electronically by going to the ISSRM 2017 webpage and clicking on “Add” next to “Abstracts (Oral Presentations and Posters)” on the right side of the page. Please note: a login account is required before an abstract can be submitted; you must also be logged into your account to submit an abstract. Guidelines for Abstracts: Abstracts should be in paragraph form without bullet points. Additionally, the abstract body should include details regarding the background, purpose, methods, results, and conclusions. Please also include theory/analytical framework and a description of the methods employed (e.g. quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, etc.). **Individuals are limited to serving as lead presenter on only one oral paper presentation. This does not include co-authorship and individuals may present both an oral paper presentation and organize a session, present a poster, or serve on a panel. Please email Jessica Burk (info@iasnr.org) if you have any questions.  Sincerely, ~2017 ISSRM Organizing Committee and IASNR Office ___________________________________________________________ International Association for Society and Natural Resources info@iasnr.org | 936.294.4143 | www.iasnr.org

CFP IASNR Conference in Maine 2023

 Call for Submissions!

2023 IASNR Conference

Portland, Maine, USA

Greetings,

Next year’s conference will be held in Portland, Maine, USA at the Holiday Inn By The Bay in Portland, Maine. Details of the event can be found on the 2023 IASNR Conference website.

Call for Organized Sessions: Proposals for organized panels, paper sessions, roundtables, and workshops for the 2023 IASNR Conference are now being considered! Organized Sessions represent an opportunity to bring together a group of scholars to present and discuss work focusing on a particular integrative theme or topic. The due date for proposed organized sessions is December 1, 2022.

General Call for Abstracts: Abstract submissions for individual papers and posters for presentation at the 2023 IASNR Conference are now being considered! We encourage submissions that are relevant to the symposium theme and those that focus on the interactions between social and ecological systems. The due date for abstract submissions is February 1, 2023.

Submission Information: More information on submission requirements and instructions can be found on the conference website under “Submission, Registration, & Schedule Information.”

For more information about the conference or about IASNR, please email info@iasnr.org.

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On a personal note I have not attended this conference for some years back when it was called ISSRM,  But I can state that it was a great conference, and if still living on the East Coast, I would consider travelling to Maine since it is within driving distance and I have not travel funds.  My list of past presentations over 20 years at this conference include:

“Mineral spas to cosmetic surgery: is health tourism sustainable?” 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Vienna, Austria, July 2009.

“Eco-medical tourism in Costa Rica:  is it sustainable?” 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Burlington, VT, USA, June 2008.

“Smart Growth and Open Space Protection:  The Community Preservation Act in Massachusetts.” ISSRM 2006, a Symposium in the Series of International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Vancouver, Canada, June 2006.

“Macabre Tourism: A Geographical Comparison of Salem, Massachusetts and Transylvania, Romania.” ISSRM 2004, a Symposium in the Series of International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Keystone, CO, June 2004.

"Mapping Ecotourism Data on the Web: Internet Technology for Virtual Tourism.” International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Sardinia, Italy, October 2002.

“Volunteer-based Recreation Land Management: The Eyes and Ears for the Appalachian Trail.”  International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Sardinia, Italy, October 2002.

"Interactive Trail Maps on the Web: An Examination of Multi-Attribute Decision Making.” The Ninth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Bloomington, IN, June 2002.

"No Boundaries for Tourism on the Internet?  Eliminating Tourism Boundaries on the Internet.” Eighth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.  Bellingham, WA. June 2000.

“Virtual Tourism:  the Ultimate Ecotourism?” The Seventh International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.  Columbia, MO. May 1998.  (Published in Tourism Geographies).

 “The New Ecology and Geographic Approaches to Environmental Analysis.” The 1997 International Symposium on Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management in the Americas.  Belize, Central America. February 1997.

“Management Implications of Recreation Activity Packages:  A Cross Regional Analysis.”  The Sixth International Symposium on Society & Resource Management.  State College, PA.  May 1996.

"Boating in Massachusetts: Origins, Destinations and Motivations.” The Fifth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Ft. Collins, CO.  June 1994.

"Travel Diversification as a Measure of Recreation Activity Packages.” The Fourth North American Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Madison, WI. May 1992.

"Managing Carrying Capacity Objectives:  The Monitoring of River Recreationists to Maintain Quality Experiences.” Second Symposium on Social Science in Resource Management.  Champaign/Urbana, IL. June 1988.

 "Recreation Expenditures and Opportunity Theory:  The Case of Illinois".  Second Symposium on Social Science in Resource Management.  Champaign/Urbana, IL. June 1988.

 

ISSRM 2014

While I missed ISSRM 2013 in Colorado earlier this month (I was in Iceland for NGM 2013)
the ISSRM 2014 meeting is set.  I will put it on my timeline.

Vienna ISSRM July 2009

While I tend to like to travel to more rural destinations, Vienna is a fantastic city. I had the ISSRM conference there last summer where I presented research on Medical Tourism (topic for a lecture on 22 April 2010).

The photo was shot on one of my walks around the downtown area and is the Staatsoper Opera House. I didn't get a chance to see an opera, but did observe waltzing lessons and had a dinner in a Palace one night. Our hosts put on a great spread. Oh yeah, the paper went well too.

I'd highly recommend Vienna for a trip.

ISSRM Malaysia venue to move 7km

According to the Facebook page for the International Symposium of Society and Resource Management - Malaysia 2011 may move a bit south along the coast to 1Borneao (http://www.1borneo.net/public/1borneohypermall/main_page.htm).

I am saving for this conference since it competes with the meeting in Madison. I attended the ISSRM at Madison back in 1992 I believe.

Here is the paper I delivered:

"Travel Diversification as a Measure of Recreation Activity Packages", The Fourth North American Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Madison, WI. May 1992.

Smart Growth and the Community Preservation Act

 

A poster from 2006.

“Smart Growth and Open Space Protection:  The Community Preservation Act in Massachusetts.” ISSRM 2006, a Symposium in the Series of International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Vancouver, Canada, June 2006.

For the latest info on the Community Preservation ACT see this page CPA.  And a map here.

ISSRM in full force

Ok, we had a great time last night in the Rathous (City Hall). Definitely not in Kansas anymore.

While riots in China and Hondurus and other places continue, it is nice to find a group of academics working together to link the social sciences with the natural sciences.

These are my current thoughts before I head to the poster session at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences.

at least 36 papers on recreation at ISSRM 2009

I did a quick search by title using the word "recreation" and found 36 papers with the recreation in the title. From my experience, this conference is heavily attended by recreation and tourism folks and this small number may not accurately total the interest. Check it out to see the research presented at http://www.issrm09.info/

NOT Michael Jackson news

If you rely on CNN or BBC for news, you would believe the entire world lives for MJ. At least EURONEWS only displayed the service as an inset window while they reported REAL news.

For recreation geography news today, I presented our research on the sustainability of health tourism at the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.
See our website for additional information (www.wsc.ma.edu/medicaltourism).

More news from a sample of the conference delegates indicates that travel to the ISSRM next year in Texas will likely be low since foreign nationals face numerous hurdles. While the Vancouver conference had record numbers, the US places so many restrictions for our society and natural resources guests, that some simply say "screw it."

Aren't we welcoming?

ISSRM 2013

details from an email:

Call for Abstracts NOW OPEN

International Symposium on Society & Resource Management

Estes Park, Colorado, USA

June 4-8, 2013

A Time for Integration

Please submit abstracts to present an individual paper, poster, or to lead an organized session. More information about the symposium and online submission of abstracts can be found at http://www.issrm2013.iasnr.org. Additional inquiries should be directed to conference@warnercnr.colostate.edu. 

In addition to a diverse array of paper, panel, and poster sessions, the program includes the 6th Annual Student Forum on June 4th and fantastic keynote and featured speakers though out the week. We hope you will join us in the spectacular Estes Valley surrounded by the majestic peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park for what promises to be a wonderful conference!

Abstract submission deadline for individual paper, poster, or organized session is February 4th 2013

Conference registration will be open soon: stay tuned!

ISSRM 2013

19th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management 

Hosted by Colorado State University

Location: Estes Park, Colorado

June 4 – 8, 2013

Theme: A Time for Integration

The lack of integration among the sciences is a major constraint to dealing with the complex nature of today’s environmental problems and is a particularly severe problem among the social sciences.

For more info, visit http://www.issrm2013.iasnr.org

Always a good conference, and who can beat the Rocky Mountains!

2022 IASNR Conference San José, Costa Rica

 Haven't been to this conference for over ten years, so the chance to go back to Costa Rica is appealing.  My last presentation at this conference was:

“Mineral spas to cosmetic surgery: is health tourism sustainable?” 15^th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Vienna, Austria, July 2009. 

and the year before

 “Eco-medical tourism in Costa Rica:  is it sustainable?” 14^th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Burlington, VT, USA, June 2008.

 

 

2022 IASNR Conference (formerly ISSRM if you search my blog).

San José, Costa Rica

 

(time for me to stock up on Costa Rica coffee, yum yum!)

 

Conference Theme – Sustainable Development in Practice:

Integrating People, Place, and Policy

The tentative schedule is found at this link.

Put this on your calendar and enjoy Costa Rica

ISSRM this weekend

Happen to be in Vienna, Austria this Sunday? Stop on by the Austria Center Vienna for the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. (My favorite big conference, 400 papers). Can't make if, see the International Association for Society and Natural Resources for more information (http://www.iasnr.org/)/

ISSRM in Malaysia June 2011 !

Just found out that the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management will be held at the Sutera Harbour in Malaysia next June 2011. Time to start with the Anticipation Phase of the Recreation Experience and do my "virtual tourism" stuff. I have gone to this conference since my grad school days in 1988. I have probably attended the conference a dozen times both in the States, but also abroad in 4 different countries.

Gotta' start thinking how to Budget it. Whew, current exchange rate is about $1US to 3.2 MYR (Malaysia Ringgets), and air from BOS to BWN for this summer (not next year) starts at $3700US. Whew again.

And I still need to come up with a research paper topic. Oh well. Do a Google Earth search on the region to get psyched!

The Real Appalachian Trail BC* Epilogue

 

Chapter 11 

Epilogue

faced with a dream

I looked at myself

I wondered how

or even why

it soon became me

and I it

I lived it all

and it was reality

today was already

yesterday

when it had passed

it had hardly begun

--- Don Hunger, 1975

Would I hike it again?  

When asked that after my trip, I replied without hesitation, NO!  Sure, there were some spectacular times, and I met some great people, but it was too soon to forget about the insects, screaming nettles, hunger pains, sore feet, back and knees, and perhaps realistically the financial cost.

And I had more adventures to tackle.  My higher education plans had been put on hold, so I started January out of synched with my classmates.  But it also meant though I started working full time after a winter graduation, getting a jump start on miscellaneous jobs before getting a “career” with the Boy Scouts of America at a time when scouting meant something.

But the time between 1975 and today has other stories to share, and most have nothing to do with the AT.

Earlier in this manuscript I wrote “It might seem that for most AT hikers, they are only concerned about MacKaye’s first two proposals, or are they?”  For the true story of the AT, we must credit the wisdom of MacKaye and others for a realistic story.  Sure, there is the Trail and hundreds of Lean-tos along the 2,200 mile path.  But as I have attempted to show there are also some cooperative agreements.  And we also see the resurgence of farm camps and the promotion of sustainable land management strategies in the corridor despite the incomplete nature of the Appalachian Greenway (1974).  There continues to be work on each of the four elements, especially since the latter two need the help of MacKaye’s regional planning philosophy.  We can then expect the AT Communities to contribute not to the hiking population but also the town’s resident population, in order to make these places people where want to live and work.  Adjacent to the semi-wilderness trail, we find hostels, shuttle services, restaurants, spas and other non-trail amenities that have become part of the present day experience; most of which had no role in the mid Seventies.

Is there an end to hiking the Appalachian Trail?  Sure, there are those who climb Katahdin and then move on with their lives.  Others, like me, finish the trail at some mid-point, in my case Jacobs Ladder (US Route 20) in Massachusetts.  That road, some thirty miles east, became my first mailing address after graduating from SIU-C.  Talk about Coincidence!

And still others tackle the AT again or some other long distance trail while they have the momentum, time, energy and/or money to do so.

For me, I returned to college and after some ups and downs finally graduated in December 1978 (or was it January 1979) with a BS degree in Geography and Environmental Planning and really not sure what to do next.  I did get a job that I held down for four years as a Camp Ranger for the Boy Scouts of America.  It was fun but after some hard tasks, like digging up a broken frozen water line in the winter, I realized it was not a career.  

During that time with the BSA, I began to travel some more, tried my luck at dating, and on New Years Eve, while doing a solo for Outward Bound on the south slope of Mt. Moosilauke (NH), I made the decision to return to school to work on a Masters.  I only needed a year since I had been going to night school for a couple of years.  I really liked school this time, so I applied to six new grad schools for a Ph.D.  I got accepted at 3, and 2 offered funding.  I first thought of water resources, but Prof. Scott at Towson State University advised me to go into recreation, my real passion.  Wise advice!

So I attended the Association of American Geographers Conference (now American Association of Geographers) at Washington DC and met my future mentors from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  After another graduation, my parents took me to Baltimore’s Little Italy for dinner.  I worked one last summer for the Boy Scouts as the Program Director for Cresap’s Trail in Western Maryland at the Lilli-Aaron Straus Wilderness Area, now a state park in Maryland protected for all to enjoy.

Up to this point each chapter represents a couple of weeks of trail hiking.  This one on the other hand will reflect nearly 50 years.

During my time at SIU, I had the great opportunity for outdoor recreation in Illinois and Missouri.  With winter mountaineering skills under my belt from Outward Bound, I summited several peaks in the winter Whites.  Closer to school, we paddled the Ozark National Scenic Riverways and explored the many caves.  I studied the Desolation Wilderness in California on an extended trip with one of my SIU Mentors and today, some 40 years later, have reconnected with Dr. Ken Chilman.  Ken was instrumental in getting me exposed to academic conferences. First at the Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium (SERR) and later linking me with the crew who organized the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (NERR) in the north.  And I had a summer research assistantship with the National Park Service in an effort to quantify recreation quality.  

I also met Lee Ann and we moved to Western Mass and US Route 20 again.  Initially local conferences like Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (now NERRA), and The New England St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society kept me academically connected with leisure, tourism and recreation enthusiasts.  I also began to do international travel, often tied to presenting research at conferences like ISSRM (Belize, Vancouver, Vienna, Italy) and others (Martinique, Tortola, Switzerland, Iceland, UK).  These trips were a blast and very inspiring.

Early in the nineties, I answered an ATC call for volunteers to undertake the task of corridor monitoring on miles of newly acquired corridor (trailway) lands where volunteers would discover encroachments, illegal motor vehicles and other problems that damaged the AT “greenway” experience.  I was also recruited to begin cultural resource monitoring for some of the historic structures found along the AT.  These experiences got me back on the trail, often bushwhacking in the woods enticing the explorer in me.  Always a teacher, I prepared a volunteer manual for others and challenged my students to enter the woods.

And then Covid hit the world.

After being forced to teach online for a year, I decided to call it quits and retire at age 65.  Once it became safe to travel, we headed back to Carbondale to settle again in Southern Illinois with the Shawnee National Forest in our backyard.

My story traced the history of a 100 year Appalachian Trail.  Beginning with a dream of MacKaye and concluding with this book.  Sandwiched in between was my 2,000 mile hike.

This story had plenty of bumps and dips, since at no time in history had anything like this been proposed and executed.  The story is unique and full of surprises.  There are good times and bads. Successes and failures.  And like any revolutionary idea, it has taken time to mature.

Have we met MacKaye’s goals? Probably not, but then again 2020 is quite different from 1920.  Is the backpacker preparing for the hike today, anything like those in my era, let alone Earl Schaffer’s time?  Heck no.  

I kinda’ hoped that MacKaye had updated his thesis prior to his death in 1975 shortly after my 2,000 mile hike.  But that is unrealistic.  Afterall, I was the post-Earth Day crush on the trail.  And today we have the current social media crowd anticipating their adventure.  There is simply no way MacKaye could have completely anticipated the evolution of his dream.

And here I type my thoughts by re-reading my trip diary, the AT guides, books and tales of hikers from the same period and viewing my limited collection of scanned 35 mm slides.  It is through these visual and written narratives, that I have been able to recapture the on-site, or on trail phase of the AT hike.

Today, I am enjoying the Recollection Phase of the Recreation Experience, and boy oh boy, is it fun.  I have tried to share the fun with the reader, but I also needed to describe the not-so-fun times.  It is the 50 year period, from the first introduction to the Trail to today, that I have emerged from the ultimate liminal experience resulting into what I am today.  This is a post-experience phase, in which the recreationists recall many important moments of the whole experience. I hope I can share this experience with you, my friends and relatives.

Thank you.

Suggested Readings

Bristow, R. S. and I, Jenkins. (eds.) (2022). Spatial and Temporal Tourism Considerations in Liminal Landscapes. Routledge.

Bristow, R. S., J. Judkins, and J. Schottanes. (2022). Appalachian Trail Communities: a 100 year model of regional planning. Chapter 2 in Slocum, S. L., Wiltshier, P., & Read IV, J. B. (Eds.). Transformations in Protected Area Management and Gateway Communities: Alternative Approaches to Tourism and Community Engagement (pp. 10-23). CABI.

Clawson, M., and J.L. Knetsch. (1966). Economics of Outdoor Recreation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Jenkins, I and R. Bristow. (2024). Sensory Tourism: Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations. CABI.

Satterthwaite, A. (1974).  An Appalachian Greenway: Purposes, Prospects and Program.  Prepared for the Appalachian Trail Conference.

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