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Hikers' Perceived Conflicts about Mountain Biking by Socio-demographic and Visiting Characteristics in Mudeungsan Provincial Park  

Kim, Sang-Oh (Dept. of Forestry, Chonnam National Univ.)
Kim, Sang-Mi (Dept. of Forestry, Chonnam National Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.25, no.5, 2011 , pp. 799-813 More about this Journal
Abstract
Increasing mountain biking (MTB) in forest recreation areas is changing the behavioral patterns in the areas where hiking has been a dominant activity, and it may cause ecological and social impacts to the areas. This study examined hikers' perceived conflicts by MTB including the relationship between socio-demographic and visiting characteristics and perceived conflict. On-site survey was conducted in Mudeungsan Provincial Park (MPP), Korea, during September, 2010. Out of 388 hikers participated in the survey, 374 responses were used for data analysis. 30.2% of the respondents encountered or saw MTB (avg.: 1.7 times) in MPP. Overall, 77.1% of respondents thought MTB in MPP was a problem. 73.5%~83.2% of respondents perceived conflict by four major MTB behaviors (e.g., too fast running MTB in trails; MTB bikes occupying trails; MTB bikes passing by hikers too closely; MTB bikers doing unpleasant behaviors to hikers). Based on the type of conflict, 48.5~62.4% of respondents fell in the type of "social values conflict (SVC)", 11.1~32.4%, "interpersonal conflict (IC)", and 16.8~26.6%, "no conflict (NC)", respectively. Types of conflicts were related with sociodemographic (e.g., gender, age, education) and visiting characteristics (e.g., number of visits, experience of encountering MTB). Such relationships were nonexistent in most cases when the "experience of encountering MTB" was controlled.
Keywords
TYPE OF CONFLICT; SOCIAL VALUES CONFLICT; INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT;
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