Where do we recreate? Comparison of different methods to determine importance of site characteristics for outdoor recreation
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2019-12Type
- Conference Paper
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Abstract
Residents of industrialized countries place increasingly more value on leisure time. For many alpine and remote municipalities, revenues from tourism and recreation belong to the most important sources of income. At the same time, these activities generate large carbon footprints through traffic. Identifying the drivers of demand for outdoor recreation is essential for a sustainable future transport and landscape planning. By using different types of regression models, we compared four different methods to determine the importance of variables quantifying landscape characteristics for explaining outdoor recreation day trips. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000383758Publication status
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MODSIM2019, 23rd International Congress on Modelling and SimulationPages / Article No.
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Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New ZealandEvent
Subject
Random Forest; Gradient Boosting; Generalized Linear Models; variable importanceOrganisational unit
02890 - Inst. of Science, Technology and Policy / Inst. of Science, Technology and Policy03823 - Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne / Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
Notes
Conference lecture held on December 5, 2019. Accepted version of the paper was originally published "in Copyright".More
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