Michael E. Patterson

TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out the need to define and communicate the underlying philosophy and principles by which qualitative research is conducted or evaluated in a peer-review process, which is difficult to be accomplished in the case of tourism and leisure sciences.

TL;DR: The contribution of human dimensions research to the ecological paradigm emerging in natural resource management involves the development of contextually rich, and spatially and historically specific, understandings of places as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Henderson et al. as discussed by the authors examined the connection between wilderness recreation and social change for women, data were collected from twenty-four qualitative interviews with women who recreate in wilderness and found that wilderness recreation can influence women's everyday lives in the forms of selfsufficiency, a shift in perspective, connection to others, and mental clarity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the human dimensions of ecosystem management and use an intellectual map as a good starting point for any effort to integrate research on human dimensions in ecosystem management, which is the place where individual differences in attitudes, values and beliefs are usually charted.