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Abstract：
This paper presents a summary of coastal recreation of New England residents from a survey conducted in the summer of 2018. The management of New England\'s coasts benefits from understanding the value of coastal recreation and the factors influencing recreational behavior. To address this need, the survey collected the geographic location and trip details for both day and overnight visits to any type of location on the New England coast for a range of water recreation activities, providing a comprehensive view of coastal recreation in the region. This paper summarizes participation in various types of water recreation activities, including beachgoing, swimming, fishing, wildlife viewing, boating, and other coastal recreation activities. We quantify demand for coastal recreation using participation and effort models that disaggregate the dimensions of recreational behavior over space and census demographics. This provides insights on the scale and location of beneficiaries of this important human use of the natural environment. We found that 71% of people in the surveyed region participate in coastal recreation and engage in a wide range of coastal recreation activities at varied locations from open-ocean-facing coastal beaches to sheltered, estuarine ways to water. On average, people in the region take 37 trips to recreate on the coast of New England in a year, spending 167 hours per year visiting recreation sites and 66 hours traveling. This adds up to nearly 170.5 million trips from our sample region, 772.4 million hours of recreation time, and 304.6 million hours of travel time. Distance to the coast, demographics, and recreational activities affect how often people go and how much time they spend on coastal recreation.
摘要：
本文从2018年夏季进行的一项调查中总结了新英格兰居民的沿海娱乐活动。新英格兰海岸的管理得益于了解沿海娱乐的价值和影响娱乐行为的因素。为了满足这一需求，该调查收集了对新英格兰海岸任何类型的地点进行日间和夜间访问的地理位置和旅行细节，以进行一系列水上娱乐活动，提供该地区沿海娱乐的全面视图。本文总结了参与各种类型的水上娱乐活动,包括去海滩,游泳,钓鱼,野生动物观赏,划船,和其他沿海娱乐活动。我们使用参与和努力模型来量化对沿海娱乐的需求，这些模型分解了空间和人口普查人口统计上的娱乐行为的维度。这提供了有关人类对自然环境的重要利用的受益者的规模和位置的见解。我们发现，在接受调查的地区，有71％的人参加沿海娱乐，并在不同的地点从事广泛的沿海娱乐活动，从面向公海的沿海海滩到庇护，河口通往水的路。平均而言,该地区的人们在一年中在新英格兰海岸进行37次旅行，每年花167小时参观娱乐场所，66小时旅行。从我们的样本地区总共有1.7050亿次旅行，7.724亿小时的娱乐时间，和3.046亿小时的旅行时间。到海岸的距离,人口统计，娱乐活动会影响人们去的频率以及他们花在沿海娱乐上的时间。
