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COVID-19’s impact on visitation behavior to US national parks from communities of color : evidence from mobile phone data

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Alba, Charles, Pan, Bing, Yin, Junjun, Rice, William L., Mitra, Prasenjit, Lin, Michael S. and Liang, Yun (2022) COVID-19’s impact on visitation behavior to US national parks from communities of color : evidence from mobile phone data. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). 13398. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16330-z ISSN 2045-2322.

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Abstract

The widespread COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed many people’s ways of life. With the necessity of social distancing and lock downs across the United States, evidence shows more people engage in outdoor activities. With the utilization of location-based service (LBS) data, we seek to explore how visitation patterns to national parks changed among communities of color during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that visitation rates to national parks located closer than 347 km to individuals have increased amidst the pandemic, but the converse was demonstrated amongst parks located further than 347 km from individuals. More importantly, COVID-19 has adversely impacted visitation figures amongst non-white and Native American communities, with visitation volumes declining if these communities are situated further from national parks. Our results show disproportionately low-representations amongst national park visitors from these communities of color. African American communities display a particularly concerning trend whereby their visitation to national parks is substantially lower amongst communities closer to national parks.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- United States, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects, National parks and reserves -- United States, Minorities -- Social aspects -- United States
Journal or Publication Title: Scientific Reports
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2045-2322
Official Date: 4 August 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
4 August 2022Published
8 July 2022Accepted
Volume: 12
Number: 1
Article Number: 13398
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16330-z
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 5 August 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access: 8 August 2022
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDSocial Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State Universityhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007164

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