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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16330-z
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 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
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