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Recreation Resource Planners

Creating Opportunities for People to Connect with America's Great Outdoors

 

Planning Books 

NARRP is committed to advancing the recreation resource profession.  One way we do this is by helping you find books that will help you do your job better.  These books have been recommended by other NARRP members.  If you know of a great planning book not listed here, please send us an email.

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 Children in Nature
  Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv (paperback and hardcover, 2005)
 Communication Skills
  Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages by Julia Corbett (paperback, 2006)
  Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals by Susan Kay Jacobson (paperback, 1999)
  Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere by Robert Cox (paperback, 2006)
 Interpretation
  The Effectiveness of Nonpersonal Media used in Interpretation and Informal Education: An Annotated Bibliography by Marcella Wells and Lisa Smith (paperback, 2002)
  Environmental Interpretation: A Practical Guide for People With Big Ideas and Small Budgets by Sam H. Ham (paperback, 1992)
  Interpretive Centers: The History, Design, and Development of Nature and Visitor Centers by Michael Gross and Ron Zimmerman (paperback and hardcover, 2002)
  Interpretive Master Planning by John Ververka (paperback, 1994)
  Making Museums Matter by Stephen Weil (paperback, 2002)
  Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions by Kathleen McLean (spiral-bound, 1993)
  Secrets of Institutional Planning by Elizabeth Merritt and Victoria Garvin (paperback, 2007)
  Signs, Trails, and Wayside Exhibits: Connecting People and Places by Michael Gross, Ron Zimmerman and Jim Buchholz (paperback and hardcover, 2006)
  The Interpreters Guidebook by Kathleen Regnier (paperback, 1992)
 Recreation Management

Forest Recreation, Fifth Edition by Robert Douglass (hardcover, 2000)

Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Conservation and Management (Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development) by Susan W. Vince (editor)(hardcover, 2004)
Introduction To Outdoor Recreation: Providing And Managing Natural Resource Based Opportunities by Roger L. Moore and B. L. Driver (hardcover, 2005)
Outdoor Recreation Management (Routledge Advances in Tourism) by John Jenkins (paperback, 2006)
Recreational Land Management by C.W.N Miles (paperback, 1993)
Risk Management for Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services by James A. Peterson and Bruce B. Hronek (paperback, 2008)
Recreation Planning & Design
  Anatomy of a Park: Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design by Bernard Dahl and Donald J. Molnar (hardcover, 2003) 
  Design for Outdoor Recreation by Simon Bell (paperback, 1997)
  Park and Recreation Structures : Administration and Basic Service Facilities : Recreational and Cultural Facilities : Overnight and Organized Camp by Albert Good (hardcover, 1999)
  Planning Parks for People by John Hultsman, Richard Cotrell and Wendy Z. Hultsman (hardcover, 1998)
  Remember Jekyll Island by Babs McDonald, PhD (paperback, 2010)
  Tourism and Recreation Handbook of Planning and Design (Architectural Press Planning and Design Series) by Manual Baud-Bovy (paperback, 1998)
 Recreation Research
  The Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places: African Americans Making Nature and the Environment a Part of Their Everyday Lives by Dudley Edmondson (paperback, 2006)
  Diversity & the Recreation Profession: Organizational Perspectives by Maria T. Allison and Ingrid Eleanore Schneider (hardcover, 2000)
  Footprints on the Land: An Assessment of Demographic Trends and the Future of Natural Lands in the United States by H. Ken Cordell & Christine Overdevest (paperback, 2001)
  Integrating Social Sciences with Ecosystem Management by H. Ken Cordell and John C. Bergstrom (paperback, 1999)
  Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic by B. L. Driver, Daniel Dustin, Tony Baltic, Gary Elsner, and George Peterson (hardcover 1996)
   Outdoor Recreation for 21st Century America: A Report to the Nation: The National Survey on Recreation and the Environment by H. Ken Cordell (hardcover, 2004)
 Signage
  Wayfinding: Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems by Craig M. Berger (hardcover, 2005)
 Tourism
  Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities by Jim Howe, Ed McMahon, and Luther Propst (paperback, 1997)
  Civic Tourism: The Poetry and Politics of Place by Dan Shilling (paperback, 2007)
  Save Our Land, Save Our Towns: A Plan for Pennsylvania (PA's Cultural & Natural Heritage Series) by Thomas Hylton (paperback, 2003)
 Trail Resources
  Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance, 4th by Appalachian Mountain Club Books (paperback, 2008)
  Greenways: A Guide To Planning Design And Development by Charles A. Flink , Robert M. Searns , Loring LaB Schwarz (paperback, 1993)
  Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities by AASHTO (paperback, 1999)
  Lightly on the Land: The Sca Trail Building And Maintenance Manual 2nd Edition by Robert Birkby (Paperback, 2006)
  Managing Mountain Biking: IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding by IMBA (Paperback, 2007)
  Natural Surface Trails by Design by Troy Scott Parker (paperback, 2004)
  Park Guidelines for OHVs by George E. Fogg (paperback, 2002)
  Recreational Horse Trails in Rural and Wildland Areas by Gene W. Wood (paperback, 2007)
  Trail Planning, Design, and Development Guidelines by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (Paperback, 2006)
  Trail Solutions, IMBA’s Guide to Building Sweet Singeltrack by IMBA (paperback, 2004)
  Trails for the Twenty-First Century: Planning, Design, and Management Manual for Multi-Use Trails by Charles Flink , Kristine Olka , Robert Searns
 Wilderness
  The Multiple Values of Wilderness by H. Ken Cordell, John C. Bergstrom, and J.M. Bowker (hardcover, 2005)
 Wildlife Recreation
  Wildlife and Recreationists: Coexistence Through Management And Research by Richard L. Knight and Kevin J. Gutzwiller (paperback, 1995)
  Wildlife Viewing: A Management Handbook by Michael J. Manfredo (paperback, 2002)

 

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