Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The historical context of countryside recreation and access; 2 The 1970s and 1980s; 3 The provision of countryside recreation and access; 4 Participation in recreation and access; 5 Social policies for countryside recreation and access; 6 Government advice for rural leisure land-use planning; 7 Recreation and access in structure plans and countryside strategies; 8 Recreation and the environment; 9 Current issues for policy formulation; References; Index
Summary
Comprises a full critical appraisal of policies and plans for countryside recreation, and proposes, in the context of rural restructuring as a whole, a range of new directions for policy that will better serve the needs of both the public and the countryside to the turn of the 20th century
