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A bird's-eye view of recreation
are not more widely used in Europe. Another main reason is the complex private and public ownership of nature areas in Europe (Haider 2006).
Future research should focus on the integrated monitoring and modelling of recreation and nature (Haider 2006, Sutherland 2007). Simultaneous consideration of both recreation and nature goals might lead to construction of scenarios not immediately apparent when only one set of values is considered (Önal and Yanprechaset 2007). General rules of thumb for predicting recreation impact should be developed (Sutherland 2007). Also there are still knowledge gaps of recreation impact on the population level, measures that can reduce human impact and the combination of recreation and nature at the scale of landscape planning (Blanc et al. 2006, Sutherland 2007).
Acknowledgements
We thank dr. M. Hootmans and drs. A. Ehrenburg (Gemeentewaterleidingen Amsterdam) for comments and discussion. Prof Opdam, dr. Vos, dr. H Baveco, dr. A. Beintema, drs. H. Henkens and drs. H. Kuipers (Alterra) contributed to the model development and the simulations. David Pitt and Ramona van Marwijk contributed to the outline of the framework. David Pitt also made editorial improvements.
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