Dear colleagues all over the globe
although mountain biking obviously has become an universal pleasure and
plague, there is not so much literature around. See the results below - and
thanks for your help!
Wolfgang
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Results:
Wöhrstein, T. 1997. Mountainbiking und Umwelt. Saarbrücken
Sprung, G. 1996. Managing Mountain Bikes. Boulder.
Froitzheim, T. 1996. Leitbilder eines natur- und
landschaftsverträglichen Mountainbikings. Bielefeld.
Cessford, G.R. 1995. Mountainbiking impacts and rider
preferences. Wellington.
Cessford, G.R. 1995. Off-road mountainbiking. a profile of
participants. Wellington.
Lang, Heinz, 1998: Mountainbiking zwischen Umweltverträglichkeit und
gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz. Diplomarbeit, ETH Zürich.
The British Cycling Touring Club has some booklets about off-roading and
their website is http://www.ctc.org.uk
Andy Dougill and Matt Stroh: Recreational users of Lake
District bridleways: conflict or cameraderie. In 'The North West
Geographer' (vol 2., 1998)
ESRC research seminar series on 'Wilderness Management'. Provisional
programme details and background can be found on:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/staff/s.carver/wildbrit_web/wildbrit.html
On the web site of Ealing's Cycle Campaign you will find
various documents relating to conflict between pedestrians and cyclists,
how to organise and run urban transport campaigns, and the results of
research on these issues:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/ealinglcc/~ealinglcc.html
It might well be worth contacting the National Trust
(UK) about it, as they have an active interest in this kind of field
and may have carried out studies in the area (as a follow on from
their document "Open Countryside"(1995)
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Dr. Wolfgang Zierhofer
Imfeldstr. 4
CH - 5430 Wettingen
Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0) 56 426 00 75
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