I've made a humble start on the related issue of urban bike campaigning
and transport. 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 my
own efforts to run applied research on these issues over several years.
Ealing's green spaces are 'green corrirors' so the issues are different to
Switzerland.
Go to
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/ealinglcc/~ealinglcc.html
Simon
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:34:00 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) David Crouch
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> Wolfgang,
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> I am very interested in your enquiry.
> I would see this enlarged to engage the cultural contexts within which
> off-road happens; the cultural value and meaning of the practice, and
> the environments, to the participants. How their conceptualisation in
> lay geography relates to, or contests,other conceptualisations.
> To consider also the power of such as commercial organisaitons in
> relaiton to conservation ones, and how this works.
>
> This would problematise the all-too-familiar `impacts` , control and
> managment approaches- and would be very important.
>
> I will follow your project with interest.
>
> David Crouch
> cultural geogaphy. Anglia Univ.
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> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:56:41 +0100 Wolfgang Zierhofer
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Dear all
> >
> > The progress of bicycle technology and the marketing has triggered a boom
> > of off-road biking in Switzerland and other countries. Within the last few
> > years bikers have become a major element of our forests and alps, provoking
> > new conflicts with pedestrians, riders and disturbing wild animals.
> >
> > Does anybody know of studies, which analyse the variety of problems, and
> > which evaluate related measures like planning routes, installing parcours,
> > campaigning, legal regulations and so on? Let's see what actually has been
> > done on a specific question in the field of "geographies of sports".
> >
> > Many thanks for all your contributions!
> > Wolfgang Zierhofer
> >
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Dr Simon Batterbury
Dept. of Geography & Earth Sciences
Brunel University
Uxbridge Middx. UB8 3PH, UK
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo
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