Spatial Accessibility to Public Outdoor Recreation Destinations from Austin, Texas, 2010

Is there considerable difference in the travel distance to ''the outdoors" from different neighborhoods in Austin, in terms of their relative levels of income, education and ethnicity? In this research study, we explore the distribution and composition of public lands in Central Texas. We develop an index of spatial accessibility to public outdoor wilderness areas from origins within the Austin urban areas to determine relative levels of accessibility to the outdoors from the urban core. We also seek to discover demographic characteristics of those with a high or low degree of spatial accessibility to the outdoors.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

Texas State University-San Marcos

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Kinnison, P. Chance

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Day, Frederick A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Chow, T. Edwin
• Zhan, F. Benjamin

• social status
• outdoor recreation
• spatial accessibility
• Austin
• Texas

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/11615

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/11615