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Access for all? Beach access and equity in the Detroit metropolitan area

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  • Jinwon Kim
  • Sarah Nicholls

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Beaches are a unique type of recreation setting, offering a variety of water- and land-based opportunities that can meet residents’ diverse and complex recreation needs. Providing and improving equitable access to recreation amenities such as beaches have been recognized as essential responsibilities of public leisure agencies. This study assessed the degree of equity inherent in the distribution of public beaches in the Detroit metropolitan area; to account for spatial effects, phenomena rarely considered in prior equity analyses, geographically weighted regression was employed. Considerable local variations in the relationships between level of access to public beaches and population density, proportion of elderly population and educational attainment were identified. Such findings can help parks and recreation agencies better understand local patterns of equity, an important first step in facilitating the formulation of more efficient and effective planning and policy approaches.

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  • Jinwon Kim & Sarah Nicholls, 2018. "Access for all? Beach access and equity in the Detroit metropolitan area," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(7), pages 1137-1161, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:61:y:2018:i:7:p:1137-1161
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1335187
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    1. Kim, Jinwon & Jang, Seongsoo & Kang, Sanghoon & Kim, SeungHyun (James), 2020. "Why are hotel room prices different? Exploring spatially varying relationships between room price and hotel attributes," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 118-129.
    2. Marta Nalej & Elżbieta Lewandowicz, 2023. "An Analysis of Recreational and Leisure Areas in Polish Counties with the Use of Geographically Weighted Regression," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(1), pages 1-26, December.
    3. Lee, Yong-Jin Alex & Jang, Seongsoo & Kim, Jinwon, 2020. "Tourism clusters and peer-to-peer accommodation," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    4. Rachelle Alterman & Cygal Pellach, 2022. "Beach Access, Property Rights, and Social-Distributive Questions: A Cross-National Legal Perspective of Fifteen Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-23, April.

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