Dr Anna Thompson and
Associate Professor Brent Lovelock are co-directors of the Centre for Recreation
Research. Recent external work includes conducting surveys and qualitative
research for Sport NZ (SPARC) and Department of Conservation. Results from research are
published as reports and articles in academic journals. Copies can be obtained by contacting the authors.
See Publications/Projects.
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Associate Professor B.A. Lovelock
Associate Professor Brent Lovelock
Co-Director
Associate Professor
Department of Tourism, School of Business
University of Otago, Dunedin
email: brent.lovelock@otago.ac.nz
Publications
Brent is a Co-Director of the Centre for Recreation research, and Senior Lecturer
with the Department of Tourism. His background is in natural resource management
and protected area tourism and recreation. Brent's main research interest is sustainable
visitor use of protected natural areas. He has undertaken research in Europe, North
America, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region, examining collaborative planning
processes for natural resource management.
Brent's research interests have seen him become involved in regional tourism and
recreation planning, and Brent successfully led a team of researchers in the development
of a sustainable tourism strategy for the Catlins region in the south of New Zealand
in 2004. The Catlins is a remote and peripheral destination, but with a rapidly
growing tourism industry - the challenges in this project were to identify strategies
that protect the fragile marine wildlife resource and community values whilst fostering
sensitive yet economically viable forms of tourism and recreation in the area.
Another strong research interest involves consumptive forms of wildlife tourism
and recreation - hunting, shooting and sportfishing. Brent spent a period of sabbatical
in Scotland in 2005, where he undertook research on tourism associated with hunting,
shooting and fishing. He has recently published a book on this topic (Tourism and
the Consumption of Wildlife: Hunting, Shooting and Sportfishing (Routledge: London
2008)). Brent's current work on hunting involves cross-national comparative research
on obstacles to the growth of hunting as a sustainable form of tourism, based on
the work in Scotland, Poland, Bulgaria and New Zealand. He is also involved in an
international collaborative research project exploring recreational and touristic
fishing as a sustainable economic activity within remote maritime communities -
and is presently undertaking work on Stewart Island, the Chathams, and in the Lofoten
Islands, Norway.
A further research focus is access for recreationists and tourists with disabilities.
Brent recently undertook a study that explored links between physical mobility,
environmental values and attitudes to the development of motorised access to the
backcountry of New Zealand.
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