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Record W277223137

Tourism and National Parks: the origin of the concept

2000· book-chapter· en· W277223137 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Stephen Boyd, Richard Butler

Bibliographic record

VenueJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks · 2000
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAmerican Environmental and Regional History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFrontierGeographyAmenityTourismCorporate governanceEliteWorld-systemPopulationPolitical scienceArgument (complex analysis)Economic geographyRegional scienceNational parkEconomyArchaeologySociologyBusinessEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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This chapter sets out the narrative behind the factors that brought about the development of the world's first national park: Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA and how a system of parks evolved across the US over time. A distinct pattern emerged where many parks were established in peripheral regions in western US, in areas of low population density and in amenity-rich environments. The system of governance evolved with Acts followed by agencies and a series of policy developments. Many of the early US parks developed against the backdrop of early elite travellers interested in these spaces as part of the countries frontier region. The chapter outlines that that parks established in Canada followed the history in the US, and that a Canadian system of parks had a similar history albeit with different Acts, agencies and policies. The authors make the strong argument that the 'origin of the concept' is a North American one; this model was quickly replicated across many other 'New World' countries, with some local and regional variation, of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.031

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations14
Published2000
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