Managing Public Use of Parks, Open Spaces, and Countryside

Name: Managing Public Use of Parks, Open Spaces, and Countryside
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ISBN: 9780273616108

ISBN-10: 0273616102

ISBN-13: 9780273616108

Edition: 1995

Authors: David Welch

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This text focuses on the practicalities of managing and supervising the use of parks, open spaces and the countryside. It provides guidance on mangaing these areas while enhancing the public's enjoyment, and combines broad coverage of key issues with practical information and advice.

Book details

List price: $64.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Pitman Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 146
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Modern European History, 1871-2000 , Germany, Propaganda and Total War 1914-18 , Hitler: Profile of a Dictator , The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda and Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-45 . He is co-author of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to Present and is the general editor of Routledge's Sources in History series.



Introduction



Management issues


The aims of providing parks


Management by objectives


Benefits-based management


Benchmarking


Synergy



Customer care


Citizens' charter


Charter marks


Handling the customer


Safety


Volunteers


Information giving


Range of users, equal opportunity


Disabilities


Managing events


Cost of entertainment programmes



Law and order


Range of misdemeanour in parks


Law breaking


Parks police


The case for parks police


Royal Parks Constabulary


Periodic inspections


Volunteer special constables


Other park police forces


Mounted park rangers


Alternative forms of supervision


Involving the public


Private security firms


Byelaws


Vandalism


Firearms


Metal detectors


Marches, events and demonstrations


Road traffic


Dogs



Urban parks


Background


Park systems


Cycling


Rollers


Managing parks


Compulsory tendering and staffing


Manual staff


Park keeping


Retendering


Rangers


Customer surveys



Countryside and country parks


Country parks


Country park rangers


Community forests


Vehicle access


Wildlife


Open space, the public and nature conservation


Outside the boundary


Water


Bibliography


Index