Dnp Case Study

Method
Questionnaire
“One man’s wilderness is another’s roadside picnic ground” (Nash, 1982)
There has been much debate on a definitive definition of what wildness is in terms of the UK, as it has no true wilderness areas. The Scottish Natural Heritage define it as “the wild character of the landscape, its related recreational value and potential for nature are such that these areas should be safeguarded against inappropriate development or land-use change” (SNH, July 2002). However, little work has been done to define it in England, where population density is much higher and land more intensively used. Therefore, a questionnaire was created to specifically target DNP to understand the perception of wildness is within the park. This will
Location
4 locations were used to disperse the questionnaire to try and capture the different users of Dartmoor National Park as well as those that would potentially be affected. The first location was Chudleigh, a small town 2 miles outside of the national park, where people are aware of Dartmoor and regularly use it for recreational reasons but will not be directly affected due to any changes to the landscape, which rewilding could potentially cause. The second location was Bovey Tracey which is within DNP, with much of its trade coming from tourists entering through the town due to good road connections. Changes to the landscape could directly affect the people who live here as well as indirectly as they may feel that tourists may not want to visit the area of the moor around it if
If there was no response a letter was posted through the letter box kindly reminding them of how important the questionnaire is for my University degree. Of the 100 handed out 51 were returned giving a response rate of 51%. When sampling on Haytor and Hound Tor, the sampling method was asking every person coming off the moor into the car park no matter age or nationality. This was firstly to get as many completed questionnaires as possible but also taking out any bias due to oneself asking every person returning. This was done on two days over the summer holidays. The first was on a Wednesday when the weather was cold and grey which saw few tourists with mainly walkers. The second sampling day was on a Sunday during a bank holiday weekend which saw large numbers of different people from different backgrounds. Over the two days 4 declined to answer giving a response rate of 98%. Frustratingly, all 4 that did not want to complete the survey were either German or Dutch whose views may have been very different to that of British individuals, with rewilding being very popular in the Netherlands, and wolves recently starting to colonise