ABSTRACT
Recreation cannot be impact-free. Any activity must have consequences, just as it must have antecedent causes. What kind of impact, upon whom, or upon what, in what manner, over what time, to what effect? These are all questions that will be asked. No longer is it politically correct to engage in activity to great personal benefit at someone else’s great personal cost, unless that someone else is adequately recompensed. It was never morally correct, but somehow exchanges that took place were rationalised afterwards as fair. Some of the impacts are naturally outside the usual rules of exchange, because the costs or the benefits have yet to be experienced, and may not accumulate or mature until generations to come. More effort will be made to take into account all (known) costs and benefits. People will adopt an environmental management ethic that will help to shape patterns of leisure.
