Recreation and Rural Development in Norway: Nature Versus Culture

This paper explores the author's observations on the barriers, risks, and, to a greater extent, opportunities associated with natural amenity‐led or recreation‐led rural development in Norway, which others might term rural tourism. It seeks to establish an argument for a refocusing of rural amenity‐led development away from traditional “high‐amenity” areas and toward previously overlooked places, thus geographically and substantively broadening...