Jin-Won Kim

Assistant Professor University of Florida

  • Gainesville FL

Jin-Won Kim’s research focuses on the role of recreation, parks and tourism in the creation of active, healthy and sustainable communities.

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Biography

Jin-Won Kim’s research helps identify the role of recreation, parks and tourism in the creation of active, vibrant, healthy and sustainable communities. His work is primarily focused on water-based recreation and tourism, community recreation/tourism planning and development, public health policy and environmental justice issues.

Areas of Expertise

Water-Based Recreation and Tourism
Public Health and Quality of Life
Environmental Justice
Applications of Geospatial Technologies in Recreation
Park and Tourism
Recreation
Tourism/Recreation Planning and Development

Articles

Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States

Journal of Sport Management

Changwook Kim, et al.

2021-05-19

How to enhance community resilience to natural disasters is a major question for researchers and policymakers. Although researchers agree that sport generates community benefits, few scholarly efforts in sport management have been invested in understanding the sport–resilience association. This paper attempted to address whether and how sport clusters—the clustering of sport industries—are associated with community resilience across locations.

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Visualizing fairness: distributional equity of urban green spaces for marginalized groups

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Jin-Won Kim, et al.

2021-05-18

Previous environmental justice studies of urban green spaces (UGSs) have typically focused on issues of race/ethnicity or income level in Western countries and given limited attention to other dimensions of social disadvantage in Asian countries. To address this research gap, we examined distributional equity/inequity of UGSs among senior citizens living alone, single-mother families, individuals with disability, and basic livelihood security recipients in Seoul, South Korea.

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Does tourism matter in measuring community resilience?

Annals of Tourism Research

Eunjung Yang, et al.

2021-05-12

As damage from natural hazards is increasing, quantifying community resilience is a top priority in enhancing communities' ability to prepare for and recover from disasters. This study examines the significance of tourism in measuring community resilience by proposing a tourism community resilience measurement model.

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