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Promoting outdoor recreation among older adults in Sweden – a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of an intervention [PDF]

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Disengagement from outdoor recreation may diminish the positive benefits on health and well-being in old age. The purpose of this study is to present a contextual, theoretical, and empirical rationale for an intervention, aiming to promote ...
Magnus Zingmark, Rosemarie Ankre, Sandra Wall-Reinius   +2 more
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Analysis of pandemic outdoor recreation and green infrastructure in Nordic cities to enhance urban resilience [PDF]

npj Urban Sustainability, 2022
Recent empirical research has confirmed the importance of green infrastructure and outdoor recreation to urban people’s well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, only a few studies provide cross-city analyses.
Nora Fagerholm, Karl Samuelsson, Salla Eilola, Matteo Giusti, Kamyar Hasanzadeh, Anna Kajosaari, Daniel Koch, Silviya Korpilo, Marketta Kyttä, Ann Legeby, Yu Liu, Søren Præstholm, Christopher Raymond, Tiina Rinne, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Stephan Barthel   +15 more
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Emplacing reablement co-creating an outdoor recreation model in the rural Arctic [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
Reablement aims to enable older persons with functional decline to re-engage in meaningful activities. The benefits of engagement in outdoor activities are significant; however, reablement services primarily target function in indoor environments whereas
Marianne Eliassen, Bodil A. Sørensen, Trude A. Hartviksen, Solrun Holm, Magnus Zingmark   +4 more
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Who Started, Stopped, and Continued Participating in Outdoor Recreation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States? Results from a National Panel Study

Land, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been proposed as a catalyst for many U.S. residents to re-engage in outdoor recreation or engage in outdoor recreation for the first time. This manuscript describes the results of a representative U.S. national panel study aimed
B. Derrick Taff, William L. Rice, Ben Lawhon, Peter Newman   +3 more
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A descriptive quantitative study of 7- and 8-year-old children’s outdoor recreation, cold exposure and symptoms in winter in Northern Finland [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2017
Background: In Finland, children spend a lot of time outdoors in winter. Outdoor recreation in winter has a wide variety of effects on children’s well-being. Although children are a subgroup that is vulnerable to cold exposure, remarkably little research
Hanna Rasi, Heli Kuivila, Tarja Pölkki, Risto Bloigu, Hannu Rintamäki, Marjo Tourula   +5 more
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Effect of Sex-Specific Running Shoes on Female Recreational Runners

Applied Sciences, 2022
Alterations in running shoe design have been studied and used in the prevention of injury and enhancement of performance allowing running shoe companies to market to a variety of runners based on skill level, foot-strike pattern, and even sex.
Spencer Rasmussen, Baker Wilkes, Lily Poulton, Megan Roser, Shane Draper, Andrew Creer, Tyler Standifird   +6 more
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Environmentally responsible behaviour in outdoor recreation: the moderating impact of COVID-19 related risk perception [PDF]

Journal of Tourism Futures, 2022
PurposeThis study examines the mediating role of motivation on outdoor recreation on the attitude–behavior and social marketing–behavior linkages. The paper scrutinizes the moderating impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk perception in ...
Nguyen Thi Khanh Chi
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A text-messaging chatbot to support outdoor recreation monitoring through community science

Digital Geography and Society, 2023
Public land managers depend on reliable and readily available data about outdoor recreation in parks and greenspaces. However, traditional recreation monitoring techniques including visitor surveying and counting cannot be implemented over large spatial ...
Emilia H. Lia, Monika M. Derrien, Samantha G. Winder, Eric M. White, Spencer A. Wood   +4 more
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Financing Outdoor Recreation [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the services supported by the revenue.
H. Spencer Banzhaf, V. Kerry Smith
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Heart rate processing algorithms and exercise duration on reliability and validity decisions in biceps-worn Polar Verity Sense and OH1 wearables

Scientific Reports, 2023
Consumer wearable technology use is widespread and there is a need to validate measures obtained in uncontrolled settings. Because no standard exists for the treatment of heart rate data during exercise, the effect of different approaches on reliability (
James W. Navalta, Dustin W. Davis, Elias M. Malek, Bryson Carrier, Nathaniel G. Bodell, Jacob W. Manning, Jeffrey Cowley, Merrill Funk, Marcus M. Lawrence, Mark DeBeliso   +9 more
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