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Evaluating Household Leisure Behaviour of Rural Tourism in Japan [PDF]
Understanding the demand profile of rural tourism is a necessary condition for the successful diversification of any rural economy. Although descriptive analyses have been conducted on this issue, a more generalised framework is required that allows us ...
Ohe, Yasuo
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Recreation Benefits of U.S. Parks [PDF]
, 2007 Over 90 percent of people living in the United States participate in some type of outdoor recreation, from walking the dog to rock climbing. These activities increase a person’s well-being and are examples of recreation benefits.
Kaval, Pamela
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Peoples’ use of, and concerns about, green space networks: A case study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK [PDF]
, 2010 Cultural services provided by green space networks and in particular leisure and recreational opportunities are central to the quality of life of those living in urban areas. However, the literature concerned with green space networks has mainly focussed
Ajzen +51 more
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Sustainable Elite Youth Sports: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Social Dimensions
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sports have been identified as an important contributor to social sustainability, and the benefits for health, well‐being, and social learning in young people are well evidenced. Youth elite sports, however, have been criticized as being unsustainable.
Astrid Schubring +16 more
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Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kyiv (Ukraine): "Crisis Induced Strategy" versus Recreational Resource [PDF]
For the study 240 Kyiv households with urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) have been surveyed in 2005. Quotas were assigned to four different types of plots.
Hoermann, D.M., Komirenko, Z.
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Contracting the right to roam [PDF]
, 2017 In recent decades, the emergence of environmental ethics has added extra dimensions of complexity to the leisure political terrain upon which the right to roam is contested.
McNeish, Wallace, Olivier, Steve
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Local labor market frictions and platform‐based entrepreneurship
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Building on prior research about the heterogeneous impact of labor shocks on individuals' propensity to start businesses, we explore how local labor market frictions affect individuals' selection into platform‐based entrepreneurship.
Ruiqing Cao, Yifan Lyu
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Haunted Headwaters: Ecotourism, Animism, and the Blurry Line Between Science and Spirits
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The highlanders of Ratanakiri, Cambodia believe that certain mountains cannot be hunted or logged because they are the abode of powerful spirits. They are convinced that mountain spirits will exact revenge on them in the form of serious injury or illness
McCann Gregory, Hsu Yi-Chung
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ON THE PRICE OF RECREATION GOODS AS A DETERMINANT OF MALE LABOR SUPPLY [PDF]
This paper examines whether and how changes in the price of goods consumed in conjunction with leisure time influence the life-cycle allocation of work effort by part of prime-age males.
Jorge González-Chapela
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This analysis illuminates how girls and young women dedicated to horse sports craft a resilient identity that they take to their wider lives. The constitutive features of their horse person identity are their willingness to love, care, and learn about horses combined with their embodied close relationships with specific horses.
Laura Sanchez
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