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The Feasibility of Household Food Waste Reduction in Finland: Insights From Five Consumer Profiles

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We apply a household production framework to analyse how changes in cooking skills, waste‐abatement costs and wage rates influence the food waste behaviour of five consumer profiles in Finland. We find that achieving a given reduction in food waste through skill‐enhancing interventions induces larger behavioural adjustments than equivalent ...
Aino Friman, Dušan Drabik
wiley   +1 more source

Using LLMs for the multidimensional perception assessment of recreation and leisure spaces: a case study of Hangzhou, China

Computational Urban Science
Urban recreation and leisure spaces (RLSs) are vital venues for citizens to relax, socialize, and experience urban life. Public perception of RLSs represents a crucial component of urban studies.
Zhaocheng Bai, Yuchun Wu, Xi Kang, Xia Kong, Jiali Zhang   +4 more
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Short Run Constraints and the Increasing Marginal Value of Time in Recreation [PDF]

Leisure activities such as local recreation trips usually take place in discrete blocks of time that are surrounded by time devoted to other commitments. It can be costly to transfer time between blocks to allow for longer outings.
Raymond B. Palmquist, V. Kerry Smith, Daniel J. Phaneuf   +2 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

QUALITY AS A LATENT VARIABLE IN RECREATION ACCESS ANALYSIS

Recreation trends indicating an increasing demand for quality recreation experiences suggest the need for special consideration of quality in analysis of fee access recreation.
Gan, Christopher E.C., Messonnier, Mark L., Luzar, E. Jane, Kanjilal, Barun   +3 more
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A Comparative Study on the Leisure Participation and Leisure Constraint of Single-Parent Family and Generally Family Household.

, 2009
[[abstract]]1. Regular families? favorite leisure activities are reading the newspaper, listening to music, reading books and taking a walk respectively. The least favorite leisure activity was dancing. 2.
HSIEH SU-MI
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

A leisure and recreation retreat

, 2012
published_or_final_version ; Architecture ; Master ; Master of Landscape ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source