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From Play in Nature, to Recreation then Vocation: A Developmental Model for Natural History-Oriented Environmental Professionals

Children, Youth and Environments, 2023
:Much research on environmental socialization and significant life experiences indicates the primacy of childhood play in wild environments in shaping later adult interest in wild places. Less is known about what happens after childhood.
J. J. James, R. Bixler, Carin E. Vadala
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Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’

Leisure Studies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the recreational experiences of African American residents in Hillsborough County, Florida at varied levels: institutional, recreational, and personal.
Amonté L. Martin, Alison E. Adams, Taylor Stein   +2 more
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Nature-based recreation associated with connectedness to nature and leisure satisfaction among students in Brazil

Leisure Studies, 2019
There is growing evidence that nature-based recreation (NBR) during childhood promotes connectedness to nature, which in turn fuels NBR during adulthood.
Claudio D. Rosa, Silvia Collado, C. Profice, Lincoln R. Larson   +3 more
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A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Political Cultural Black Outdoors Experiences

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 2022
Public lands and the outdoor opportunities they afford are imbued with a long history of cultural and political contestations between the White settler colonial regime, Black and Native Americans.
A. Sène-Harper, Rasul A. Mowatt, Myron Floyd   +2 more
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Investigating the leisure behavior of Iranians: the structural model of serious leisure, recreation specialization and place attachment

, 2019
Leisure behavior and its associated factors are complex and manifold. The present study sought to investigate the effects of serious leisure (perseverance, effort, career, identity and ethos) and recreation specialization (economic commitment, experience
Kolsoum Heidari, S. Heydarinejad, Marjan Saffari, Amin Khatibi   +3 more
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Trends in outdoor recreation, leisure and tourism.

, 2000
Big picture society resources participation evaluation and valuation development management and operations education and training implications for management, public policies, marketing and planning.
W. Gartner, D. Lime
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LEISURE AND RECREATION

History, 1980
LEISURE AND CLASS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: RATIONAL RECREATION AND THE CONTEST FOR CONTROL, 1830–1885. By Peter Bailey.THE SPICE OF LIFE: PLEASURES OF THE VICTORIAN AGE. By Patrick Beaver.THE ENGLISHMAN'S CHRISTMAS: A SOCIAL HISTORY. By J. A. R. Pimlott.THE LIFE AND ART OF ANDREW DUCROW and THE ROMANTIC AGE OF THE ENGLISH CIRCUS. By A. H. Saxon. HamdenTHE
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Leisure and Recreation

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1986
(1986). Leisure and Recreation. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 46-47.
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Leisure, recreation and tourism

Annals of Tourism Research, 1991
Abstract Recreation and leisure studies in North America offers a number of intriguing parallels with tourism. Both have diverse origins; are inherently interdisciplinary; and combine traditional atheoretical, descriptive, and applied research with innovative scholarship that is devoted to developing and testing concepts and theories.
Geoffrey Godbey, Stephen L. Smith
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Recreation and Leisure

2017
This chapter addresses attitudes towards recreation and leisure in nineteenth-century Christian thought using examples from the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, and Africa. Christianity influenced recreation through phenomena related to the animal welfare, temperance, Sabbatarian, Sunday school, Band of Hope, muscular Christianity, Young Men’s
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