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Benefits of crowd-sourced GPS information for modelling the recreation ecosystem service. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Modelling cultural ecosystem services is an enduring challenge, raising issues about the integration and spatialization of immaterial values and benefits, and their contingency on local preferences.
Coline Byczek +3 more
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The benefits of hydrotherapy to patients with spinal cord injuries
African Journal of Disability, 2018 Background: Many patients with spinal cord injury (PWSCI) lead sedentary lifestyles, experiencing poor quality of life and medical challenges. PWSCI don’t like to participate in land-based-exercises because it’s tedious to perform the same exercises ...
Terry J. Ellapen +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Outdoor recreation is widespread, with uncertain effects on wildlife. The human shield hypothesis (HSH) suggests that recreation could have differential effects on predators and prey, with predator avoidance of humans creating a spatial refuge ‘shielding’
Alys Granados +14 more
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BEYOND THE FRINGE: THE ROLE OF RECREATION IN MULTI-FUNCTIONAL URBAN FRINGE LANDSCAPES [PDF]
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022 This paper reviews some of the academic literature and policy documents that relate to and promote the need for urban design and the re-invigoration of the processes and practices of ‘masterplanning’.
Ian GILHESPY
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Ukrainian Recreation Industry: problems and prospects of development [PDF]
Економічний вісник Державного вищого навчального закладу Український державний хіміко-технологічний університет, 2020 This article studies the industry of recreation with its structure and peculiarities. The analysis is given of the sphere in Ukraine. Specific features of American and European recreation industry are considered.
Voronina О. Е., Yashkina N. V.
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Children’s engagement in active free play has declined across recent generations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of intergenerational changes in active free play among families from rural areas.
Nicholas L. Holt +7 more
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Virtual Leisure and Recreation Reality and Well-Being During COVID-19 Pandemic - The Future of Ghana Tourism: Does Technological SelfEfficacy Matter [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2022 This study examined (i) the impact of COVID-19 on practice of virtual participation in leisure and recreation activities in Ghana; (ii) the challenges in the use of virtual approaches as well as the future successes of Ghana Tourism considering the new ...
Vincent Kweku Asimah +3 more
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, 2014 After the blood-smeared Brutus cries for "peace, freedom, and liberty!" in front of the confused masses in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), Antony takes the "pulpit."
David Simmons, Kevin Moore
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Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland
New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014 Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini +9 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Winter recreation is a widely popular activity and is expected to increase due to changes in recreation technology and human population growth. Wildlife are frequently negatively impacted by winter recreation, however, through displacement from habitat ...
Lucretia E. Olson +4 more
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