Encyclopedia of leisure and outdoor recreation / edited by John M. Jenkins and John J. Pigram.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aborigines -- Back-country -- Back-packing -- Barriers -- Camping -- Canada Land Inventory (CLI) -- Capability -- Dance -- Day trip -- Decentralization -- Decision making -- Declaration on Leisure and Globalization -- Degradation -- Deindustrialization -- Delphi method -- Demand -- Demarketing -- Democracy -- Demography -- Density -- Deregulation -- Desert -- Ecological determinism -- Ecological economics -- Ecologically sustainable development -- Ecology -- Ecomuseum -- Economic development -- Economic impacts -- Economic rationalism see neo-liberal economics -- Economics -- Economies of scale -- Ecoresort -- Ecosystem -- Fads -- Gambling -- Game theory -- Gardening -- Gay -- Gaze -- Gender -- Gentrification -- Geographic information systems (GIS) -- Geography -- Ghetto -- Global warming -- Globalization -- Goals -- Goals achievement matrices -- Government -- Grand Tour -- Gravity model -- Green movement -- Greenhouse effect -- Greenspace -- Grid approach -- Handicapped -- Hazards -- Health -- Health resort -- Hegemony -- Heliocentrism -- Heritage -- Heterosexual -- Identity -- Ideology -- Image -- Immigrants -- Impacts, economic -- Impacts, physical -- Impacts, social -- Imperialism -- Inclusion -- Indicators -- Indigenous people -- Individualism -- Induced demand -- Journals (in leisure and outdoor recreation) -- lab our. (see work), labour force (see work force) -- Land tenure -- Landholders -- Landscape -- Landscape assessment -- Landscape quality -- Latent demand -- Marina -- Marine recreation -- Market -- Market analysis -- Market failure -- Market segmentation -- Market system /mechanism -- Marketing -- Marx /Marxist -- Masculinity -- Mass communication -- Mass recreation -- Materialism -- Matrix approach -- Narcissism -- Nation state -- National parks -- National Parks Service, United States -- National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) -- Nationalism -- Nature -- Nature conservation -- Nature-based recreation -- Nature-based tourism -- Need -- Neighbourhood parks -- Neo-liberal economics (economic rationalism) -- Nominal group technique -- Non-government organizations (NGOs) -- Non-profit organizations -- Nudism -- Objectives, recreational -- Off-road vehicles -- Olympic Games (and Olympism) -- Open space -- Opportunity -- Package holiday -- Paralympics -- Parks -- Part . icipation partnerships -- Pay TV -- Perception -- Performance indicators -- Personality -- Pets -- Phenomenology -- Philosophy -- Pilgrimage -- Place -- Place identity -- Planning -- Qualitative research methods -- Quality management -- Quality of life -- Quantitative research method -- Queer -- Questionnaire -- Racism -- Rationality -- Recreation -- Recreation management -- Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) -- Recreation property -- Recreation resources -- Recreation space -- Recreational Business District (RBD) -- Regulation -- Religion -- Reprography -- Resilience -- Resistance -- Resort -- Resort morphology -- Resource assessment -- Resource base -- Resource capability -- Safety -- Satisfaction -- Scenic quality -- Scheduling -- Seasonality -- Second homes -- Segregation -- Self-actualization -- Self-esteem -- Self-regulation -- Sense of place -- Serious leisure -- Service -- Sex -- Tastes -- Technology -- Television -- Theatre -- Theme parks -- Therapeutic recreation -- Third World -- Ultimate Environmental Threshold (UET) -- Unemployment -- Unesco -- Unit ed. States Forest Service -- Urban parks -- Urban recreation -- User-orientated resources -- Vacation -- Valuation -- Values -- Vandalism -- Wants -- Xenophobia -- Youth -- Youth at risk -- Zoning -- Zoo.

"Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of these fields, this reference work helps to contextualize the leading research and knowledge about leisure and outdoor recreation concepts, theories, and practices. Its alphabetically organized entries are fully cross-referenced, comprehensively indexed, and in most cases contain up-do-date suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation is an essential reference resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent study, and a solid starting point for wider exploration."--BOOK JACKET.

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