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Introduction to recreation and leisure / edited by Human Kinetics.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1450424171
  • 9781450424172
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 790 23
LOC classification:
  • GV14 .I68 2013
Contents:
Part I. Foundations of recreation and leisure -- Part II. Leisure and recreation as a multifaceted delivery system -- Part III. Delivering recreation and leisure services -- --
Part I. Foundations of recreation and leisure -- 1. Power, promise, potential, and possibilities of parks, recreation, and leisure / Ellen O' Sullivan -- 2. History of recreation / M. Rebecca Genoe, Douglas Kennedy and Jerome Singleton -- 3. Philosophy and leisure / Donald J. McLean -- 4. Leisure and recreation for individuals in society / Daniel G. Yoder and Juan Tortosa Martinez ---- Part II. Leisure and recreation as a multifaceted delivery system -- 5. Leisure service delivery systems / David N. Emanuelson -- 6. Parks in Canada and the United States / Paul F.J. Eagles and Jeffery C. Hallo -- 7. Public recreation / Tod Stanton, Sara Hensley, Susan Markham-Starr and Jane Hodgkinson -- 8. Nonprofit sector / Robert F. Ashcraft -- 9. For-profit sector: recreation, event and tourism enterprises / Robert E. Pfister and Patrick T. Tierney -- 10. Therapeutic recreation / Frances Stavola Daly, Brenda Robertson, and Robin Kunstler -- 11. Unique groups / Julia Wallace Carr, Brenda Robertson, Rebecca Lesnik, John Byl, Jeffery Ferguson, Carol J. Potter and Laurie Ogilvie -- 12. Leisure and recreation across the life span / Lynn A. Barnett and Joel A. Blanco -- -- Part III. Delivering recreation and leisure services -- 13. Program delivery and the many modes of recreation / Diane C. Blankenship -- 14. Recreational sport management / Craig M. Ross and H. Joey Gray -- 15. Health, fitness, wellness, and livability / Terrance Robertson, Matthew Symonds, MIchael Muehlenbein and Clifford Robertson -- 16. Outdoor and adventure recreation / Alan Ewert and Franklin Vernon -- 17. Arts and culture / Gaylene Carpenter -- 18. The nature of recreation and leisure as a profession / Denise M. Anderson -- 19. International perspectives on recreation and leisure / Holly Donohoe, Arianne C. Reis, Alcyane Marinho, Jinyang Deng and Huimei Liu.
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Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-424) and index.

Part I. Foundations of recreation and leisure -- Part II. Leisure and recreation as a multifaceted delivery system -- Part III. Delivering recreation and leisure services -- --

Part I. Foundations of recreation and leisure -- 1. Power, promise, potential, and possibilities of parks, recreation, and leisure / Ellen O' Sullivan -- 2. History of recreation / M. Rebecca Genoe, Douglas Kennedy and Jerome Singleton -- 3. Philosophy and leisure / Donald J. McLean -- 4. Leisure and recreation for individuals in society / Daniel G. Yoder and Juan Tortosa Martinez ---- Part II. Leisure and recreation as a multifaceted delivery system -- 5. Leisure service delivery systems / David N. Emanuelson -- 6. Parks in Canada and the United States / Paul F.J. Eagles and Jeffery C. Hallo -- 7. Public recreation / Tod Stanton, Sara Hensley, Susan Markham-Starr and Jane Hodgkinson -- 8. Nonprofit sector / Robert F. Ashcraft -- 9. For-profit sector: recreation, event and tourism enterprises / Robert E. Pfister and Patrick T. Tierney -- 10. Therapeutic recreation / Frances Stavola Daly, Brenda Robertson, and Robin Kunstler -- 11. Unique groups / Julia Wallace Carr, Brenda Robertson, Rebecca Lesnik, John Byl, Jeffery Ferguson, Carol J. Potter and Laurie Ogilvie -- 12. Leisure and recreation across the life span / Lynn A. Barnett and Joel A. Blanco -- -- Part III. Delivering recreation and leisure services -- 13. Program delivery and the many modes of recreation / Diane C. Blankenship -- 14. Recreational sport management / Craig M. Ross and H. Joey Gray -- 15. Health, fitness, wellness, and livability / Terrance Robertson, Matthew Symonds, MIchael Muehlenbein and Clifford Robertson -- 16. Outdoor and adventure recreation / Alan Ewert and Franklin Vernon -- 17. Arts and culture / Gaylene Carpenter -- 18. The nature of recreation and leisure as a profession / Denise M. Anderson -- 19. International perspectives on recreation and leisure / Holly Donohoe, Arianne C. Reis, Alcyane Marinho, Jinyang Deng and Huimei Liu.

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