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Studies in Outdoor Recreation
Search and Research for Satisfaction
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780870712098
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
Studies in Outdoor Recreation is a standard text in courses on parks and outdoor recreation, a guide to the scholarly literature for graduate students and researchers, and a reference book for managers and practitioners. The first book to review the social science literature on outdoor recreation, it examines studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field, integrates them into coherent chapters on relevant issues and topics, and synthesizes research findings into a body of knowledge. The final chapter presents a series of principles designed to guide park and outdoor recreation research and inform park and wilderness management. The book includes an extensive bibliography of 2,000 references and a guide to the social science literature that leads readers to primary source materials.
This fourth edition is fully updated and revised to reflect current research and new issues in the field, such as the evolving meaning of parks and wilderness, new models...
Parks and Recreation System Planning
A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781610919333
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Island Press
Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth draws on real-world examples to provide a step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Chapters outline each step-evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more-necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system.
National Parks beyond the Nation
Global Perspectives on "America's Best Idea"
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806152257
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience-an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States.
Parkscapes
Green Spaces in Modern Japan
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CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780824834777
Pub Date: November 2010
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these...
Taking the Air
Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774813303
Pub Date: July 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
Natural resource management is a major area of Canadian policy, as recent literature reveals. Yet analysts have devoted little attention to the management of parks and protected areas. In Taking the...
A Passion for Wildlife
The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774809610
Pub Date: July 2003
Imprint: UBC Press
A chronicle of the Canadian Wildlife Service and the evolution of wildlife policy over the first 50 years of this venerable Canadian institution's history.
Studies in Outdoor Recreation
Search and Research for Satisfaction
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780870712098
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
This fourth edition is fully updated and revised to reflect current research and new issues in the field, such as the evolving meaning of parks and wilderness, new models...
Parks and Recreation System Planning
A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781610919333
Pub Date: July 2020
Imprint: Island Press
National Parks beyond the Nation
Global Perspectives on "America's Best Idea"
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806152257
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Parkscapes
Green Spaces in Modern Japan
CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780824834777
Pub Date: November 2010
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Taking the Air
Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774813303
Pub Date: July 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
A Passion for Wildlife
The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774809610
Pub Date: July 2003
Imprint: UBC Press