Class Notes for Environmental Design and Rural Development at University of Guelph

Similarly, individuals and groups of various age and socio-economic backgrounds have been very successful in advocating for and providing of recreation services and opportunities in their communities. As discussed previous...

For each of the different types of impacts we looked at (economic, environmental, social /cultural), people generally try to determine the impact of the recreation or tourism service through direct measurement....

well-being of its people. We must keep in mind that human society has evolved and advanced through a number of different social organization strategies. First, humans were hunters and gatherers and lived a nomadic lifestyl...

In addition, cultural sites are damaged from a cultural point of view when the local inhabitants experience the outlandish behavior of people who are on holiday and want to party and spend money freely. While the behavior ...

Leisure, recreation, and tourism are also about creating a better future. Not only can leisure be considered an end in itself, a means of purely hedonistic gratification, but also a means to a larger and more substantial e...

In addition, as a result of social impact assessments, recreation and tourism service organizations are striving for enhanced social inclusion. However, social inclusion extends beyond bringing the outsiders in, or the not...

PART 3- a NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR RECREATION IN CANADA (FRAMEWORK DIAGRAM VISION, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES, GOALS, PRIORITIES) SUMMARY: In this last unit we focused on broadening the perception of impacts and impact assessm...

Focus groups involve the gathering together of various members of the community. In focus groups, the researcher gathers approximately six to 12 individuals to discuss a certain issue. The group will meet and discuss these...

There are two interesting articles to contemplate this topic further. Please read The leisure economy: Can we save the planet by working less? by Kingston, E. (2009) and The future of leisure time: The value equation by Wh...

Leisure provides the opportunities for community involvement and shared management and ownership of resources Integrated and accessible leisure services are critical to the quality of life of people ...

Impacts of recreation and tourism activities can be classified into two groups: benefits to the individual user of these services due to participation in the activity as well as involvement in the planning and development ...

Recreation and park services are often the catalyst for tourism, a growing sector of our economy Investments in environmental protection through the provision of parks and open spaces pay for themselves In addition, in Uni...

SPENDING ON RECREATION Data to evaluate government spending vs house hold spending on recreation is very difficult to come by. The reason being that regional governments account for recreation spending individually differe...

Read the article by Kealy (1991) titled Economic quantification of leisure benefits. Kealy writes that in the past, there was a basic assumption that economic benefits of leisure needed to be quantified a...

Fundamental Policies on Which Service is Developed Municipal services primarily take shape from the policy directions of the elected officials. Mommaas and Van der Poel (in Beckers, 1989) describe six different roles that ...

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