Full Description
This book gives voice to a group of leisure scholars who are engaged in conversations about sustainability. Beginning with discussions on the relationship between leisure and sustainability and how these concepts are addressed in current literature, a case is made for continued investigation of how leisure and sustainability need to be better understood; and viewed as integrally linked.
The book discusses issues related to environmental sustainability; how, at the local level, leisure is considered as a solution to a range of social, environmental, and economic issues; and the value of leisure as an asset for addressing several social sustainability challenges.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies.
Contents
Introduction - Leisure and sustainability 1. Sustainable leisure: building the civil commons 2. Is leisure research contributing to sustainability? A systematic review of the literature 3. Fictitious conservation in Canadian parks and protected areas 4. The role of leisure in integrated community sustainability plans within Canada 5. Community perceptions of the contributions of parks to sustainability in Canada 6. Social sustainability and a sense of place: harnessing the emotional and sensuous experiences of urban multicultural leisure festivals 7. A 'good life without bells and whistles': a case study of immigrants' well-being and leisure and its role in social sustainability in Truro, Nova Scotia 8. Sustainability initiatives in zoos and aquariums: looking in to reach out 9. Sustaining schoolyard pedagogy through community academic partnerships
