The benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation). These benefits include the development of: health and wellbeing; social skills; leadership and facilitation skills; personal, emotional and reflective abilities; as well as confidence and identity creation. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, development and challenge. The authors in this collection challenge dominant discourses of outdoor leisure through their selection of outdoor activities, theoretical approaches and modes of representation. All offer fresh insights and thinking into how leisure in the outdoors can be understood. The book covers a range of outdoor conceptualisations that challenge the reader to think deeply and broadly about the common threads which bind the broad field of outdoor leisure together. The range of experiences explored in this book range from suburban outdoors to wild places, children to seniors, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to summer camps. This collection will appeal to scholars from a variety of outdoor contexts, including recreation, tourism, and adventure. It provides: - original and leading research across layers of meaning attributed to and drawn from leisure experiences in the outdoors - value in theorising the notions of outdoor experiences - a variety and scope of contexts and approaches for students to draw on when learning about the field of outdoor leisure.

Book Information
ISBN 9781789248203
Author Dr Mandi Baker
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint CABI Publishing
Publisher CABI Publishing
Weight(grams) 172g