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The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how the tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped transform the landscape of one of the world's most famous urban parks. This beautifully illustrated book not only depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park's landscape, it also examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature.

Skip to content. Park Science. Park Science Book Review:. Urban Ecology. Author : Kevin J. Urban Ecology Book Review:. Defending Middle Earth. Defending Middle Earth Book Review:. Rethinking Urban Parks. Rethinking Urban Parks Book Review:. Author : United States. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. BBC Wildlife. Introduction to Recreation and Leisure 3E. The quality and bounty of the local environment certainly affect living conditions of the poor and their poverty is often seen as a contributing factor to the degraded condition of the local environment.

Teasing apart the direction of causality in this resource—poverty nexus is a serious empirical challenge. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the economic dimensions of environmental and natural-resource management and poverty alleviation.

The ten chapters of the book offer an overview of the current knowledge concerning the relation between poverty, environment and natural-resource use. Three sides of the debate receive particular attention. First, the relation between resource use and poverty is discussed from a theoretical point of view. Second, it is questioned whether payments for environmental services or considering values of resources can be an effective tool for stimulating both sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation.

Third, alternative strategies to break the land degradation—poverty cycle are discussed. It delves into foundational concepts, delivery systems, and programming services; offers an array of ancillaries; and helps students make informed career choices. While some of the chapters deal with conceptual issues, others consider the various role of education in this digital age and how Nigeria can be relevant.

Most of the chapters present well-researched, detailed, and informative papers on how to reposition Nigerian education in the digital age. Specifically, the role of education in bringing Nigerias new world about are discussed in simple language and then taken up in different forms all through the book.

As people establish families and settle down, leisure and recreation pursuits tend to become restricted due to time. Toward the end of the middle adulthood stage, many people experience a midlife transition.

Gender , age and socioeconomic status clearly demarcate differences in patterns of leisure participation. With age , motivations may change to emulation of sports stars the child sees on cereal boxes and television Crawford, D. Life change during middle adulthood and valuing leisure. Leisure behaviors and perceptions when midlife death is imminent: A case report. The aging experience of well elderly women: Initial results.

Clough and J. When studying older adults' experiences of digital media, they remind us that they have been exposed to a multitude of This 'decline narrative' Gullette, begins at middle age and continues relentlessly into old age and death.

Currently, with coauthor Kevin Rathunde, Isabella is studying the experience of pursuing passionate activities during middle adulthood and the effects of these pursuits on adjustments to identity throughout mid and later life. Leisure and lifestyle. Neugarten Ed. Leisure in the lives of old lesbians: Experiences with and responses to discrimination. Journal of Leisure Research, Men shift values toward intimacy ; women shift toward accomplishment and growth ; renews activity involvement as children age.

As part of an ongoing study of identity development in middle -aged men, a series of interviews were conducted Although Freysinger did not find gender differences in the properties of the experience of leisure in middle adulthood , differences among individuals were found.

Freysinger then suggests , " Another way to examine these data Recovery from work was not a big problem among the participants at age It was assessed by asking the participants, whether they could forget about work, kick back and relax, do relaxing things, and take time for leisure. The literature shows that midlifers in white-collar Those in this category may experience depression, anxiety, anger, helplessness, hopelessness, and stress.

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