Titlebook: Serious Leisure and Nature; Sustainable Consumpt Lee Davidson,Robert A. Stebbins Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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Flora and Fauna,ation. True, when in the wilds (read all of nature), it is wise to worry about poison ivy, venomous snakes, disease-carrying mosquitoes and other threats. But we tend not to hate them, as some of us do the cold that makes for ice and snow. Rather our attitude towards harmful flora and fauna is typic

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Ice and Snow,thing that precipitates a fall or requires cleaning up. What is more the latter, negative, appreciation of ice and snow is usually accompanied by a dislike for the freezing temperatures that make both possible. And the disagreeable experience of freezing temperatures may be worsened by wind, produci

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Mixed Activities,in the preceding chapters that a number of NCAs do not sit entirely comfortably in a single category. Indeed certain activities can be considered . NCAs as they involve simultaneous engagement with more than one natural element. These include the wind-propelled activities undertaken on water, land,

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Conclusion,ist attractions. We also discuss how a number of these activities can engender personal tranquillity, based on the premise that nature often has a calming effect. In other words we look again at the psychological dimension of being at one with nature. Here we also weigh in on the role of consumption

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Water,poses is hard to say — some of it was certainly competitive. But perhaps more importantly, while many of the original means and motivations for being on or in the water have become obsolete, . has resurrected them, adapted and evolved their original forms into numerous variations for recreational ends.

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Ice and Snow,slike for the freezing temperatures that make both possible. And the disagreeable experience of freezing temperatures may be worsened by wind, producing painful ‘wind chill’. So the impulse, among those who can afford it, is to escape to a place on the planet where these conditions are absent and agreeable warmth, free of ice and snow, prevails.

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Air,cape of air currents, thermals, storm fronts and mountain waves which we can now share with the birds. Indeed aeronauts often express a kinship with birds, with their freedom and mastery of the skies, and encounters of the feathered kind are a feature in many of their stories.

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nships among distribution, accumulation and steady-growth dynamics. More recently, other economists have been gathered under this label who, though interested in different topics, refer to a core of common propositions: on one hand, the rebuttal of the neo-classical approach to value and the concept