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Natural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and
well-being. While contemporary lifestyles have caused people to
feel disconnected from the natural environment, this relationship
is now recognized as vitally important, with landscapes
increasingly valued for their stress-reduction, aesthetic, and
restorative benefits. Providing an overview of the history,
theoretical concepts, and individual and societal implications of
human connection to natural landscapes, this book considers natural
landscapes' role as an antidote to our modern, predominantly urban
society. It also delivers: - A robust, research-backed overview of
the intersections between natural landscapes and human health; - A
compendium of applications such as nature-based therapies, urban
greenspaces, and adventure-based programming that promote health
within specific populations of society and individuals; - Due
consideration of crucial factors that can adversely affect health
and landscape, such as climate change. Of critical importance as we
continue to define the role that natural landscapes will play for
future generations, this book should be required reading for policy
makers, urban planners and industry practitioners. It provides a
thorough grounding in understanding the intersections between
health and natural landscapes, and will be a valuable resource for
academicians and students from a broad range of disciplines
including public health, leisure and tourism, environmental
sciences, and geography.
This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and
discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning
environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in
outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing
field and that it offers alternatives to traditional sporting
activities. They enter outdoor learning primarily on the strength
of their enthusiasm for leading and teaching in natural
environments and assume the field is inclusive, rewarding
excellence regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status,
disability, or ethnicity. However, both research and collective
experiences in OLEs suggest that many women feel invisible,
relegated, marginalized, and undervalued. In response to this
marginalization, this Handbook celebrates the richness of knowledge
and practices of women practitioners in OLEs. Women scholars and
practitioners from numerous fields, such as experiential outdoor
education, adventure education, adventure therapy, and gender
studies, explore the implications of their research and practice
using poignant examples within their own disciplines. These
insights emerge from similar life experiences as women and outdoor
leaders in the 1970s to the present. Social inequalities still
abound in OLEs, and the Handbook ensures that the contributions of
women are highlighted as well as the work that needs to be done to
make these spaces inclusive. Global in perspective and capacious in
content, this one-stop volume is an indispensable reference
resource for a diverse range of academics, including students and
researchers in the fields of education, psychology, sociology,
gender studies, geography, and environment studies, as well as the
many outdoors fields.
This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and
discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning
environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in
outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing
field and that it offers alternatives to traditional sporting
activities. They enter outdoor learning primarily on the strength
of their enthusiasm for leading and teaching in natural
environments and assume the field is inclusive, rewarding
excellence regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status,
disability, or ethnicity. However, both research and collective
experiences in OLEs suggest that many women feel invisible,
relegated, marginalized, and undervalued. In response to this
marginalization, this Handbook celebrates the richness of knowledge
and practices of women practitioners in OLEs. Women scholars and
practitioners from numerous fields, such as experiential outdoor
education, adventure education, adventure therapy, and gender
studies, explore the implications of their research and practice
using poignant examples within their own disciplines. These
insights emerge from similar life experiences as women and outdoor
leaders in the 1970s to the present. Social inequalities still
abound in OLEs, and the Handbook ensures that the contributions of
women are highlighted as well as the work that needs to be done to
make these spaces inclusive. Global in perspective and capacious in
content, this one-stop volume is an indispensable reference
resource for a diverse range of academics, including students and
researchers in the fields of education, psychology, sociology,
gender studies, geography, and environment studies, as well as the
many outdoors fields.
The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is
attracting increasing attention. There is growing medical evidence
that access to the natural environment can prevent disease, aid
recovery, tackle obesity and improve mental health. This book
examines the history of natural environments being used for
stress-reduction, enjoyment, aesthetics and catharsis, and traces
the development of the connection between humans and the
environment, and how they impact our personal and collective
health.
The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is
attracting increasing attention. There is growing medical evidence
that access to the natural environment can prevent disease, aid
recovery, tackle obesity and improve mental health. This book
examines the history of natural environments being used for
stress-reduction, enjoyment, aesthetics and catharsis, and traces
the development of the connection between humans and the
environment, and how they impact our personal and collective
health.
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