Free time and leisure participation : international perspectives / edited by Grant Cushman, A.J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek.

ISBN:

9781845934538

9780851996202

Title:

Free time and leisure participation : international perspectives / edited by Grant Cushman, A.J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek.

Author:

Cushman, Grant, editor.

Edition:

New ed.

Publication Information:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Pub., 2005.

Physical Description:

xvi, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Series:

CAB books

General Note:

Updated and expanded ed. of: World leisure participation. 1996.

Contents:

1. Leisure participation and time-use surveys : an overview / Grant Cushman, A. J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek -- 2. Australia / A. J. Veal -- 3. Canada / Jiri Zuzanek -- 4. Finland / Mirja Liikkanen and Hannu Paakkonen -- 5. France / Nicole Samuel -- 6. Germany / Walter Tokarski and Harald Michels -- 7. Great Britain / Chris Gratton and A. J. Veal -- 8. Hong Kong / Atara Sivan, Bob Robertson and Sue Walker -- 9. Israel / Hillel Ruskin and Atara Sivan -- 10. Japan / Munehiko Harada -- 11. The Netherlands / Wim Knulst and Hugo van der Poel -- 12. New Zealand / Sue Walker, Mary Donn and Allan Laidler -- 13. Poland / Bohdan Jung -- 14. Russia / I. A. Butenko -- 15. Spain / Concepcion Maiztegui Onate -- 16. United States of America : outdoor recreation / H. K. Cordell, G. T. Green, V. R. Leeworthy, R. Stephens, M. J. Fly and C. J. Betz -- 17. United States of America : time-use and cultural activities / John P. Robinson and Geoffrey C. Godbey.

18. National leisure participation and time-use surveys : a future / Grant Cushman, A. J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek.

Subject Term:

Leisure -- Cross-cultural studies.

Recreation -- Cross-cultural studies.

Recreational surveys.

Added Author:

Cushman, Grant,

Veal, A. J. (Anthony James), 1945-,

Zuzanek, Jiri,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Publication Date:

2005

Publication Information:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Pub., 2005.

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As the pace of life increases and the effects of globalization invade more and more areas of everyday life, free time becomes an increasingly precious resource. For those who are looking forward to abundant free time in retirement, leisure has never been more vital for ensuring individual and social health and wellbeing and the enhancement of social capital and the quality of life. This book is an expanded and updated edition of a previous work entitled World Leisure Participation: Free Time in the Global Village, by the same editors (CABI, 1996). It brings together the results of national leisure participation surveys from around the world. In addition to updating chapters to include the latest surveys, the book includes increased coverage of time-budget surveys and new themes such as public policy dimensions. The following countries, three of which were not covered in the earlier volume, are included, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, USA.

This book was first published as a hardback in 2005.

Australia

Canada

Finland

France

Germany

Great Britain

Hong Kong

Israel

Japan

Netherlands

New Zealand

Poland

Russia

Spain

United States of America: Outdoor Recreation

United States of America: Time-use

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