Theorizing Outdoor Recreation and Ecology

ISBN-13: 9781137385079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 189 str.

Sean Ryan

Opis

Ryan examines outdoor recreation through the lens of ecological theory, providing a unique, alternative framework to the dilemmas of user impacts on nature, and the paradoxes inherent within this.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Discourse and Power in Outdoor Recreation
3. Humans and Nature
4. Tracing and Haunting Humans and/in Nature
5. The Nature of Paradoxes/The Natural Paradox
6. Paradoxical Outdoor Recreation
7. Conclusion

O autorze

Sean Ryan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at University of Alberta, Canada. He has worked as a wilderness guide, which culminated in a 70-day, 2500km canoe trip.