Introduction to recreation services : sustainability for a changing world /
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State College, Pennsylvania
Venture Publishing,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Unit one: Leisure, recreation, and society. Overview and contemporary society
- Overview of recreation services
- conceptualizing leisure and recreation
- People and play
- Applying concepts of leisure
- Benefits of leisure to individuals
- Benefits of recreation services to communities
- Just leisure and recreation services
- Unit two: Historical backgrounds. Overview and early histories
- The Roman Empire and Medieval Europe
- Renaissance and reformation
- Industrialization
- Leisure and recreation in the United States through the Mid-20th Century
- Leisure and recreation from Post-World War II to present
- Roots of recreation services
- The recreation services profession
- Unit three: Professional careers in recreation services. Opportunities in recreation services
- Government involvement in recreation services
- Community recreation and parks
- Recreation services, state, and national/ federal governments
- Nonprofit recreation services
- Youth recreation services
- Private business and commercial recreation
- Sustainable tourism
- Therapeutic recreation services
- Sport and golf management
- Events management
- Gerontology and older adults
- Other recreation specialties
- Recreation services and higher education
- Unit four: Challenges for the future. The mission of recreation services
- Time for recreation
- Changing demographics
- Social inclusion
- Education and advocacy
- Technology and leisure
- Humans and nature
- Environmental impacts
- Health and wellness
- Globalization
- Partnerships
- Volunteers
- Repositioning recreation services
- Management of recreation services
- Service living
- Becoming a recreation services professional.