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Chapter 9

Chapter 9. C H A P T E R. 9. Leisure, the Environment, and Sustainability. Kelly Bricker, Dan Dustin, and Nathan Bricker. Learning Outcomes. Understand the historical foundations of leisure landscapes. Understand the impacts of leisure pursuits on leisure landscapes.

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Chapter 9

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  1. Chapter 9 C H A P T E R 9 Leisure, the Environment, and Sustainability Kelly Bricker, Dan Dustin, and Nathan Bricker

  2. Learning Outcomes • Understand the historical foundations of leisure landscapes. • Understand the impacts of leisure pursuits on leisure landscapes. • Understand the ways in which leisure landscapes are managed for quality experiences. • Understand the importance of sustainability as a guiding principle in managing leisure landscapes.

  3. Our Relationship With Nature Have you thought about your relationship with nature? • Meaning • Ethical considerations • Responsible citizenry • Leisure

  4. Natural beauty inspires inner reflection. Humans are merely a part of nature.

  5. Advancing Civilization • Thoughts on tradition • First western Europeans • Early conceptualizations of nature • Implications of the unfolding westward conquest • Native people • Landscape • Manifest destiny

  6. Changing Attitudes Forces changing attitudes toward the American landscape: • Romanticism: Thoreau, Emerson, Audubon, Marsh, Muir • Nationalism • America’s best idea • 1872 • Transformation to an urban society

  7. Progressive Movement 20th-century progressive thinking: • President Theodore Roosevelt • Public land managing agencies • National Park Service Organic Act 1916 • USDA Forest Service • Bureau of Land Management • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (continued)

  8. Progressive Movement (continued) • Utilitarian philosophy: Pinchot • Preservationist: Mather

  9. Growing Public Recreation New Deal initiatives: • CCC • TVA • WPA

  10. Exploring scenic treasures can lead to artistic inspiration.

  11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet! • After World War II • More free time • More discretionary income • More knowledge about opportunities • More mobility • Expanded demand for outdoor recreation • Recreation was an inherent good • Mission 66

  12. Increasing Demandfor Outdoor Recreation • Resulting boom in outdoor recreation: 1960-1970s • Congestion • Crowding • Conflict • Constraints • Response to management challenges • Recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) • Limits of acceptable change (LAC)

  13. Financial Limits • Parks and recreation as public goods • Proposition 13 • Limiting property tax • Supported nationwide • Implications of public good versus private good • Fairness, equity? • Role of parks and recreation in a democracy • Expanded and specialized field

  14. Widening the Circleof Ethical Consideration • Aldo Leopold: ethical consideration outward • Challenges? • Increasing separation from nature • Apart from, rather than a part of • Adapting to a deteriorating environment

  15. The 21st Century • Embeddedness in a larger community of life: Understanding the consequences of our actions • Sustaining health • Wilderness • Getting in touch with who we are

  16. Managerial Challenge What is the leisure landscape now? • Volume • Population growth • Increased access • Economic impact of outdoor recreation • Result? • Shaping the nature of the outdoor recreation experience

  17. Managerial Challenge: Diversity • Range of leisure pursuits • Events • Burning Man • Geocaching • Ethnic diversity

  18. Tread lightly and leave no trace to ensure enjoyable outdoor recreation experiences for all.

  19. Managerial Challenge: Access • Critical to the type of recreation and volume of recreation in the hinterland • Mechanized advances • Technological advances • Fair and equitable access?

  20. Promise of Tourism • World’s largest industry • Largest employer • Not so smokeless? • Sustainable tourism • Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (continued)

  21. Promise of Tourism (continued) • Pillars of sustainable tourism • Environmental: e.g., conserving resources and ecosystems; reducing pollution • Cultural: e.g., protecting local historical, archeological, cultural, and spiritual sites • Social/Economic: e.g., employing local residents, buying from local businesses • Management/Planning: e.g., implementing a long-term sustainability management system

  22. Leave No Trace • NOLS, WEA • Concepts (www.lnt.org) • Plan ahead and prepare. • Travel and camp on durable surfaces. • Dispose of waste properly. • Leave what you find. • Minimize campfire impacts. • Respect wildlife. • Be considerate of others.

  23. Toward a Sustainable Future • Tread Lightly • Partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria • Tourism Sustainability Council

  24. Islands of Hope • Your place in the future of the world? • Wild lands and humans? • The connection • Value • Learning from the past, forging a sustainable future

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