Serious Leisure and Nature Sustainable Consumption in the Outdoors

Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring how NCA unfolds in an aesthetically appealing natural environment with implications for consumption and environmental sustainability.

Lee Davidson is Senior Lecturer in the Museum Heritage Studies programme at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she has been teaching courses in leisure studies, visitor experience and research methods since 1998. She has published journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on mountaineering, natural heritage, visitor studies, sustainable tourism and outdoor education. Robert A. Stebbins, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada. His academic career spans 47 years, 37 of which have been devoted to studying leisure. He has written 37 books, the most recent being Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground, Separate Worlds.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Nature Challenge Activities
Air
Water
Land
Flora and Fauna
Ice and Snow
Mixed Activities
Conclusion
References
Index