Free time and leisure participation : international perspectives /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Recreation > Cross-cultural studies.; Leisure > Cross-cultural studies.; Recreational surveys.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Leisure.; Behaviour.; Cross cultural studies.; Free time.; Leisure activities.; Leisure behaviour.; Leisure policy.; Participation.; Time allocation.; Electronic books.
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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 15 economically developed countries (3 of which were...

Table of Contents:

• Leisure Participation and Time-use Surveys : an Overview / Grant Cushman, A.J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek
• Australia / A.J. Veal
• Canada / Jiri Zuzanek
• Finland / Mirja Liikkanen and Hannu Pääkkönen
• France / Nicole Samuel
• Germany / Walter Tokarski and Harald Michels
• Great Britain / Chris Gratton and A.J. Veal
• Hong Kong / Atara Sivan, Bob Robertson and Sue Walker
• Israel / Hillel Ruskin and Atara Sivan
• Japan / Munehiko Harada
• The Netherlands / Wim Knulst and Hugo van der Poel
• New Zealand / Sue Walker, Mary Donn and Allan Laidler
• Poland / Bohdan Jung
• Russia / I.A. Butenko
• Spain / Concepción Maiztegui Oñate
• United States of America : Outdoor Recreation / H.K. Cordell, G.T. Green, V.R. Leeworthy, R. Stephens, M.J. Fly and C.J. Betz
• United States of America : Time-use and Cultural Activities / John P. Robinson and Geoffrey C. Godbey
• National Leisure Participation and Time-use Surveys : a Future / Grant Cushman, A.J. Veal and Jiri Zuzanek.