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 impl

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Lee Davidson and Robert A. Stebbins

Serious Leisure and Nature

Also by Robert A. Stebbins THE ORGANIZATIONAL BASIS OF LEISURE PARTICIPATION: A Motivational Exploration BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds CHALLENGING MOUNTAIN NATURE: Risk, Motive, and Lifestyle in Three Hobbyist Sports SERIOUS LEISURE: A Perspective of Our Time THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF LEISURE EDUCATION: Finding Personal-Fulfillment in this Century (co-edited) PERSONAL DECISIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPQUARE: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION: Common Ground, Separate Worlds

Serious Leisure and Nature Sustainable Consumption in the Outdoors Lee Davidson Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Robert A. Stebbins University of Calgary, Canada

Palgrave

macmillan

© Lee Davidson and Robert A. Stebbins 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-25201-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-32168-1 DOI 10.1057/9780230299375

ISBN 978-0-230-29937-5 (eBook)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11

To Elery Hamilton-Smith

Contents

Preface

viii

Acknowledgements

xiv

1 Nature Challenge Activities

1

2 Air

26

3 Water

57

4 Land

93

5 Flora and Fauna

123

6 Ice and Snow

153

7 Mixed Activities

179

8 Conclusion

189

Notes

203

Bibliography

205

Index

215

vii

Preface

This book examines, from the angles of environmental sustainability and leisure consumption, a modern leisure phenomenon which we call nature challenge activity (NCA), a distinctive type of outdoor pursuit that, in one form or another, appeals to all ages