Leisure, environment, and the quality of life

Daniel R. Williams

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Leisure, environment, and the quality of life

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Daniel R. Williams

Year:

2006

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Jackson, Edgar L., ed. Leisure and the Quality of Life: Impacts on Social, Economic and Cultural Development. Hangzhou Consensus: Invited Papers and Report of the Review Panel. Organizing Committee of 2006 Hangzhou World Leisure Expo. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press. p. 146-163.

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Abstract

The environment is omnipresent. It is everything and anything external to us that might have an impact on how we think, feel, and act. It is physical and social, natural and human made. It includes not just our immediate surroundings but also a kind of mental shell of spatially and temporally nested situations and contexts we carry around with us in the form of memories that condition our mental experience and outward actions. Likewise the environment is the subject of our thoughts and feelings and is changed by our individual and collective actions.

Keywords

leisure, environment, quality of life, LRT

Citation

Williams, Daniel R. 2006. Leisure, environment, and the quality of life. In: Jackson, Edgar L., ed. Leisure and the Quality of Life: Impacts on Social, Economic and Cultural Development. Hangzhou Consensus: Invited Papers and Report of the Review Panel. Organizing Committee of 2006 Hangzhou World Leisure Expo. Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang University Press. p. 146-163.