Physical Resources Information and Issues Overview Report (Natural Resource Report Nps/Nrpc/Wrd/Nrr?2009/149)
by U S Department O National Park Service and David Sharrow
Fort Clatsop
by U S Department of Transportation and National Park Service
This book presents the first comprehensive review of factors leading to exclusion from participation in sport in the UK. Structured around key excluded groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, the disabled and rural communities, the book offers an important assessment of sports policy in contemporary Britain, as well as a unique case study of policies to combat social exclusion under New Labour.
Trails for the Twenty-first Century gives step-by-step guidance in all aspects of the planning, design, and management of multi-use trails. Topics discussed include: how to make physical and cultural assessments of the site and surrounding communitiesplanning the trail: public involvement, meeting the needs of adjacent landowners, compliance with legislationdesigning the trail: making it unique, meeting the needs of different users, working with special featuresmanaging the trailmaximizing the t...
Encyclopedia of Sport Management (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management)
Bringing together preeminent international researchers, emerging scholars and practitioners, Paul M. Pedersen presents the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sport Management, offering detailed entries for the critical concepts and topics in the field. This excellent resource contains 330 entries from 250 of the leading experts in sport management. The entries cover managerial, finance, marketing, technology, and organizational behavior topics, as well as communication, legal, historical, sociologic...
Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area lies in western Kentucky and Tennessee, between two huge lakes formed by dams on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.Some 170,000 acres bounded by 300 miles of shoreline, Land Between the Lakes is blessed with a rich variety of plant and animal life. Conceived and administrated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, it is a unique recreational experiment which has drawn admiring visitors from around the world. Frank E. Smith, director of TVA, tells the story of...
Recreational Sport
by Robert J. Barcelona, Mary Sara Wells, and Skye Arthur-Banning
Upper-level undergraduate text for recreational sport management courses. Reference for recreational sport professionals in public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
Practical Approach to the Administration of Leisure and Recreation
Leisure Industry (LSA Publication, #41)
This core textbook for the BTEC National in Leisure Studies introduces students to the key concepts in the Leisure Environment and Marketing core modules, using an enquiry-based, student centred approach. It provides a broad overview of the range of leisure facilities and services, how they are operated and financed, and looks in detail at some of the current issues influencing the leisure industry, such as competitive tendering. Each chapter contains numerous practical activities and is followe...
Business Systems for Leisure and Tourism (Hodder GNVQ - Leisure & Tourism in Action S.)
by John Edmonds, Sue Cundell, and Debbie Betteridge
Routledge Handbook of Sports Development (Routledge International Handbooks)
Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice. Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development...
Government and the Economics of Sport (Longman / ILAM leisure management)
by Chris Gratton and Peter Taylor
The main subject of this work is the current debate over the role of government on sport, stimulated by the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering for local government sports facilities. Following an introductory chapter, the authors explore the history of government intervention on the sports market from pre-industrial times to the present day. The book then discusses the large increase in public expenditure on sports facilities since the late 1960s. An analysis of the demand for spor...
Guide to safety at sports grounds
Sports Clothing and Footwear
Dcg: Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism and Sport (CRAC Series of Degree Course Guides, #13)
Health, Safety and Security in Leisure and Tourism for Advanced Gnvq (Collins GNVQ Leisure & Tourism)
by Steve Hanson and Tony Outhart
Considers the critical aspects of human resource management within sport and recreation organizations. This book focuses on the key groups that comprise human resources and presents conceptual guidelines for matching managerial processes with individual differences between these groups. It explains how to tailor human resource practices to fit each sport or organization's particular goals, products, markets and technologies. Part One outlines the unique and common characteristics of the three gr...
Human Resources in the Leisure and Tourism Industries for Advanced Gnvq (Collins GNVQ Leisure & Tourism)
by Ray Barker, Steve Hanson, Lindsey Taylor, and Tony Outhart