Provides a chronology of significant meetings of Federal, Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Sport, Recreation and Fitness and the Interprovincial Sport and Recreation Council from 1974 ...
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Examines various international, national, and provincial/territorial conventions, frameworks and declarations in an effort to make recommendations on next steps for a Canadian vision for recreation an...
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Looks at the impact of poverty on affordable access to recreation, how to align affordable access with public policy, organizational barriers, policy considerations, and steps to implementation.
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Defines "need" from a recreation practice perspective, including categories of needs, and how to facilitate satisfaction of core needs. Examines five progressive initiatives regarding core needs and r...
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Reviews the historical role of recreation and parks in the industrialized western world, and attempts to set a Canadian Applied Recreation Research Agenda. Looks at Key Priority Areas of CPRA’s 2006 C...
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Looks at the nature of isolated communities and the challenges and barriers to recreation in those communities. Offers several promising examples where policy, strategies and programs are aligned with...
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Outlines the historical growth of public recreation through much of the twentieth century, including effects of cutbacks in Alberta, and to a lesser extent, Toronto, and efforts to deal with those cut...
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Provides an overview of the three main pathways by which climate change will affect recreation and parks in Canada: 1) direct impacts such as expanded warm-weather recreation seasons; 2) indirect impa...
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Looks at the crisis in Canada’s community sport, recreation and green infrastructure, two elements required to accurately determine the size of the deficit, and recommends that a national sport, recre...
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By Brenda Clarke and Greg ScottDescribes the ten organizational competencies of the Service Excellence Program (SEP), a key initiative designed for municipal recreation and parks departments and poten...
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Describes community building as a positive change catalyst, argues that "community building" is a more relevant descriptor than the commonly used "community development," and describes community build...
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Addresses the reality that the potential of recreation and parks as a transformative force in society is not being fully realized. Suggests a need to do different things as well as to do things differ...
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Identifies the importance of recreation for mental health and how community-based recreation professionals can help people live their lives as fully as possible outside the health system. Examines imp...
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Suggests one answer to the question "Why have we in parks and recreation failed to fulfill the deepest aspirations that fuel our movement?" may relate to being locked into the frames of reference that...
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Briefly examines the public good, four eras that have characterized municipal recreation and parks services during the past half century, and discusses the principal elements of Canada's 1987 National...
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Subtitle: Building Community, Saving our Youth from Gangs and Creating Youth Self Actualization.Looks at how recreation and parks builds community and helps at risk youth. Looks at gangs and preventio...
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Reports on several studies from 1997 to 2008 that examine public perceptions and attitudes toward recreation participation and park use in general, and the role played by local governments in providin...
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Examines alternatives to government funding recreation services due to effects of global economy , urbanization, aging infrastructure, and tax increases. Looks at privatized service options, such as P...
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Recommends adoption of the Strengths Perspective towards understanding and enhancing recreation for Aboriginal peoples and communities. Strengths Perspective: 1) the beginning of any analysis is to i...
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Looks at the trends that could significantly influence the future of leisure services in Canada, and five ‘game changers’ that could dramatically shift the way we do business in the future. Argues tha...
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Provides information to allow parks and recreation professionals to understand how to comfortably manage liability risks. Looks at issues of liability, negligence, risk management and assessment, use ...
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Assesses what is meant by the terms "economic significance" and "economic impact" of recreation and parks. Highlights the need for a commonly accepted working definition of the term "recreation" and h...
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Looks at three main general phases of evolution in the field - inputs era (19060-80), outputs era (1980-95), and outcomes era (1995-present) - and examines implications for the future.
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With contributors Mike Arthur, Rick Gilbert, and John Glynn-Morris.Looks at how recreation can influence and contribute to local active transportation (AT) plans and initiatives by incorporating AT pr...
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Outlines the current structure and usage of the National Recreation Database (NRDB) and the challenges it faces in becoming more relevant for the future: 1) building content, 2) maintaining services a...
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Examines the role of recreation and of the post-secondary sector in modern society, and looks at trends within the sector from which the recreation industry might not only benefit, but could drive cha...
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