Publisher's Synopsis
Leisure studies has developed into a major academic field and a large, internationally significant profession since Professor Alan Patmore published his seminal book, "Land and Leisure" a quarter of a century ago. To mark his retirement, this volume has been prepared to provide a landmark inventory volume of the subject he did so much to create and develop, particularly stressing its links between leisure and the environment.;This is no ordinary "Festschrift" but a carefully structured and important survey in its own right, tracing the major issues and themes of the subject from the local to the global scale. The contributors include the world's leading researchers and practitioners, including Dr Neil Cossons, Director of the Science Museum, Professor Terry Cappock of Edinburgh University, Tim O'Riordan of the University of East Anglia and Geoffrey Wall of Waterloo University, Canada.;Planning leisure for human needs and environmental sensitivity is the keynote of this book and it is designed to become a major source and reference for the field.
