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Ecotourism: Principles, Practices & Policies for Sustainability

  • Author(s): Megan Wood
  • Organization: United Nations Environmental Program
  • Date Published: January 1, 2002

This publication, intended as a preparatory document for the World Ecotourism Summit in Quebec, 2002, reviews the current status and trends in ecotourism globally, the challenges ahead and the lessons learned in over 15 years of ecotourism development involving a broad range of stakeholders.

http://www.unep.fr/scp/publications/details.asp?id=WEB/0137/PA

Embedded in Nature: Human Health and Biodiversity

  • Author(s): Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein
  • Organization: Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Date Published: January 1, 2004

This guest editorial highlights future challenges in understanding the relationship between human and ecosystem health. The importance of recognizing how biodiversity affects human health and how it is increasingly threatened by human activity will only increase in coming years. Physicians and environmental scientists will need to understand these interconnections because they will be called upon to explain them to policy makers and the public. Such knowledge will also be critically important in clinical medicine, particularly in relation to the emergence and spread of some human infectious diseases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241805/pdf/ehp0112-a00012.pdf

Engaging and Learning with the Outdoors

    • Organization: National Foundation for Educational Research (https://www.nfer.ac.uk/)
    • Date Published: April 1, 2005

    The research was carried out by a team from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), King’s College London and the University of Bath. The aim was to extend research-based understandings of educational activities using the outdoor classroom in a rural context. More specifically, it focused on the processes and impacts and the planning and evaluation of outdoor learning. These issues were explored in three outdoor learning contexts: (i) school grounds and gardens; (ii) farms and city farms; and (iii) field study/nature centres. The study involved identifying case studies of effective practice, observing students and teachers at work in school grounds, on farms and in outdoor study centres across England.

    http://www.bath.ac.uk/cree/resources/OCR.pdf

Environmental Awareness and Outdoor Recreation: A Pilot Program for People with Special Needs.

  • Author(s): Lynn Dominguez, Mary Lou Schilling
  • Organization: World Leisure Journal
  • Date Published: January 1, 2011

This article presents the results of a pilot program conducted in the area of environmental awareness and outdoor recreation skills for people with special needs. The program was created to meet the needs of people with disability to form connections with the natural environment and obtain experience with outdoor recreation pursuits. It was implemented in the public school system at the middle-school level by college undergraduate volunteers.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04419057.2001.9674237

Environmental Learning and Experience Guide

    • Organization: Environmental Educators Provincial Specialist Association http://eepsa.org/
    • Date Published: January 6, 2007

    The Environmental Learning and Experience (ELE) Guide, developed by EEPSA and partners, is a cross-curricular framework for environmental and experiential learning in BC. This guide is provided to assist British Columbia teachers of all subjects and grades to integrate environmental concepts into teaching and learning. Designed as a support framework to guide teachers in their education planning, the guide also aims to support the implementation of many of the curriculum packages and will be complemented by web resources to support environmental learning in diverse subjects like science, social studies and language arts.The Ministry of Education has fully approved this curriculum framework, and is now hosting it on their website. http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/environment_ed/

    http://eepsa.org/

Everyone’s Parks and Trails: A Universal Access Plan for CRD Parks

  • Author(s): Capital Regional District (http://www.crd.bc.ca/)
  • Organization: Capital Regional District (http://www.crd.bc.ca/)
  • Date Published: January 1, 2003

Ensuring that all visitors to regional parks and trails have equal opportunity to experience their natural and cultural heritage is the goal of accessibility and universal design for CRD Parks.

CRD Parks has developed Everyone’s Parks and Trails, a Universal Access Plan to better accomplish its vision of providing opportunities to experience regional parks and trails. The plan identifies an integrated approach to establishing facilities and services for the widest possible range of park and trail visitors, including visitors with disabilities.

http://www.crd.bc.ca/parks/documents/access_plan.pdf

Everything you Wanted to Know – Resources

  • Author(s): Get Bear Smart Society
  • Organization: Get Bear Smart Society
  • Date Published: January 1, 2012

ÏThe Get Bear Smart Society is a registered Canadian charity that works hard to ensure people and bears safely and respectfully coexist wherever their homes and home ranges overlap.

This website has a resources section that features books, reports and scientific papers, videos, education materials, courses and links to other like-minded organizations.

http://www.bearsmart.com/

Fit Life: Green exercise beats working out indoors

  • Author(s): H. Hausenblas
  • Organization: Florida Times Union Newspaper –
  • Date Published: January 5, 2015

Newspaper article that identifies that exercise outdoors has greater benefits than indoor exercise.
Exerpt:
A review published in Extreme Physiology and Medicine found that, compared with indoor exercise, green exercise produces greater increases in our energy, happiness, self-esteem and concentration; and larger decreases in our levels of tension, confusion, anger, depression, blood pressure, stress and perceived exertion.

http://jacksonville.com/sports/outdoorsoutside/2015-01-05/story/fit-life-green-exercise-beats-working-out-indoors