Edited by leading authorities, this key reference reflects the multidisciplinary nature of its subject. It is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent study, and a solid starting point for wider subject exploration.

Aborigines; back-country; back-packing; barriers; camping; Canada Land Inventory (CLI); capability; dance; day trip; decentralization; decision making; Declaration on Leisure and Globalization; degradation; deindustrialization; delphi method; demand; demarketing; democracy; demography; density; deregulation; desert; ecological determinism; ecological economics; ecologically sustainable development; ecology; ecomuseum; economic development; economic impacts ; economic rationalism see neo-liberal economics; economics; economies of scale; ecoresort; ecosystem; fads; gambling; game theory; gardening; gay; gaze; gender; gentrification; geographic information systems (GIS); geography; ghetto; global warming; globalization; goals; goals achievement matrices; government; Grand Tour; gravity model; green movement; greenhouse effect; greenspace; grid approach; handicapped; hazards; health; health resort; hegemony; heliocentrism; heritage; heterosexual; identity; ideology; image; immigrants; impacts, economic; impacts, physical; impacts, social; imperialism; inclusion; indicators; indigenous people; individualism; induced demand; journals (in leisure and outdoor recreation); labour (see work), labour force (see work force); land tenure; landholders; landscape; landscape assessment; landscape quality; latent demand; marina; marine recreation; market; market analysis; market failure; market segmentation; market system/mechanism; marketing; Marx/Marxist; masculinity; mass communication; mass recreation; materialism; matrix approach; narcissism; nation state; national parks; National Parks Service, United States; National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA); nationalism; nature; nature conservation; nature-based recreation; nature-based tourism; need; neighbourhood parks; neo-liberal economics (economic rationalism); nominal group technique; non-government organizations (NGOs); non-profit organizations; nudism; objectives, recreational; off-road vehicles; Olympic Games (and Olympism); open space; opportunity ; package holiday; Paralympics; parks; participation; partnerships; pay TV; perception; performance indicators; personality; pets; phenomenology; philosophy; pilgrimage; place; place identity; planning; qualitative research methods; quality management; quality of life; quantitative research method; queer; questionnaire; racism; rationality; recreation; recreation management; Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS); recreation property; recreation resources; recreation space; Recreational Business District (RBD); regulation; religion; reprography; resilience; resistance; resort; resort morphology; resource assessment; resource base; resource capability; safety; satisfaction; scenic quality; scheduling; seasonality ; second homes; segregation; self-actualization; self-esteem; self-regulation; sense of place; serious leisure; service; sex; tastes; technology; television; theatre; theme parks; therapeutic recreation; Third World; Ultimate Environmental Threshold (UET); unemployment; UNESCO; United States Forest Service; urban parks; urban recreation; user-orientated resources; vacation; valuation; values; vandalism; wants; xenophobia; youth; youth at risk; zoning; zoo