ADVANCES Fall/Winter 2003, VOL. 19, NO. 3/4 The Impact of Recreational Music-Making for Long-Term Care Workers The featured article in this issue, Recreational MusicMaking: A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in Long-Term Care Workers—Insights and Potential Economic Impact, represents an outstanding research contribution. This paper p...

The purpose of the work is to determine indicators recreational importance and suitability, as well develop a system potential green areas for their further use in assessment CES: aesthetic, recreational, social exchange services relationships. method involves application previous experience domestic foreign research resource territories purposes organization development recreation. Evaluation ...

Horse riding is a popular, high-impact recreational activity that occurs worldwide. The United States and Australia have a long history of recreational horse riding in protected areas and controversy accompanies this activity in both countries. This review describes and critiques research to date, and then draws out the implications for future research and management. Previous research has been...

Coastal resources are coming under increasing pressure from competition between recreational, commercial and conservation uses. This is particularly so in coastal areas adjacent to major population centres. Given high recreational and conservation values in such areas, economic activities need to be highly efficient in order to persist. Management of these industries must therefore also encoura...

In response to federal administrative rule, the Tahoe National Forest (TNF), California, USA engaged in trail-route prioritization for motorized recreation (e.g., off-highway-vehicles) and other recreation types. The prioritization was intended to identify routes that were suitable and ill-suited for maintenance in a transportation system. A recreational user survey was conducted online (n = 81...

Recreational activities are beneficial for the elderly. However, little is known regarding specifically which types of recreational activity benefit older adults and in what ways. The purpose of this study was to assess the particular benefits of different types of recreational activities. The intervention experiments in this study focused on three recreational activities, based on the differen...

Sanitary inspection, water quality determination and data analysis and interpretation are essential elements in characterising the microbiological safety of water in recreational areas. Sanitary inspection is a necessary adjunct to water microbiological analysis. A well-conducted sanitary inspection can identify sources of microbiological hazards, microbiological water quality data confirm the ...

A survey of recreational boat-based and shore-based fishing in the Swan-Canning Estuary Basin was conducted between August 1998 and July 1999. During the survey 1,302 interviews were conducted at boat ramps. The majority of these (62%) were not involved in fishing or crabbing activities, with a further 18 per cent fishing in the adjacent ocean. Of the remainder, 139 boats had been crabbing and ...

Recreational fishing in freshwater ecosystems is a popular pastime in Australia. Although most native fish are endemic, the fauna is depauperate compared to any landmass of similar size. With commercial fishing no longer a major industry in the country’s freshwaters, the future sustainability of these ecosystems will depend heavily on the actions of recreational fishers. However, there has been...