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| Meteorological elements, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, that characterize a region over a period of time. |
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| The frequency with which something occurs in space. |
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| The extent of a feature's spread over space. |
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| Increases in distance that bring about decreases in most forms of behavior. |
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| Processes that accelerate the experience of time and thus reduce the significance of distance. |
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| Smells are place related and elicit emotional responses. |
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| An emotional bond between a person and a certain place. |
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| A person's functional association with the place. |
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| A place provides the source of self-identification for a person. |
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| Efficient use of natural resources over long term. |
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| Protection of natural resources from human damage. |
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| Controlling visitation to tourist sites so that impacts are neither permanent nor irreversible. |
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| Tourism in exotic, often threatened, natural environments, especially to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife. |
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| How people modify the natural world to suit their own purposes. |
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| Information Technology (IT) Revolution |
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| The rapid changes brought about by information forms of technology. |
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| Information and Communication Technology (ICT) |
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| An umbrella term for any device or application that provides access to information through telecommunication. (TV, cell phones, computers, internet, etc.) |
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| In simulated leisure, refers to the accuracy of reproduction a real experience. |
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| The use of a dedicated website to communicate informally with other members of the site, by posting messages, photographs, and so forth. |
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| Virtual neighborhoods formed on the Internet. |
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| Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people. |
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| That which inhibits a leisure pursuit once an interest for it ahs been formed. |
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| Intrapersonal Constraints |
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| Personal psychological attributes that constrain leisure involvement. Perception of abilities, personality needs, religious beliefs, and prior socialization. |
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| Interpersonal Constraints |
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| Barriers arising out of social interaction with friends, family and others. When people differ in leisure preferences. |
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| Typically architectural barriers, such as a recreation center that is inaccessible to a person using a wheelchair, or economic barriers - such as high fees. |
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| The sequential influence of constraints |
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| Intrapersonal and interpersonal, then structural. |
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| Valuing all people regardless of their differences. |
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| Continuum of Leisure Inclusion |
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Level 1 - Access to buildings and programs.
Level 2 - Opportunities to be successful within buildings and programs.
Level 3 - Full and positive interactions with others through participation in activities. |
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| Celebrating differences in people. |
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| A form of society in which minority groups maintain their independent cultural tradition. |
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| A physical, sensory, or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more life activity. |
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| Defining goals for oneself and taking the initiative to achieve them. |
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| Speaking on behalf on oneself. |
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| Enabling persons with and without disabilities to participate together. |
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| Being on the margins on the dominant culture. |
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| Time experienced as constant and returning. |
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| Time paced by machine, enabling a precise division of the day into equal part and a linear perception of tis passing. |
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| Time controlled by biological processes. |
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| Timing generated with an organism. |
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| Daily rhythm of activity and rest. |
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| Cultures in which time is organized sequentially; schedules and deadlines are valued over people. |
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| Cultures in which time is organized horizontally; people tend to do several things at once and value relationships over schedules. |
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| Having insufficient free time. |
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| Altering the timing of events as reaction to adverse changes at a recreation resource. |
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| Amount of free time available to a culture. |
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Time Urgency - Feeling rushed.
Time Deepening - Doing multiple activities at the same time without fully experiencing any of them. |
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| A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, system, and so forth, in converting inputs into useful outputs. |
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| Colloquially, compulsiveness about working. |
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| Applying the behaviors and performance standards of work to leisure. |
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| To simplify or reduce one's expectations or commitments, especially in work hours. |
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| The degree of prosperity in an economy, measured by income levels, quality of housing and food, medial care, educational opportunities, and so forth. |
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| A social and economic order that encourages the purchases of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. |
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| Spending money for leisure, thus spoiling leisure by making us feel frantic. |
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