Risk Management for Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services provides park, recreation, and leisure services professionals a primer in risk management, tort liability, and negligence that gives them an awareness of legal liability and allows them to take the lead in managing risk within their organizations. It covers topics from the emergency action plan, to the risk management plan, to managing employees through the lens of minimizing risk, to addressing risk at events and in facilities. This book provides recreation professionals with the necessary knowledge to build, implement, and manage a risk management plan that first and foremost offers participants a quality experience in a safe environment and, second, protects the professionals and their employees from undue risk.

Risk Management for Park, Recreation, and Leisure Services

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SARAH J. YOUNG

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DANIEL L. DUSTIN

KERI A. SCHWAB

In 1998, the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) published The Impact of Parks and Open Space on Property Values and the Property Tax Base, written by John Crompton. It reviewed the principles and empirical evidence relating to the economic contributions of public park and open space lands that were based on two premises. First, they often increase the value of proximate properties, so an increase in revenues accrues to governments from the higher property taxes. In the pioneering eras of park development, this view was a central justification for urban parks and was widely articulated. However, after the Second World War it essentially disappeared from the lexicon of advocates, so by the 1990s few park professionals espoused it, and the author stated, “I have never heard it articulated by an elected official.” The second premise is that public expenditures increase with development, because new residences require services and the cost of providing them invariably exceeds the tax revenues that accrue from them. Thus, the conversion of open space to housing generally results in an increase in the tax burden on existing residents. The publication was a product of the enthusiastic support of Ms. Terry Hershey, who was the redoubtable doyenne of conservation in Texas. She heard the author discuss these issues over a period of many years and commented, “When are you going to write it all down? This is important for those of us fighting to protect the critters, open space and parks.” Ms. Hershey was a board member of NRPA and persuaded the executive director to publish that early effort. The publication aroused a lot of interest in the parks field, and economists in other fields gave increasing empirical attention to this issue. As a result, NRPA commissioned and published an expanded version in 2004 under the title The Proximate Principle. Again, John Crompton was the author, but Sarah Nicholls wrote a new chapter addressing the impacts of water-based fe

The Impact on Property Values of Parks, Trails, Golf Courses, and Water Amenities

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SARAH NICHOLLS

Dimensions: 10 × 7 × 1 in Binding Type: Paperback Sport and Violence: A Critical Examination of Sport (2nd ed.) explores a global view of issues in sport and leisure and it provides an approach that allows for critical analysis and development of solutions to such problems. Each chapter contains not only textual content but also real-world examples of sports experiences from individuals. The chapters also include much background information that can be further researched. The initial portion of the text contains an analysis of the key problems associated with sport and violence, its history, and its status. Later chapters more thoroughly represent societal factors and issues, and the final portion of the text discusses solutions and approaches that may provide a springboard for change. The authors have taught at the higher education level. They have also served as player, official, supervisor, coach, and sport ad­ministrator and in administrative capacities in park and recreation departments. This book is intended for use in upper division and graduate courses in sport management. This book can also assist an administrator to organize a safer and more civil sports experience.

Sport and Violence

LYNN M. JAMIESON

THOMAS ORR

There has been a revolution in the depth and breadth of the literature of our ever-evolving and maturing profession of recreational therapy. The authors’ goal in preparing this fifth edition of Recreational Therapy: An Introduction was to continue their quest to provide a text that would clearly define recreational therapy as a health care profession. This edition, like prior editions, focuses on the purposeful use of recreation and leisure activities as interventions to enhance the health and well-being of clients served by credentialed recreational therapists. A central feature of the book is the recreational therapy process (or APIE process) that provides a cornerstone for recreational therapy practice. As the authors finished work on this fifth edition of Recreational Therapy: An Introduction, they noted with pride that recreational therapists were listed among the “essential workers” in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This new edition will serve as a valuable asset to those doing this important work and will help further the practice of recreational therapy in health care.

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MICHAEL E. CRAWFORD

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Leisure Matters Exploring Leisure in a Changing World

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