Nature Sports : Concepts and Practice (Paperback)

Preface Part I?Nature Sports: Concepts and Scope 1. Nature sports: a unifying concept 2. Nature sports: ontology, embodied being, politics 3. Keeping it natural? challenging indoorization in Italian rock climbing 4. Nature sports: state of the art of research 5. Conceptualizing adventurous nature sport: A positive psychology perspective 6. Nature sports, health and ageing: the value of euphoria 7. Understanding nature sports: a participant centred perspective and its implications for the design and facilitating of learning and performance Part II?Nature Sports: Development, Impacts and Issues 8. Nature sports: current trends and the path ahead 9. Climbing in Saxon Switzerland (GDR) ? a path to freedom in a socialist dictatorship 10. Managing the rock-climbing economy: a case from Chattanooga 11.  Riding waves of intra-seasonal demand in surf tourism: analysing the nexus of seasonality and 21st century surf forecasting technology 12.  Beyond transgression: mountain biking, young people and managing green spaces 13. ‘I don’t want to die. That’s not why I do it at all’: multifaceted motivation, psychological health, and personal development in BASE jumping 14.  Running away from the taskscape: ultramarathon as ‘dark ecology’