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Health and Wellbeing in an Outdoor and Adventure Sports Context
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The health and wellbeing of people and the planet is currently receiving a much attention, if only because of the ongoing global crisis instigated by COVID-19. The benefits of nature for human wellbeing have been scientifically studied in multiple disciplines for over three decades. Researchers from disciplines such as ecology, sport science, psychology, tourism, medicine, forestry, environmental studies and architecture have found evidence that being in nature, interacting with nature, and feeling connected to nature are important for good health and wellbeing. In particular, physical activity in nature has been linked to wellbeing. This manuscript explores a particular type of physical activity in nature: adventure and outdoor activity. Adventure in nature is important for wellbeing, and carefully designed interventions and programs can have a profound impact. The work in this book suggests that adventure should be considered an important part of the public health offering.

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Keywords

  • active components of positive change
  • adaptable productive functioning
  • adherence
  • adventure
  • adventure education
  • adventure education programming
  • Armed Forces
  • attitude and behaviour change
  • autophenomenology
  • characteristics of dissonance arousal and modes of reduction
  • cognitive dissonance
  • Compliance
  • consonant cognitions
  • Ecological Dynamics
  • embodiment
  • forest schools
  • green exercise
  • green prescriptions
  • Green Spaces
  • Health
  • health and psychological well-being
  • Higher Education
  • Individuality
  • Lifestyle, sport & leisure
  • lived-experience
  • Mental health
  • mental health problems
  • Military Personnel
  • multi-variate quantitative analyses
  • n/a
  • national curriculum
  • Nature
  • Nature–based health interventions
  • outdoor adventure
  • outdoor adventure activities
  • outdoor and adventure activities
  • outdoor and adventure sports
  • outdoor therapy
  • Phenomenology
  • physical activity
  • physical education
  • primary and secondary school
  • psychological wellbeing
  • Recovery
  • representative design
  • resilience
  • School children
  • self-determination
  • slow adventure
  • slowness
  • Soldiers
  • strategies of dissonance reduction
  • tailored outdoor education programming
  • therapeutic process
  • Time
  • transitions
  • wellbeing
  • wilderness therapy

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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-449-7

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