scholarly journals Hillwalking and walk leading motivations, perceived benefits and the role of natural environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Morocza ◽  
J Frankham ◽  
L M Boddy ◽  
E Mahon ◽  
T A Stott
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Activity Measurements ◽  
Resilient Communities

Abstract Background Promoting the link between human and ecosystem health is crucial for building resilient communities. Hillwalking provides health benefits arising from physical activity and exposure to nature. Furthermore, it is likely to influence environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behaviour through connectedness to nature. This project aimed to explore 1) hillwalking and walk leading motivations and perceived benefits, and 2) the role of the environment and nature connectedness among walk leaders and walking holiday guests. Methods The first study was completed with seventeen volunteer walk leaders and used a mixed methods design: hillwalking interviews, physical activity measurements, location data and the Nature-relatedness scale. The second study involved five group interviews with the total of twenty-five guests on three different walking holidays. The qualitative data from both studies were analysed using a combined thematic and grounded theory approach and the results were merged with the quantitative data to explore the impacts of environmental factors. Results Primary motivations for hillwalking included pleasure, escape from everyday life pressures, to re-charge, being in nature, social inclusion and health. Emerging overarching themes such as balance and adaptation were reported as essential values for walking and were linked to nutritional, physical activity related and environmental aspects of health awareness. The perceived benefits positively impacted on engagement. Connectedness to nature was linked to environmental knowledge and attitudes which manifested in pro-environmental walking behaviour. Conclusions The pleasure arising from several aspects of hillwalking or walk leading was the drive for regular engagement, therefore a primary intrinsic motivation. The results imply that attending group walking holidays has the scope to increase environmental awareness and engagement in outdoor physical activity and could be considered as a promotion tool. Key messages The findings have the scope to inform future walking promotion programs and encourage long-term engagement by shifting the focus of promotion messages to intrinsic motivational factors. The results support that hillwalking can be used as a tool for combined health and environmental awareness promotion.

scholarly journals Ecological knowledge and connectedness to nature as predictors of farmers’ ecological attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
Jelena Despotovic ◽  
Vesna Rodic
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
New Ecological Paradigm ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Responsible Behaviour ◽  
Insight Into

Environmental attitudes are one of the determinants of farmers? ecologically responsible behaviour. However, it is not easy to determine factors which influence individuals? environmental attitudes. The literature suggests the existence of a number of influencing factors. In this paper, the environmental attitudes of the farmers? in Vojvodina have been tested in relation to environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, which are important elements of environmental awareness. As far as the authors know, these variables have not yet been linked to the concept of the new ecological paradigm (NEP), and this paper provides new insight into the relations between the NEP scale and the selected elements of environmental awareness. A multiple regression was conducted to see if environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature predicted the environmental attitudes. The results show that both variables explain 9.6% variance in NEP values. The results show that the farmers? environmental knowledge and their connectedness to nature are statistically significant, but in a small percentage explain the achieved values on the NEP scale. ?herefore, one can say that the tested variables are predictors of environmental attitudes, but they are also influenced by other factors which need to be investigated in the future researches.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Environmental Awarness:The Role of Ethic Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Indri Murniawaty
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Ethical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Universe

Environmental damage that occurred in Indonesia in the last three decades is due to human behavior by exploiting and depleting the universe in order to meet the interests and needs of human’s life. The objectives of this research were (1) to find out the direct effect of the students’environmental knowledge towards the environmental awareness, (2) to find out the indirect effect of the students' environmental knowledge towards the environmental awareness through ethics, (3) to find out the direct effect of student's ethics on environmental awareness. The sample of this research was the students of economic education who hadlearned the subject of environmental education. The researcher used a quantitative approach with explanatory research design to explain the state of each variable. Two things that contribute to environmental awareness were ethics and environmental knowledge. The results of this study showed that environmental and ethical knowledge significantly influenced environmental awareness. The environmental knowledge will shape students' attitudes and ethics towards the environment.

scholarly journals Policing the Void: Recreation, Social Inclusion and the Baltimore Police Athletic League

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob J. Bustad ◽  
David L. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Recreation ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we explore the relationship between public recreation policy and planning and the transformation of urban governance in the context of the Police Athletic League centers in Baltimore, Maryland. In light of contemporary discussions of the role of youth programs for sport and physical activity within post-industrial cities, the origination, development, and eventual demise of Baltimore’s network of Police Activity League centers is an instructive, if disheartening, saga. It illustrates the social and political rationales mobilized in justifying recreation policy and programming, the framing of sport and physical activity as preventative measures towards crime and juvenile delinquency, and the precarity of such initiatives given the efficiency-driven orthodoxies of neoliberal urban entrepreneurialism (Harvey, 1989). This analysis emphasizes how the PAL centers were designed to ‘fill the void’ left by a declining system of public recreation, thereby providing an example of a recreation program as part of the “social problems industry” (Pitter & Andrews 1997).

scholarly journals The role of environmental knowledge, attitudes and initiatives in the development of a tourism product

Turyzm ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Niezgoda
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Environmental Activities

The article looks at environmental activities undertaken by the various stakeholders engaged in the development of a tourism product. Special attention is given to the impact of tourists' behaviour on tourist destination products and on future ecology-related actions of service providers. The meaning of environmental awareness is explained as well as its relationship with the concepts of sustainable tourism and eco-tourism. Some problems arising from demand for eco-products are discussed.

scholarly journals Genome-wide association studies of 27 accelerometry-derived physical activity measurements identifies novel loci and genetic mechanisms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanghao Qi ◽  
Diptavo Dutta ◽  
Andrew Leroux ◽  
Debashree Ray ◽  
John Muschelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Transition Probability ◽  
Genetic Effects ◽  
Genome Wide Association ◽  
Genome Wide Association Studies ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Activity Measurements ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractPhysical activity (PA) is an important risk factor for a wide range of diseases. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), based on self-reported data or a small number of phenotypes derived from accelerometry, have identified a limited number of genetic loci associated with habitual PA and provided evidence for involvement of central nervous system in mediating genetic effects. In this study, we derived 27 PA phenotypes from wrist accelerometry data obtained from 93,745 UK Biobank study participants. Single-variant association analysis based on mixed-effects models and transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) together identified 6 novel loci that were not detected by previous studies. For both novel and previously known loci, we discovered associations with novel phenotypes including active-to-sedentary transition probability, light-intensity PA, activity during different times of the day and proxy phenotypes to sleep and circadian patterns. Follow-up studies indicated the role of the blood and immune system in modulating the genetic effects and a secondary role of the digestive and endocrine systems.

scholarly journals The environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behavior of future engineers in Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 00088
Author(s):  
Zakaria Ait taleb ◽  
Mounia El Farouki ◽  
Mehdi El Mejdoub
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Engineering Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Engineering Schools

During the recent decades, raising the level of environmental awareness has become one of the main social goals, which has reached a level of social and political consensus never seen before. Education can be the catalyst that changes people’s behavior regarding the environment (Zsóka et al., 2013; Schultz, 2014). Many studies have demonstrated a positive link between education level and pro-environmental behavior (Fernandez-Manzanal et al., 2007; Levine and Strube, 2012; Meyer, 2015; Monier et al., 2009). In Morocco, as in many countries of the world, human behavior towards the environment has been defective. However, the country has been taking a number of steps to protect the environment. There have been few researchers investigating the role of universities as agents contributing to environmental awareness, especially engineering schools. Engineering work has a significant effect on the world. The advent of engineers, engineering work, and engineering schooling is closely related to countries development (Downey and Lucena 2004, Downey and Lucena 2005). This paper aims to analyze the relationship between 3 factors: the sources of environmental issues, the acquired knowledge and the pro-environmental behavior to protect the environment. In order to do that, a survey of 141 engineering students has been assessed in 5 different engineering schools and the results have then shown that the sources of information is the internet and this source doesn’t lead to accountability of the individuals. Furthermore, the taken actions for the environment rarely include trash sorting, paper and meat consumption.

Influence of Moderate and Strenuous Daily Physical Activity on Fibrinolytic Activity of Blood: Possibility of Plasminogen Activator Stores Depletion

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 745-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Keber ◽  
Mojca Stegnar ◽  
Irena Keber ◽  
Bojan Accetto
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Plasminogen Activator ◽  
Fibrinolytic Activity ◽  
Regular Physical Activity ◽  
Clot Lysis ◽  
Moderate Activity ◽  
Lysis Time ◽  
Strenuous Activity ◽  
Activity Measurements ◽  
Clot Lysis Time

SummaryFibrinolysis was studied in 10 alpinists during regular physical activity of different intensity. Blood was sampled at rest and after exposure to submaximal workload on the treadmill on three occasions: before and after 6 months physical conditioning (moderate physical activity), and after 6 weeks of an alpinistic expedition (strenuous physical activity). Measurements included submaximal working capacity, fibrinogen, euglobulin clot lysis time (ELT), whole plasma clot lysis time, and estimations derived from ELT - percent increase in fibrinolytic activity after exercise (RFS), and absolute increase in fibrinolytic activity after exercise (PAR).Regular moderate activity increased the resting level of ELT, but strenuous activity decreased is. After each treadmill testing, a marked increase in fibrinolytic activity was observed. RFS was unaltered at all three testings. PAR increased after moderate activity, but decreased after strenuous activity.The results indicate that regular physical activity can lead from enhanced to decreased resting activity of plasminogen activator in blood. It is presumed that increased release of activator during prolonged stress causes partial depletion of endothelial stores with the consequence of decreased activator activity in the blood.

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