Leisure and Sustainability

<p>This book gives voice to a group of leisure scholars who are engaged in conversations about sustainability. Beginning with discussions on the relationship between leisure and sustainability and how these concepts are addressed in current literature a case is made for continued investigation of how leisure and sustainability need to be better understood; and viewed as integrally linked.</p><p></p><p>The book discusses issues related to environmental sustainability; how at the local level leisure is considered as a solution to a range of social environmental and economic issues; and the value of leisure as an asset for addressing several social sustainability challenges.</p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies</i>.</p>