Elizabeth Halpenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3487764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Halpenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpenny |
| SIGNATURE | HALPENNY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4180-4956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Future-proofing nature-based tourism in Canada: A horizon scan of emerging challenges
Global climate change, biodiversity loss, health crises, and economic instability converge to form a polycrisis that challenges the sustainable planning, management, and operations of parks, protected, and conserved areas (PPCAs) for biodiversity conservation and nature-based tourism (NBT). Utilising a horizon scan methodology for the first time in the tourism field, this paper engaged experts across Canada to identify and critically examine the …
A cross-national study of the relationships among leisure participation, basic psychological needs satisfaction in leisure, and global life satisfaction
Factors affecting psychological commitment and loyalty to parks and other forms of protected areas in Canada
We use a model of psychological commitment to better understand the diverse motivations that enhance behavioural loyalty to parks and protected areas. Psychological commitment reflects the degree to which an individual identifies with, wants to learn about, and chooses freely to engage with a particular phenomenon, and these factors, in turn, lead to greater loyalty and resistance to alternatives. With data collected from 634 park visitors in Alb…
Impacts of environmental communication on pro-environmental intentions and behaviours: A systematic review on nature-based tourism context
Lessons for becoming bison wise and bear aware in Elk Island National Park
Biospheres are working landscapes that promote conservation and sustainable land-use while also providing space for outdoor recreation, environmental education, and research. This study focuses on Elk Island National Park in Alberta, Canada, which is part of the Beaver Hills Biosphere. The park is home to bison and black bears and growing visitor numbers have increased the potential for human-wildlife conflict. With a focus on the promotion of hu…
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being
Leisure engagement plays a key role in individuals’ well-being. While the majority of research focuses on the health and wellness benefits of everyday leisure participation, in recent years, vacation-taking, as an extraordinary leisure type, attracts scholarly interest from various disciplines to investigate how it contributes to individuals’ subjective well-being. Nevertheless, there is still no cohesive understanding of this relationship. In th…
The ‘healthy parks–healthy people’ movement in Canada: Progress, challenges, and an emerging knowledge and action agenda
In this article, we outline progress and challenges in establishing effective health promotion tied to visitor experiences provided by protected and conserved areas in Canada. Despite an expanding global evidence base, case studies focused on aspects of health and well-being within Canada’s protected and conserved areas remain limited. Data pertaining to motivations, barriers and experiences of visitors are often not collected by governing agenci…
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning
This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and ‘pet’ bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive treatment group), and the third was a contributory citizen science bee box building project (citizen sci…
Leisure Constraints and Negotiation among Canadian and South Korean Mountain Hikers: An Extension of Motivations with the Constraints-Effect-Mitigation Model
This study examined mountain hikers’ negotiation of leisure constraints and the role that motivations played in this process. This investigation included a comparison between Canadian and South Korean hikers. Data were collected from a sample of 399 mountain hikers visiting the Canadian Rocky Mountains and mountains in South Korea. Results revealed that hiking constraints had a significant negative effect on constraints negotiation for both Canad…
Tourists' savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: A Conceptual Paper
With increased interest in emotions and tourism, 'savoring', a process of attending to, enhancing, or prolonging positive emotions, should receive more scholarly attention. This article offers a conceptual look at the issues and perspectives related to the relationship between savoring and place attachment in the tourism context. Drawing from the positive psychology, tourism, and geography literature, we outline 12 propositions to suggest how tou…
Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector. With tourism numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled back. Widespread reports of dramatic changes to protected and conserved1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, tourism businesses and the livelihoods of people who supply labour, goods and service…
Methodological Bricolage and Covid-19: An Illustration From Innovative, Novel, and Adaptive Environmental Behavior Change Research
This article explores innovative and novel research methods and adaptive approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine visitor learning and proenvironmental behavior. We present a mixed methods study that used a methodological bricolage approach to field-based data collection. The pandemic limited our ability to carry out the original study design. Quickly pivoting, the study was adapted to an explanatory sequential design with a survey, an …
Savoring and tourists' positive experiences
‘Pushing the outdoor play agenda’: Exploring how practitioners conceptualise and operationalise nature play in a Canadian context
The purpose of this paper was to examine how practitioners think about and implement nature play in a Canadian context. Using data from interviews with 21 practitioners, we examined two overarching research questions: (1) How do practitioners conceptualise (think about and discuss) nature play? and (2) How do practitioners operationalise (i.e. plan and implement) nature play? The desire to examine how practitioners implement nature play opportuni…
The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2: Understanding mobile device use at festivals
This research advances understanding of mobile device use in a leisure context by applying and expanding the Unified Theory of the Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) to festival settings. Through on-site surveys at three festivals the UTAUT2 model and an adapted version for mobile device use at a festival were examined using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Results reveal that the modified UTAUT2 demonstrat…
A Meta-Study of Qualitative Research Examining Sport and Recreation Experiences of Indigenous Youth
Participation in sport and recreation may contribute to various holistic benefits among Indigenous youth in Canada. However, there is a need for a consolidated evidence base to support the development of sport and recreation opportunities that could facilitate such holistic benefits. The purpose of this research was to produce a meta-study of qualitative research examining sport and recreation experiences of Indigenous youth in Canada. Following …
“The End of the Ice Age?”: Disappearing World Heritage and the Climate Change Communication Imperative
Rapid environmental change in vulnerable destinations has stimulated a new form of travel termed “last chance tourism” (LCT). Studies have examined the risks of LCT, while leaving potential opportunities within this new tourism market largely underexplored. Results of survey (n = 399) research in Jasper National Park, Canada reveal that a LCT motivation influences decisions to visit this iconic Canadian destination, and suggest that this motivati…
Front-Country Campers' Constraints, Negotiation, and Pro-Environment Behavioral Intention: An Extension to the Theory of Planned Behavior
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been successfully tested in leisure and outdoor recreation studies over the last few decades. However, the inclusion of new predictors to improve the theory's predictive power has been encouraged. Utilizing leisure constraints approach, we extended the TPB by adding constraints to the theory. The literature also suggested that individuals employ cognitive and behavioural negotiation strategies to overcome …
North American park agencies’ evolving use of Twitter: A content analysis of 2014 and 2017 tweets
With a goal of improved social media communication by park agencies, the content from seven Englishlanguage North American park agencies' Twitter accounts were counted, interpreted, coded and compared. Trends in usage of Twitter by park agencies were examined by comparing tweets from 2014 (n=764) and 2017 (n=1,395). Special attention was directed to how park agencies address natural heritage conservation and park visitation in their Twitter feeds…
How do people negotiate through their constraints to engage in pro-environmental behavior? A study of front-country campers in Alberta, Canada
A Multidimensional Investigation into Children’s Optimal Experiences with Nature
This article combines a review of literature with observations from an empirical study that examined how five children aged 6 to 10 years experienced nature in a botanical garden setting with a focus on the behavioural, sensory, affective and cognitive dimensions of these experiences. Visually expressive methods (sculptures, drawings, photography and sand tray pictures) enabled children to highlight aspects of their experiences in nature that wer…
I might know when I'm an adult’: Making sense of children's relationships with nature
This paper reports subjective experiences in nature of 5 children aged 6–10 years collected during a 5-day camp in a botanical garden. Creative expressive visual methods and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Inductive analysis produced the follow themes: children being positioned to take care of nature and to be taken care of by nature, as well as nature needing protection from children and children needing protection from nat…
It was Fun: An Evaluation of Sand Tray Pictures, an Innovative Visually Expressive Method for Researching Children's Experiences with Nature
In order to study children's subjective experiences, researchers need to employ methods that are interesting and engaging but at the same time can produce data that answers research questions. This article critically reflects on the use of an innovative visually expressive method, sand tray pictures, which allows children to communicate their multi-dimensional subjective experiences with nature. In this study, sand tray pictures were compared wit…
Supporting the CBD Aichi Biodiversity Conservation Targets through park tourism: A case study of Parks Canada’s visitor experience programme
Since 2005, Parks Canada has embarked on an agency-wide effort to face the challenge of remaining relevant to Canadians. Visitation to Canada's system of National Parks, National Historic Sites, and National Marines Conservation Areas has been declining, in part, because of a changing social context. Parks Canada Agency believes that fostering visitation will result in individuals' appreciation of and connection with Canada's parks. It is suggest…
Conserving biodiversity through Parks Canada’s volunteer programme
This paper outlines how conservation volunteer programmes contribute to biodiversity protection and conservation in Canada's national parks. An inventory of some of these volunteer programmes is summarized and specific examples of volunteer conservation activities are provided through a case study of Kejimkujik National Park's volunteer programme. Observations from these conservation volunteer initiatives are combined with findings reported in sc…
Pro-environmental behaviours and park visitors: The effect of place attachment
Leisure Statisfaction and Acculturative Stress: The Case of Chinese-Canadian Immigrants
The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationship between leisure satisfaction and acculturative stress. Chinese immigrants to Canada were surveyed six months apart. Four kinds of acculturative stress (all at Time 2) were each hierarchically regressed on: age and gender, years in Canada, the corresponding stressor, and six types of leisure satisfaction (all at Time 1). Results indicated that: (a) social leisure satisfaction lessene…
Volunteering on Nature Conservation Projects: Volunteer Experience, Attitudes and Values
In many countries volunteers are playing an increasing role in nature conservation. Many factors have lead to this trend including reduced government budgets assigned for conservation and an increased awareness and interest expressed by each country's general population to contribute to environmental health and nature conservation. This paper utilizes descriptions of volunteers' experiences participating in Volunteer for Nature, a volunteer progr…
A Prospective Panel Study of Chinese-Canadian Immigrants’ Leisure Participation and Leisure Satisfaction
This longitudinal study examined Chinese immigrants' leisure participation and satisfaction. A model where participation predicted satisfaction indicated that: satisfaction at Time 1 affected satisfaction at Time 2, and satisfaction at Times 1 and 2 affected satisfaction at Time 3, while participation at Time 1 directly affected satisfaction at Time 2 and indirectly at Time 3. A model where satisfaction predicted participation indicated that: par…
Volunteering for nature: Motivations for participating in a biodiversity conservation volunteer program
Understanding volunteer motivations for participating in nature conservation programs is an important element in the design and provision of programs intended to harness the increasingly important talents and labour that volunteers bring to conservation programs. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the motivations of participants in Volunteer for Nature, an Ontario-based nature conservation program. The study was framed within a social psyc…
Tourists' savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: A Conceptual Paper
With increased interest in emotions and tourism, 'savoring', a process of attending to, enhancing, or prolonging positive emotions, should receive more scholarly attention. This article offers a conceptual look at the issues and perspectives related to the relationship between savoring and place attachment in the tourism context. Drawing from the positive psychology, tourism, and geography literature, we outline 12 propositions to suggest how tou…
Integrative review: Vacations and subjective well-being
Leisure engagement plays a key role in individuals’ well-being. While the majority of research focuses on the health and wellness benefits of everyday leisure participation, in recent years, vacation-taking, as an extraordinary leisure type, attracts scholarly interest from various disciplines to investigate how it contributes to individuals’ subjective well-being. Nevertheless, there is still no cohesive understanding of this relationship. In th…
Methodological Bricolage and Covid-19: An Illustration From Innovative, Novel, and Adaptive Environmental Behavior Change Research
This article explores innovative and novel research methods and adaptive approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine visitor learning and proenvironmental behavior. We present a mixed methods study that used a methodological bricolage approach to field-based data collection. The pandemic limited our ability to carry out the original study design. Quickly pivoting, the study was adapted to an explanatory sequential design with a survey, an …
How do people negotiate through their constraints to engage in pro-environmental behavior? A study of front-country campers in Alberta, Canada
It was Fun: An Evaluation of Sand Tray Pictures, an Innovative Visually Expressive Method for Researching Children's Experiences with Nature
In order to study children's subjective experiences, researchers need to employ methods that are interesting and engaging but at the same time can produce data that answers research questions. This article critically reflects on the use of an innovative visually expressive method, sand tray pictures, which allows children to communicate their multi-dimensional subjective experiences with nature. In this study, sand tray pictures were compared wit…
Strengthening access to restorative places: Findings from a participatory study on engaging with nature in the promotion of health
Front-Country Campers' Constraints, Negotiation, and Pro-Environment Behavioral Intention: An Extension to the Theory of Planned Behavior
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been successfully tested in leisure and outdoor recreation studies over the last few decades. However, the inclusion of new predictors to improve the theory's predictive power has been encouraged. Utilizing leisure constraints approach, we extended the TPB by adding constraints to the theory. The literature also suggested that individuals employ cognitive and behavioural negotiation strategies to overcome …
Leisure Constraints and Negotiation among Canadian and South Korean Mountain Hikers: An Extension of Motivations with the Constraints-Effect-Mitigation Model
This study examined mountain hikers’ negotiation of leisure constraints and the role that motivations played in this process. This investigation included a comparison between Canadian and South Korean hikers. Data were collected from a sample of 399 mountain hikers visiting the Canadian Rocky Mountains and mountains in South Korea. Results revealed that hiking constraints had a significant negative effect on constraints negotiation for both Canad…
Savoring and tourists' positive experiences
A Multidimensional Investigation into Children’s Optimal Experiences with Nature
This article combines a review of literature with observations from an empirical study that examined how five children aged 6 to 10 years experienced nature in a botanical garden setting with a focus on the behavioural, sensory, affective and cognitive dimensions of these experiences. Visually expressive methods (sculptures, drawings, photography and sand tray pictures) enabled children to highlight aspects of their experiences in nature that wer…
I might know when I'm an adult’: Making sense of children's relationships with nature
This paper reports subjective experiences in nature of 5 children aged 6–10 years collected during a 5-day camp in a botanical garden. Creative expressive visual methods and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Inductive analysis produced the follow themes: children being positioned to take care of nature and to be taken care of by nature, as well as nature needing protection from children and children needing protection from nat…
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning
This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and ‘pet’ bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive treatment group), and the third was a contributory citizen science bee box building project (citizen sci…
The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2: Understanding mobile device use at festivals
This research advances understanding of mobile device use in a leisure context by applying and expanding the Unified Theory of the Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) to festival settings. Through on-site surveys at three festivals the UTAUT2 model and an adapted version for mobile device use at a festival were examined using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Results reveal that the modified UTAUT2 demonstrat…
A Meta-Study of Qualitative Research Examining Sport and Recreation Experiences of Indigenous Youth
Participation in sport and recreation may contribute to various holistic benefits among Indigenous youth in Canada. However, there is a need for a consolidated evidence base to support the development of sport and recreation opportunities that could facilitate such holistic benefits. The purpose of this research was to produce a meta-study of qualitative research examining sport and recreation experiences of Indigenous youth in Canada. Following …
Volunteering for nature: Motivations for participating in a biodiversity conservation volunteer program
Understanding volunteer motivations for participating in nature conservation programs is an important element in the design and provision of programs intended to harness the increasingly important talents and labour that volunteers bring to conservation programs. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the motivations of participants in Volunteer for Nature, an Ontario-based nature conservation program. The study was framed within a social psyc…
Volunteering on Nature Conservation Projects: Volunteer Experience, Attitudes and Values
In many countries volunteers are playing an increasing role in nature conservation. Many factors have lead to this trend including reduced government budgets assigned for conservation and an increased awareness and interest expressed by each country's general population to contribute to environmental health and nature conservation. This paper utilizes descriptions of volunteers' experiences participating in Volunteer for Nature, a volunteer progr…
Pro-environmental behaviours and park visitors: The effect of place attachment
Engaging with nature to promote health: Bridging research silos to examine the evidence
While there is considerable research on environmental contamination and degradation, there is equally credible evidence on the healthful qualities of the environment. Being in and caring for nature can be health promoting for individuals, families, communities, ecosystems and the planet. In this paper, we use a conceptual model for nature-based health promotion and a socio-ecological model of health promotion to guide the scope, organization and …
Strengthening access to restorative places: Findings from a participatory study on engaging with nature in the promotion of health
A Prospective Panel Study of Chinese-Canadian Immigrants’ Leisure Participation and Leisure Satisfaction
This longitudinal study examined Chinese immigrants' leisure participation and satisfaction. A model where participation predicted satisfaction indicated that: satisfaction at Time 1 affected satisfaction at Time 2, and satisfaction at Times 1 and 2 affected satisfaction at Time 3, while participation at Time 1 directly affected satisfaction at Time 2 and indirectly at Time 3. A model where satisfaction predicted participation indicated that: par…
Leisure Statisfaction and Acculturative Stress: The Case of Chinese-Canadian Immigrants
The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationship between leisure satisfaction and acculturative stress. Chinese immigrants to Canada were surveyed six months apart. Four kinds of acculturative stress (all at Time 2) were each hierarchically regressed on: age and gender, years in Canada, the corresponding stressor, and six types of leisure satisfaction (all at Time 1). Results indicated that: (a) social leisure satisfaction lessene…
Supporting the CBD Aichi Biodiversity Conservation Targets through park tourism: A case study of Parks Canada’s visitor experience programme
Since 2005, Parks Canada has embarked on an agency-wide effort to face the challenge of remaining relevant to Canadians. Visitation to Canada's system of National Parks, National Historic Sites, and National Marines Conservation Areas has been declining, in part, because of a changing social context. Parks Canada Agency believes that fostering visitation will result in individuals' appreciation of and connection with Canada's parks. It is suggest…
Conserving biodiversity through Parks Canada’s volunteer programme
This paper outlines how conservation volunteer programmes contribute to biodiversity protection and conservation in Canada's national parks. An inventory of some of these volunteer programmes is summarized and specific examples of volunteer conservation activities are provided through a case study of Kejimkujik National Park's volunteer programme. Observations from these conservation volunteer initiatives are combined with findings reported in sc…
Protected Area branding strategies to increase stewardship among park constituencies
With the complexity and resource intensity needed to manage parks, protected area managers increasingly rely on their constituencies to assume stewardship responsibilities. To meet the intentions of the Convention on Biodiversity Target 11, thousands of new protected areas will need to be gazetted. This dramatic increase in the number of global protected areas will significantly add to the dependence of managers on their constituencies to be acti…
I might know when I'm an adult’: Making sense of children's relationships with nature
This paper reports subjective experiences in nature of 5 children aged 6–10 years collected during a 5-day camp in a botanical garden. Creative expressive visual methods and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Inductive analysis produced the follow themes: children being positioned to take care of nature and to be taken care of by nature, as well as nature needing protection from children and children needing protection from nat…
It was Fun: An Evaluation of Sand Tray Pictures, an Innovative Visually Expressive Method for Researching Children's Experiences with Nature
In order to study children's subjective experiences, researchers need to employ methods that are interesting and engaging but at the same time can produce data that answers research questions. This article critically reflects on the use of an innovative visually expressive method, sand tray pictures, which allows children to communicate their multi-dimensional subjective experiences with nature. In this study, sand tray pictures were compared wit…
A Multidimensional Investigation into Children’s Optimal Experiences with Nature
This article combines a review of literature with observations from an empirical study that examined how five children aged 6 to 10 years experienced nature in a botanical garden setting with a focus on the behavioural, sensory, affective and cognitive dimensions of these experiences. Visually expressive methods (sculptures, drawings, photography and sand tray pictures) enabled children to highlight aspects of their experiences in nature that wer…
How do people negotiate through their constraints to engage in pro-environmental behavior? A study of front-country campers in Alberta, Canada
North American park agencies’ evolving use of Twitter: A content analysis of 2014 and 2017 tweets
With a goal of improved social media communication by park agencies, the content from seven Englishlanguage North American park agencies' Twitter accounts were counted, interpreted, coded and compared. Trends in usage of Twitter by park agencies were examined by comparing tweets from 2014 (n=764) and 2017 (n=1,395). Special attention was directed to how park agencies address natural heritage conservation and park visitation in their Twitter feeds…
“The End of the Ice Age?”: Disappearing World Heritage and the Climate Change Communication Imperative
Rapid environmental change in vulnerable destinations has stimulated a new form of travel termed “last chance tourism” (LCT). Studies have examined the risks of LCT, while leaving potential opportunities within this new tourism market largely underexplored. Results of survey (n = 399) research in Jasper National Park, Canada reveal that a LCT motivation influences decisions to visit this iconic Canadian destination, and suggest that this motivati…
Front-Country Campers' Constraints, Negotiation, and Pro-Environment Behavioral Intention: An Extension to the Theory of Planned Behavior
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been successfully tested in leisure and outdoor recreation studies over the last few decades. However, the inclusion of new predictors to improve the theory's predictive power has been encouraged. Utilizing leisure constraints approach, we extended the TPB by adding constraints to the theory. The literature also suggested that individuals employ cognitive and behavioural negotiation strategies to overcome …
The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2: Understanding mobile device use at festivals
This research advances understanding of mobile device use in a leisure context by applying and expanding the Unified Theory of the Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) to festival settings. Through on-site surveys at three festivals the UTAUT2 model and an adapted version for mobile device use at a festival were examined using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Results reveal that the modified UTAUT2 demonstrat…
A Meta-Study of Qualitative Research Examining Sport and Recreation Experiences of Indigenous Youth
Participation in sport and recreation may contribute to various holistic benefits among Indigenous youth in Canada. However, there is a need for a consolidated evidence base to support the development of sport and recreation opportunities that could facilitate such holistic benefits. The purpose of this research was to produce a meta-study of qualitative research examining sport and recreation experiences of Indigenous youth in Canada. Following …
‘Pushing the outdoor play agenda’: Exploring how practitioners conceptualise and operationalise nature play in a Canadian context
The purpose of this paper was to examine how practitioners think about and implement nature play in a Canadian context. Using data from interviews with 21 practitioners, we examined two overarching research questions: (1) How do practitioners conceptualise (think about and discuss) nature play? and (2) How do practitioners operationalise (i.e. plan and implement) nature play? The desire to examine how practitioners implement nature play opportuni…
Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector. With tourism numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled back. Widespread reports of dramatic changes to protected and conserved1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, tourism businesses and the livelihoods of people who supply labour, goods and service…
Methodological Bricolage and Covid-19: An Illustration From Innovative, Novel, and Adaptive Environmental Behavior Change Research
This article explores innovative and novel research methods and adaptive approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine visitor learning and proenvironmental behavior. We present a mixed methods study that used a methodological bricolage approach to field-based data collection. The pandemic limited our ability to carry out the original study design. Quickly pivoting, the study was adapted to an explanatory sequential design with a survey, an …
Savoring and tourists' positive experiences
The ‘healthy parks–healthy people’ movement in Canada: Progress, challenges, and an emerging knowledge and action agenda
In this article, we outline progress and challenges in establishing effective health promotion tied to visitor experiences provided by protected and conserved areas in Canada. Despite an expanding global evidence base, case studies focused on aspects of health and well-being within Canada’s protected and conserved areas remain limited. Data pertaining to motivations, barriers and experiences of visitors are often not collected by governing agenci…
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning
This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and ‘pet’ bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive treatment group), and the third was a contributory citizen science bee box building project (citizen sci…
Psychology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Tourism (9 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (8 works)