Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This revised and updated edition reflects the changes that have taken place within the field of leisure and recreation management in recent years. Issues such as social inclusion, cultural strategy, and exercise for health have risen to the top of the policy agenda. Commercial pressures, changes in the voluntary and public sector, and emerging leisure professions such as sports development and playwork are all profoundly influencing the professional landscape.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Illustrations
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction, structure and significance of the book
• Introduction - leisure in a changing world?
• Is there a need to manage people's leisure and recreation?
• Significance of this book
• Structure and changes to the book
• Part One Leisure and the needs of people
• Play, Children and the community
• Play shapes human behaviour
• Play in Historical perspective
• The theories - why so people play?
• Play and its implications for leisure services
• The right to play
• Growing up in an uncertain world of social anxiety
• The public sector and play provision
• The government and children's play
• Rights of the child
• The Children Act
• Education Acts
• Children, adventure and the great outdoors
• Play - a lucrative market in the private sector
• Fair play in our time? Play - summary
• Notes and references
• Recreation
• Recreation -an overview
• Recreation theories
• Recreation - any kind of satisfying experience?
• Recreation - an institution and a process?
• Recreation and its implications for leisure services
• Recreation and management
• Recreation - summary
• Notes and references
• Leisure - towards a philosophy and understanding of its evolution
• A philosophy of life and leisure
• Leisure: historical perspective
• Leisure: a variety of approaches, descriptions and definitions
• Leisure: a social problem? Mass leisure
• Leisure - a variety of approaches, descriptions and definitions
• Leisure - a social problem? Mass Leisure
• Leisure - its relationship to work Changing times of the 1960 onwards
• Loss of structures and traditions - 'casual' and 'serious' leisure
• Leisure - a search for identity
• Similarities between play, recreation and leisure
• The inner core - the leisure experience - 'pleasure'
• Public services designed to meet needs - problems and possibilities
• Leisure - summary
• References and notes
• People's needs and factors that influence participation
• Human motivation and need
• Social need
• Needs, demands and leisure and recreation services
• People's needs and leisure planning
• Factors that influence participation
• Individual, personal and family influences on leisure participation
• Social and situational circumstances and leisure participation
• Opportunity and leisure participation, Summary - people's needs and factors that influence participation in leisure
• References and notes
• Part Two Leisure trends, planning and government
• Making use of information on trends in a growth industry
• Population changes
• Changing social behaviour
• Changing markets
• Income - wealth and poverty
• The National Lottery
• The use of time - leisure at home
• The use of time - leisure away from home
• Participation in sports
• Summary - trends in leisure
• Notes and references
• Planning for leisure
• Historical perspective - general planning and leisure planning
• Statutory plans and leisure plans
• Local government - philosophical basis for leisure provision
• Assessment of demand
• Standards of provision
• Spatial analysis
• Hierarchy of facilities
• National participate rates
• Grid approach
• Need index approach
• Facilities planning model
• Public consultation
• The leisure planning process
• Summary - planning for leisure
• Notes and references
• The government and leisure agencies in the United Kingdom
• Introduction
• Department for Culture, media and Sport
• The National Lottery
• Crafts Council
• British Film Institute
• Museums and galleries
• The library sector
• Sports and the Sports Council
• The Central Council of Physical Recreation
• The National Playing Fields Association
• The Countryside Commission
• The Environment Agency
• Tourism and the tourist boards
• English Heritage
• Notes and references
• Part three The Leisure providers
• Leisure provision in the public sector
• Providers of leisure services and facilities
• Public sector services and facilities
• Government and recreat