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The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems. This book is unique in providing an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological restoration of urban and industrial degraded habitats and their use by nearby city-dwellers. For the first time ecologists, sociologists and anthropologists have worked together on particularly sensitive ecosystems such as rivers and estuaries to propose recovery strategies that allow their basic ecological functions to be restored, and which can benefit local populations through nature activities. Nonetheless, the use of natural spaces calls for the building of sustainable towns. This is why this book is distinctive in considering quality of life and well-being as stated objectives of modern river towns. Recently, leisure time has become a part of urban rhythms. In order to favour personal development, an extensive palette of leisure activities is considered by the authors: * bird watching * entertainment * sports * culture Many aspects including physical and psychological attributes in relation to the contemporary socio-political fabric are dealt with. While cre

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Author

Charly Machemehl, Olivier Sirost, Jean-Paul Ducrotoy

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030487096

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Management