Active engagement with nature: outdoor adventure tourism,sustainability and wellbeing

Abstract

This article draws on the conflicting arguments surrounding outdoor adventure tourism activities to determine if such activities might usefully be considered beneficial for humans and nature, and how they might offer avenues for sustainable tourism practice. Research in the field has often examined outdoor adventure activities through a lens that either highlights their negative environmental impacts or has sought to conceptualise motivations and/or experiences. In this article, we argue that through practices that are often seen as destructive, there is the possibility to think differently about human-nature relationships and pro-environmentalism. To explore these issues, we draw on data collected from a series of semi-structured interviews with outdoor adventure tourists. Our analysis highlights how outdoor adventure tourism facilitates reconnections to nature, offering potential wellbeing impacts and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. We conclude that outdoor adventure activities as a form of sustainable tourism have potential implications for our understanding of, and engagement with, sustainability, mental health and wellbeing.     

Biosecurity risk and peri‐urban landholders – using a stakeholder consultative approach to build a risk communication strategy

This article presents a straightforward and highly participatory methodology for addressing government agencies’ concerns with effective communication strategies for biosecurity when stakeholders are diverse and there is uncertainty about their levels of knowledge. The case study was among peri‐urban landholders in an area where serious animal disease infestation has occurred within the last 10 years. Initially we engaged stakeholders in a consultative process that included establishing a stakeholder influence and interest map for both weeds and animal diseases. This was followed with a mental model approach involving surveys and in‐depth interviews. We elicited information about landholders’ knowledge, practices, values and beliefs regarding biosecurity risk. Our consultative process generated examples that indicate that effective risk communication relies on establishing and affirming mutual levels of trust and credibility between landholders and agencies. While this finding is not surprising, we argue that attention to stakeholder consultative processes is central to overcoming barriers to changing practices and building awareness. Secondly, our data confirmed that while smaller landholders were the initial target for the communication, all landholders represented a similar level of biosecurity risk. Therefore, our approach was critical in overcoming external assumptions about particular actors. Finally, our data pointed to the need to develop a whole of landscape approach to biosecurity risk communication strategy in consultation with local stakeholders.     

中国老年人口自杀问题研究

老年人口是自杀率最高的人群。中国老年人口自杀率存在显著的性别差异、城乡差异和年龄差异。将我国老年人口自杀率与全球已进入老龄社会的国家作了对比,提出老年人口自杀率的三种不同模型。虽然我国老年人口的自杀率整体上呈下降趋势,但农村老年人口和高龄老年人口的自杀率仍然很高。应对老年人口自杀问题,一方面应着力解决相关的老龄问题,消除与减少老年人产生自杀意念的诱因;另一方面,要重点关切高自杀风险的老年群体,特别是群体中的男性老人、农村老人和高龄老人;还要高度重视老年人精神健康问题与精神卫生工作。     

Analysis of the complexity of writing used in accounting textbooks over the past 100 years

The Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) and the large international accounting firms have all emphasized that accountants must be able to work with unstructured problems to be successful in today's business environment. Measures of this ability are essential if accounting educators are to assist students in improving their abilities to work with unstructured problems. However, there appears to be no measure that has been widely accepted as being the ‘best’ measure. This study considers whether two linguistic performance measures might be usable by accounting educators for this purpose. We use data obtained from a student assessment centre to consider two measures of linguistic performance, idea density and grammatical complexity. We incorporate five criteria in deciding whether these measures could be usable: (1) whether the measures are related to students' performance when solving unstructured problems; (2) whether the measures distinguish between the ability to work with unstructured compared to structured problems; (3) ease of obtaining necessary information from students; (4) ease of scoring, and (5) robustness of the findings after considering other variables that may have an effect. Our results indicate that subjects' linguistic performance as measured by idea density meets these five criteria. However, grammatical complexity is not related to performance for either type of problem. These results were found even after controlling for the effects of other variables such as grade point average (GPA), experience, and personality variables. Because the measures can be obtained from virtually any written work produced by students, the information to be scored is relatively easy to obtain. Scoring is also relatively straightforward.     

翻译和谐性的CIN阐释

从认知角度看,翻译实质上是一个建立在多个认知主体(原作者,译者,读者)心理空间之上的心理互动过程。翻译要实现和谐性就必须处理好各认知主体间的互动关系。Fauconnier和Turner提出的CIN(概念整合网络)机制,能较好地解释翻译活动中作者、译者、读者之间的心理互动及整合运作过程。     

民间资本投资农村基础设施领域的障碍分析

发展农村基础设施,资本问题是关键,仅靠政府主体难以达到农村基础设施长期稳定发展的目标,大力引进民间资本进入农村基础设施领域已成为一种必然趋势。但是,民间资本进入农村基础设施领域存在行政体制、政策环境、融资方面、市场退出和自身素质等多方面的障碍。     

价值分析法在民办大学生心理健康教育中的运用

本文旨在对民办院校学生自身素质、办学条件及社会认可度的分析,运用价值分析的方法,提出民办大学生将可能从入学时起、学习过程中及毕业就业末,不同时期将面临各种不同的甚至比公办院校学生还要多的心理问题,进而提出民办大学生理健康问题的教育方向应从由矫治性转向发展性,从个别学生扩展及全体学生,从单一目标变为多层次目标,从短期目标到中期目标,最后达到终极目标即自我完善,使学生个人潜能得到充分的发挥。     

农村土地承包经营权入股的法律障碍及其破解

农村土地承包经营权入股面临诸多法律障碍,应尽快建立农村社会保障体系和土地开发权制度,放宽对土地承包及承包经营权转让、抵押的限制,赋予集体经济组织外的个人和单位同等的土地承包权,并进一步完善土地承包经营权入股的实施细则.     

高职院校大学生心理健康教育活动调查与思考

高职院校大学生心理健康教育活动为大学生健康成长成才提供了良好的心理基础,是心理健康教育的有效载体和重要途径。根据高职院校大学生心理健康教育活动的问卷调查结果,本文展开了粗浅的思考,高职院校要充分重视心理健康教育活动对大学生的影响,充分发挥心理健康教育活动在培养高职院校合格人才上的作用。     

幼儿教师心理健康研究现状及展望

教育大计,教师为本。有好的教师,才有好的教育。当前不断发生的幼儿教师"虐童"事件警示社会应该关注幼儿教师心理健康问题。本文总结近年来幼儿教师心理健康的有关研究并做出展望,希望能促进对这一群体的研究。