Urbanization, screen dependency, and the changing nature of childhood and parenting
have led to increased time indoors, creating physical and emotional distancing from nature …

Abstract Representation of, and service to,“underrepresented” and “disadvantaged” groups
often denote goals sought by leisure researchers and practitioners. The motivations behind …

Efforts to recruit, retain, and include Blacks, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in
environmental fields often fall short, in part due to limited conceptualizations of conservation …

This paper reports on the findings of a study that examined constraints on leisure
experienced by African American, Latinx and Asian users and nonusers of recreation …

Socioeconomic and racial-ethnic inequities in access to recreation settings are widely
considered environmental justice (EJ) issues. Researchers in leisure, geography, urban …

We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the
past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and …

Although nature-based recreation areas are among the most popular tourism destinations in
the US, African Americans are far less likely to visit them compared to White Americans. This …

Although outdoor recreation significantly contributes to subjective well-being (SWB), existing
studies suggest that African Americans are far less likely to participate in outdoor recreation …

Public lands and the outdoor opportunities they afford are imbued with a long history of
cultural and political contestations between the White settler colonial regime, Black and …

The following article contains language, including discussion of racialized trauma, violent
oppression, and more, that could trigger strong emotions and other physiological reactions …