COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause

Bustad, Jacob J.; Clevenger, Samuel M.; Rick, Oliver

doi:10.1080/02614367.2022.2115114

Cited by 7 publications

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“…While the importance of digital incentives to remain fit and physically active even when forced to remain at home should not be underestimated, the major role the COVID-related lockdown has played in restricting our mobility outdoors also cannot be denied. The above-indicated alteration of behavioural patterns caused by the lockdown resulted in a phenomenon referred to as anthropause (17), the slowing-down of human activity. The anthropause period has had a major impact on the amount of time which had to elapse before mobility and the level of human activity gradually reached their pre-COVID levels.…”

Section: The Covid Pandemics and Anthropausementioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor Generation Era. Risks and challenges

Pruszyński,

Cianciara,

Włodarczyk-Pruszyńska

et al. 2023

J Educ Health Sport

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Our ability to remain in good health, both physical and mental, largely depends on the amount of time we spend out of doors. Certain changes to our lifestyle which came about due to technological progress have reduced the frequency of direct contact with the natural world and resulted in people remaining indoors for around 90% of their time. This has a negative impact on our health due to prolonged exposition to indoor pollutants, including light pollution on account of artificial lighting. A reasonable conclusion can be drawn that members of developed societies will, in the nearest future, continue to spend most of their time in various enclosed spaces. Because of this, in addition to taking steps aimed at motivating people to spend as much time as possible outside, we need to ensure that the conditions indoors are detrimental to us to the least extent possible and that the structural design of rooms where we stay supported our biological and mental needs.

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Section: The Covid Pandemics and Anthropausementioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor Generation Era. Risks and challenges

Pruszyński,

Cianciara,

Włodarczyk-Pruszyńska

et al. 2023

J Educ Health Sport

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“…The emissions from these vehicles contribute to air pollution. Furthermore, outdoor sports became increasingly popular as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; people believed there would be less risk of infection during outdoor sports than during indoor sports [12]. This trend has inevitably increased environmental concerns.…”

Section: Sports and Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, sports have the potential to seriously damage the natural environment in many ways. One of the most serious threats is posed by the demand for "nature sports" (including skiing, skin scuba-diving, rock climbing, rafting, yachting, surfing, golf, paragliding, and other sports performed in an undeveloped natural environment), which is likely to increase in the future [12][13][14]. This is because urban areas are becoming increasingly polluted, and people thus increasingly want to return to nature; this desire is supported by economic affluence and leisure time [15,16].…”

Section: Sports and Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Study of Measures for Sustainable Sport

Lim,

Park

2023

Sustainability

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The purpose of this study is to diagnose the environmental pollution problems caused by sports and analyze the eco-friendly methods applied to international sporting events held in the past to explore approaches and challenges concerning the sustainable development of sports. To this end, we first analyze the environmental pollution problems caused by sports, as categorized into three types through a review of previous studies, and examine the need for an environmental ethical approach to the conflict between sports and the environment. Then, we choose the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, which the IOC considers to be the most environmentally friendly competitions, as well as FIFA’s Green Goal program as case studies and analyze the features and limitations of environmentally friendly methods in terms of planning, operation, marketing, and performance dissemination in each case to draw implications for the sustainable development of sport. This study argues that to find a fundamental solution to conflicts between sports and the environment, it is necessary to change the perception from an anthropocentric paradigm to an ecocentric paradigm and establish a new value system for the natural environment.

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