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• Expedition leadership in the wild - John Gans - Harvard Business Review
  The lessons about leadership learned in the crucible of the backcountry environment ? unpredictable, challenging, and dynamic ? map to today's business environment.


• Benefits of outdoor exercise confirmed
  A systematic review has analysed existing studies and concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise in the natural environment.


• Explaining the value of camping
  Abstract of the Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the camping Association of Victoria, 25 June 1993. It draws on research that addresses the question of how camps nurture positive attitudes and skills and caring social behaviour in young people.


• Seaside is lost to children
  Two-thirds of youngsters aged between 8 and 15 have never been camping


• Program evaluation and outdoor education: An overview
  This session explored ways to approach program evaluation in the context of outdoor education and related group-based experiential programs.


• Living in walkable neighbourhood much better for BMI than living near outdoor recreation opportunities
  Participants in walkable neighbourhoods maintained their weight (as expected), while those who chose locations based on proximity to outdoor recreation opportunities (surprisingly) gained weight.


• Outdoor education theories: A review and synthesis (Neill, 2010)
  This 45-minute keynote summarises and reviews outdoor education theory to date and then proposes a dynamic model to synthesise the main theoretical elements.


• Outdoor Education Week 2010
  The inaugural Outdoor Education Week aims to raise public awareness of the how Outdoor Education helps individuals learn about themselves, the people in the groups with whom they work and about the environment that they are spending their time in.


• Risk | Psychology Today
  Risk taking probably bestowed a crucial evolutionary advantage, inciting the fighting and foraging of the hunter-gatherer.


• Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity - NYTimes.com
  5 neuroscientists go on a rafting trip in order to study the brain.

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