Leisure and Sustainable Development: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? - Leisure Time Transportation (WP4), 2008.

The overall focus of this project is the relationship between leisure time consumption and sustainable development in post industrialised countries, and how policies can influence on this relationship. The project is very much based on the findings from the project "Environmental aspects with leisure time consumption: Theoretical developments, empirical analysis and normative discussions" financed by the RAMBU programme, which defined what leisure-time consumption is and presented figures for the volume of consumption and the total energy use.

In this project the RAMBU project is followed up by doing a serious of case studies, in order to assess the drivers of leisure-time consumption and a more detailed assessment of how leisure-timeconsumption have developed over time within a limited number of consumption categories. We will study the increased use of outdoor recreation equipment (case 1), second homes (case 2), leisure boats (case 3) and leisure-time transportation (case 4). In t he final part of the project we will gather relevant stakeholders in order to discuss possible means and policies to a) reduce the environmental impacts of leisure-time consumption, and b) enhance the transfer of low-impact practices from leisure to every-day consumption; thus also in reality establishing the "leisure sector".

本项目的核心研究主题为后工业化国家的休闲消费（leisure time consumption）与可持续发展之间的关联，以及政策如何对该关联产生影响。

本项目主要依托由RAMBU计划（RAMBU programme）资助的前期项目《休闲消费的环境维度：理论演进、实证分析与规范讨论》的研究成果，该前期项目明确了休闲消费的定义，并给出了消费规模与总能源消耗的相关数据。

本项目将对前述RAMBU项目进行跟进研究，通过开展一系列案例分析，以评估休闲消费的驱动因素，并针对有限几类消费品类，更细致地梳理休闲消费随时间的演变轨迹。本次研究将聚焦四类案例：案例1为户外休闲装备（outdoor recreation equipment）使用量的增长，案例2为第二居所（second homes），案例3为休闲游艇（leisure boats），案例4为休闲出行（leisure-time transportation）。

在项目的最终阶段，我们将召集相关利益相关方，共同探讨两类可行路径与政策：一是降低休闲消费带来的环境影响，二是推动低环境影响的休闲实践从休闲领域向日常消费场景迁移，进而在现实层面确立“休闲产业”的概念。