Dr.Glyn Bissix

Recent Peer Reviewed Articles

Bissix, Glyn (2015).  A Multidimensional Framework for Assessing the Acceptability of Recreational All-Terrain Vehicle Access on Community Trails and Local Public Highways. Leisure/Loisir, 39:3-4, 345-359, DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2015.1116202.

Bissix, Glyn (2013).  Book Review: Serious leisure and nature: sustainable consumption in the outdoors. SAnnal of Leisure Research. pp, 241-242.  Available at:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11745398.2013.841333

Bissix, Glyn; Keith MacCormick, MD. and Chris Milburn (2013).  Is this the New Smoking? A Critique of the York University OHV Health Benefits Study.  The Journal of Health Promotion International. Mar;28(1):133-43. Available at: http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/26/heapro.dar099.short

Bissix, Glyn (2013): Nova Scotia's shared-use trails policy on abandoned rail corridors: an integrative assessment, Leisure/Loisir, 36:3-4, 289-308. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14927713.2012.746074#

Bissix, Glyn (2012). The environmental, social, health and economic impacts of recreational use of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) in North America: lessons for Europe.  Proceedings: The 6^th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas, Stockholm, Sweden. Available at: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:580065/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Chris Milburn, MD. Keith MacCormick, MD. Glyn Bissix and Rene Murphy (2012).  Letter to the Editor:  Disputing the Claims for Physiological fitness and health adaptations from purposeful training using off-road vehicles.  European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2012, Volume 112, Number 9, Pages 3451-3453. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-012-2310-3

Bissix, G.; Callaghan, E. Colton, J. & Brideau, R. (April 2010). Connecting the community Genuine Progress Index (cGPI) to Infrastructure and Ecosystem Management. pp 130-139. In: S. Bondrup-Nielsen, K. Beazley, G. Bissix, D. Colville, S. Flemming, T. Herman, M. McPherson, S. Mockford, S. O'Grady (eds) 2010. Ecosystem Based Management: Beyond Boundaries, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas, 21-26 May 2007, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, SAMPAA. ISBN: 978-0-9699338-7-8.

Bissix, G.;  Rive, K. & Kruisselbrink, D. (2010) Identifying Key Messages to Encourage Minimal Impact on the Cape Split Trail. Liesure/Loisir: The Journal of the Canadian Association of Leisure Research. Volume 33 (2009), No. 2, pp. 615-636. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14927713.2009.9651455#

Bissix, Glyn. Health Promotion, Environmental Protection and “Shared Use” Trails in Nova Scotia?  Visioning Nova Scotia in 2020: Advancing research and policy for sustainability. St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, November 6-7, 2009.

Bissix, Glyn; Nicolas Baker and Liesel Carlsson. (June, 2008). Homeland security impact on a leisure and cultural space: the Roosevelt Campobello International Park. In Jayne Caudwell, Steve Redhead and Alan Tomlinson. Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, consumption and spaces. LSA No. 101, UK. pp. 143-164. Available at: http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20103081203.html

Horvath, Peter; Glyn Bissix, John Sumarah, Erin Crouchman, and Jennifer Bowdrey (2008). Motivational Orientation, Expectancies, and Vulnerability for Depression in Women. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, Vol. 35, issue 2. pp. 19-32. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J005v35n02_03#

Books, Book Chapters and Monographs

Bissix, Glyn and Mike Crowtz (2018). Outdoor Recreation Programming, Revised Edition. Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Pitter, R. & Bissix, G. (2015) Political ecology, discourse and shared use trail development in Nova Scotia. Braking for or Breaking the Environment. In R. Field (Ed.), Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

S. Bondrup-Nielsen, K. Beazley, G. Bissix, D. Colville, S. Flemming, T. Herman, M. McPherson, S. Mockford, S. O'Grady (eds) 2010. Ecosystem Based Management: Beyond Boundaries, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas, 21-26 May 2007, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, SAMPAA. ISBN: 978-0-9699338-7-8 

Alan W. Ewert, Douglas C. Baker and Glyn C. Bissix (2004). Integrated [Natural] Resource and Environmental Management: the human dimension. Oxfordshire: CABI.

Glyn Bissix and L. Anders Sandberg (1993). The Political Economy of the Nova Scotia Forest Improvement Act, 1962-1986. In: Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Ed. L. Anders Sandberg. Acadiensis Press, Fredericton.