ABSTRACT
The nature-based leisure activities examined in this chapter are the source of historically formed norms and collectives. Their associated usage rights reinterpreting them in the light of environmental logics, often passed down from other decision-making levels is not self-evident. Highlighting these ambiguities should make it possible to better match the objectives of nature policies with the expectations of users, thereby conferring greater legitimacy on these policies in the eyes of users. These results should encourage public decision-makers to consider the different aspects of user's experience of the natural environment when implementing environmental, incentive or regulatory standards. The pragmatic approach adopted here, which is attentive to experiences of the natural environment understood in their perceptible, cognitive, collective aspects and resituated in their historical formation, presents a number of advances in the analysis of the cognitive and normative appropriation of the environment by outdoor leisure enthusiasts.
