ABSTRACT
The natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the natural environment. This book goes further than any other in surveying both the challenges and the opportunities presented to the sports industry as it engages with the sustainability agenda, exploring the various ways in which sport scholars can integrate sustainability into their research. With a multidisciplinary sweep, including management, sociology, law, events, and ethics, this is a ground-breaking book in the study of sport.
Drawing on cutting-edge research, it includes over thirty chapters covering all the most important themes in contemporary sport studies such as:
- climate change, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility
- ethics, governance, and the law
- event management, tourism, and pollution
- marketing, branding, and consumer behavior
- the Olympics, urban development, and mega-event legacies.
With contributions from world-leading researchers and practitioners from around the globe, this is the most comprehensive book ever published on sport and the environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|96 pages
Foundations of sport and environmental sustainability
chapter 2|25 pages
Robustness of the sport and environmental sustainability literature and where to go from here
chapter 5|13 pages
Climate change and the future of international events
section 2|108 pages
Management and marketing
chapter 7|10 pages
Organizational capacity and sport, the environment, and sustainability
chapter 12|15 pages
Sponsors as meso-level actors in sport
chapter 13|14 pages
Corporate social responsibility campaigns and sports sponsorship
chapter 14|15 pages
Vancouver, green capital
section 3|59 pages
Facilities and operations
chapter 15|13 pages
Assessing the environmental impact of economic activity surrounding major sport events
chapter 18|12 pages
Third-party assurance of sustainability reporting
section 4|51 pages
Event management
section 5|59 pages
Sociocultural approaches
chapter 24|11 pages
Sustainability, greenwashing, and the light green approach to sport environmentalism
chapter 25|10 pages
Sport participation to create a deeper environmental identity with pro-environmental behaviors
section 6|66 pages
Law and governance
chapter 30|11 pages
A little green
chapter 32|11 pages
Law and norms in sustainability developments in the major American sports leagues
chapter 33|14 pages
Steady-state economics and stadiums
section |13 pages
Epilogue