Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780815356134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Simon C. Darnell; Rob Millington

Opis

This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sport’s potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability - Issues and Controversies,  2. Add Sport and Stir?: The SDGs and Sport-Environment-Development,  3. Golf, the Environment, and Development: Past, Present, and Future,  4. Approaching Sport and the Environment through Immersive Education Technologies,  5. Postcolonialism, Pristine Natures, and Producing the Village Green: Pastoral Englishness in Indian Cricket-Themed Gated Communities,  6. From the IOC Sport and Environment Commission to Sustainability and Legacy Commission: The Prospects for the Environmental Sustainability Legacy of Olympic Games Host Nations Under Agenda 2020,  7. Ecological Modernization in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games: The Elitist and Unjust Environmental Performance,  8. Of Mosquitoes and Mega Events: Urban Political Ecologies of the More-Than-Human City,  9. Neoliberalism and Competitive Nationalism: What the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 1982 Asian Games Reveal About India’s Development Trajectory,  10. Examining Outdoor Recreation as an Approach to Promote Youth Engagement in Environmental Activism,  11. Indigenous Peoples, Sport, and Sustainability,  12. Co-Transforming Through Shared Understandings of Land-Based Practices in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP)