Surfing and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138856745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 244 str.

Gregory Borne

Opis

This book develops a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy. It contextualizes surfing within current debates on sustainability, considering its impact on communities as well as individual health and wellbeing. The book analyses the capacity of surfing to influence behaviour both at an individual and organizational level. It explores notions of sustainability from a range of perspectives including higher education, industry, the charity sector, media and celebrity culture. Featuring a range of international case studies, it analyses the greening of the surf industry through topics such as environmentally-friendly surfboard manufacturing, eco-community projects funded by the surf industry, coastal management, environmental activism and artificial waves. It also considers the future directions needed within policy and practice to protect and encourage sustainable surfing.

Spis treści

1. Surfing and Sustainability,  Critical Connections,  2. A Surfing Ethnography,  3. Surfing and Theory,  4. Surfing and Sustainability, an Emerging Agenda,  5. Constructing and Deconstructing Sustainable Stoke,  6. Sustainable Surf: From Greening the Industry to Changing the World,  7. From Firewire to Nevhouse,  8. Bringing Surfing to the Table,  9. Activating a Transition,  10. Surfing the Net and Surfing the Wave,  11. The Olympics, Surfing and Artificiality,  12. Conclusions and Research Directions

O autorze

Gregory Borne　is　Director of　the　Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Group at Plymouth University, UK.