Sport and the Environment : Politics and Preferred Futures / edited by Brian Wilson and Brad Millington.
| Other author | Wilson, Brian, 1969- editor. |
| Other author | Millington, Brad, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Research in the Sociology of Sport ; v.13 Research in the sociology of sport ; v.13. ^A1125750 |
| Contents | 1. Introducing a Sociological Approach to Sport, Environmental Politics, and Preferred Futures -- 2. Sport, International Development and Sustainable Futures: History, Policy, and Potential -- 3. Extractives Industry and Sport for Development: How Is Right to Play Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Indigenous communitities in Canada? -- 4. Witness, Adventure, and Competing Discourses of the North -- 5. Restor(y)ing Place: Indigenous Land-based Physical Cultural Practices as Restorative Process in Fisher River Cree Nation -- 6. Animals, Sport, and the Environment -- 7. Political Ecologies and Environmental Considerations in Stadium Development -- 8. Mobility of Sustainability Policy: Sledding Tracks in the Nagano and PyeongChang Olympics -- 9. Surfing and Environmental Sustainability -- 10. Reflections on an Attempt to Do "Environmental Sports Journalism": The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Documentary Mount Gariwang: an Olympic casualty -- 11. Making Our Footprint: Constraints in the Legitimization of Sport Ecology in Practice and the Academy |
| Abstract | This volume examines sport's relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from these decisions. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Wilson, Brian Sport and the Environment : Politics and Preferred Futures Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2020 9781787690301 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1787690318 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781787690295 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1787690296 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781787690318 electronic book |
| Stock number | 9781787690318 Emerald Publishing |
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