Sport and the environment politics and preferred futures / edited by Brian Wilson and Brad Millington.
| Other author | Wilson, Brian. |
| Other author | Millington, Brad. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2020] |
| Description | xi, 223 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Research in the Sociology of Sport ; Volume 13 Research in the sociology of sport ; v.13. ^A1125750 |
| Contents | Introducing a Sociological Approach to Sport, Environmental Politics, and Preferred Futures / Brian Wilson and Brad Millington -- Sport, International Development and Sustainable Futures: History, Policy, and Potential / Rob Millington, Simon C. Darnell and Tavis Smith -- Extractives Industry and Sport for Development: How Is Right to Play Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Indigenous communitities in Canada? / Nicolien van Luijk, Audrey R. Giles and Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst -- Witness, Adventure, and Competing Discourses of the North / Bruce Erickson -- Restor(y)ing Place: Indigenous Land-based Physical Cultural Practices as Restorative Process in Fisher River Cree Nation / Moss E. Norman, Michael Hart and Gerald Mason -- Animals, Sport, and the Environment / Kass Gibson -- Political Ecologies and Environmental Considerations in Stadium Development / Kyle S. Bunds, Christopher M. McLeod and Joshua I. Newman -- Mobility of Sustainability Policy: Sledding Tracks in the Nagano and PyeongChang Olympics / Kyoung-yim Kim -- Surfing and Environmental Sustainability / Belinda Wheaton -- Reflections on an Attempt to Do "Environmental Sports Journalism": The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Documentary Mount Gariwang: an Olympic casualty / Liv Yoon and Brian Wilson -- Making Our Footprint: Constraints in the Legitimization of Sport Ecology in Practice and the Academy / Brian P. McCullough and Timothy Kellison. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Ebook version: Sport and the Environment. First edition. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020 1787690318 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020276326 |
| ISBN | 9781787690301 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 178769030X (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (online) |
| ISBN | (Epub) |