Sport & the Natural Environment: A Strategic Guide

Sports can be a platform to make change and to educate others about environmental issues.

Sport & the Natural Environment: A Strategic Guide describes actions that speak to current and future sport managers in assisting with green efforts across a variety of sport organizations. The approach taken to implement these actions is one of simplicity, proactivity, and customizability.

This book offers guidance for individuals or team/organizational personnel in starting the process of changing business operations or developing environmentally sound operations in unique contexts. Sport & the Natural Environment can be adopted across a range of undergraduate and graduate courses to enhance strategic management, facility management, and marketing coursework by adding an environmental perspective to existing topics.

The chapters in this book cover a variety of topics ranging from foundational knowledge to flexible, customizable strategy design, implementation, and evaluation tools.

Sport & the Natural Environment:

• Is relevant now, and in the future, with real world examples to illustrate key points.
• Is application oriented by using thought provoking questions to facilitate personal reflection and actions towards more sustainable business practices.
• Is sport industry focused on the issues that links the information presented with organizational situations and practices.

From the various fields of play to need for parking and lighting, the environment is woven into sport. No matter what we do (even a simple run), we have an impact on the environment (footprint). The extent to which this legacy is damaging, unalterable, and reversible, depends on our actions.