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- Backman, Erik, et al.
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The Changing Landscape of Sport Facilities : Consequences for Practitioners and the Environment
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sport, Performance and Sustainability. - London : Routledge. - 9781003283324 - 9781032254630 ; , s. 50-65
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The environmental impact of sports facilities has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, studies within this area primarily deal with how the actual construction of sports facilities affects the environment. We know far less about how an active presence in sports facilities influences sporting practitioners’ thoughts about their own environmental impact. Therefore, this chapter critically discusses environmental issues connected to sports facilities generally and more specifically in relation to artificial sports facilities. We use several theoretical concepts to discuss the current research with examples taken from the artificial landscapes of cross-country skiing, canoe slalom, and turf-based sports. What makes artificial sports facilities especially interesting from an environmental perspective is the ambiguity they involve. On one hand, the actual constructions involve direct interventions in nature. On the other hand, there is a lack of knowledge about the impact these facilities have on health, environmental awareness, and travel. We argue that future sports facilities will need to stimulate more logic than competition if sport and outdoor recreation is to be environmentally sustainable. The process of sportification, which has prioritised the growth of sport economies and encouraged ever higher performance levels, would need to shift its focus to incorporate environmental concerns.
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- Larneby, Marie, 1978-
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School Sport Education and Sustainability : Towards Ecological and Inclusive Student-Athletes?
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Ingår i: Sport, Performance and Sustainability. - London : Routledge. - 9781003283324 - 9781032254630 - 9781032254661 ; , s. 130-147
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is suggested that sport and physical activity in school contribute to achieving sustainable development and empower young people at a global scale. The Swedish school curriculum does not explicitly relate sustainability to sport or physical activity. While sustainability is taught to a low extent in physical education, it appears even less in school sport. In many countries, school sport has an established place in education to offer and promote physical activity and sports. This chapter aims to reflect on and discuss how education and sport in school sport can have consequences for gender norms and social and environmental sustainability. Sustainability is discussed in relation to gender as a power relation, based on questions of how logics of sport and education and sustainability are managed within educational steering documents. Gendered regimes in (school) sport dominated by a male norm need to be taken into consideration, as they are similar to a corporate, institutionalised competitive, power-oriented masculinity which contributes to a negative impact on the environment. In conclusion, student-athletes potentially could be agents of change to reduce sport industry's impacts on the environment, regarding facilities and transportation, and in attitudes and norms linked to gender and more environmental-friendly alternatives.
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- Svensson, Daniel, et al.
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Introduction : Balancing performance and environmental sustainability
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sport, Performance and Sustainability. - Abingdon, Oxon & New York : Routledge. - 9781003283324 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The growth of sports and the increasing levels of participation, performance, and international competition are undeniable. This development has undoubtedly contributed to the tremendous growth of the sports economy during the last 100 years, as well as an impressive increase in results and performance levels in most sports. It is in turn linked to the comprehensive competition logic that drives sportification of performance and practice in predominantly Western sport, rooted in the cultivation of able bodies, and maximum performance. However, as sports have developed in tandem with the global industrial economy it is also facing similar problems. Over the last decade, sport organisations, supporters, athletes, scholars, and others have begun to problematise the consequences of an ever-growing sports economy and the constant strive for increasing performance levels, growing events, and intensified travel. This introduction will present an overview of how the logics of practice guided by performance, and the sportification model, are linked to potentially problematic aspects of sports in relation to the environment. We pose questions about whether sportification and a strong focus on increasing performance can go hand in hand with a sustainable development.
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