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The purpose of this study was to examine manager perceptions of climate impacts, and climate change adaptation, in community-level sport. Existing research gives little guidance about sport’s climate risks or adaptation possibilities.  This topic is important because in an era of climate change, community sport is the foundation of sport systems. Yet community sport is inherently vulnerable and existing studies tell us little about how managers perceive climate risks or...

The purpose of this study was to understand how frontline sport managers perceive climate change impacts on community sport.   This topic is important because although community sport is an important setting for managing sport participation, few studies have investigated impacts of climate change on sport. Even fewer studies have investigated climate impacts from the perspectives of sport managers at grassroots-level.  This study is unique because: (a) it sampled community sport across four...

The article utilizes IOC archival materials to discuss how different actors and parties called on the IOC to address environmental issues from the early 1970s through the early 1990s (mostly in the context of holding the Olympics). It broadly outlines and synthesizes the IOC's response (or lack thereof) and concludes that the IOC was primarily reactive rather than proactive until the late 1980s. The article highlights the 1980s as the key decade that prompted the IOC to (finally) look into...