Research

Here, we cover all research related to sport and the natural environment: the recent, the relevant, the revolutionary.

Our goal is to synthesize sport ecology research in one place, so researchers and practitioners have access to the latest information.

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Does regular physical activity influence climate change attitudes? (2020)

Many organizations, governments, and NGOs alike seek ways to best engage the broad public for meaningful and authentic actions to address climate change. The...

Testing the sport participant sustainability behavior model (2019)

Sport and event managers have engaged in environmental sustainability efforts for the last several years with increasing sophistication. These fan engagement...

On the potential impacts of climate change on baseball and cross-country skiing (2020)

While climate change is expected to have deleterious effects on human health, the economy, and despite evidence that climate change is already impacting spor...

Sport ecology: Conceptualizing an emerging subdiscipline within sport management (2020)

This paper is the first formal introduction to sport ecology as a subdiscipline in sport management. Through a review of relevant literature, the authors rea...

Measuring externalities: The next step to sustainability assessments (2020)

In this conceptual paper, the authors propose that there are two challenges with how sport organizations assess their environmental impact. The first challen...

Comparing Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games (2019)

As an understanding of "sustainability" and its application to the Olympic Games evolves, this study considered the sustainability objectives and outcomes of...

Sustainability in mega-events: Beyond Qatar 2022 (2019).

This paper aims to survey previously published research's findings on environmental sustainability in sport mega-events and apply such lessons to the environ...

Air pollution and attendance in the Chinese Super League (2019)

The authors explore the effect of air pollution (among other factors) on consumer behavior in the China’s most popular soccer league, the Chinese Super Leagu...

Not everything is a contest: sport, nature sport, and friluftsliv (2019)

In this article, Howe engages in the debate of whether all sports are games and all games are contests. The latter argument is particularly controversial, as...

Outdoor life, nature experience, and sports in Norway (2019)

Gurholt and Broch investigate the debate that occurred in Norway between 2008–2009 following the national government’s proposed Markaloven, an Act of Parliam...

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