Slippery Slopes Report

How climate change is threatening the Winter Olympics

Produced in partnership with Loughborough University London

and Protect Our Winters UK.

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Sports for Nature: Setting a Baseline

A UNEP report, authored by many SEG members:

Madeleine Orr, Jack Pippard, Ugo Arbieu, Jonathan Casper, Tim Kellison, Jordan Howell, Walker Ross, Jessica Murfree, Brian McCullough, and Sylvia Trendafilova.

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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.

If you would like more information about any of the studies included here, please contact our team!

For students: We will help you find the original work (full length texts). Get in touch.

For academics: if you've published something about - or related to - sport ecology and we've missed it, get in touch.

Note: The SEG does not own the intellectual rights nor copyright to the texts discussed herein. We share summaries of relevant research, and cite the original work, to make academic articles more accessible to people outside the academic community.

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Corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability (2013)

The study focused on the institutional forces shaping environmental sustainability efforts in the major sport leagues in North America. Results indicated that media played a key role in the type and extend to which sport organizations incorporated environmental initiatives within their daily business practices. Data also illustrated some of the benefits related to sustainability efforts such as averting legal recourse, saving money and building stronger relationships with sta

Why sport industry firms should embrace environmentalism (2006)

This essay presents three reasons why sport industry firms should embrace environmental responsibility as a management competency: 1) Ethical reasons, which consist of two main considerations and apply not just to firms in the sport industry but to all organizations. 2) Sport organizations have a unique relationship to their customers. 3) Embracing environmental responsibility can lead to economic benefits for the organization. The two main aspects of this advantage are c

NEW! Research Round Ups.

Each time our team members attend an academic conference to present our work, we will aim to share a Round-Up of the relevant new research here.

First installment:

NASSM 2020 Research Round-Up