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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Sport Communication for Environmental Sustainability

Sports organizations across North America promote and assert deep commitments to environmental issues through performance signaling and communication. This research aims to explore this communication strategy (website communications) as it relates to environmental initiatives in sport organizations from the major professional sport leagues in North America. The websites of 147 North American sport organizations and their associated venue websites for environmental performance

What Holds Venues Back from Environmental Sustainability?

Despite the push towards environmental sustainability efforts in sport and venue management, there remain some who are not going green or are skeptical of the process. This study sought to understand why that is. Managers of public assembly venues where sport and other entertainment events take place were interviewed to ask "what prevents them from going green?" Findings from sixteen interviews found a variety of reasons given by venue managers: lack of funding, lack of time,

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