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 Facilities for Environmental and Social Resilience

This commentary examines the precedent of sports facilities being used as emergency response sites, for natural disasters (e.g. the Superdome being used as a shelter during Hurricane Katrina), health crises (e.g. emergency field hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis), and social resilience sites (e.g. large-scale voting sites during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.) Several benefits are identified to support the use of facilities for this purpose. Sport franchises may be

Sport Stadiums and Climate Vulnerability

In the last few years there have been three excellent examples of early stadium replacement, justified by climate change. Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, was built with a roof to ensure athletes weren't stuck playing in the extreme heat of the Texan summer. In California, Oakland Ballpark is being built to last 'basically forever' and thus is being designed to withstand sea level rise and shifting weather patterns. In Miami, Marlins Park was designed to hold up in the m

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