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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Water, Sports and Environmental Sustainability

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the issue of utilizing water resources to maintain grass sports fields during times of extreme drought. The discussion focuses on a major municipality outside of Toronto in southwestern Ontario, Canada. This region has been experiencing hotter summers and drought conditions, and should this trend continue, themunicipality will have to decide whether its available water resources should be used on its sports fields. To assist in making

Constraints on sustainability behaviors (2018)

Engaging sport participants (e.g., runners) in sustainable behaviors can significantly reduce the environmental impact of the organization or event. However, various constraints limit the engagement of participants in sustainable behaviors, including both internal constraints (e.g. lack of knowledge and lack of worth) and external constraints. This study explored the role of lack of access to sustainable options, lack of time to engage with sustainability. This study surveyed

Water management in sport (2014)

This case study of water management in sport clubs in Australia challenges students to discuss the use of water, the ethics of which facilities should be allotted water, and how the use of those facilities ought to be allocated to various teams. The case is complicated by the prolonged droughts in Australia, both operationally and ethically. CITE: Phillips, P., & Turner, P. (2014). Water management in sport. Sport Management Review, 17(3), 376-389. #sportecology #water #susta

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