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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STARS and Collegiate Athletics

The research examined higher education’s (focus on the NCAA) participation in (AASHE’s) Green Athletics category in the sustainability tracking, assessment and rating system (STARS) sustainability report while evaluating how well collegiate athletic departments engage in the various categories within Green Athletics. A quantitative content analysis using descriptive statistics, Chi square, and Pearson r correlation was conducted. The analysis found that of the 335 institutio

Carbon dioxide emissions of spectators’ transportation (2018)

The carbon footprint is a term used to refer to the total amount of CO2 emissions that are generated by a product, activity, or population. Sport events are known to have large carbon footprints due to the high energy usage of the event, high waste, and travel. The most significant contributor to overall CO2 emissions at sporting events is transport. This study explored carbon emissions (CO2 emissions) vis-a-vis three research questions: 1) How do CO2 emissions differ in an

Collaboration between sustainability departments and athletics departments (2015)

The study aimed to understand the collaboration efforts (if any) between sustainability offices on college/university campuses and the athletic departments. Interviews with 17 participants were conducted with results indicating the importance of relationship development, communication, decision-making development, collaborative efforts, and challenges associated with the development of relationships between the sustainability offices and the athletic departments. Although the

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