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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Assessing the ecological impact due to disc golf (2011)

This study evaluated the ecological footprint of disc golf. This was achieved by using three ecological markers of ecological degradation: soil erosion, soil compaction and density of vegetation cover. Data indicated that disc golf significantly increases soil compaction, which in turn contributes to more soil erosion and subsequently to a decrease in vegetation cover. These results are important for sport and recreational managers as they need to pay close attention to certa

Sport subcultures and their potential for addressing environmental problems (2011)

The study incorporates interviews and field observations, attempting to understand the role sport subcultures could have as a tool to address sustainability issues in recreational settings. Results indicated that while disc golfers lacked knowledge about the negative impact of disc golf on the natural environment, they were strongly attached to the park where they played and were willing to modify the behaviors associated with the negative impact. This emphasizes the importan

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