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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Environmental sustainability in sport: Current state and future trends (2014)

The study provides an overview of current environmental initiatives in the sport industry, providing specific examples from a variety of sport settings and type of organizations. Two major trends are shaping environmental efforts: the focus on reducing the ecological footprint and using sports as a means to raise environmental awareness. Future efforts will be affected by social values and expectations of stakeholders, government intervention, and mandatory requirements for c

The impact of snow scarcity on ski tourism (2011)

Using the record-warm winter weather statistics of 2006-2007, this study explores the sensitivity of ski businesses and related tourism sector in Tyrol, Austria in future warm winter conditions. The overall impact on ski areas was relatively small at the regional level, though the analysis on the basis of individual organizations shows high sensitivity among small and medium ski areas, particularly at low altitudes. Climate change is expected to increase the risk of financial

Trends in winter tourism and future challenges (2008)

540 skiers from Vienna, Austria were surveyed to understand winter sport tourists' activity and destination choice, and to estimate shifts in customer demand with climate change. The study found that skiers have a strong preference for destinations with natural snow. In winters with low snow, resorts in high (altitude) destinations gain importance and travel distances lose relevance (i.e. people will travel further if it means they can ski in better conditions, which tend to

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