1st Edition
Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future Issues, Pathways and Opportunities
Editorial: Re-thinking sport and physical activity: management responses to policy change
Vassilios Ziakas and Aaron Beacom
1. Whose job is it anyway? Public–private partnerships in youth sport
Eric Legg, Gareth J. Jones and Misha White
2. Watching the pennies and the people – how volunteer-led sport facilities have transformed services for local communities
Lindsay Findlay-King, Geoff Nichols, Deborah Forbes and Gordon Macfadyen
3. Playing the climate game: climate change impacts, resilience and adaptation in the climate-dependent sport sector
Greg William Dingle and Bob Stewart
4. Understanding the growth in outdoor recreation participation: an opportunity for sport development in the United Kingdom
C. Mackintosh, G. Griggs and R. Tate
5. Rationalities of goodwill: on the promotion of philanthropy through sports-based interventions in Sweden
David Ekholm and Magnus Dahlstedt
6. Developing workreadiness; a Glasgow housing association sports-based intervention
Catherine Mary Walker
7. Sport development in challenging times: leverage of sport events for legacy in disadvantaged communities
Barbara Bell and John Daniels
8. Inspiring a generation: an examination of stakeholder relations in the context of London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics educational programmes
Verity Postlethwaite, Geoffery Z. Kohe and Gyozo Molnar
9. Understanding the management challenges associated with the implementation of the physically active teaching and learning (PATL) pedagogy: a case study of three Isle of Wight primary schools
Oscar Mwaanga, Henry Dorling, Samantha Prince and Matthew Fleet
10. Environmental sustainability and sport management education: bridging the gaps
Jeffrey Graham, Sylvia Trendafilova and Vassilios Ziakas
Biography
Vassilios Ziakas studies cross-sectoral policy issues among sport, tourism, leisure, and events at the regional, national and international levels with an emphasis on strategic planning, community development and sustainability aimed at enabling optimal programme design, delivery and leveraging. He is the author of Event Portfolio Planning and Management (2014) and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (2018).
Aaron Beacom has researched and published in the areas of sport in international development and disability / Paralympic sporting cultures. His editing experience includes co-editing Sport and International Development (with Roger Levermore, 2009 and 2012) and the Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies (with Ian Brittain, 2017).
