1st Edition
Events and Sustainability Can Events Make Places More Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable?
1. Events and sustainability: why making events more sustainable is not enough
Judith Mair and Andrew Smith
2. Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
Meng Qu and Joseph M. Cheer
3. The contribution of community events to social sustainability in local neighbourhoods
Nancy Stevenson
4. ‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community
Najmeh Hassanli, Trudie Walters and Janine Williamson
5. Linking engagement at cultural festivals to legacy impacts
Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Adrian Palmer and Yousra Asaad
6. The lasting social value of mega events: experiences from green point community in Cape Town, South Africa
Rutendo Roselyn Musikavanhu, Adele Ladkin and Debbie Sadd
7. An examination of the level of local authority sustainable planning for event management: a case study of Ireland
Kelly Maguire
8. Festivals, public space and cultural inclusion: public policy insights
Bernadette Quinn, Alba Colombo, Kristina Lindström, David McGillivray and Andrew Smith
9. Green governance: understanding the greening of a leading business event from the perspective of value chain governance
Dixi Zhong, Qiuju Luo and Wanxin Chen
10. The role of slow events for sustainable destination development: a conceptual and empirical review
Kim Werner, Kai-Michael Griese and Christina Bosse
11. Sustainable value creation in event ecosystems – a business models perspective
Chiara Orefice and Nana Nyarko
12. Green event directed pro-environmental behavior: an application of goal systems theory
IpKin Anthony Wong, Yim King Penny Wan, GuoQiong Ivanka Huang and Shanshan Qi
13. Effective management and governance of Slow Food’s Earth Markets as a driver of sustainable consumption and production
Burcin Hatipoglu and Kivanc Inelmen
14. Transformative change through events business: a feminist ethic of care analysis of building the purpose economy
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Manjit Monga
15. "Purposeful togetherness": Theorising gender and ageing through creative events
Emma H. Wood and Katherine Dashper
16. Contributions to social sustainability through the sensuous multiculturalism and everyday place-making of multi-ethnic festivals
Kelley A. McClinchey
17. Questioning the inclusivity of events: the queer perspective
Faith Ong, Clifford Lewis and Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta
Biography
Andrew Smith is Professor of Urban Experiences at the University of Westminster, where he leads the Sustainable Cities and the Urban Environment Research Community. He has written multiple publications on events, including two monographs: Events and Urban Regeneration (Routledge, 2012) and Events in the City (Routledge, 2016).
Judith Mair is Associate Professor of Tourism in the University of Queensland Business School. Her work examines the social and environmental impacts of tourism and events on host destinations. She has published over 50 refereed journal articles and has written and/or edited five books.
