1st Edition

Surfing and Sustainability

By Gregory Borne Copyright 2018
244 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability. The book contextualises surfing within current debates on sustainability and applies these... Read more

1. Surfing and Sustainability, Critical Connections

2. A Surfing Ethnography

3. Surfing and Theory

4. Surfing and Sustainability, an Emerging Agenda

5. Constructing and Deconstructing Sustainable Stoke

6. Sustainable Surf: From Greening the Industry to Changing the World

7. From Firewire to Nevhouse

8. Bringing Surfing to the Table

9. Activating a Transition

10. Surfing the Net and Surfing the Wave

11. The Olympics, Surfing and Artificiality

12. Conclusions and Research Directions

Index

Biography

Gregory Borne is Director of the Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Group at Plymouth University, UK.