Book
Events and sustainability: can events make places more inclusive, resilient and sustainable?
Routledge
2023
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Abstract
This book examines the links between events and sustainability, with a particular focus on how festivals and events contribute to making places more inclusive, resilient and sustainable. Previous sustainability research in events often focused on reducing the negative environmental impacts, with a corresponding lack of consideration of socio-economic dimensions. More recently, research has begun to consider events in relation to a range of economic and social issues, highlighting the growing importance of examining events through a critical lens. This book adopts a critical and broader approach to event sustainability, arguing that scholars should examine how events might contribute to sustainable development, rather than merely exploring how individual events could be made more sustainable. Accordingly, the contributors to this edited book address how events might change attitudes and behaviours by promoting sustainable lifestyles, communities and technologies. Following a detailed introduction, the book features 16 chapters written by scholars from across the world.
Details
- Title
- Events and sustainability: can events make places more inclusive, resilient and sustainable?
- Creators
- Andrew Smith - University of WestminsterJudith Mair - University of Queensland
- Contributors
- Andrew Smith (Editor) - University of WestminsterJudith Mair (Editor) - University of Queensland
- Publisher
- Routledge; London
- Number of pages
- 346
- Identifiers
- 9781032322865; 1032322861; 991013310018202368
- Academic Unit
- Office of the PVC (Academic Innovation)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book