Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future contributes to a
critical understanding of the challenges key stakeholders across the
globe encounter as they seek to manage periods of transition brought
about by policy change relating to the provision of sport and physical
activity.
The book uncovers the global challenges in terms of managing the
re-orientation of stakeholder activities and organisational strategies,
in response to the aspirations for a wider range of outcomes through
sport-based interventions and establishment of partnerships with
non-sport sectors. It illuminates the increasingly erratic trajectory of
sport development service providers, as the environment within which
sport organisations operate changes - through for example, climate
change, demographic shifts, changing features of local economies and
alterations to the structures of local government and governance - and
the responses of sport organisations to these new realities differ
greatly depending on location, institutional structures and leadership.
The chapters highlight the changing social, economic, environmental and
policy contexts within which sports organisations operate, and explain
the subsequent need for new approaches to partnership working, physical
activity re-scoping and integrated education programming.
Showing that the international mandate of creating active lifestyles and
subsequent re-orientation of stakeholders towards physical activity
cannot only contribute to re-defining sport but also in identifying
novel ways for building and managing a sustainable sporting future,
Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future is ideal for
Sports scholars, and particularly those working on Sport Policy and
Sustainable sport development. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Managing Sport and Leisure.
