This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums,
and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color.
Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it
illustrates what happens when sport organizations and other public and
private stakeholders fail to factor environmental justice into their
planning and operations processes.
It opens with an historical account of environmental justice research
and of research into sport and the natural environment. It then offers a
series of case studies from around the world, including the United
States, Canada, Kenya, South Africa, and Taiwan. These case studies are
organized around key elements of environmental justice such as water and
air pollution, displacement and gentrification, soil contamination, and
transportation accessibility. They illustrate how major sports stadiums
have contributed positively or negatively (or both) to the environmental
health of the compact neighborhoods that surround them, to citizens'
quality of life, and in particular to communities that have historically
been subjected to unjust and inequitable environmental policy. Placing
the issue of environmental justice front and center leads to a more
complete understanding of the relationship between stadiums, the natural
environment, and urban communities.
Presenting new research with important implications for practice, this
book is vital reading for anybody working in sport management, venue
management, mega-event planning, environmental studies, sociology,
geography, and urban and regional planning.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
