The Greening of Golf: Sport, Globalization and the Environment - Couverture rigide

Millington, Brad; Wilson, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784993271 ISBN 13 : 9781784993276

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Golf is a major global industry. The sport is played by more than 60 million people worldwide and there are more than 32,000 courses in 140 countries across the globe. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry has demonstrated sufficient leadership on environmental matters to be trusted to make weighty decisions with implications for public and environmental health. The first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues, it is based on extensive empirical work, including research into historical materials and interviews with stakeholders in golf such as course superintendents, protesters and health professionals. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on and contributing to literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK

Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784993271
• ISBN 13: 9781784993276
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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