Routledge handbook of sports development / edited by Barrie Houlihan and Mick Green.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (665 pages) : illustrations

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Series
Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]
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Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organization and administration of sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice.Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • pt. 1. The influences on sports development
  • pt. 2. The contemporary context of sports development
  • pt. 3. Sports development and young people
  • pt. 4. Sports development and adult mass participation
  • pt. 5. Sport and international development
  • pt. 6. Sports development and elite athletes
  • pt. 7. Issues in the practice of sports development
  • pt. 8. Assessing the impact of sports development.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of sports development
  • Sports development
ISBN
  • 9780203885581
  • 1-134-01970-X
  • 1-134-01971-8
  • 1-283-04577-X
  • 1-78034-804-5
  • 9786613045775
  • 0-203-88558-9
OCLC
  • 707068620
  • 709768146
  • 526106462
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203885581
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