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Subject(s)

• Special events—Management [Browse]

Editor

• Whitfield, Julie [Browse]
• Gouthro, Mary Beth [Browse]
• Moital, Miguel [Browse]

Summary note

This book provides a comprehensive overview and systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on events and sustainability. Offering multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Evolution of sustainability in events
• Brundtland report
• BS 8901
• ISO 20121
• Greening events
• UN sustainability goals
• UNSDGs and environmental issues
• UNSDGs and economic issues
• UNSDGs and social issues
• Current context and challenges
• The current context
• Current challenges
• Overview of contributions in this book
• References
• Part I: Bridging the gaps in event sustainability
• Chapter 2: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and events: A missed opportunity?
• Introduction
• Background to the SDGs
• Sustainable Development Goals
• SDGs and tourism
• SDGs and events
• Goal 3: Good health and well-being
• Goal 8: Decent work and growth
• Goal 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
• Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
• Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3: Bridging the gap: Navigating the transition to sustainable events
• Initiatives for a more sustainable events sector
• A change in the narrative of what an event is
• Innovation beyond measuring an event's carbon footprint
• Capacity building
• Final remarks
• Chapter 4: Leadership in sustainability: The Ocean Race
• The Ocean Race's sustainability programme
• Enabling good sustainability practice - a first step
• Stakeholder engagement
• Sustainability framework - establishing credibility
• Environmental awareness and advocacy platforms
• Sustainability programmes
• Initiatives for stakeholder engagement
• Sailor leadership
• Plastic takes centre stage
• Ocean plastic pollution leadership.
• Commitment to plastic stewardship and circularity
• Influencing stakeholders
• Musto
• Volvo Cars
• Beach cleaning uniting a community in Itajai
• Branding look and overlay
• Influencing event organisers
• Climate positive event
• A new narrative - ocean rights
• A personal impact
• Part II: Social and cultural responsibility
• Chapter 5: Reporting sustainable impacts for tourism events and festivals
• Reporting social sustainability of events and festivals
• Events and sustainable development
• The case of events and festivals in South Africa
• Social sustainability and goal setting
• Skills development and job creation
• Social inclusion and social engagement
• Reporting on social impacts
• Reporting social sustainability for events
• Implications and future directions
• Acknowledgement
• Chapter 6: Sustainable mega event legacies
• The sustainability of mega events through the lens of social capital interests
• Event experiences
• Adopting sustainability measures
• Chapter 7: Well-being and events: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, target 3.4
• The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - 2015-2030
• Sustainable Development Goal 3: 'To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages'
• Defining 'well-being'
• Mental health and well-being promotion for Sustainable Development Goal 3
• Mental health and well-being promotion in the event industry
• Attending events for well-being
• Delivering events for well-being (volunteering and working)
• Well-being promotion strategies through event design
• Festivals
• Business events or MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions)
• Neurodivergent audience adaptations
• Mega sporting events
• References.
• Chapter 8: A netnographic study into cultural diversity and inclusion at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant
• Literature review
• Social and cultural sustainability
• Social capital
• Social capital, inclusion, and events
• Methodology
• Results and discussion
• Act 3 - Let's Celebrate
• Community events and social capital development
• Togetherness
• The people's pageant?
• Conclusions
• Reference
• Chapter 9: Safeguarding living heritage: An experiencescape approach to explore the traditional cultural festival sustainability
• To preserve or to consume? Critical concerns on ICH and its involved contexts
• Challenges in safeguarding traditional festivals under the Covid-19 pandemic
• Study context
• Data collection and analysis
• Findings and discussion
• Traditional, contemporary, and living at the same time
• Inclusive, representative, and community based
• Part III: Economic sustainability
• Chapter 10: Making events more sustainable: Events management and circular economy
• Making events more sustainable: events management and circular economy
• Global drivers for sustainability
• Principles of circular economy
• Embedding circular economy in events
• Case study
• City of Lahti, Finland
• Glasgow: Scotland's circular ambitions
• Concluding comments
• Chapter 11: Uncovering links between poverty and festival provision
• UNSDG 1 - No Poverty and global indicators
• UK poverty context
• Overcoming poverty through leisure and festivals
• Festival provision and social sustainability
• Chapter 12: Organisational improvisation and economic sustainability in the corporate events sector as a response to COVID-19 restrictions
• Outcomes of improvisation
• Learning
• Innovation.
• Adaptation
• Summary and gap
• Outcomes of organisational improvisation
• Progressive
• Strategic transformation
• Business expansion
• Enhanced product management
• Organisational capability building
• Resilience and preparedness
• Non-progressive
• Discussion and conclusions
• Part IV: Environmental sustainability
• Chapter 13: Going green: A longitudinal study on the China Import and Export (Canton) Fair
• Method
• Initial stage of Canton Fair: prior to the Green Development (GD) project
• Green Development (GD) project 1.0
• Standard-driven governance
• Mentoring-driven governance
• Incentive-driven governance
• Green Development (GD) project 2.0
• Discussion and conclusion
• Chapter 14: Factors influencing the effectiveness of normative message framing on changing recycling attitudes at outdoor music festivals
• Behavioural change and attitudes
• Normative message framing
• Social norms
• Media richness
• Factors influencing the effectiveness of message type
• Result and discussion
• Reactions to normative messages
• Factors influencing the reactions
• Subjective norm
• Attitude towards recycling
• Chapter 15: Environmental leverage through sport event portfolios
• Environmental sustainability of sport events
• Event portfolios and event leverage of sport events
• Case study area
• Methods
• Findings
• Key barriers and opportunities in environmental sustainability of sport events
• Key barriers hindering environmental sustainability of sport events
• Key opportunities for environmental sustainability in sport events
• Towards environmental leverage of sport events
• Conceptualizing environmental leverage through sport event portfolios
• Chapter 16: The influence of personal values on environmental sustainability in business events in Asia
• Personal values
• The role of personal values in promoting pro-environmental behaviours in business events sector
• Controversial issues in Asia
• Alignment of personal and organisational values for environmental sustainability
• Academia and industry collaboration
• The personal values of governmental leadership
• Part V: Sustainable events and education
• Chapter 17: Events as an educational platform for sustainability
• Events as educational platforms - three perspectives
• Field Configuring Events and institutional logics
• Events and their role in institutional fields
• Institutional logics and fields - influence on the event educational message
• Chapter 18: The attitude-behaviour gap when buying sustainably produced at food festivals: The cost barrier
• Green consumption
• The theory of planned behaviour
• Blake's value-action gap model
• Food festivals
• Analysis and findings
• On arrival
• Exit
• Chapter 19: Transformative Sustainability Learning (TSL) through sport event volunteering in local communities: Applications from the PlayGreen Project
• Transformative Sustainability Learning
• PlayGreen
• Research design
• TSL through PlayGreen in action
• Engagement through PlayGreen
• Enactment through PlayGreen
• Enablement through PlayGreen
• Part VI: Inclusivity and sustainability
• Chapter 20: Gender imbalance in events: Addressing the speaker gender gap in business events
• Leadership gap.
• Implicit, affinity, and gender bias.

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ISBN

• 1-04-015216-3
• 1-003-26931-1
• 1-04-015214-7

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