Surfing and Sustainability

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Borne is Director of the Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Group at Plymouth University, UK. Klappentext This book explicitly explores the relationship between surfing and the environment, society and the economy. Adopting an innovative methodological approach, it presents original research through international case studies and considers future directions and challenges for sustainable surfing. Zusammenfassung This book explicitly explores the relationship between surfing and the environment, society and the economy. Adopting an innovative methodological approach, it presents original research through international case studies and considers future directions and challenges for sustainable surfing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Surfing and Sustainability, Critical Connections, 2. A Surfing Ethnography, 3. Surfing and Theory, 4. Surfing and Sustainability, an Emerging Agenda, 5. Constructing and Deconstructing Sustainable Stoke, 6. Sustainable Surf: From Greening the Industry to Changing the World, 7. From Firewire to Nevhouse, 8. Bringing Surfing to the Table, 9. Activating a Transition, 10. Surfing the Net and Surfing the Wave, 11. The Olympics, Surfing and Artificiality, 12. Conclusions and Research Directions

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Borne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138856745
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85674-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society; Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Sustainability, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, Sports management and facilities, Human Geography, Sports training and coaching, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Sport & leisure industries, Retail and wholesale industries