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This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering global case studies, it argues that sport organizations and other public and private stakeholders have an ethical duty to factor environmental justice into their planning processes.
List of contents
PART I
Overview
1 Considering Environmental Justice in Sport: Green Fields, Gray Skies
Timothy Kellison
2 Stadiums, Gentrification, and Displacement: A Comparative Overview of U.S. Cities
John Lauermann
3 Indigenous Environmental Justice in U.S. and Canada Sport Stadiums
Alisse Ali-Joseph, Kelsey Leonard, and Natalie M. Welch
4 Environmental Impacts of Shadow Stadia
Taryn Barry, Daniel S. Mason, and Lisi Heise
5 Stadiums and State Environmental Policy Acts
Kellen Zale
PART II
Case Studies
6 Stadiums, Race, and Water Infrastructure: Flooding on Atlanta's Southside
Marni Davis, Richard Milligan, and Andy Walter
7 Intracity Team Relocation and Environmental Justice in Baltimore
Jessica R. Murfree and Walker J. Ross
8 Old and New Stadium Development in Miami
Laura Sivels
9 Stadia and Community Stewardship: Community Benefits and Public Finance for New York's Yankee Stadium
Austin H. Thompson and Kyle S. Bunds
10 The Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, Nationals Park, and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.
Michael Friedman
11 Cape Town's 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadium Location and Its Spatial and Environmental Justice Implications
Aadil Engar and Jacques du Toit
12 Settler Colonialism as Environmental Injustice: Rogers Place and Edmonton
Chen Chen and Judy Davidson
13 Micro Land Grabbing of Sporting Grounds in Nairobi: A New Form of Environmental Justice at Play
Stephanie Gerretsen
14 Politics and Decision-Making in the Taipei Dome Complex Project
Chun-Chieh Lin
15 Seattle and Climate Pledge Arena: A Progressive and Sustainable Arena that Must Integrate Equity and Increase Accountability
Alex Porteshawver
About the author
Timothy Kellison is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Sport and Urban Policy at Georgia State University, USA. His research is primarily focused on sport in the urban environment, with special emphasis in sport ecology, urban and regional planning, public policy, and politics. He is coeditor of the
Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development and the
Routledge Handbook of Sport and the Environment.
Summary
This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering global case studies, it argues that sport organizations and other public and private stakeholders have an ethical duty to factor environmental justice into their planning processes.
