Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future: Issues, Pathways and Opportunities - Paperback

by Vassilios Ziakas (Editor), Aaron Beacom (Editor)

Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future contributes to a critical understanding of the challenges key stakeholders across the globe encounter as they seek to manage periods of transition brought about by policy change relating to the provision of sport and physical activity.

Author Biography

Vassilios Ziakas studies cross-sectoral policy issues among sport, tourism, leisure, and events at the regional, national and international levels with an emphasis on strategic planning, community development and sustainability aimed at enabling optimal programme design, delivery and leveraging. He is the author of Event Portfolio Planning and Management (2014) and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (2018).

Aaron Beacom has researched and published in the areas of sport in international development and disability / Paralympic sporting cultures. His editing experience includes co-editing Sport and International Development (with Roger Levermore, 2009 and 2012) and the Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies (with Ian Brittain, 2017).