Events and Sustainability

Can Events Make Places More Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable?

Andrew Smith, Judith Mair, Andrew Smith, Judith Mair

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032322858
• eBook ISBN: 9781000685084
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

This book examines the links between events and sustainability, with a particular focus on how festivals and events contribute to making places more inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

Previous sustainability research in events often focused on reducing the negative environmental impacts, with a corresponding lack of consideration of socio-economic dimensions. More recently, research has begun to consider events in relation to a range of economic and social issues, highlighting the growing importance of examining events through a critical lens. This book adopts a critical and broader approach to event sustainability, arguing that scholars should examine how events might contribute to sustainable development, rather than merely exploring how individual events could be made more sustainable. Accordingly, the contributors to this edited book address how events might change attitudes and behaviours by promoting sustainable lifestyles, communities and technologies. Following a detailed introduction, the book features 16 chapters written by scholars from across the world.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Events and sustainability: why making events more sustainable is not enough
• 2 Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
• 3 The contribution of community events to social sustainability in local neighbourhoods
• 4 ‘You feel you’re not alone’: how multicultural festivals foster social sustainability through multiple psychological sense of community
• 5 Linking engagement at cultural festivals to legacy impacts
• 6 The lasting social value of mega events: experiences from Green Point community in Cape Town, South Africa
• 7 An examination of the level of local authority sustainable planning for event management: a case study of Ireland
• 8 Festivals, public space and cultural inclusion: public policy insights
• 9 Green governance: understanding the greening of a leading business event from the perspective of value chain governance
• 10 The role of slow events for sustainable destination development: a conceptual and empirical review
• 11 Sustainable value creation in event ecosystems: a business models perspective
• 12 Green event directed pro-environmental behavior: an application of goal systems theory
• 13 Effective management and governance of Slow Food’s Earth Markets as a driver of sustainable consumption and production
• 14 Transformative change through events business: a feminist ethic of care analysis of building the purpose economy
• 15 “Purposeful togetherness”: Theorising gender and ageing through creative events
• 16 Contributions to social sustainability through the sensuous multiculturalism and everyday place-making of multi-ethnic festivals
• 17 Questioning the inclusivity of events: the queer perspective
• Index