Events and Sustainability

Kirsten Holmes is Professor of Tourism at Curtin University, Western Australia. She has over 25 years’ experience of teaching Event Management and Event Sustainability in the UK and Australia. Her research focuses on volunteerism in tourism and leisure settings, and she is the editor of Event Volunteering: International Perspectives on the Event Volunteering Experience and The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism.Michael Hughes is Associate Professor of Environmental Management at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Michael has 25 years’ experience teaching and researching natural resource and natural area management and how this can work towards achieving sustainability. Michael has published on topics including nature‑based tourism and recreation, natural area management, environmental attitudes, perceptions and visitor behaviour management.Judith Mair is Professor and Associate Dean (Education) at The Hotel School Australia, Southern Cross University. She has 20 years’ experience teaching and researching events and tourism. Her research focuses on the impacts of events on community and society and the relationship between events and climate change. She has published over 65 articles in international peer‑reviewed academic journals and is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Festivals, the author of Conferences and Conventions: A Research Perspective and co‑author of Festival Encounters.Carmel Foley is an internationally recognised researcher in business events and event impact. Her work explores how events create lasting economic, social and cultural benefits for communities. She leads major projects on conference and event legacy in Australia and internationally and is lead author of the book Business Event Legacies. Carmel is a Professor of Business Events at UTS Business School where she teaches and supervises students in event management, impact evaluation and social justice.

• 1. Introduction to sustainable events PART I The events context 2. The internal and external environment for sustainable event organisers 3. Sustainable events and public policy 4. Sustainable events and urban regeneration PART II Impacts of sustainable events 5. Economic impact evaluation of events 6. Environmental impacts of events 7. Socio‑cultural impacts of events 8. Delivering the sustainable event PART III Logistics of sustainable events 9. Employment, volunteering and sustainable events 10. Risk and crisis management for sustainable events 11. Technology and events 12. The challenge of creating sustainable event legacies PART IV Conclusion 13. Developing sustainable events: summary and future directions