Greening of Golf

Sport, Globalization and the Environment

AvBrad Millington,Brian Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Golf is a major global industry. The sport is played by more than 60 million people worldwide and there are more than 32,000 courses in 140 countries across the globe. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry has demonstrated sufficient leadership on environmental matters to be trusted to make weighty decisions with implications for public and environmental health. The first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues, it is based on extensive empirical work, including research into historical materials and interviews with stakeholders in golf such as course superintendents, protesters and health professionals. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on and contributing to literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Globalizing Sport Studies
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781784993276

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Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of BathBrian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada

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Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problemsPart II: Background and history3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndromePart III: The light-greening of golf5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf's light-green movement6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf's conspicuous exemptionPart IV: The dark-greening of golf8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development9. Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternativePart V: Conclusion10. Reflections, recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we loveIndex