Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in Europe

Caroline van Lindert is Senior Researcher at the Mulier Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Jeroen Scheerder is Professor in the Faculty of Movement & Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium, and head of the Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group. Ian Brittain is Associate Professor (Research) in the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University, UK.

• 1. Introduction. Sport participation a human right for persons with a disability.- 2. Understanding disability, disability sport and inclusion.- 3. Participation in sport and physical activity amongst people with a disability. A pan-European comparative approach.- 4. Denmark: Disability sports policy at arm’s length.- 5. Finland. Facts behind the long and complicated process of disability inclusion in sports.- 6. Disability and sport in Iceland.- 7. Norway.- 8. Beyond inclusion - opportunity structures in sports for all in Sweden.- 9. Ireland.- 10. Northern Ireland: Disability Sport in a Shared Space.- 11. United Kingdom: An inclusionary approach to sport.- 12. Austria: Half Way to Inclusion?.- 13. Disability sport in Belgium/Flanders. From a fragmented mosaic towards a more inclusive landscape.- 14. Complexity and Coexistence: Disability Sport in Germany.- 15. The Netherlands, towards inclusive sport for people with a disability.- 16. Switzerland.- 17. Hungary: Rise of attention given to disability sports.- 18. Disability Sport in Lithuania.- 19. Structure of the analysis on the development and situation of disability sport in Slovenia.- 20. Portugal: pathways of sport for people with disabilities .- 21. Disability sport in Spain.- 22. Turkey (Republic of Turkey): Disability Sports, Policies and Implementations.- 23. The landscape of sport for persons with a disability: a system within a system.