Events, Society and Sustainability Critical and Contemporary Approaches

• Other Authors: Pernecky, Tomas (Editor), Luck, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2017; ©2013
• Subjects: Special events industry; Sustainability
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• Physical Description: xvi, 272 pages illustrated 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781138081703

The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited. While the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability have attracted a reasonable attention in the study of events, the social and cultural aspects of sustainability have been largely neglected. This book brings together emerging critical perspectives, innovative conceptual frameworks and contemporary case studies. Events cannot be isolated from the actions of humans and this is reflected in the emphasis on people and society throughout. The next wave of sustainable discourse requires a critical synthesis of information and this book is the first to address the need for more critical approaches and a broader way of thinking about events and sustainability.