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Events, society and sustainability : critical and contemporary approaches / edited by Tomas Pernecky and Michael Luck.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
- Routledge advances in event research series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Special events industry.
- Sustainability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. I. Thinking critically about events and sustainability
- pt. II. Events, sustainability and community
- pt. III. Strategic perspectives and the events sector
- pt. IV. Insights from the field : case studies
- pt. V. Sustainable futures : visions of action and hope.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-48193-1
- 0-203-13453-2
- 1-299-16107-3
- 1-136-48194-X
- 9780203134535
- OCLC:
- 829461173
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