Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open
- Autor(en)
- Peter Gollagher, Sebastian Fastenrath
- Abstrakt
Adapting to extreme weather events and mitigating greenhouse gases have become critical challenges for sport mega-events. It is clear it is increasingly difficult to host large summer and winter sporting events due to weather extremes such as heat waves, storms or droughts. Extreme heat, in particular, makes events – and event management – less predictable and can have a significant impact on the health of athletes, spectators and staff. International organisations such as the United Nations have called for a rethink, and climate action in sport. At the same time, event organisers are beginning to adapt to the new conditions and develop strategies and measures to reduce event-related greenhouse gases. This paper examines whether sport events can act and function as catalysts for sustainability transitions towards a reduced climate impact. Drawing on the literature on mega-events, urban climate resilience and sustainability transitions, this paper introduces the framework of transformative climate resilience to analyse the climate adaptation and mitigation actions of sport mega-events. Using, as an example, the Australian Open – one of the four largest tennis tournaments in the world – valuable insights are provided into the event’s different stakeholders, approaches to climate action, and challenges in building transformative climate resilience.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- AECOM
- Journal
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
- Band
- 48
- Seiten
- 1-14
- ISSN
- 2210-4224
- Publikationsdatum
- 09-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 507019 Stadtentwicklungsplanung, 507027 Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, 507024 Umweltpolitik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Geography, Planning and Development, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 7 – Bezahlbare und saubere Energie, SDG 11 – Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz, SDG 12 – Nachhaltige/r Konsum und Produktion
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/2bc65ddc-d624-49ec-8af6-84f968bb7b2b