Score a goal for climate: Assessing the carbon footprint of travel patterns of the English Premier League clubs

Pereira, Rodrigo Pinheiro Tóffano; Filimonau, Viachaslau; Ribeiro, Glaydston Mattos

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.138

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“…This is clear in a number of areas: the greatest contributor to the total by emissions sector was tourist and team travel which accounted for about 80 percent of the total carbon footprint. This result is consistent with other studies that include motorized transport as a part of their models (Cooper, 2020;Edwards et al, 2016;El Hanandeh, 2013;Filimonau et al, 2014;Pereira et al, 2019) because in tourism, the transport of people to their destinations is the largest contributor to the total carbon footprint (Dwyer et al, 2010;Lenzen et al, 2018;Kitamura et al, 2020;see G€ ossling & Schumacher, 2010;Larsson et al, 2018;Debbage & Debbage, 2019;Graver et al, 2019).…”

Section: Environmental Impact: Sports Tourism As Carbon Footprintsupporting

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Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cooper

Alderman

2020

Tourism Geographies

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One of the earliest signals of the severity of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and other countries was the swift cancelation of many highly prominent amateur and professional sporting events and seasons like the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, known as "March Madness." The loss of March Madness is treated as a moment of creative tension, when disruptions can facilitate reflection and lead to positive change. We discuss the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental effects of shuttering the tournament and suggest that an understanding of the impacts of COVID-19 offers an opportunity to bring about an alternative, more sustainable sports tourism economy. The cancellation of March Madness resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in tourism revenue for local economies and deprived traveler-fans of pilgrimages to arenas, important socio-cultural gathering spaces for American basketball fans. However, it also prevented the emission of a sizable quantity of greenhouse gasses based on our carbon footprint calculated from the previous year's tournament. Ultimately, from the disruptive closing down of sport and event tourism, a post-pandemic sports tourism landscape should emerge that takes more seriously the triple-bottom line notion of balancing a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the creation and maintenance of resilient local economies all while both acknowledging the important role sport plays in society and keeping tourism actors healthy.

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Section: Environmental Impact: Sports Tourism As Carbon Footprintsupporting

confidence: 90%

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cooper

Alderman

2020

Tourism Geographies

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“…Many scholars and government agencies have started to research excessive utilization of the outdoor sports resources and will surpass environmental carrying capacity. estimate the threat to ecological safety after overbearing [58], and evaluate the environmental performance of sports events [59,60]. These issues are also applicable to the studies on marathon events and should be further explored.…”

Section: Correlations Between Water Resource/mountains and Marathon Ementioning

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The Natural Environmental Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Marathon Event: A Case Study from China

Ren

Zuo

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of natural environmental factors on the spatial distribution of marathon events in China, and to identify the suitable natural environmental factors for the marathon events. Methods: Geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis tools were used to perform coupling analysis, e.g. overlap, neighborhood, intersection and buffer for terrain, climate, air quality, mountains and water resources with 342 marathon events held in China in 2018. Results: The results indicate that the spatial distribution of marathon events in China is negatively correlated with the elevation of the terrain (plain > hill > plateau > mountain > basin); climate (subtropical monsoon climate > temperate monsoon climate > temperate continental climate > tropical monsoon climate > plateau alpine climate), air quality (level 3 > level 2 > level 4 > level 1). Results indicate that buffer zones can protect water resources: there are 24 items in the buffer zone of river 0.5 km and lake 1 km, 131 items in the buffer zone of river 3 km and lake 5 km, 191 items in the buffer zone of river 5 km and lake 10 km, 298 items in the buffer zone of river 10 km and lake 20 km. Results indicate for mountain range buffer: 13 items in the 20 km buffer and 39 items in the 50 km buffer. Conclusions: Marathon events are more likely to be held on the third rung of China’s topography where a city has a typical landform (plains, basins, hills, or mountain) with good climate and air quality. Meanwhile a city with water and mountain resources for recreational events such as cross-country or obstacle course are essential. The contribution of this study is to systematically and intuitively reflect the influence of natural environment factors on the distribution of marathon events in China, and to provide evidence for the medium and long-term planning of marathon events in China, the selection of venues for different types of marathon events and how to attract participants.

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“…Rugani et al [86] presented an inclusive review of CFP studies and used it as a proxy of environmental performance indicators. Furthermore, many other studies have used this indicator as a proxy of ED [69,[86][87][88][89][90][91][92].…”

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The Contribution of Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Human Well-Being, and Technology toward a Sustainable Environment

2021

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This study evaluates the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), human well-being, and other macro indicators of the public sector on carbon footprint. Empirical analysis has been carried out for newly industrialized economies that span the period 1990–2017. We used augmented mean group and bootstrap panel causality techniques to cogitate the cross-sectional dependence and country-specific heterogeneity. Based on cross-country analysis, study results show that growing OFDI reduces carbon footprint efficiently in Mexico and Turkey, human well-being decreases emissions in the Philippines, and urbanization reduces emissions in China. Further, technology reduces emissions in Malaysia and Turkey, trade openness reduces emissions in China and Malaysia, and natural resource rents reduce emissions in Indonesia and Mexico. In the case of panel analysis, the moderating role of OFDI with human well-being is contributing toward a sustainable environment. Moreover, the moderation of OFDI and urbanization has an insignificant impact on CFP. Findings depict that interaction terms of OFDI with technology and trade openness have a positive association with the environment quality. Finally, OFDI and natural resources have positive moderation on CFP. This study contributes to the existing literature by suggesting policy implications for a sustainable environment.

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Score a goal for climate: Assessing the carbon footprint of travel patterns of the English Premier League clubs

Cited by 49 publications

References 52 publications

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

The Natural Environmental Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Marathon Event: A Case Study from China

The Contribution of Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Human Well-Being, and Technology toward a Sustainable Environment

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