Community Sport Development

Debates around the ‘sport for development and peace’ (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utility of sport as a tool of international development. This book argues that critical research and new perspectives are necessary to balance the local aspec..

Debates around the ‘sport for development and peace’ (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utility of sport as a tool of international development. This book argues that critical research and new perspectives are necessary to balance the local aspec..

This compilation features pioneering scholarship within sport, exercise and health, undertaken as community-based research. The research methodologies and populations reveal a diversity of research approaches with diverse sport and exercise populations in the global landscape._x005F_x000D_ This book..

Do small- and medium-sized sporting events affect the overall wellbeing of people living in the host community? If so, how they do they affect local life? This book specifically addresses the strategic choices that host communities make when hosting non-mega sporting events, and looks at the outcome..

Do small- and medium-sized sporting events affect the overall wellbeing of people living in the host community? If so, how they do they affect local life? This book specifically addresses the strategic choices that host communities make when hosting non-mega sporting events, and looks at the outcome..

This is the first textbook to focus on community-level sport management and development. Bringing together authors with expertise in sport management, sport development, the sociology of sport, physical activity programming and community coaching, this is vital reading for practitioners or students ..

Any manager working in sport today needs to understand what sport development is and how sport development programs can be managed and implemented. This is the first textbook to offer a complete introduction to sport development, covering theory and managerial practice, in full international context..

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ in frameworks, methods, context and variables in the study of sport volunteerism and provides further recommendations for future research._x005F_x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly...

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ in frameworks, methods, context and variables in the study of sport volunteerism and provides further recommendations for future research._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly...

Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice...

Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of social policy. In this fully revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclu..

Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of social policy. In this fully revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclu..