Assessing the Impact of a Major Sporting Event: The Role of Environmental Accounting

Assessing the Impact of a Major Sporting Event: The Role of Environmental Accounting

Government support for major sporting events is usually predicated on their assumed economic benefits. Yet there has been little parallel consideration of their potential environmental costs, at a time when the same governments are citing the importance of sustainable development. Environmental perf...

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Published in:Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism and recreation Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 343 - 360
Main Author: Jones, Calvin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-06-2008
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Automobile racing
Economic impact
Economic impact analysis
Environmental accounting
Environmental impact
Leisure industry
Sports
Studies
Tourism
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
British Isles
mega-events
economic impact
environmental accounting
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Summary:Government support for major sporting events is usually predicated on their assumed economic benefits. Yet there has been little parallel consideration of their potential environmental costs, at a time when the same governments are citing the importance of sustainable development. Environmental performance of major sporting events has hitherto been judged, if at all, on qualitative, activity and procedural criteria, rather than by attempting to estimate the overall impact of an event on measurable externalities. This paper examines the UK round of the 2004 World Rally Championship, using environmental accounting techniques to estimate its economic and environmental impacts on its host region.
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ISSN:1354-8166
2044-0375
DOI:10.5367/000000008784460382