Surfing and Sustainability

This book explicitly explores the relationship between surfing and the environment, society and the economy. Adopting an innovative methodological approach, it presents original research through international case studies and considers future directions and challenges for sustainable surfing.

Gregory Borne is Director of the Plymouth Sustainability and Surfing Research Group at Plymouth University, UK.

1. Surfing and Sustainability, Critical Connections, 2. A Surfing Ethnography, 3. Surfing and Theory, 4. Surfing and Sustainability, an Emerging Agenda, 5. Constructing and Deconstructing Sustainable Stoke, 6. Sustainable Surf: From Greening the Industry to Changing the World, 7. From Firewire to Nevhouse, 8. Bringing Surfing to the Table, 9. Activating a Transition, 10. Surfing the Net and Surfing the Wave, 11. The Olympics, Surfing and Artificiality, 12. Conclusions and Research Directions