Integrity and Sustainability in Sport

This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity. Adopting a holistic view on sustainability, it argues that integrity is the foundation on which sustainable sports organisations, actions and processes must be built.

Argyro Elisavet Manoli is Associate Professor at Bergamo University, Italy. Her research focuses on marketing communications management and integrity in sport. Her work on sport integrity has been presented in the European Parliament and has been used in public policy, while she was also invited to deliver opening interventions at all European Commission Expert Group Meetings on Sport Integrity. She is the author of Mapping of Corruption in Sport in the EU, a policy report commissioned by the European Union, Integrated Marketing Communications in Football and Understanding Match-Fixing in Sport: Theory and Practice (Routledge). Ioannis Konstantopoulos is FNS researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and a scientific assistant at ETH Zurich. He is also a sustainability advisor at Innews and founder of The Sports Footprint, a sustainability consultancy that has been awarded the Prince's Trust International Global Sustainability Award for Europe. He has also developed several educational courses in sport and sustainability for organisations such as the Football Business Academy and the International Olympic Academy. His research focuses on analysing the sustainability of major sports events and the application of new technologies in sports.

Introduction: The Integrity - Sustainability in Sport Framework, 1. Environmental Governance in the Sports Sector: Insights from International Sports Federations, 2. Integrity in Environmental Sustainability Communication: Lessons from Norwegian Sport Organizations, 3. The Impact of Greenwashing on the Sport Industry: Shades of Deception, 4. Volunteers, Integrity and Environmental Sustainability in Grassroots Sport: Learning from the PlayGreen Project, 5. Sustainable Stadiums, Integrity, and Environmental Justice, 6. Corporate Social Responsibility, the Sustainable Development Goals and Sport Communication: Analysing Adidas' CSR Staging on YouTube, 7. Voluntary Sports Clubs, Virtual Communities and Social Sustainability: Evidence from the Netherlands, 8. Integrity and Digital Sustainability in eSports, 9. Sporting Integrity and Preventing Abuse in Football: A Coherent, Holistic and Systems-Based Approach, 10. The Need for Integrity in the Financial Sustainability of Sport, 11. The Intersection of Business Sustainability and Integrity in Sport, Conclusion: The Present and Future Understanding of Integrity and Sustainability in Sport