The vision of sustainable sport in a backcasting research

Q2 Social Sciences

Society and Economy Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI:10.1556/204.2021.00009

Alexandra Köves, Attila Szathmári, Orsolya Herr

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Abstract

It is now becoming widely accepted that our economy has reached the limits both in terms of the carrying capacity of our planet and in terms of bringing real social justice to the table. Degrowth is a research area that aims to transcend mainstream approaches. While moving beyond the growth paradigm would entail serious changes in all areas of social life and Degrowth research extends into most of them, the transformation of sports is not among them. Neither is Degrowth a recognised concept among those who deal with sports. The participatory backcasting research introduced in this paper attempts to fill this void. In the backcasting project, master students of sports economics envisioned the sustainable future of sports and identified potential intervention steps that lead towards such normative states. This paper describes the results and assesses those elements that aim for strong sustainability. The results show that relocalisation and the sharing economy are the most accepted Degrowth concepts in a normative scenario on sustainable sports in this group. At the same time, the paper offers frameworks of thoughts for those who want to move beyond the slogans of sustainability either as responsible citizens or in positions related to the world of sports.

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体育运动的可持续发展前景的回溯研究

我们的经济在地球的承载能力和实现真正的社会正义方面已经达到了极限，这一点现在正被广泛接受。去增长是一个旨在超越主流方法的研究领域。虽然超越增长范式将需要在社会生活的所有领域发生严重变化，而去增长研究延伸到其中的大多数领域，但体育的转变并不在其中。在那些与体育打交道的人当中，去增长也不是一个公认的概念。本文引入的参与式背投研究试图填补这一空白。在backcasting项目中，体育经济学的硕士生设想了体育的可持续未来，并确定了导致这种规范状态的潜在干预步骤。本文描述了结果并评估了那些旨在实现强可持续性的要素。结果表明，在可持续体育的规范情景中，重新定位和共享经济是最被该群体接受的去增长概念。与此同时，本文为那些想要超越可持续发展口号的人提供了思想框架，无论是作为负责任的公民还是在与体育世界相关的职位上。

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Society and Economy Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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28 weeks

期刊介绍： The double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishes original research articles and book reviews in the fields of economics, social sciences, and business studies, which address social and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe or have relevance for social and economic development in this region. While it welcomes articles from the international academic community, Society and Economy seeks in particular to provide an international forum for scholars working in the research traditions of this region. The journal welcomes submissions of high-quality and multi-disciplinary articles that address social, demographic, political, economic and industrial trends and challenges. Society and Economy is a gold open access journal since 2019 but authors are not requested to pay an article processing fee.