Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases - Hardcover

by J. Grix (Editor)

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).

Author Biography

Alan Bairner, Loughborough University, UK Amita Baviskar, The Institute of Economic Growth, India David Black, Dalhousie University, Canada Paul Michael Brannagan, Loughborough University, UK Laurence Chalip, University of Illinois, USA Ji-Hyun Cho, Yong In University, South Korea Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Liu Dongfeng, Shanghai University of Sport, China Richard Giulianotti, Loughborough University, UK Oleg Golubchikov, Cardiff University, UK John Horne, University of Central Lancashire, UK Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University, UK Wolfram Manzenreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Caitlin Pentifallo, University of British Columbia, Canada Michael Silk, University of Bath, UK Bob Stewart, Victoria University, Australia Holger Preuss, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany Irina Slepukhina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Renata Toledo, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Mike Weed, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Robert VanWynsberghe, University of British Columbia, Canada