Sport and environment: towards a cultural model of sustainability

Abstract

The importance of sport as a social institution for community well-being has long since included the practice of sport in the goals of the 2030 Agenda, leading some national governments to provide specific support measures for the sports sector. The practice of sport, in general, has raised awareness of environmental issues and the pollution emergency, accelerating sustainable actions that can support the European Environment Agency, to develop new models at the environmental level, economic, and especially social one. In this framework, the role of international bodies - the IOC in particular - is crucial for the construction of an integrated vision of the development of the sport that is increasingly attentive in its dimensions (macro and meso) and practices (micro) to the involvement of institutions, sponsors, athletes, practitioners, and the sporting public by revising the concept of “good life” (Soper 2007).