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Impacts of climate change on organized sport: A scoping review
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posted on 2022-02-04, 10:02 authored by Madeleine Orr, Yuhei Inoue, Russell Seymour, Greg DingleThe relationship between sport and the environment has been primarily
examined to understand how sport impacts the natural environment. However,
as the influence of climate change has become more apparent, there is a need
to establish a systematic understanding of the impacts of climate change on
the operations of sport. The aim of this review is to take stock of existing litera?ture on climate change's impacts on organized competitive sport entities, with
further attention paid to their adaptation efforts. A scoping review was con?ducted to identify relevant studies published between 1995 and 2021. After
evaluating more than 2100 publications, we retained 57 articles and analyzed
them to answer the research questions: (1) What evidence is available regard?ing the impacts of climate change on the operation of organized competitive
sport entities? (2) What is known from the literature about the measures taken
by organized competitive sport entities to adapt to the impacts of climate
change? Our analysis yielded five major themes: (1) Heat impacts on athlete
and spectator health; (2) heat impacts on athlete performance; (3) adaptive
measures taken in sport; (4) suitability of various cities for event hosting; and
(5) benchmarking and boundary conditions. This review reveals that there is
evidence of some climate change impacts on sport, but the literature reflects
only a small share of the global sport sector. Equally, much remains to be
understood about the nature of adaptation.
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- Loughborough University London
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Acceptance date
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