Promoting Environmental Awareness in and through Sports: Can Deep Ecology Serve as Guidance? (CROSBI ID 660561)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Zagorac, Ivana
engleski
Promoting Environmental Awareness in and through Sports: Can Deep Ecology Serve as Guidance?
In the last decades, many sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have introduced a series of measures on how to meet environmental demands and engage in protection of the environment. However, they often meet with public criticism regarding their unfulfilled promises. On the other side, one might ask whether the potential for creating environmental awareness in the public outweighs the ecological costs of organizing big sporting events (Loland, 2006)? The aim of this presentation is to re-evaluate the potential of an ecosophical perspective in the discussions on ways to promote environmental awareness in and through sports. From the ecosophical point of view (A. Naess), environmental awareness and ecological values are best promoted in sports which enable the appropriate ecological encounters that advance one’s self-realization (Howe, 2008). It is generally assumed that outdoor activities performed in nature enhance environmental awareness and responsibility. However, one recent study suggests that mere contact with nature is of a lesser importance, and that environmental responsibility is heightened in slow and non-technological activities (e.g. trekking) and lowered in fast and technological activities (e.g. canoeing, kayaking) (Longa, Bazinb, Baic, 2017). Such findings are generally compatible with ecosophical postulates. Nevertheless, despite the research optimism, a favourable reading of ecosophy literature, and some claims of deep ecologists themselves, the conclusion is that the ecosophical perspective has serious limitations when applied as a means of guidance in modern sports.
environmental awareness ; sport ; deep ecology
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Podaci o prilogu
42-42.
2018.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
1st International Conference ETHICS, BIOETHICS AND SPORT
Škerbić, Matija Mato
Zagreb: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo
978-953-164-196-8
Podaci o skupu
1st International Conference Ethics, Bioethics and Sport
pozvano predavanje
23.03.2018-24.03.2018
Varaždin, Hrvatska; Zagreb, Hrvatska