Call for Paper | “Sport, Leisure, and Sustainability”, Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | Call ends August 31, 2021

For this Special Issue, we seek theoretically and empirically sound examinations of sport, leisure, and sustainability. We conceptualize sustainability to consist of issues related to the environment, economics, and equity. 2020 has illuminated potentially unsustainable practices in sport and leisure. Flooding as a result of climate change has devastated youth sport facilities and parks across the United States, wild fires have altered the ability to perform physical activity in the Western United States and forced schedule alterations in professional sports, COVID-19 has devastated the fragile market-based economic foundations of youth, collegiate, and professional sports, and concerns abound regarding environmental justice and the equitable access to facilities for under-resourced youth and the potential public health ramifications of programs that are no longer sustainable.

We are interested in any of the broad range of topics related to sport and leisure sustainability. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• • • the impact of climate change on youth sport programs;
    • equitable access to physical activity opportunities;
    • leveraging of sport for environmental awareness and programs;
    • political economic arguments related to the future of sport;
    • the impact of climate change on environmental justice in sport and leisure opportunities;
    • involvement of immigrants and refugees in sport and leisure; and
    • the impact of sustainability on childhood obesity.

Manuscript Submission Information

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