Call for Papers | “Recovery and Sustainability of the Sport Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Special Issue of Sustainability | Call ends April 30, 2021

The sport sector has not been immune to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The threat of the virus coupled with the restrictions imposed by governments across the world to mitigate its spread has had adverse consequences for both grassroots sport and elite sport as well as for associated sectors such as tourism and entertainment. The negative effects have been felt by professional sport leagues, major domestic and international sporting events, amateur practice, fitness providers, the manufacturers of sports goods, etc.

In this Special Issue, we invite contributions that examine the impact of COVID-19 on different aspects of the sport sector, illustrate how the sport sector has responded to the pandemic and how recovery can be sustained going forward. Likewise, we welcome studies of how COVID-19 has modified sport habits among the population, and affected the development of sport competitions and sport events, manufacturing and service activities. We also invite submissions that show the contribution of the sport sector in relation to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. International comparisons and specific analyses for developing economies are particularly welcome.

The Special Issue relates to themes in:

• • • Sport economics, particularly the relationship of amateur engagement with economic growth;
    • Sport participation and sport inequalities;
    • Economic growth and sustainability in sport;
    • Sport’s contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals;
    • Transparency, democracy and sport;
    • Changes in sport participation and their economic impact;
    • Sport events and COVID-19;
    • Public and private policies for sustainability in sport;
    • The sustainability of professional leagues during and beyond COVID-19;
    • The economic impact of COVID-19 on the sport sector.

Interested contributors are advised to email the guest editors no later than 14 December 2020 to indicate their intention to submit a paper to this special issue along with an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining their proposed submission. The guest editors will invite authors of abstracts that meet the special issue criteria to then submit a full manuscript for review. These manuscripts may have preference for this special issue over manuscripts submitted to the journal without the explicit approval of the guest editors.

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