Sports management and facilities

Concise and thoroughly detailed Managing Sport and Leisure Facilities is a clean operating guide to leisure management by contract, providing expert advice for both contractor and client.

Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society.

This book explores sport communication in Africa and the African diaspora.

The international nature of the sport industry requires a global approach to sport marketing practices.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

Now in a fully updated and expanded fifth edition, this textbook introduces the power and politics of sport organizations to the readers.

The "e;Serious Leisure Perspective"e; (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism.

Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political.

Mountain resort tourism is a competitive environment, experiencing increasing growth in new markets such as China, that require the knowledge and skills developed by mature markets.

Can sport and physical activity (PA) be used to improve the communities we live in?

This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature, examining Congress through the lens of sports.

This clear and accessible book is the first in-depth history of the role of the football manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century.

One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results.

Any sports marketing student or prospective sports marketer has to understand in detail genuine industry trends and be able to recognise solutions to real-world scenarios.

Students have often commented on the need for a concise textbook on sports medicine that presents the essential information otherwise scattered across several much larger medical textbooks on other topics.

* New chapter on sports gambling, plus coverage of eSports, social justice issues in sports and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sports industry * More international examples and sports figure bios * The examples and applications are clearly presented, and the tone and writing make it accessible even for non-economics majors * Uses three major areas of economics to organise the text: industrial organization, public economics and labor economics * End-of-chapter questions and videos to support students * Instructor resources include PPT slides and instructor manual

Contemporary society is highly media-saturated, and no sector more so than sport.

Football is arguably one of the most important sports in the world, and the marketing of football has become an increasingly important issue, as clubs and product owners need to generate more revenue from the sport.

This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.

Sports betting has become a truly global phenomenon, facilitated by new communication technologies.

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach, 10th Edition, offers an overview to the study of changes in human movement across the lifespan.

Countryside recreation has become an increasingly popular leisure activity, with rural recreation offering an escape from the stresses of life in the modern city.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.

Offering a complete introduction to sport development policy and practice, this book covers key theory, themes, issues, and debates in sport development, without assuming any prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

Sports, and the fans that follow them, are everywhere.

In the global sport business industry, growth, and development within and across various sport businesses are essential for competitive advantage.

Globalization has had a profound impact on the sports industry, creating an international market in which sports teams, leagues and players have become internationally recognized brands.

Effective communications are essential for all sport organizations.

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained - opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure.

This new edition of a widely adopted textbook equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the sport industry.

The fifth edition of the retitled Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries sharpens its focus on the treatment of sports injuries, providing the most complete evidence-based guide for physiotherapists, sports therapists and medical practitioners working with athletes.

Critical Pedagogies in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health explores critical pedagogy - and critical work around the body, health and physical activity - within physical education.

This book focuses on the advent of professional football in Liverpool and, in particular, the formation of Everton and Liverpool football clubs and their development prior to World War I.

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained.

The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the media, and other key stakeholders in the field.

As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, as well as in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis.

This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement.

Managing Intercollegiate Athletics is the leading introduction to the management and governance of college sport.

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport.

This Second Edition of Management of Turfgrass Diseases has been completely revised and updated to provide the latest information on maintaining a healthy turf and identifying turf diseases.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women's sport around the world, making it an unparalleled resource for all those who aspire to work in, or understand, women's sport.

Volunteers are central to providing opportunities to play sport, whether helping to run sports clubs, helping in school sport or at sports events.

This is a concise introduction to leadership and governance theory and how they are applied in sport.