Titlebook: Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events; Concepts and Cases Jonathan Grix Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

效果

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A Tale of Two Australian Citiesndard sport facilities, the benefits to Sydney were much broader and more significant. At the same time, it is not clear that the legacies from each event had been optimized. In each of these cases, substantial risks were incurred, including cost over-runs and sub-standard accommodation.

过滤

‘Leaving Las Megas’ or Can Sustainability Ever Be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspecti are indicative of a post-political process. Despite a heavily promoted effort to deliver pledged social benefits, such promises made in the name of social sustainability have actually shown significantly diminished, if not entirely negligible, returns.

HALL

London 2012st of securing the future of the Olympic stadium. The use of the Olympic Games to promote a positive brand image for London and the UK was considered a success, although robust quantitative data on this have yet to be generated.

Physiatrist

Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Gamesgacy advocates are using distinctions and oppositions to break down the world into bits and pieces and to pull them back together in ritual processes into an experience of reality as continuous as it is seamless.

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Qatar, Global Sport and the 2022 FIFA World Cupd to health and well-being; progress and modernization; and peace and security. We also introduce here the concept of ‘soft disempowerment’, and in doing so we uncover Qatar’s recent loss of international attractiveness and influence.

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Book 2014This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future ‘emerging‘ states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).

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Conclusion: Quo Vadis SMEs?ant in the future of SMEs and sports mega-event research. There are, of course, a vast number of other trends developing in the study of SMEs (e.g. the environmental impact of such events; human rights; social ‘cleansing’). However, I offer a short comment on the following important trends: