ABSTRACT
This chapter explores steady-state economics to elucidate the circumstances in which a newly constructed sport facility improves or impairs environmental sustainability. It examines Cheryl Mallen and Richardson who provoked sport scholars to discuss and create visions for environmental sustainability in sport facility management. The chapter offers an alternative to their organizational-based approach, grounding the project in macro-economic perspectives of steady-state economists. It shows that the principles of steady-state economics to develop a concept and policy tool called the Date of Ecological Maturity (DEM). The chapter discusses how scholars can use the DEM to conceptualize sustainable facility construction and management in a steady-state sport economy. It describes how practitioners can use the DEM as a policy tool to govern or incentivize sustainability in publicly funded stadiums. The chapter focuses on achieving sustainable throughputs in one small subsector of the economy: stadium and facility construction and operation.
