ABSTRACT
This chapter considers environmental sustainability (ES) and/or sustainable development and how higher education for sport management can respond to the challenges of teaching and learning sustainability. It analysis the relevant literature indicated that there was no scholarly work that refuted the claim that sport is one of many industrial sectors that contributes to climate change and causes other harmful impacts on the natural environment. The chapter discusses faculty and graduate students need to research, debate, and define sport-ES for the multiple entities within the sport industry. Perspectives of sustainability and the natural environment–and therefore sport-ES–have emerged from deeper philosophical debates about humanity's relationship with nature. There is a growing body of research and other literature pertaining to sport-ES. One of the problems facing sport-ES involves not knowing where sport wants to head with such education. Faculty and graduate student research and debate are therefore needed to provide visions of the future with respect to sport-ES and natural capitalism.
