ABSTRACT
This chapter examines environmental sustainability follows the United Nations Brundtland Report as the safeguarding of the natural environment for future generations. It supports the scientific position that climate change is occurring throughout our world and the associated changes have the potential to affect sport. The chapter explores the systematic content analysis of a sport-related journal sampling conducted by Mallen et al. that revealed the sport and environmental sustainability manuscripts published from 1987–2008. It evaluates the systematic content analysis from 2009–2015. The chapter provides faculty and graduate students to select from the variety of available topic areas and to conduct research to fill in the knowledge gaps on sport and environmental sustainability. It illustrates that additional journals, need to be examined for related sport and environmental sustainability research, such as sport medicine, geography and environmentalism. The safeguarding of the natural environment, or environmental sustainability and sport cannot be exempted from its part in developing understandings of the issues and solutions.
