ABSTRACT
Environmental issues in the field of sports pose significant challenges for students and researchers of sport. They raise questions about the role of states and transnational corporations (TNCs) in the field of environmental politics, the relationship between power and knowledge, and the distinction between international and domestic spheres of activity. The issues of sport and climatic change, sport and international sporting agendas, sport and environmental thinking, and the notions of dark-Green and light-Green sport have all figured in this chapter. Sport and environmental protest have also figured within broader social and political issues concerning the control of communities over their own local environment, as is illustrated in the anti-golf movement. The activities of the anti-golf-course movement illustrate the fact that sport has linked with broader environmental impacts, which in many cases have reflected the way in which different parts of the world connect on an economic, social and political level.
