ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ethical grounds for sustainability in sport, with particular reference to the growing awareness of our ethical responsibilities toward the environment. It provides a more detailed, although not exhaustive, examination of the ethical foundations of sustainability in sport and explores the concept of sustainability. The chapter addresses the ethical grounds for sustainability of the environment and focuses on environmental sustainability and sport. It argues that environmental sustainability supports and is the basis of the economic and socio-cultural pillars of sustainable development. The chapter also focuses on sustainability of the environment, ethics, and sport. Such indicators are useful to characterize sustainability because they explicitly and implicitly provide the rates and degree of progress of sustainable goals, they identify stakeholders and sustainable impacts like justice, and they account for the temporal and future-oriented dimensions of sustainability. Any ecological sustainability discussion about the Earth and non-human beings will always involve human-centered interests and priorities.
