Greening Live Earth UK.

Harvey, Erik; Rengalakshmi, Raj; Musgrave, James

doi:10.1079/9781845935245.0195

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“…The conduct of public events, as with many other human activities, has the potential to affect the biophysical environment, and as such the issue of their environmental sustainability is one that warrants examination. Various writers in the event management field have in recent years turned their Harvey, 2009;Laing & Frost, 2010;Mair & Laing, 2012;Wong, Wan, & Qi, 2014;Zifkos, 2015) focusing on this aspect of event management.…”

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An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

Harris¹,

Schlenker²

2018

Event Management

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This study seeks to provide insights into "best practice" in the area of environmentally sustainable event management in Australian public events. In performing this role, it aims to: determine forces acting to drive engagement with environmental management practices; identify the key challenges event owners and managers face in seeking to adopt such practices; determine types of environmentally sustainable practices currently in use; establish how events are measuring their environmental performance; and identify those factors serving to facilitate or inhibit engagement by events with an environmental agenda. The article begins with a literature review of research germane to the study, along with an overview of the methodology employed. Key findings emerging from the application of this methodology suggest that actions in this area: have increasingly become an aspect of overall event planning; target multiple areas with the potential to generate environmental impacts; are driven primarily by organizer values and attendee and community expectations; and face constraints linked largely to the availability of resources, expertise, and time. This article acknowledges that the planning and delivery of environmentally sustainable events has become one of the critical challenges facing public event management, and as such it seeks to make a meaningful contribution to both the growing academic literature in this area, and equally importantly, to industry practice.

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An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

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Schlenker²

2018

Event Management

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“…Examples of these initiatives can be the use of biodiesel in transport (Giambrone, 2011), buying products in an area that is close to where the event is held, and the use of bicycles to transport equipment during the event (Laing & Frost, 2010). However, these transport initiatives need to be complemented by the event attendees in terms of reducing their own carbon footprint (Harvey, 2009). As the number of event attendees can reach 200,000 people on a festival day (Alonso-Vazquez et al, 2012;Mair & Laing, 2012), a considerable amount of pollution is potentially introduced into the environment.…”

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“…Although originally associated with the 'hippy' 4 culture, green events are now well accepted among mainstream audiences, as there is a strong international and national agenda to control environmental impacts and promote a healthy lifestyle (Gore, 2006;Harvey, 2009). Today, many events include the elements required to maintain better control of their environmental impact.…”

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“…Therefore, the question is, how can event managers engage attendees with different levels of environmental awareness to behave in an environmentally responsible way when attending an event? Further research in this matter is important, particularly research that contributes toward understanding how attendees might be convinced to adopt pro-environmentally responsible behaviours during an event (Bjorseth, 2008;Harvey, 2009;Laing & Frost, 2010).…”

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“…As most environmental impacts are created by attendees, there is a need to encourage them to engage in or escalate their on-site environmentally responsible behaviours (Harvey, 2009). Waste management is one such behaviour that is particularly influenced by and dependent upon the direct participation of event attendees (Bjorseth, 2008;Brooks, O'Halloran, & Magnin, 2009).…”

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Factors that influence engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals

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The study of on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at outdoor events is important because of the negative environmental degradation that may be caused when hosting these events. Studying these behaviours is especially important at music festivals that are held in protected areas, and/or for festival managers who have an interest in controlling the events' negative environmental impacts. Despite recent interest by event managers in developing strategies to encourage attendees' environmentally responsible behaviours, this task is still a challenge because attendees may be disinterested in behaving pro-environmentally in the music festival context. Given this, event managers need to find novel ways to encourage attendees to participate more in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours.To contribute toward finding alternative ways to encourage more participation, this research investigated the major psychographic factors that influence attendees' engagement in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals. To identify these factors, the following research activities were carried out: phone interviews with music festival managers (10 participants); two online questionnaires (pre-visit and post-visit to festivals) across multiple music festivals (1,313 and 420 participants, respectively); and on-site interviews with attendees at a three-day music festival located near an Australian national park (81 participants).The findings of this study reveal that event managers consider it important to build a proenvironmental culture into their event communities in order to capitalise on attendees' sense of community that may support environmentally responsible behaviours. The analysis also provides evidence of discrepancies between attendees' intentions to behave in an environmentally responsible way at the music festivals and their actual behaviours.Psychographic factors such as pro-environmental predisposition, self-identity as eco-friendly, festival attachment, place attachment, on-site management strategies, perceived benefits and barriers are all important contributors to attendees' on-site behaviours. Further, the study finds that some attendees exceed their intentions to behave responsibly towards the environment and that this is linked with their perceptions of the music festival's green status.Attendees also consider it important to behave in an environmentally responsible way on-site because of the benefits they perceive for the well-being of both the festival community and the environment. In terms of barriers to engaging in on-site environmentally responsible behaviours, the findings reveal that the main obstacle for attendees is the belief that their actions will not make a difference.These results are of great significance to event management settings and can contribute to the design of management strategies to encourage attendees' on-site eco-friendly behaviours.

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Moving towards responsible events management

Musgrave

2011

Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes

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PurposeThis article attempts to provide a concise overview of the approaches towards managing events in a changing market environment and summarises issues of responsibility, sustainability and quality management within events organisations.Design/methodology/approachIn doing so, the paper will reconcile elements of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development within organisations. Whilst within a context of the events industry, the article will synthesise total responsible management and concepts of sustainable events management and provide an introduction towards a premise of responsible events management.FindingsA mapping of management models found parallels that can be drawn upon to create a responsible event management approach, embedded by an amalgamation of quality management and sustainable principles.Practical implicationsIn essence, the combination of approaches enables a business value and ethical led development towards responsible management and one which represents a holistic understanding and strategic intent to reduce event organisation impacts.Originality/valueThis article represents a theoretical introduction to concepts that underpin the development of knowledge towards sustainable management within the events industry and will allow students, academics and practitioners to develop an introductory awareness.

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An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

An Exploratory Study of "Best Practice" in Environmentally Sustainable Event Management in Australian Public Events

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