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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International sport governing bodies are increasingly under scrutiny due to their questionable environmental sustainability records of global sport events, thereby facing a potential legitimacy gap and loss of trust that the proclaimed sustainability goals can be achieved.
David M. Herold +3 more
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Olympic participation and performance since 1896 [PDF]
We analyze the decision to participate and Olympic performance at the country level. We use an unbalanced panel of 118 countries over 24 editions of the Olympic Summer Games.
Kuper, Gerard, Sterken, Elmer
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Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión, 2004 Madrid has never been so close to the organization of the Olympic Games since April 24, 1966 when Madrid lose against Munich to organize the Olympic Games of 1972.
RICARDO GIMENO NOGUÉS +1 more
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Revista de Estudios Brasileños, 2018 This article seeks to introduce a potential field of historical and media research on the “first moments” of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (from 1890 to 1919).
Ronaldo HELAL, Fausto AMARO
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Application of serious games to sport, health and exercise [PDF]
, 2011 Use of interactive entertainment has been exponentially expanded since the last decade. Throughout this 10+ year evolution there has been a concern about turning entertainment properties into serious applications, a.k.a "Serious Games". In this article
Haake, Steve +5 more
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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur +2 more
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Economic activity during extreme events
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract Although extreme weather events, natural disasters or infrastructure failures potentially have important economic effects, quantifying these effects over small areas and fine time intervals has been difficult because of the fairly coarse scales available in most data sources. This paper surveys the use of relatively new and finely grained data
John W. Galbraith
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Media Narratives on the relation between body and olympic games in the 1890s and 1900s
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2016 The olympic games featured themselves to the inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro of the 1890s and 1900s as something beyond sport. Circus, theater and cinema were cultural spaces where those events could be enjoyed, as the newspapers of the time announced. The
Fausto Amaro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ – Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil)
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Meta-evaluation of the impacts and legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games : Developing methods paper [PDF]
, 2012 This report brings together the interim findings from the Developing Meta-Evaluation Methods study, which is being undertaken in conjunction with the Meta-Evaluation of the Impacts and Legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Gough, David, Martin, Steve
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