Environmental Sustainability in Sport Facility Management: A Delphi Study

This Delphi study examines environmental sustainability (ES) in sport facility management. The study includes three questionnaire iterations with 31 expert participants from 16 major North American sport facilities. The results reveal the state of sport facility ES, including the reported value, financial support, best practices, challenges and delineated competencies for students seeking to enter the field. In addition, emerging trends are discussed based on a vision of ES in the sport facility industry by the year 2015. The results of this study are applied to sport management education in an effort to guide educators to initiate classroom discussions and debates that can shape discourse on ES. It is hoped that this discourse can provide insights, assumptions, values, options, theory and foster the development of student competencies for ES.