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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Aims -- Introduction -- The purpose of this book -- What are events and what is the environment? -- The changing relationship of events and the environment over time -- Positive and negative environmental impacts -- The relationship between environm...

Contents note continued: Managing your own event -- The supply chain -- A PESTE approach to environmental audit -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3.Venues and the environment -- Aims -- Introduction -- A typology of venues -- Venue location factors -- Case study: Southampton Football Club and Hamp...

Contents note continued: Assessing the overall environmental impact of events: approaches from Australia -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 5.Environmental impacts at the macro scale -- Aims -- Introduction -- Global pollutants -- Rainfall acidification and its impacts on forests -- The depletion o...

Contents note continued: The legislative framework -- Case study: events in Antarctica -- Case study: special events in the national historic sites of Canada in Cape Breton -- Standards -- Case study: implementing BS 8901 - Manchester International Festival -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 8.Sust...

Contents note continued: Mini-guides and brochures -- Event-specific guidelines -- Case study: the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002 -- Case study: 9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography held in Melbourne, 2009 -- Books -- Case st...

Contents note continued: Introduction -- Environmental scepticism -- Global recession -- Education -- The intrinsic nature of events -- The political process -- Sustainable management incentives -- Conclusion -- Further reading.