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Local Practices, Transnational Solutions?: The Role of Host Cities in the Cyclic Process of Environmental Regulation of Sports Mega-Events Schmidt, Rebecca
Abstract
The chapter uses a case study of the environmental protection and sustainability framework for Olympic Games to examine the interactive role of local government actors as innovators in the creation of transnational regulation. The host city level has been at the forefront of innovating this framework. Developments initiated at this level were later taken up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and became mandatory for future host cities, in a dynamic the chapter terms ‘cyclical regulation’. The chapter makes two main claims about this process: First, in certain conditions, host cities and their local organizers can ratchet up social and environmental standards for sports mega-events by going beyond the existing regulatory framework in their hosting bids and thereby initiating an upward revision of the framework; and second, the local level provides a platform from which various other actors can be coopted into the preparation of sports mega-events and thereby influence transnational regulation.
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Local Practices, Transnational Solutions?: The Role of Host Cities in the Cyclic Process of Environmental Regulation of Sports Mega-Events
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2018-08
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The chapter uses a case study of the environmental protection and sustainability framework for
Olympic Games to examine the interactive role of local government actors as innovators in the creation of transnational regulation. The host city level has been at the forefront of innovating this framework.
Developments initiated at this level were later taken up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
and became mandatory for future host cities, in a dynamic the chapter terms ‘cyclical regulation’. The
chapter makes two main claims about this process: First, in certain conditions, host cities and their local
organizers can ratchet up social and environmental standards for sports mega-events by going beyond
the existing regulatory framework in their hosting bids and thereby initiating an upward revision of the
framework; and second, the local level provides a platform from which various other actors can be coopted
into the preparation of sports mega-events and thereby influence transnational regulation.
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eng
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2018-08-31
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0371848
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TBGI Project Working Paper No. 24
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Unreviewed
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Postdoctoral
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