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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459241903321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of sports development / / edited by Barrie Houlihan and Mick Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-134-01970-X

1-134-01971-8

1-283-04577-X

1-78034-804-5

9786613045775

0-203-88558-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Collana

Routledge international handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

GreenMick <1957->

HoulihanBarrie

Disciplina

796.06/9

Soggetti

Sports administration - United States

Sports - Social aspects - United States

Sports and state - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The influences on sports development -- pt. 2. The contemporary context of sports development -- pt. 3. Sports development and young people -- pt. 4. Sports development and adult mass participation -- pt. 5. Sport and international development -- pt. 6. Sports development and elite athletes -- pt. 7. Issues in the practice of sports development -- pt. 8. Assessing the impact of sports development.

Sommario/riassunto

Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organization and administration of sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice.



Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and