Food, Sport and Sustainability in Contemporary Societies

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development provides common ground for the logic of productivism and options and preferences for preservation of the natural resources needed to ensure the quality of life and wellbeing of the global population from an intergenerational perspective (Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Mundial, 2007). High-quality and sustainable food coupled with the many and varied physical and sporting activities that take place in a context of socialisation in lifestyle habits and sustainability values could provide a firm foundation and social tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among which we could highlight: ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages (Goal 3); ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (Goal 12); and protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss (Goal 15).

New consumption habits and sustainable leisure practices represent a lifestyle characteristic of today’s modern, advanced societies, generating significant space for economic development through the production and consumption of organic products, food tourism based on organic food, sports marketing, and environmentally sustainable sporting activities that facilitate improved health and quality of life. In general, sporting activities that promote health and environmental sustainability, together with the consumption patterns of organic food products, are elements that shape the relationship between the environmentalist outlook and ecological concern, and their relationship with sustainable lifestyles.

This monograph invites papers related to lifestyles based on pro-environmental practices, production and consumption of organic products, outdoor sporting and physical activities, natural resources related to conservation, and the protection of natural spaces, the environment, and improving the health, quality of life, and wellbeing of the population, from the perspective of social and environmental sustainability. Therefore, papers should address one or more of the following issues:

• Sustainable lifestyles and ecological identity;
• Organic production;
• Organic food;
• Food tourism for organic products;
• Rural development and sports tourism;
• Sustainable sports tourism;
• Physical and sporting activity in a healthy environment;
• Sport, social capital, quality of life and social well-being;
• Sport, leisure, and the environment;
• Outdoor sporting activity in urban environments and natural spaces;
• Sporting activity in natural environments and preservation of natural heritage;
• Sporting activity, ecological values, and environmental concern;
• Bike lanes and sustainable transport.

Prof. Dr. Victor Muñoz-Sanchez
Prof. Dr. Antonio M. Perez-Flores
Prof. Dr. Francisco Entrena-Duran
Guest Editors

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• sustainable food
• sustainable sport
• sustainable sports and leisure activities
• environmental concern
• sustainable lifestyles