Download - Sports In Brazil

Ano: 1997
Publicação original: capítulo de livro (“Introduction” – versão em
inglês)
Formato da contribuição: texto completo em língua inglesa, sem referências
Fonte: “Environment and Sport: An International Overview / Meio Ambiente e
Desporto: Uma Perspectiva Internacional”, Lamartine DaCosta (Ed.) e António
Marques (Org.), Porto (Portugal): Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de
Educação Física, 1997, pp. 15 – 21.
E-mail do autor: dacosta8@terra.com.br
Títulos acadêmicos principais atuais: Doutor em Filosofia e LD em Administração
do Esporte, PPGEF-Universidade Gama Filho / Rio de Janeiro.
Introduction -
Environment and sport:
an international overview
Lamartine P. Dacosta
University Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Guest Professor at University of Oporto
The purpose of this book is pragmatic in its initial approach: the promotion of
philosophical, scientific, and technological interchange on topics related to the
environment and sport from the perspective of sustainable development, which
consists of a productive and healthy life in harmony with nature.
The concept of “sustainable development” can be found in the Rio Declaration
- the final result of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, which took place in 1992 - and in this book it encompasses sport,
as it has been one of humanity’s main activities at the close of the century. Since
principle number eight of the aforementioned Declaration, to which over one
hundred countries subscribed, proposes the “reduction and elimination of nonsustainable
production and consumption patterns” (In “The Rio Declaration On
Environment and Development”, United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992), it has been assumed here that sport is one of
those patterns on account of its increasing expansion in ways that are often
neither healthful to society nor in harmony with nature.
Almeida, Ana Cristina P.C. de & DaCosta, Lamartine P.
Meio ambiente, esporte, Lazer e turismo. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Gama Filho, 2007