Sport influences our lives, behaviors, economy, and social relationships. It shapes our identities, contributes to our well-being and health. It is an excellent educational and conviviality vector.
It is therefore often presented as a vector of social cohesion and economic development, but with results that are difficult to evaluate.
Today, it must respect the environment, promote health and well-being, and maintain financial sobriety. An ambition that contrasts with the image sometimes projected by the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup.
- In its modern version, sport is characterized by contradictory logics
- cooperative within a team but competitive against opponents; tolerant in its openness to everyone without discrimination of religion, culture, or class, yet often sexist in the organized separation of men and women; democratic because it enshrines equality before the rules, but aristocratic in its production of elites and the worship of ranking, etc.
An ecological sports policy thus pursues a simple ambition: to prove its full sustainability and promote individual and collective well-being, in complementarity with all policies enacted within a territory. Reading this book shows the relevance of solutions to create convergence between sports ecologists and ecological sports enthusiasts. It especially shows how an effective sports policy can be a vector for the future.
