PART ONE
The Sports Development Field
Introduction
1 Management of Sports Development as a Maturing Field and Profession
VASSIL GIRGINOV
2 Theoretical Foundations and Advancements in Sports Development
POPI SOTIRIADOU AND BOWEN YAO
PART TWO
Visions of Sports Development
Introduction
3 Analysing Sports Development Discourses
ISRA IQBAL, JULIA FERREIRA GOMES AND LYNDSAY HAYHURST
4 Public Policies on Sports Development: Mass and Elite Sport 'Visions'
JONATHAN GRIX
5 Non¿ and Quasi¿Governmental Organisations in Sports Development
MATHEW DOWLING AND SPENCER HARRIS
6 International Sports Development Policies
VERITY POSTLETHWAITE AND DAVID O'BYRNE
7 A Cultural Perspective on Sports Development
CORA BURNETT
8 The Social Value of Sports Development
LARISSA DAVIES AND PETER TAYLOR
PART THREE
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Introduction 161
9 Sport as an Agent for Social and Personal Change
B. CHRISTINE GREEN AND SHERANNE FAIRLEY
10 Sports Development and Organisational Change
JONATHAN ROBERTSON AND LOCHLIN HAMER
11 Major Sport Events and Sports Development
BECCA LEOPKEY AND DANA ELLIS
12 Sports Development Addresses Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
SHANNON KERWIN, ERIK L. LACHANCE AND ASHLEY THOMPSON
13 Sports Development Strives for Social Justice
JOANNE CLARKE, ANNETTE STRIDE, LOUISE MORBY AND JANINE PARTINGTON
14 Sports Development Faces Gender Representation
LARA LESCH, CHRISTIAN ZIERKE AND PAMELA WICKER
15 Sports Development and Geography: The Importance of Space and Place
NICHOLAS WISE
16 Sustainable Sports Development
BRIAN MCCULLOUGH
PART FOUR
Sports Development as a Practice
Introduction
17 Sports Development Governance Modes
CHRISTOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS
18 Building Organisational and Management Capacity for the Delivery of Sports Development
KATIE E. MISENER, PATTI MILLAR AND SARAH DUNBAR
19 Partnerships and Networks in Sports Development
IAIN LINDSEY AND PHIL BROWN
20 Developing Sports Volunteering
JOHN HAYTON, L INDSAY FINDLAY¿KING AND KATE MARKS
21 Implementing Sports Development Programmes
MARC K EECH
22 Competencies of Sports Development Managers
ELIZABETH LEWIS AND STEVEN OSBORNE
23 Communicating Sports Development
GASHAW ABEZA
24 Digitalisation of Sports Development
MICHAEL L . NARAINE AND BRAD MILLINGTON
25 Monitoring and Evaluation for Sports Development
SHUSHU CHEN AND ZHAOYU DUAN
26 Afterword: Managing Visions, Change and Delivery in Sports Development
VASSIL GIRGINOV
