مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE DESIGN AND USE OF SPORTS AND RECREATION AREAS

Abstract :

The aim of this study is to examine the importance of environment in terms of design and usage of sports and recreation and to draw attention to sustainability concept in establishing sustainable sports areas. The research was in the form of descriptive survey method. Enabling to public to take part in recreational and sportive activities actively or sustaining the events of the sports is possible through the preservation of environmental sources as well as satisfaction given by the facilities to be constructed. In this context, approaches that tend to plan seeking in which ecological elements are efficient in the re-structuring of sport facilities have started to be points of discussion nowadays as a result of the fact that sustaining the sportive activities have become the item of agenda. The focal point these discussions is the concept of sustainability that takes the principle as basis “meeting today’s needs without harming the sources that will be used by new generations for meeting their own needs” foreseen in Our Common Future Report. Sports and recreation areas can cause the environment to be affected negatively due to not well planned events and areas as well as increasing the quality of society’s well being and living. Therefore, the aim in designing recreation and sport areas and in the organization of events is that the development should be sustainable and should have positive contributions to the living quality of current and next societies. In conclusion, the fact that sustainability concept continuously refers to the relation between human and environment and that the sports depend on natural environment elements require a careful planning and management of the sports industry.