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Environmental Impact of Glastonbury Festivals

Festivals have attracted a lot of interest including academic interest seeking to understand the management and evaluation of festivals<br>

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Environmental Impact of Glastonbury Festivals

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  1. Environmental Impact of Glastonbury Festivals(Case Study) Company Name: Home Of Dissertations Website: https://www.dissertationhomework.com Contact Number: +44 7842798340 CONNECTNOW

  2. Environmental Impact of Glastonbury Festivals

  3. Background Information • Festivals have attracted a lot of interest including academic interest seeking to understand the management and evaluation of festivals • Historically, research on festivals focus on the economic impact thus there is very scare information on the environmental impact of festivals (Collins and Cooper 2017) • The application of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework considering the economic, social and environmental impacts of festivals could help balance the evaluation of festivals (Glassett2014) • In light of this paucity, this study contributes to literature on the environmental impact of festivals

  4. Aims and Objectives Aim • To explore the environmental impact of Glastonbury festivals Objectives • To develop a deeper understanding of how festivals and events affect the environment • To explore the measures adopted by festivals and events planners to preserve the environment • To find out the extent to which these measures have succeed in preservation of the environment

  5. Rationale for the study • The paucity in research focusing on environmental impact of festivals prompts this study • Festivals have gained popularity in the UK and are attended by millions of people; for example, during the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, about 135,000 tickets were sold (Metro News 2019), which shows the number of people that attended the festival • Given the large number of people attending festivals, it is fundamental to assess the environmental impact of festivals

  6. Literature Review • Literature on events and festivals agree that planning and staging more sustainable and environmentally sustainable festivals and events is fundamental • The importance of staging sustainable and green festivals has led to the establishment of organisations such as A Greener Festival and development of ISO 20121 which ensure that festivals are staged in an environmentally responsible way • Therefore, festival organisers are tasked to ensure they stage festivals that are more sustainable and responsible to the environment

  7. Literature Review Cont. • Festival organisers use different approaches to ensure the staged festivals are environmentally responsible and more sustainable • Among such approaches are the life cycle analysis (LCA), environmental impact assessment (EIA), carbon emission and biophysical methods, online carbon calculators, and the Ecological Footprint • Each of these approaches have their strengths and limitations but the Ecological Footprint has the ability to yield results that consider the impact of festivals beyond the festival site • As a result, the Ecological Footprint is recommended to festival organisers and consultancies

  8. The Research Gap • Despite the wide range of approaches suggested in literature that festival planners can use to stage more sustainable and environmentally responsible festivals, I is not clear which measures festival organisations and organisers adopt. • As such, this study seeks to explore the measure adopted by Glastonbury to ensure their festivals are more sustainable and environmentally responsible • Among the environmental issues to be considered include energy use at the venue, water consumption and recycling, transport to the venue, waste management during and after the festivals, light and noise pollution. • The study will also evaluate how effective these measures are in reducing negative impacts to the environment.

  9. Methodology • A case study approach will be adopted for this study. • A case study involves empirically investigating a particular contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context using multiple sources of evidence Saunders et al. (2016). • Such sources of evidence include observation, interviews, questionnaires, and document analysis. • In this study, document analysis will be adopted given the ongoing lockdown that makes it difficult to use other sources of evidence.

  10. What documents will be analysed? • Documents published by Glastonbury will be prioritized • However, documents published by other authors will be used but will only be considered relevant if it focuses on the environmental impact of Glastonbury festivals or the measure adopted by Glastonbury Festival organisers to preserve the environment. • During document analysis, the effects to be considered are transport, waste, water, energy, and noise, which are informed by the literature review.

  11. Methodological Considerations • Methodological considerations will involve using sources that are freely available on the internet and acknowledging authors through intext citations and providing references at the end of the paper.

  12. References • Collins, A. and Cooper, C., 2017. Measuring and managing the environmental impact of festivals: The contribution of the Ecological Footprint. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25(1), pp.148-162. • Galli, A., Wiedmann, T., Ercin, E., Knoblauch, D., Ewing, B. and Giljum, S., 2012. Integrating ecological, carbon and water footprint into a “footprint family” of indicators: definition and role in tracking human pressure on the planet. Ecological indicators, 16, pp.100-112. • Gibson, C. and Wong, C., 2011. Greening rural festivals: Ecology, sustainability and human-nature relations. Festival places: Revitalising rural Australia, pp.92-105. • Glassett, M., 2014. Greening The Festival Industry: Using the Triple Bottom Line Approach to Promote Sustainability in Music Events. • Goldfinger, S., Wackernagel, M., Galli, A., Lazarus, E. and Lin, D., 2014. Footprint facts and fallacies: A response to Giampietro and Saltelli (2014)“Footprints to Nowhere”. Ecological indicators, 46, pp.622-632.

  13. References Cont. • Metro News 2019. How many people go to Glastonbury and what year has had the highest turnout? [Online] Available at https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/28/many-people-go-glastonbury-year-highest-turnout-10084274/ [Accessed 12 April 2020] • Saunders, M., Lewis, P. and Thornhill, A., 2016. Research methods for business students (Seventh). Nueva York: Pearson Education. • Scott, K. and Chhabra, D., 2017. Economic viability of heritage festivals in Wickenburg, Arizona (USA). Anatolia, 28(3), pp.432-443. • Tamez, A., 2018, April. Analysis of the social, environmental and economic impacts of a music. In ISCONTOUR 2018 Tourism Research Perspectives: Proceedings of the International Student Conference in Tourism Research (p. 286). BoD–Books on Demand.

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