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Part of Routledge's Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series, this is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in event management.

This book explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analysing a range of cities and a range of sporting and cultural events projects. It considers various theoretical perspectives to provide insight into why major events are important to contemporary cities.

This book explores the multi-dimensional relationships between events and the environment. It evaluates critically the positive and negative impacts on the environment but also reviews the ways in which the events industry uses the environment as a resource and how the environment helps to shape events.

This book focuses on the legacies sought by cities that host major sports events. It analyses how governments, the IOC and others define and measure 'legacy'. It also focuses upon the challenges and opportunities facing future host cities of mega-events, looking at their aspirations and the intended impact upon their domestic and international development.

This book provides a critical examination of the ambition for spectacle that has emerged across the East and Global South. The chapters explore the theoretical and conceptual issues associated with mega-events and new forms of globalization, from the critical political economy of mega-events in a changing world order to the contested social and economic legacies of mega-events and the widespread opposition that increasingly accompanies these events.