Save Pond Hockey – Promoting environmental responsibility and climate action
Hirvonen, Maria (2023)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202305088189
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202305088189
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Climate actions and raising awareness of climate change are important, influencing people’s awareness of climate change. Climate change affects already winters and winter sports. People who play winter sports such as pond hockey players, must face such changes as the playing season shortens and the conditions get worse.
The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis was to find out how Save Pond Hockey tournaments promote and raise awareness of climate change. Another objective was to find out the climate actions of the commissioner and the climate awareness of the people participating in Save Pond Hockey tournaments. The commissioner of this thesis was Save Pond Hockey. Save Pond Hockey organizes pond hockey tournaments around the world. The purpose of the tournaments is to raise awareness of climate change and climate crisis and encourage people take climate actions.
The research was conducted both as a qualitative study and quantitative study and the data gathering method was a survey. The survey consisted of seventeen open and closed questions about past tournaments and Save Pond Hockey’s climate work and actions. The answers from the survey supported the theoretical basis gathered for the thesis. The survey was sent to team captains and players who participated in Save Pond Hockey tournaments in 2022. Total fifty-three people answered to the survey. The results of the thesis was needed to enable the commissioner to discover the impact of its own work and activities on the climate awareness of the participants in the tournaments and to take possible future climate and environmental actions.
The results of the survey highlight issues raised in the open comments of the survey, such as increasing marketing and visibility, the sustainability and responsibility of Save Pond Hockey’s own operations, and information sharing. The outcome of the research work was that Save Pond Hockey needs an environmental program to use which directs its environmental work. In addition, there could be done communication and marketing plan to follow to increase visibility.
The purpose of this bachelor’s thesis was to find out how Save Pond Hockey tournaments promote and raise awareness of climate change. Another objective was to find out the climate actions of the commissioner and the climate awareness of the people participating in Save Pond Hockey tournaments. The commissioner of this thesis was Save Pond Hockey. Save Pond Hockey organizes pond hockey tournaments around the world. The purpose of the tournaments is to raise awareness of climate change and climate crisis and encourage people take climate actions.
The research was conducted both as a qualitative study and quantitative study and the data gathering method was a survey. The survey consisted of seventeen open and closed questions about past tournaments and Save Pond Hockey’s climate work and actions. The answers from the survey supported the theoretical basis gathered for the thesis. The survey was sent to team captains and players who participated in Save Pond Hockey tournaments in 2022. Total fifty-three people answered to the survey. The results of the thesis was needed to enable the commissioner to discover the impact of its own work and activities on the climate awareness of the participants in the tournaments and to take possible future climate and environmental actions.
The results of the survey highlight issues raised in the open comments of the survey, such as increasing marketing and visibility, the sustainability and responsibility of Save Pond Hockey’s own operations, and information sharing. The outcome of the research work was that Save Pond Hockey needs an environmental program to use which directs its environmental work. In addition, there could be done communication and marketing plan to follow to increase visibility.