Environmental and legislative drivers for sustainable music festival management : why Finnish music festivals should "go green"
Okolo-Kulak, Aleksandra (2015)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201505117366
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201505117366
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The purpose of this study was to investigate why Finnish music festivals should "go green". The research was conducted from the aspect of environmental and legal drivers for sustainability.
Academic sources on event management, sustainability as well as sustainable event management (SEM) were used to collect information on the subject. Furthermore, secondary sources were used to grasp a deep understanding on the environmental issues as well as legislative drivers for sustainability. The research also contains qualitative measures as a detailed face-to-face interview was conducted with Flow Festival for the brief case study on SEM.
The result was that worsening environmental problems of climate change and the water crisis have widespread global effect and should therefore be stopped or slowed down. Furthermore, environmental legislation is another driver for sustainability as it is likely to tighten in the future. Therefore, both environmental and legislative drivers are pressuring the event industry to become more sustainable.
The principal conclusion was that as Finnish music festivals have a "mass impact" on the environment, the Finnish music festival industry is also contributing to the problem. Environmental responsibility should be taken in terms of sustainable event management to mitigate the environmental impact. Therefore, Finnish music festivals should "go green".
Academic sources on event management, sustainability as well as sustainable event management (SEM) were used to collect information on the subject. Furthermore, secondary sources were used to grasp a deep understanding on the environmental issues as well as legislative drivers for sustainability. The research also contains qualitative measures as a detailed face-to-face interview was conducted with Flow Festival for the brief case study on SEM.
The result was that worsening environmental problems of climate change and the water crisis have widespread global effect and should therefore be stopped or slowed down. Furthermore, environmental legislation is another driver for sustainability as it is likely to tighten in the future. Therefore, both environmental and legislative drivers are pressuring the event industry to become more sustainable.
The principal conclusion was that as Finnish music festivals have a "mass impact" on the environment, the Finnish music festival industry is also contributing to the problem. Environmental responsibility should be taken in terms of sustainable event management to mitigate the environmental impact. Therefore, Finnish music festivals should "go green".