surfing, sustainability, research

1. SURFING &
SUSTAINABILITY
WITH
PLYMOUTH
UNIVERSITY

2. Plymouth Sustainability
and Surfing Research
Group
Gregory Borne

3. Sustainable Development Lens
Sustainable Development provides a way of accommodating these
issues
• About making connections
• About holistic approach
• About considering environmental, social and economic dimensions
• About the Global and the Local

4. Plymouth Sustainability and
Surfing Research Group
Develop cutting edge and innovative research that will have
both academic and real world applications
Act as an international research hub for work relating to
sustainable development and surfing
Areas that the group will address include though are not
confined to:
•Sustainable development governance of the surfing world
•Sustainable tourism
•Transformations within the industry
•Market transformation
•Behavioural change
•Technological advancement

5. The Future
• Facilitate a paradigm shift toward
sustainability in the surfing world
• The worlds first book on sustainability and
surfing
• Build further international collaborations
• AUSTRALIA