Abstract

Green practices are becoming the rule in events and tourism, and many event organizers are rebuilding their operations around sustainability management systems. In this process, assessing events’ environmental impacts is crucial to define improvement strategies. Recently, researchers have proposed several quantitative methods to conduct the environmental assessment of an event, but some issues prevented their uniformity and generalizability, including the lack of a wide scope of assessment, of multi-event testing and multi-actor perspective. This paper identifies life cycle assessment (LCA) as the most comprehensive methodology and builds a uniform approach to evaluate the environmental impacts of any event. It is based on an innovative model that maps the event life cycle to identify its ecological hotspots in a way that increases transparency, comparability among different events, and accountability of different stakeholders. To generate it, the LCA was conducted in different event case studies within a multi-actor perspective. This was enabled by the collaboration with the municipality of a large European city, leveraging its involvement in many events with multiple roles in their supply network.

摘要

绿色实践正在成为活动和旅游业的规则，许多活动组织者正在围绕可持续发展管理系统重建他们的运营。在此过程中，评估事件的环境影响对于确定改进策略至关重要。最近，研究人员提出了几种定量方法对事件进行环境评估，但一些问题阻碍了它们的统一性和普遍性，包括缺乏广泛的评估范围、多事件测试和多参与者视角。本文将生命周期评估 (LCA) 确定为最全面的方法，并建立了一种统一的方法来评估任何事件的环境影响。它基于一种创新模型，该模型映射事件生命周期，以增加透明度的方式识别其生态热点，不同事件之间的可比性，以及不同利益相关者的责任。为了生成它，LCA 是在多参与者视角下的不同事件案例研究中进行的。这是通过与欧洲大城市的市政当局合作实现的，利用其在供应网络中的多个角色参与许多活动。