CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Varga, Dóra Cecilia |
|---|---|
| Title | Environmental Sustainability Trends of Festivals |
| Summary | The world today is facing many environment related challenges. Due to the technological improvements and the advanced medical services, there is an exponential increase in human population. This phenomenon is unsustainable, due to the finite resources of Earth. Population growth and human activities contributed to the issue of air pollution, global warming and climate change, to deforestation and land-cover change, to water pollution and the depletion of water resources and to biodiversity loss. Festivals are known for their polluting and resource consuming measures, and they are aware of the environmental impacts they have. Following the alarming messages of scientists and researchers about a very sinister future, an environmental movement started to rise. Beside average citizens, politicians and business leaders realized the need to move toward a more sustainable future. Organizers of festivals began to contribute to the movement, by applying environmental sustainability practices at their events. This paper collects and examines the global trends of festival environmental sustainability initiatives and compares them to the biggest Hungarian festival, Sziget. An alternative approach to festival sustainability is presented by the Hungarian zero waste festival, Gyüttment. The survey conducted to substantiate the importance of the research question of the thesis, – What environmental sustainability practices do festivals apply worldwide? – gives further explanation as to why organizers should invest in such methods. |
| Supervisor | Illés, Zoltán |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/varga_dora.pdf |
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