Sporting Capital: Transforming Sports Development Policy and Practice

by Nicholas F. Rowe

This book makes the case for 'Sporting Capital' as a new conceptual model of sport participation with the potential to transform public policy and practice in sports development. The central argument is that a model of Sporting Capital - with its three domains of physiological, social and psychological attributes - provides a missing framework, creating a new impetus for sustained growth in community sport by joining up the levels at which sport development is planned and implemented. Touching on issues such as youth sport, public health, volunteering and inequality, the book offers recommendations for strategic policy and for practitioners working in the frontline of sports development.

194 pages, Hardcover

Published November 9, 2017

About the author

Nicholas F. Rowe is a freelance sport research consultant and Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Becket University, UK. For nearly 30 years he worked for the GB Sport Council and Sport England, most recently as Sport England’s Strategic Lead for Research and Evaluation.