The environmental impacts of the biggest music festivals in Europe
Luoma, Saana (2018)
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Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018052910926
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018052910926
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As environmental issues arise concern more and more every day, the music festival business has also started to take environment as one of the aspects to acknowledge when organizing a music festival.
The purpose of this research is to study, which actions the festivals have taken to make them environmentally sustainable. It will also study, which aspects the festival organizers consider to be the most important things to concentrate on making the event greener. The aim of the study is to raise awareness of the environmental issues in music festival management.
For the author, the process and knowledge will be preparation for future career in events.
The research questions of this study are which actions do the festival organizers make in order to make the festival environmentally sustainable and which effects do these actions have.
This thesis studies the impacts a music festival can have on the environment. Theoretical framework of this research paper displays theory about the environmental impacts of events. The empirical part concentrates on studying the environmental impacts of four big music festivals in Europe, which are Flow Festival in Finland, Primavera Sound Festival in Spain, Roskilde Festival in Den-mark and Glastonbury Festival in United Kingdom. The study concentrates on finding out which operations do the festivals take in order to make them more environmentally sustainable. The material for the study was collected from the festivals’ web pages and the reports they presented on them. The material was collected from the web pages during the spring 2018.
The research method in this research is qualitative content analysis to analyze the methods the four music festivals use to make their festivals environmentally sustainable. The results of the thesis show that there were specific environmental issues that most of the festivals concentrated in. These were energy, waste, food, procurement and raising awareness about the environmental issues.
The results of this study can be used in planning events, especially outdoor events to see which aspects to take into consideration and which methods there is to be used in making the event environmentally sustainable.
Further research topics could include how the legislation of different countries within EU reflect on the actions the music festival organizers take towards environmental sustainability. It would also be interesting to research how the environmental initiatives reflect on the economic aspect of the festival.
The purpose of this research is to study, which actions the festivals have taken to make them environmentally sustainable. It will also study, which aspects the festival organizers consider to be the most important things to concentrate on making the event greener. The aim of the study is to raise awareness of the environmental issues in music festival management.
For the author, the process and knowledge will be preparation for future career in events.
The research questions of this study are which actions do the festival organizers make in order to make the festival environmentally sustainable and which effects do these actions have.
This thesis studies the impacts a music festival can have on the environment. Theoretical framework of this research paper displays theory about the environmental impacts of events. The empirical part concentrates on studying the environmental impacts of four big music festivals in Europe, which are Flow Festival in Finland, Primavera Sound Festival in Spain, Roskilde Festival in Den-mark and Glastonbury Festival in United Kingdom. The study concentrates on finding out which operations do the festivals take in order to make them more environmentally sustainable. The material for the study was collected from the festivals’ web pages and the reports they presented on them. The material was collected from the web pages during the spring 2018.
The research method in this research is qualitative content analysis to analyze the methods the four music festivals use to make their festivals environmentally sustainable. The results of the thesis show that there were specific environmental issues that most of the festivals concentrated in. These were energy, waste, food, procurement and raising awareness about the environmental issues.
The results of this study can be used in planning events, especially outdoor events to see which aspects to take into consideration and which methods there is to be used in making the event environmentally sustainable.
Further research topics could include how the legislation of different countries within EU reflect on the actions the music festival organizers take towards environmental sustainability. It would also be interesting to research how the environmental initiatives reflect on the economic aspect of the festival.