Outdoor music festivals and environmental sustainability: Initiatives and practice

Students should list and communicate the role of both internal and external festival stakeholders regarding environmental sustainability. Answers could include the importance and role of internal stakeholders, for example, Body & Soul staff and crew (including the event manager, event production, lighting and sound etc), the sustainability team, medical and welfare, volunteers and attendees. Additionally, there are the external stakeholders, such as the role of sponsors, concessions, suppliers, artists and performers, media and the local community. Students could give further examples of initiatives adopted from other music festivals at the local or the international level, of different size and scale, to compare and contrast initiatives from the case study with their own examples. Event and festival sustainability is a central theme in event studies and a practical challenge for the events industry.