Hello Marina, we met at the British Council 'Towards a Democratic Science'
conference in Weymouth in 2001, it is good to hear from you again. Today in
SPRU we have a footie-related research event with a green theme.
Dr. Andrew Flynn is from the School of City and Regional Planning at
Cardiff University and Dr. Andrea Collins is at the BRASS Research Centre,
also in Cardiff. This afternoon they are giving a lecture describing their
research, which has produced an ecological footprint of last seasons' FA
Cup Final.
Hope to see you soon
Best wishes
Dr Jenny Gristock
Research Fellow (Science Communication and Innovation)
SPRU, The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE UK
Tel: +44 (0)1273 876711 Fax: +44 (0)1273 685865
www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
Ecological Footprint study of the FA Cup Final
Friday 6th of May, 2005 at 2:15 pm until 4:00 pm
Location: The Freeman Centre G24 / 25
Speaker: Drs Andrew Flynn and Andrea Collins, University of Cardiff
Dr. Andrew Flynn Biography
Andrew Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning. He
joined the School in the summer of 1995. His research interests lie in
the formulation and implementation of environmental and food policy and
of the nature of regulation. He has been involved in research on
structures and opportunities for promoting sustainable development in
Wales. He has recently completed a resource flow and ecological footprint
analysis of Cardiff, the Capital City of Wales.
Dr. Andrea Collins Biography
Andrea Collins is currently working as a Research Associate at the ESRC
BRASS Research Centre at Cardiff University.
Andrea has been working Andrew Flynn on a two year project to measure the
Ecological Footprint of Cardiff. As part of their research on they have
been developing a number of novel applications of the ecological footprint.
One such study includes measuring the ecological footprint of last seasons'
FA Cup Final which was held in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
Abstract
The FA Cup final is one of the great days in the sporting calendar. For
one day it brings together large numbers of passionate supporters. The
2003/4 FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Millwall at Cardiff's
Millennium Stadium was attended by 73,000 fans. What is little known is
how much those fans consumer during their stay in the City. The results
are staggering. During their visit, fans consumed 370,000 pints of beer
and lager, 38,000 pasties, 27,000 sandwiches, 24,000 portions of chips
and 13,000 beef burgers. Whilst this heady consumption will have been
assisted by the weather that day, and was an obvious economic boon for
many of the City centre food and drink businesses, the environmental
effects of such expenditure upon a city are rarely if ever considered.
One way of gauging the environmental impacts of an event is to measure
its ecological footprint. The ecological footprint is an increasingly
popular way to assess our resource use and convert it to the land area
required to support it. The footprint expresses resource consumption in
terms of global hectares and since one hectare is about the same size as
the football pitch in the Millennium Stadium, the environmental impacts
are easy to imagine.
Original Message:
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From: Hugh Aldersey-Williams [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 17:28:06 +0100
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science in Soccer, Soccer in Science
Dear Marina,
I see you've already had a reply mentioning chemist Jonathan Hare on
how to draw a football. At Sussex University with Harry Kroto, he was
involved in some of the early research in buckminsterfullerene, the
60-atom spherical cage carbon molecule. This was discovered in 1985,
so 2010 will be its silver jubilee, if that helps. Kroto et al won
the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery. The carbon
bonds of this molecule make the same pattern as the stitching on a
standard soccer ball, ie. a truncated icosahedron. It was certainly
an unexpected link to the sport, and one of the few that will link in
to chemistry! (There's more than you'll ever need about this story in
my book on it and on my website.)
best regards,
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
www.hughalderseywilliams.com
>Dear science communication network members
>
>South Africa is gearing up for hosting the 2010 WORLD CUP SOCCER and
>we have to use this opportunity to interest the public (especially
>youth) in the "science angle" to this sport. I would therefore be
>very interested to make contact with anyone who has worked on
>grants, exhibitions, publications, competitions, etc exploiting and
>explaining the links between science and soccer.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you,
>Marina Joubert
>Manager: Science Communication
>SA Agency for Science and Technology Advanment
><http://www.saasta.ac.za>www.saasta.ac.za
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