Sport and sustainable development
Sport and sustainable development is the integrated principle for explaining how sport functions as a platform for sustainable development outcomes and how the concept of sustainable development applies to sport. Pathways. The center of attention is on embracing sustainable development as both normative and analytical concepts. The integration of sport with sustainable development reflects on two pathways. Both pathways examine six shared perspectives of sport and sustainable development towards the vision to embrace the modern world's complexity and offer solutions for a sustainable future. Shared perspectives. The six shared perspectives reflect on the most common  aspects of sport and sustainable development, The personal perspective emphasizes the importance of the personal-human values for openness to change, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence for each person, independently capable of adopting an active and sustainable living and ultimately cultivating a sport-sustainable lifestyle. The social perspective embraces the power of sport as a platform for positive social change by encompassing how sport influences society, along with its people collectively in-sport and off-sport. The economic perspective focuses on the connection between sport and economic growth at the local, regional, national, and international levels, including sport finance and  economics, sustainable financial plans and strategies, and sport application. The ecological perspective examines the critical issue of the climate crisis and highlights climate action's need. The technological perspective discusses the technological innovations in sport and analyzes how sport-related technological advancements can enhance global sustainable development goals. The political perspective examines the sport's unique advantage of global governance through many international sport organizations, both for-profit and non-profit. United Nations. In practice, efforts have started to increase on the newly developed endeavor of sport and sustainable development. United Nations have recognized the importance of sport in implementing  sustainable development goals (SDGs). According to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development A/RES/70/1, paragraph 37, "Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development. We recognize the grow- ing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives." Platforms and Pioneers. Collective awareness platforms have been developed to promote sustainability through sport. We are Guarding Earth Through Sport (We Are GETS) is a platform founded  by Stavros Triantafyllidis and commits sport to sustainability through sustainable development of sport (SDoS) agenda and advocate sustainability to the global society through sport for sustainable development (S4SD) plan. As a platform for sustainability,