Green Music Festivals in Europe: Sustainability Strategies, Practices and Certification (ENCATC Advances in Cultural Management and Policy)

Music festivals are increasingly expected to respond to environmental and climate challenges, yet little is known about how sustainability is actually organised across the sector. This book offers a comparative and research-based analysis of how music festival organisations engage with environmental sustainability, examining not only environmental practices and performance, but also the strategies, decision-making processes, and certification pathways through which greening takes shape.Focusing on festivals in Northern and Southern Europe, the book shows that environmental action is shaped by uneven combinations of organisational capacity, strategic priorities, stakeholder pressures, and contextual conditions.Drawing on original mixed-method research, the book combines a large-scale survey of music festivals with expert interviews and contextual desk research.It explores three interconnected dimensions of festival greening: environmental practices and performance across key impact area