English forewords and review. Research mainstreams of studies on environment, sport, leisure and tourism in Brazil within the period 1967-2007
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Resumo
Sports and environment have been historically related through the following perspectives: (i) the environment as agent - acting on the participant’s body causing physical performance loss (example: excessive heat); (ii) sports as source of pollution – or even destruction – (example: winter sports in natural environment), and (iii) sports as agent - participants as environment guardians (example: surfers protecting local beaches). Although research tradition on human physical impairment due to hostile climate conditions started in Brazil in 1850, it was only in the 1960s that sports became part of scientific investigations that brought successful results such as Brazil’s conquest of the 1970 Soccer World Cup, as the main games were held in Mexico City, elevation 2,240m.
