Sustainable Regional Development and Sport: the case of mountain races

Abstract

Generally, mountain races take place among Environmental Preservation Units, designated conservation units, or in places with abundant natural resources such as forests, rivers, waterfalls, rapids, mountains, etc. Thus, one of the challenges of mountain racing is the preservation of these areas and policies for managing the natural, cultural, material and immaterial heritage that surround it. In view of this, we aim to reflect on the mountain races and the conflicts and controversies between the operation of the tests and the units of conservation. For this, we perform a bibliographical and documentary research based on a contextual analysis. Mountain races express their own scientific controversies stemming from the academic environment in which different ways of thinking weigh themselves. Although the modality has regulation and uses specific areas for its promotion, which also have regulations. We see that even so, there are limitations as to its realization or not. In spite of thinking in the areas of preservation or in the accomplishment of the test and its economic movement, different are the interpretations and intentions that revolve around the specialists that evaluate it. Given this, we can observe this modality and its scientific and environmental controversies, at least in two areas, (a) environmental and (b) promotion/economic.