Sports Ground Management: A Complete Guide - Tapa blanda

All sports persons and players, at whatever level, need quality surfaces on which to play, and constructing, preparing and maintaining surfaces are all essential tasks carried out by professional groundspersons. However, although looking after the playing surfaces is of crucial importance, the modern sports ground manager requires a large range of other skills and knowledge. There are resources to manage, events to organize and run, and a myriad of legislative and regulatory requirements to cope with.

Stewart Brown is Team Leader for Sportsturf at Myerscough College, in Lancashire, England, which is one of the largest providers of sportsturf education in Europe. He has been employed within the sportsturf and amenity horticulture indsutries for over twenty-eight years and is a researcher, a consultant, a regular contributor to the trade press, and a frequent speaker at events and conferences. Stewart is author of Sports Turf & Amenity Grassland Management [Crowood 2005], is a Fellow of both the Institute of Groundmanship and the Higher Education Academy, and is a member of the Institute of Learning. Resident - Lancashire