(1.Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China;2.Department of Physical Education,Guangdong University of Technology,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: On the basis of summarizing the cultural ecological characteristics of southern coastal regions in China, the authors, by applying a research perspective of and related theories in cultural ecology, established an index sys-tem for evaluating the sustainable development of sports in southern coastal regions, which contains such 4 dimen-sions as sports material, sports economy, sports society and sports culture, sorted 15 indexes into 2 types of indexes, namely, development indexes and coordination indexes, and provided evaluation methods respectively for the 2 types of indexes and the overall sustainable development level. Key words: sport evaluation;sustainable development of sports;evaluation index;cultural ecology |