Author : Shane Fudge
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781003750
This fascinating book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students in the fields of environmental studies _ particularly sustainability _ and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers concerned with achieving sustaina
Author : Karen T. Litfin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745681239
In a world of dwindling natural resources and mounting environmental crisis, who is devising ways of living that will work for the long haul? And how can we, as individuals, make a difference? To answer these fundamental questions, Professor Karen Litfin embarked upon a journey to many of the world’s ecovillagesÑintentional communities at the cutting-edge of sustainable living. From rural to urban, high tech to low tech, spiritual to secular, she discovered an under-the-radar global movement making positive and radical changes from the ground up. In this inspiring and insightful book, Karen Litfin shares her unique experience of these experiments in sustainable living through four broad windows - ecology, economics, community, and consciousness - or E2C2. Whether we live in an ecovillage or a city, she contends, we must incorporate these four key elements if we wish to harmonize our lives with our home planet. Not only is another world possible, it is already being born in small pockets the world over. These micro-societies, however, are small and time is short. Fortunately - as Litfin persuasively argues - their successes can be applied to existing social structures, from the local to the global scale, providing sustainable ways of living for generations to come. You can learn more about Karen's experiences on the Ecovillages website: http://ecovillagebook.org/
Author : Sylvia Lorek
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 283253614X
We are now entering the third decade of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by scientists have been exceptional, leading to major advancements in the fast-growing field of sustainability research. Frontiers has organized a series of Research Topics to highlight the latest advancements in research across the field of sustainability, with articles from the Associate Members of our accomplished Editorial Boards. This editorial initiative of particular relevance, led by Prof. Sylvia Lorek (Specialty Chief Editor of the Sustainable Consumption section), together with Dr. Henrike Rau, is focused on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of sustainable consumption.
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030303063
The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).
Author : Dan Podjed
Publisher : Založba ZRC
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9610500269
How do people drive on roads and behave in traffic? How can we change driving habits and encourage more environmentally responsible modes of transportation? These are the two main questions to which the volume tries to answer. It tackles the problems of driving, traffic, transportation, and mobility fully, rather than from a single perspective, which has tended to be the norm so far. The authors describe how we can weave together qualitative and quantitative approaches, how useful interviews are for understanding driving comfort, the power ethnography has to help us understand the lifestyle of drivers, which technological tools and approaches are the most useful for analyzing styles of driving, how to explore vehicles and traffic by analyzing language, how traffic might improve or worsen our way of life from a psychological point of view, and how we can encourage environmentally friendly behavior and practices on both the road and in life in general. / Kako se prevažamo po cestah in vedemo v prometu? Kako lahko spreminjamo vozniške navade in spodbujamo bolj okoljsko odgovorne načine prevoza? To sta dve izhodiščni vprašanji, na kateri odgovarja zbornik, v katerem se avtorice in avtorji problematike vožnje, prometa, transporta in mobilnosti lotevajo celotno, namesto z enega zornega kota, kot je bilo to doslej bolj pogosto. Avtorice in avtorji predstavijo, kako lahko pri raziskovanju prepletemo kvalitativne in kvantitativne pristope, kako uporabni so intervjuji pri razumevanju udobja med vožnjo, kakšno moč ima etnografija pri spoznavanju načina življenja voznikov, kateri tehnološki pripomočki in pristopi so najbolj uporabni za analizo načinov vožnje z avtomobilom, kako lahko raziskujemo vozila in promet z analizo jezika, kako promet s psihološkega vidika izboljša in poslabša naš način življenja ter kako lahko spodbujamo okolju prijazne navade in prakse, in to tako na cesti kot tudi nasploh v življenju.
Author : Philippe Hamman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2025-01-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3111379000
The Future of Cities and Energies in Western Europe explores a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to researching energy issues in Western European cities, as well as urban energy transition. It serves as a collection of materials, instruments, ideas, and theories to embrace this subject. The contributions are interdisciplinary, drawing from areas such as sociology, urbanism, geoecology, architecture, and political science, thus demonstrating that this research topic, which is now gaining full legitimacy in traditional fields, requires open and reflexive dialogues.
Author : Alison Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2024-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1036406393
This book brings together diverse international scholars who interrogate waste from a myriad of disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. These disciplines come across the many faces and dimensions of waste, adding new understandings of common and hidden waste related problems. These insider perspectives and reflections offer innovative ways of addressing waste related dilemmas by highlighting solutions and proposing new approaches. The chapters in this book showcase and offer practical experiences from global South and global North communities. The authors critically discuss the roles and trajectories of waste and those that work with waste.
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031659090
Author : CCICED
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2023-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811994706
This open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2021. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding green development, such as climate, biodiversity, ocean, BRI, urbanization, sustainable production and consumption, technology, finance, value chain, and related topics. It also reviews the progress of China‘s environmental and development policies and the impacts from CCICED. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight for policy makers in environmental issues.
Author : Konstantinos Andriotis
Publisher : CABI
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178639278X
The modern-day world faces a hostile climate, depleted resources and the destruction of habitats. The dream that growth will lead to a materialistic utopia is left unfulfilled by a lack of ecological and economic capacity. The only choice is to find alternatives to increased growth, transform the structures and institutions currently shaping the world, change lifestyles and articulate a more credible vision for the future and lasting prosperity. As a reaction to the problems accrued by capitalism, new development approaches such as the concept of degrowth have evolved. Degrowth in Tourism explores newly-emerging development and philosophical approachesthat provide more equity for host communities and offer a low-carbon future by looking at alternatives to the classic models of development and applying the concept of degrowth in a tourism context. Proposing that we need to shift tourism research from models which prioritize commodified tourism experiences to those that offer alternative decommodified ones this book: Provides topical analysis and illustrates the key themes of degrowth; Discusses the relationship between tourism and degrowth from both a historic perspective and through contemporary patterns of activity; Includes international examples and case studies to translate theory into practical new approaches. A comprehensive review of the subject, this book will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners within tourism, development, environment and economics, as well as those specifically studying degrowth.
