Sökning: "sustainable lifestyles"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden sustainable lifestyles.
1. Sustainable Interactions : Studies in the Design of Energy Awareness Artefacts
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a collection of experimental designs that approach the problem of growing electricity consumption in homes. From the perspective of design, the intention has been to critically explore the design space of energy awareness artefacts to reinstate awareness of energy use in everyday practice. LÄS MER
2. Engagement with Fungi-Based Food : Recovery and Valorization of Resources for Food
Sammanfattning : There has been an increasing demand for more sustainable food and ways of encouraging individuals to lead more sustainable lives. This thesis seeks to contribute to understanding human engagement with fungi-based food in a multidisciplinary manner by complementing resource recovery with an occupational perspective that sheds light on aspects that encourage or discourage individuals from engaging with this food. LÄS MER
3. Perspectives on low carbon lifestyles
Sammanfattning : Climate change is one of the most severe problems facing the world today. If extensive measures are not undertaken to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the near future, the natural conditions under which life depends will change for the worse (Pachauri et al, 2014). LÄS MER
4. Just Environments : Politicising Sustainable Urban Development
Sammanfattning : European cities are becoming increasingly multicultural and diverse in terms of lifestyles and socioeconomic conditions. However, in planning for sustainable urban development, implications of this increased diversity and possibly conflicting perspectives are seldom considered. LÄS MER
5. Stakeholder dialogue for sustainable service
Sammanfattning : Human behavior threatens to ruin irrevocably our long-term existence; the downhill slide is steep and seemingly soon will be incurable. Shifting from unsustainable development would require substantial and far-reaching changes in lifestyles and living standards. LÄS MER