Sökning: "sustainability ethnography"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden sustainability ethnography.
1. Hållbarhet till middag : En etnologisk studie om hur miljövänligt ätande praktiseras i vardagslivet
Sammanfattning : Sustainability has become a conspicuous term in the public and political debate, as well as in the landscapes of consumption. This study focuses on how people understand and practice sustainability through food in their everyday life. LÄS MER
2. Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states
Sammanfattning : Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel crop production, farm job creation, and smallholder cash cropping. The expansion of biofuels in countries in the South largely pivoted upon ‘the will to develop’, specifically through the oil shrub Jatropha curcas L. LÄS MER
3. Ecological embedding : stories of back-to-the-land ecopreneurs and energy descent
Sammanfattning : This thesis starts with the premise that to address ecological and climate crises, we need to understand their psychological and cultural roots found in the separation of modern societies from the natural world. This separation permeates mainstream approaches to sustainability that either sustain business-as-usual of the unbridled economic growth, or reform it with greener markets and technologies. LÄS MER
4. Crowdability of Urban Space. : Ordinary rhythms of clustering and declustering and their architectural prerequisites
Sammanfattning : In the wake of densification and urbanisation, crowding has become an increasingly important issue for social sustainability in cities. This also affects urban design and the ways public spaces stimulate different kinds of crowding and clustering. LÄS MER
5. Infinitely Demanding Entrepreneurship
Sammanfattning : In both the study and the practice of entrepreneurship, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is recurrently put forward as a key, or even the key, to resolving many of today’s social, ecological, and economic challenges. However, research shows that entrepreneurs who pursue social change risk overlooking or excluding certain worldviews, values, and ways of living. LÄS MER
