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Gapas, Diane Faye. "Evaluating Social Sustainability in Plans for Inter-Cultural Cities." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3018.
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Recently, there is an increasing interest and awareness on sustainability and sustainable development. Sustainability is comprised of the three E’s: environment, economy and equity. Of these three, the equity or the social sustainability component is often overlooked. As cities become more global and demographically diverse due to immigration, diversity’s impact to the city should be addressed through policies and plans. The content analysis and evaluation of city plans, policies and urban design examines their response to accommodating and including inter-cultural diversity using identified indicators of social sustainability and equity. This study finds that the length of time a city has been a foreign-born population hub does not statistically impact its integration of social sustainability measures in its comprehensive and sustainability plans. It concludes with best practices of sample cities and discussion on how city and other jurisdictions’ plans can incorporate, address and measure immigrant and inter-cultural responsiveness through social sustainability and equity concerns.
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Närlund, Ingrid. "Social Sustainability, Cultural heritage, and the Swedish Million Homes program." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturvård, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-398803.
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Creating socially sustainable residential areas is an important topic as urbanisation and migration increase. This thesis is about Swedish residential areas built during the period 1965 to 1974 as the result of a political programme called the Million homes programme. The areas hold cultural historic values being the physical manifestation of an era of the Swedish history that has strongly shaped our present society, but is now threatened by lack of social sustainability. The Million homes areas constitute a large part of the residential areas in Sweden today. By the end of the programme there were an abundance of housing options in Sweden, and empty apartments were in a high degree located in the modernistic suburbs, as people with good economy chose to move elsewhere. To fill the apartment, the municipalities used them for social contracts. The areas became segregated, and still are today despite several attempts to improve their popularity. This thesis analyses various measures and strategies for improving social sustainability in the Million homes areas, and their effects on the cultural heritage. The ambition with the study is to give a broad, cross-functional view of the topic, studying various approaches, e.g. physical renovations to social activities to cooperation with the police. The thesis starts with a literature study of social sustainability in residential areas, and the factors influencing it. A classification of aspects influencing social sustainability is created, to be used for evaluating the results from the case study in the second part of the thesis. The case study is performed in six suburbs in the Stockholm region, being new developments during the Million homes program. Social sustainability in each area is evaluated using the aspects defined in the first part of the study, and measures to improve social sustainability in the areas, and their effect on the intangible cultural heritage, are discussed. The work is valid for goal number 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable cities and communities, in particular target number 11.3 Inclusive and sustainable urbanisations, as well as goal number 5 Gender equality and goal number 10 Reduced inequalities
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Kydönholma, Josefina, and Eira Bonell. "Unboxing cultural planning - A qualitative study of finding the language of the concept cultural planning." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22813.
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Som invånare i en alltmer global värld, är det kanske inte konstigt att man ibland känner sig liten. Städer växer och därmed kan känslan av att tillhöra ett grannskap lätt försvinna. En känsla av rastlöshet kan göra att det är svårt att hitta något att knyta an till. Man kan argumentera om människans natur, men att människor är sociala varelser som har ett behov av att interagera med varandra, kan nog de flesta av oss skriva under på. Publika platser bör därför fylla behovet av en plats där gemenskap kan växa, men trender inom stadsplanering verkar gå i motsatt riktning. Vi behöver platser, stigar och vägar som är ämnade för oss, där det finns utrymme för möten och samspel. Vi behöver en urban miljö som stöttar vårt vardagsliv och tillåter oss att bara vara. Cultural planning är ett tillvägagångssätt och koncept som har potentialen att sammanfoga glappet mellan stadsplanering och invånarnas behov. I vår studie identifierar och utforskar vi ett nätverk av personer och grupper som är involverade i cultural planning. I nätverket är terminologin omdiskuterad och anses problematisk, vilket ledde oss till våra frågor: Vad är cultural planning? Hur kan cultural planning som koncept bli mer etablerat? Hur kan nätverket inom cultural planning stärkas? Våra mål är att definiera konceptet genom att hitta dess karaktäristiska språk. Detta för att hitta ett gemensamt språkbruk som nätverket kan använda. Vi kallar detta för unboxing cultural planning. Huvudfokus i denna studie är konceptet cultural planning. Då konceptet är så pass omfattande och mångsidigt, kommer vi att undersöka det genom olika teoretiska perspektiv baserade på olika professioner, utifrån tre utgångspunkter; cultural planning som en term, som ett tillvägagångssätt och dess värdegrund. Genom att konstruera fallstudier och analysera dem genom fyra relevanta teorier, kommer vi göra ett förslag på hur konceptet och nätverket kan bli mer etablerat.As citizens in an increasingly global and digitalized world, everyone feels small from time to time. Cities expand and at the same time the sense of belonging to a neighbourhood decrease. It is hard to find a way to root ourselves. While arguments occur over human nature, it is safe to assert that humans are social beings, and we have a need to interact with each other. Public spaces should fill the need of physical space were communities and neighbourhoods can meet, but trends in city planning move in different directions. We need places, paths and roads that are built for us, where there is room for interaction and encounters. We need an urban everyday life that allows us being human. Cultural planning is an approach and concept that has the potential to fill the void between city planning and citizens’ needs. When talking about tools in the field of cultural planning, we must ask what tools exist and how do we use them? In this thesis we identify and explore a network of people and groups involved with cultural planning, as well as the different tools associated with it. Within the network, the term cultural planning is discussed as problematic. This led us to our questions: How is cultural planning conceptualized? How can cultural planning become more established and recognized? And how can the cultural planning network be strengthened?Our goals are to unbox the concept of cultural planning by finding its language, and during our process help the network in their future work of communicating cultural planning. We call this unboxing cultural planning. The central focus of this study is the concept of cultural planning. Since the concept is complex and not yet established, we will examine cultural planning from three starting points. Using perspectives from different professions and practitioners, we explore cultural planning as a term, as an approach, and as a collection of core values. By constructing case studies and analysing them through four relevant terms, we suggest on how to widen the concept and network of cultural planning.
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Unver, Eda. "Sustainability Of Cultural Heritage Management: "." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607428/index.pdf.
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This thesis evaluates the Keklik Street and its Surrounding Conservation and Development Project with respect to sustainability principle of Cultural Heritage Management. The achievements and deficiencies of the Project will be discussed and a performance measurement of the physical, functional and organizational sustainability will be done. Finally, the thesis will emphasize the contribution of the sustainability principle of the management approach and its instruments to the heritage conservation process.
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McAllister, Nia. "Social Sustainability: The Role of Ecotourism in Regenerating Cultural and Environmental Histories in Rio de Janeiro." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/173.
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Ecotourism is a rapidly growing global export industry that aims to uphold the ethics of responsible tourism by engaging with local communities and encouraging environmentally conscious travel. With existing critiques of the greenwashing of ecotourism and the tendency for tourism agencies to exploit host communities, I advocate for participatory community-based models of ecotourism. This thesis explores both the material and conceptual benefits of community-based ecotourism through the critical examination of community-based ecotourism projects in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Focusing on the implementation of ecotourism in of some of Rio de Janeiro’s peripheral communities, areas that are impacted by social and spatial marginalization, this thesis argues that the cultural and environmental history of a location are inseparable. When ecotourism is participatory and community-based, it can be a method for sharing cultural and environmental knowledge. Exploring the parallels between environmental justice toxic tourism and community-based ecotourism, this thesis examines the extent to which ecotourism can be used as a tool for social justice, serving to valorize the land histories and lived experiences of communities. Beyond generating money for host communities, the case studies of participatory ecotourism demonstrate the potential for ecotourism to serve as a platform for advocating for land rights in historically marginalized communities.
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Schreiber, Raphael, and Moisin Monica Bota. "Rebranding “Made in India” through Cultural Sustainability : Exploring and Expanding Indian Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25395.
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This exploratory study is a first attempt to translate the Indian cultural context from a socio-cultural, and legal perspective by identifying the values attributed to Indian textile craftsmanship by Indian textile and fashion stakeholders, and how their perspective is influenced by the global recognition and perception of Indian textile crafts and connotation of “Made in India”. At the same time the study investigates the meaning of “sustainability” in the Indian cultural context, in relation to textile craftsmanship, and how this relates to the Western concept of “sustainability”. Through field research in conjunction with a series of in-depth unstructured interviews, this study reveals that Cultural Sustainability is the dominating narrative in the Indian cultural context due to the prevalence of culturally embedded sustainability practices and the role of textile craftsmanship in sustaining livelihood, being a unique exercise of positioning Indian textile craftsmanship within a framework of cultural heritage as a valuable source of knowledge for sustainable practices in the fashion and textile industry. Unique about this study are the India-centric approach combined with the ethnicity of the subjects interviewed - who are, without exception, Indian nationals, whose work, voice and reputation are shaping India's contemporary textile craft -sustainability narrative (being referred to as the “Indian textiles and fashion elite”) and the framing of traditional craftsmanship from a legal perspective, introducing the notion of legal protection of traditional textile knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.
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Gonzalez, Paola Andrea. "Water, Sanitation, and Citizenship: Perceptions of Water Scarcity, Reuse, and Sustainability in Valparaiso de Goias, Brazil." Scholar Commons, 2017. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7403.
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Access to reliable water and sanitation are two important goals to improve livelihoods around the world. Providing access to improved and safe water resources that are equitable and appropriate to local needs is important to improve sustainability long-term. In addition, framing access to water and sanitation as basic human rights is often used as a rationale in developing new water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions in developing countries around the world. But not all countries consider access to safe water and sanitation as a human right. In the thesis, the politics of improving and investment in water access and sanitation provision are considered. The socio-cultural impacts of lack of sanitation in the lives of residents of Valparaiso de Goias, Brazil are explored. During a period of nine months, I also assessed perceptions of water scarcity and insecurity, and documented ideas of water reuse and sustainability in the area. I found that access to water and sanitation are not viewed as human rights, but as part of a discourse of citizenship and a social right. These services are viewed as a responsibility of the State to its residents because they are Brazilian and because it ensures improved livelihoods for the country’s residents. I also found that access to wastewater treatment infrastructure varied throughout the city, though treatment of wastewater remains very important to the study site community. In addition, the feasibility of implementing sustainable alternatives to address community needs is unlikely, given the infrastructural, financial, and space constraints. Political will and support have an important role in increasing and improving access to sanitation infrastructure. Perceptions of water scarcity varied between local residents and water service providers and other professionals interviewed. Though water is not perceived as scarce, Valparaiso and the Federal District of Brazil are located in a water stressed area, and are therefore more susceptible to water shortages and decreased water availability. Finally, community-based solutions to address water shortages should be included in the expansion of water reservoirs to collect rainwater, the usage of fines and bonuses to encourage appropriate water consumption.
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Ellestad, Ethan K. "Working Towards the Sustainability of New Orleans’ African American Indigenous Cultural Traditions." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1514.
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New Orleans indigenous cultural traditions such as Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and second line parades were born out of the disenfranchisement of the African American community. Though the practices have existed for over a century and provide social benefits, they have faced hostility from the police department, indifference from elected officials and city planners, as well as economic exploitation, denying them the ability to thrive. With a restructuring of public policy and outside assistance, these cultural traditions will be able to help revitalize the economically depressed areas where they continue to be practiced.
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Isenhour, Cindy. "BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE AGE OF HIGH CONSUMPTION." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/1.
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This dissertation is an attempt to examine how humans in wealthy, post-industrial urban contexts understand sustainability and respond to their concerns given their sphere of influence. I focus specifically on sustainable consumption policy and practice in Sweden, where concerns for sustainability and consumer-based responses are strong. This case raises interesting questions about the relative strength of sustainability movements in different cultural and geo-political contexts as well as the specific factors that have motivated the movement toward sustainable living in Sweden.
The data presented here supports the need for multigenic theories of sustainable consumerism. Rather than relying on dominant theories of reflexive modernization, there is a need for locally and historically grounded analyses. The Swedish case illustrates that the relative strength of sustainable living is linked not only to high levels of awareness about social, economic and ecological threats to sustainability, but also to a strong and historically rooted emphasis on equality in Sweden. In this context, sustainable living is often driven by concerns for global equity and justice. The research therefore affirms the findings of those like Hobson (2002) and Berglund and Matti (2005) who argue that concerns for social justice often have more resonance with citizen-consumers - driving more progressive lifestyle changes than personal self-interest.
Yet despite the power of moral appeals, this research also suggests that the devolution of responsibility for sustainability - to citizens in their roles as consumers on the free market – has failed to produce significant change. While many attribute this failure to “Gidden’s Paradox” or the assumption that people will not change their lifestyles until they see and feel risks personally, the data presented here illustrates that even those most committed to sustainable living confront structural barriers that they do not have the power to overcome. The paradox is not that people can’t understand or act upon threats to sustainability from afar; but rather that it is extremely difficult to live more sustainably without strong social support, market regulation and political leadership. Sustainability policy must work to confront the illusion of choice by breaking down structural barriers, particularly for people who do not have the luxury of choosing alternatives.
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Isaka, Kiminori, Yurie Makihara, and Samuel Pereda. "Barriers and Assets for Sustainability in Japanese Organizations." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3630.
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In order for Japanese companies to move strategically towards sustainability, it is necessary to identify and understand the national and organizational factors that can hinder or facilitate this organizational shift. Literature reviews, workshops with a Japanese company, questionnaires, and interviews were conducted in order to identify these factors. The results showed that there are many common sustainability barriers between Japan and ‘western’ countries. In addition, there are some Distinctive Cultural Characteristics (DCCs) specific to Japan that have a significant impact on the success of an organization that wants to move towards sustainability. According to the findings, suggestions for sustainability practitioners are provided, which involve understanding the barriers and taking advantage of the DCCs in order to help the Japanese companies to move towards sustainability more effectively.
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Williams, Steven A. "Trash Talk| Understanding Food Waste at a Charter Elementary School in Florida." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586126.
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Waste as a topic for anthropological investigation has enjoyed a recent resurgence in interest, mirroring burgeoning discussion among policy-makers and the general public about questions of environmental impacts, economic costs, and social detriments of contemporary waste management paradigms. While waste management in the United States has largely focused on technical and organizational solutions typically considered the domain of environmental planning and engineering (such as source reduction, recycling, and reuse), anthropology and the social sciences have become more prominently involved in efforts to inform policy-makers and researchers about the social and behavioral factors influencing waste norms and habits, particularly in educational institutions and municipal governments.
The central questions to this research were as follows: (1) What are some of the perceptions and practices concerning food waste at an environmental charter elementary school in Florida? (2) What do self-reported data on food waste behaviors suggest about disposal habits and norms? (3) What is the extent to which food is discarded relative to other types of refuse? and (4) From the perspectives of school staff and students, what are some of the factors influencing food waste?
To answer these questions, I employed both "garbological" and ethnographic methods at an environmental charter school, Learning Gate Community School, over a period of nine months, including (1) participant observation, (2) garbological audits of the cafeteria waste stream, (3) key informant interviews with students and staff, and (4) log sheets sent home to a random sample of parents to gauge the fraction of leftovers taken home that are ultimately discarded in order to gain a more holistic understanding of the waste stream of the school cafeteria.
The results of this project support the following conclusions: (1) students at Learning Gate tend to agree that food waste is a detriment, but these concerns are subordinate to factors such as the degree of hunger at lunchtime and the perceived palatability of certain food items and (2) lunch periods are an important block of unstructured time, which Learning Gate students use for a far broader variety of activities than merely nourishment
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Martínez, Velarde Claudia Leticia. "Landscape-led approaches for the regeneration of low-income medium-rise housing : a cross-cultural assessment of social and ecological sustainability." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14982/.
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The regeneration of decaying housing is becoming paramount in meeting the current international demand for new dwellings within the sustainable agenda. Medium-rise housing is proposed as ideal as it meets the planning guidance's desirable densities and for its social and ecological sustainability possibilities through the landscape. Yet, having few medium-rise housing areas regenerated with a sustainable-oriented landscape approach, the amount of research undertaken in this area is limited. Therefore, the present study addresses this gap in knowledge by studying the short- and long-term contribution that may be made to inform future regeneration of housing. The research investigates a regenerated case study in Sweden and another one in Germany which were assessed for social and ecological sustainability through a set of indicators, a survey, observational records, and semi-structured interviews. Afterwards, the applicability of the results was tested through a survey in an additional case study in Mexico where no regeneration has taken place. It was found that the arrangement of landscape was essential for encouraging socializing and the respondents' design preferences were similar despite cultural differences. It was observed that robustness and interpersonal distancing were most important for socializing whilst visual richness and mystery were clearly favoured by respondents. Interestingly, it was also revealed that involving in ecological improvements facilitated residents in knowing each other. However, it was found that perceptions and unclear ideas of sustainability as well as poor collaboration among stakeholders resulted in poor management of initiatives and a reduced participation of residents. Based on these findings, the study makes design recommendations for landscape designers as well as proposing regeneration and operational guidelines for planning, managing, and maintenance. Further research is required to document more regenerated housing areas to enable sustainability issues to be more generally applied.
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Nguyen, Thi Hong Lam. "Cultural sustainability and resilience in the context of tourism : A case study of Hue, Vietnam." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445256.
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Cultural heritage confronts the notion of change, both in the development process and in the tourism context. In the tourism context, as being used as a unique selling point, it is unavoidable that cultural heritage facing commercialisation and commodification, or even vulgarisation due to being forced to change to meet the market demand and tourists’ expectations. Hence, the question is, if changing is inevitable, what are the potential risks that cultural heritage might face in the tourism context, and how to maintain its significance, which are attractions for tourists in the first place? The overall aim of the study was to use the notion of change as a lens to investigate the concept of authenticity as well as the relation between sustainability and resilience in culture. The study's objectives approached based on a qualitative method, with semi-structured interviews focusing on the perspective of the cultural heritage community – a group of people who work closely with cultural heritage - local community, practitioners, researchers, authorised agency, and tourism stakeholders. Concerning cultural heritage's interpretation based on its existing definition, the intertwined and interdependent relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of cultural heritage was investigated. An authentication process was introduced. Resilience thinking in culture was given as proposals. In this study, a case study in Hue, Vietnam with two examples – Nhã nhạc (the court music) and áo dài (long dress or tunic) were examined regarding the notion of change in relation to the concept of authenticity, sustainability and resilience.
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Chaves, Barbara Gabriella Oliveira, and 92981397138. "Sustentabilidade social e cultural da política de Educação Ambiental: um estudo de caso no programa social e ambiental dos igarapés de Manaus-Am." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2018. https://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/6558.
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When considering the global context, it is becoming more and more like those that claim the socio-environmental sustainability of thinking about new paradigms of societies that contemplate sustainability, the aim of reaching objectives, indicators, public policies to mitigate the impacts of the socio-environmental issue and contribute to achieve sustainability. Inserted in this discussion space, Brazil has participated as a signatory of events that discuss the socio-environmental theme, thus being led to propose and execute public policies that respond to the demands of the "socio-environmental crisis", among which, environmental education as one of the important instruments for this process. In order to contribute to this debate, the research that originated this dissertation had as its general objective to analyze the social and cultural sustainability of the Environmental Education Policy set forth in Law 9.795 / 1999, as a cut off from the Program Social and Environmental the Rives of Manaus - PROSAMIM. Considering the scope of the proposed results, a qualitative approach, without detracting, however, quantitative aspects necessary, parameterized in bibliographical, documentary and field research, whose design was based on a case study having specifically as locus the eight residential parks of the Program Social and Environmental the Rives of Manaus, located in the geographical area of the city of Manaus / AM, that includes the Basin of Educandos - BHE. From a sample of 44 subjects, of whom 04 represented by professionals who contribute to the development of environmental education actions in the Program in question, and 40 beneficiaries residing in the area of analysis, more specifically 5 residents of each park of different families. It was possible to identify that the perspective of sustainability present in the national policy of environmental education is critical, respecting all the conceptions that approach it, but it is necessary to know the perspective of working in a given context in order not to incur mechanization and generalization of actions making it impossible to be effective, as well as, it was verified that the social sustainability of environmental education in the Program in question, has focused mainly on the process of encouraging the social participation of residents, however, from the result of the study it was possible to observe that it is necessary to broaden the vision of participation, with the intention that it may contribute to the strengthening of citizenship and social justice in a really critical way. As far as cultural sustainability is concerned, this has in turn been focused on the Program based on the commemoration of dates that contemplate the ecological aspect, emphasizing the need also for clarity regarding the understanding of the sense of culture, as a process of knowledge exchange that consider the subjectivity of the subjects, and their life trajectory, contributing for the target audience to identify themselves with the developed actions and thus are collectively participants as subjects of rights of the process of social transformation and confrontation of the social-environmental question.
Ao considerar o contexto global, torna-se cada vez mais crescente as discussões que dizem respeito à questão socioambiental e a necessidade de pensar novos paradigmas de sociedades que contemplem a concepção de sustentabilidade, e com o intuito de alcançar tais objetivos, políticas públicas têm sido construídas visando mitigar os impactos da questão socioambiental e contribuir para a efetivação da sustentabilidade. Inserido neste espaço de discussão, o Brasil tem participado como signatário de eventos que discutem a temática socioambiental sendo assim levado a propor e executar políticas públicas que respondam às demandas da “crise socioambiental”, entre as quais, destaca-se neste estudo a política de educação ambiental como um dos importantes instrumentos para esse processo. A fim de contribuir com este debate, a pesquisa que origina esta dissertação teve como objetivo geral de analisar a sustentabilidade social e cultural da Política de Educação Ambiental disposta na Lei 9.795/1999 tendo como recorte o Programa Social e Ambiental dos Igarapés de Manaus – PROSAMIM. Considerando para alcance dos resultados propostos, uma abordagem qualitativa, sem desmerecer, contudo aspectos quantitativos necessários, parametrado em pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo, cujo delineamento foi baseado em estudo de caso tendo especificamente como locus os oito parques residenciais do Programa Social e Ambiental dos Igarapés de Manaus, localizados na área geográfica da cidade de Manaus/AM, que compreende a Bacia Hidrográfica do Educandos – BHE. A partir de uma amostra de 44 sujeitos, sendo destes 04 representados por profissionais que contribuem para o desenvolvimento das ações de educação ambiental no Programa em questão, e 40 beneficiários residentes na área de abrangência da análise, mais especificamente 5 moradores de cada parque de diferentes famílias. Foi possível identificar que a perspectiva de sustentabilidade presente na Política Nacional de Educação Ambiental se propõe crítica, respeitando para tanto todas as concepções que a abordam, contudo ressalta-se a necessidade de conhecimento de qual perspectiva se trabalha em determinado contexto para não incorrer na mecanização e generalização das ações impossibilitando sua efetividade, bem como, verificou-se que a sustentabilidade social da Educação Ambiental no Programa em questão, tem focado principalmente no processo de incentivo a participação social dos moradores, no entanto, a partir do resultado do estudo foi possível observar que é necessário ampliar a visão de participação, com o intuito de que esta venha contribuir para o fortalecimento da cidadania e justiça social de forma realmente crítica. No que concerne à sustentabilidade cultural esta por sua vez tem sido focada no Programa com base na comemoração de datas que contemplam o aspecto ecológico, ressaltando a necessidade também de clareza quanto ao entendimento do sentido de cultura, como um processo de troca de conhecimentos que considerem a subjetividade dos sujeitos, e sua trajetória de vida, contribuindo para que o público-alvo se identifiquem com as ações desenvolvidas e assim sejam coletivamente participantes como sujeitos de direitos do processo de transformação social e enfrentamento da questão socioambiental.
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Koenig, Eric. "Baiting Sustainability: Collaborative Coastal Management, Heritage Tourism, and Alternative Fisheries in Placencia, Belize." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6526.
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Local coastal fishers in Belize are adapting novel strategies to manage, exploit, and market marine and coastal resources in an effort to promote fishing livelihoods and coastal environmental sustainability. These resilience strategies respond to diminished fishing stocks, fisheries and environmental policies and regulations, climate change, shifting seafood markets, and expanding tourism development. With growing foreign investment and nationally-directed infrastructure improvement projects on the Placencia Peninsula in recent years, tourism development is shifting toward mass tourism, and local residents are seeking avenues to sustain their livelihoods. In Placencia, the need for effective monitoring and management of Marine Protected Areas, fisheries, and coastal tourism, and enforcement of environmental regulations is being met through collaborations between the fisheries sector, governmental departments, regional environmental NGOs, and international aid agencies. Drawing on an “anthropology of public policy” approach and ethnographic research (including interviews, participatory mapping, surveys, and participant-observation) between 2013 and 2015 on the peninsula, this thesis investigates the implications of collaborative coastal resource management strategies developed between the Placencia Producers Cooperative Society Limited and regional environmental NGOs such as the Southern Environmental Association (SEA), among others, to promote marine conservation, local fishing livelihoods, and heritage tourism.
In particular, I consider how fishing livelihoods, conceptions of local history and heritage, environmental knowledge, tourism development, and fisheries and environmental policies inform the relationships and trajectory for “sustainable” local fisheries management through these collaborations. Many local fishers recognize a complementary relationship between tourism and fishing occupations through the ways that they can impart an ecological conservation ethos, centering coastal environmental knowledge, education, and local “embodied heritage” experiences and skills to sustain local marine livelihoods while preserving coastal ecosystems for visitors and future generations of residents. With the declining prominence of commercial fishing for Caribbean spiny lobster, queen conch, and fin-fish in the village, several Placencia fishers are applying their generationally inherited and embodied marine knowledge to livelihood diversification strategies such as seasonal, full- or part-time transitions to tour guiding and NGO coastal conservation, monitoring and enforcement, restoration, and outreach positions. Moreover, many fishers in the Placencia producers fishing cooperative have ventured into alternative fisheries and mariculture activities including fishing and marketing of invasive lionfish as well as seaweed farming and value-added product promotion with variable support from the Belize Fisheries Department, SEA, other environmental NGOs, and international conservation and development organizations. Recognizing these livelihood diversification strategies and relationships for sustainable coastal resource management, I discuss the opportunities and challenges of three recent and emerging alternative livelihoods programs directed by the Placencia fishing cooperative including the seaweed farming project, the lionfish eradication and marketing initiative, and the development of a heritage tourism program centering fisher livelihoods in connection with a proposed local fishing history museum.
To explore the possibility for fishing heritage tourism as a pathway to “sustainable tourism development” on the peninsula in the future, I investigate how local conceptions of fishing as heritage in Placencia village converge with or diverge from tourist “imaginaries” of culture and heritage on the peninsula as well as heritage assets and products conceived in national sustainable tourism development policy and commercial tourism markets. Residents of the peninsula, Belizean workers and visitors residing off of the peninsula, and foreign tourists alike recognize fishing and activites, events, and places associated with fishing as aspects of local heritage, although foreign visitors generally ascribe only cursory significance to fishing in the peninsula’s culture(s), heritage, and identities as compared with Belizean nationals. Rather, these visitors often imagine local heritage in terms of beaches and relaxation, the Belize Barrier reef and cayes, and especially the local friendly vibe, “quaintness,” and cultural diversity of people, drawing partly from national and local tourism marketing media portrayals of major attractions on the peninsula (such as on websites and in magazines and guidebooks) and resident and visitor word of mouth. Local and national sustainable tourism policies for the peninsula that recommend cultural tourism as a secondary product for future tourism development on the peninsula align with interview and survey results that suggest widespread resident and visitor interest in seeing the development of cultural heritage attractions on the peninsula such as a local cultural and historical museum. For many residents, conceptions of heritage tourism fit within the scope of local plans and visions for sustainable development that aim to maintain the integrity of the peninsula as a “low impact,” “authentic,” integrated, and primarily overnight tourism destination with a laid-back vibe, beaches, cultural diversity, and access to a variety of inland and marine-based attractions.
Drawing from these results, I conclude by discussing the implications of these alternative fisheries and tourism initiatives and markets to support local livelihoods and coastal environmental conservation, and consider the potential viability of collaborative coastal resource management approaches between fishers, NGOs, and governmental organizations for future sustainable development in Placencia and other coastal Belizean communities. This thesis represents an applied case study of collaborative fisheries management and how heritage is conceived and applied in a coastal Belizean context. It builds on previous coastal environmental resource management, heritage studies, and anthropology of tourism research, and considers the significance of local heritage and livelihoods in crafting locally accountable, relevant, and sustainable development policies and plans in coastal settings.
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Zhang, Wei. "Cultural Route As An Approach To Foster Regional Cultural Sustainability : A Study of Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin’s Expedition Heritage along the Silk Road in Northwest China." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445287.
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This dissertation strives to analyze the role of the cultural route as an approach and evaluates its validity to foster regional cultural sustainability. The author has investigated the relationship between cultural route, cultural sustainability, and regional development through studying Swedish explorer Sven Hedin’s expedition heritage along the Silk Road. A qualitative approach was taken to study how practitioners in particular tourism subdivisions attempt to implanting Sven Hedin’s legacy into different practices in Northwest China. With the help of the Actor-Network Theory as a material-semiotic method, a significant finding is that evolutionary networks centered on Sven Hedin, as an internal drive to promote the development of cultural routes, are taking shape. Cultural route as an approach to foster regional development cannot be achieved independently by individuals and SMEs; an institutional dimension needs to be considered for integrated management. This approach offers a new participation model in regional construction to their recipients and provides a sustainable strength for inhabitants to understand their cultural identity and embrace their future.
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Singh, Noopur. "Analysing the behavioural barriers to transparency in the upstream textile supply chain : A cultural orientation lens on behaviours." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23476.
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Transparency within the supply chain has become a key priority for textile brands in response to the growing stakeholder concerns around social and environmental impacts of the textile value chain. Textile industry is extremely labour dependent and adds massively to the environmental degradation, adding on to this the highly complex and scattered global supply chain network makes it more difficult for brands to implement transparency in their supply base. Due to the low-cost labour in developing countries, the majority of the textile suppliers is located in South Asia, where the cultural values have been found to be in sharp contrast to the Global West. Many prior studies have also highlighted the lack of supplier’s top management support as the linking barrier to sustainable initiatives. Hence, this research was designed to investigate the behaviour and attitude of top management executives towards various transparency dimensions, i.e., Traceability, Sustainability conditions (Social and environmental) and Purchasing practices, in order to understand the underlying behavioural barriers. The semi-structured interview with 9 top management executives across India and Sri Lanka revealed three major themes: (a) Transparency as business imperative, (b) Distrustful relationship with brand and (c) Tendency to externalise responsibility. The Schwartz theory of cultural orientation was used to examine the role of cultural value in explaining the identified behaviour of top management executives.
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Pan, Bingbing, Yanni Shizhou, and Carl Crone. "Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage to Facilitate a Transition towards Sustainability : A Case Study of Tibet's Tourism Industry." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3052.
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The purpose of this paper is to give suggestions for how to preserve intangible cultural heritage (ICH) towards sustainability. We will use Tibet as a case study. Understanding the importance of ICH for tourism, we scrutinize ICH through the lens of strategic sustainable development (SSD) and use tourism as a leverage point to enter into a real life situation. ICH is the root of all cultural expression. Without guarding ICH there is little meaning to the physical culture that remains and, ultimately, tourism declines. ICH is a new topic and there is little research and few ideas as to how to guide its preservation. We offer recommendations which include identifying the stakeholders, educating them, adequate marketing research especially in tourism, investing on technology of dematerialization and searching substitutions under the guidelines of the Golden Rule within the social sustainability context. Our contributions is to build a vision of success for preserving Tibetan ICH via tourism within the constraints of the four sustainability principles, and then demonstrate some prioritized actions in order to develop towards sustainability.
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Blomquist, Aviva. "Understanding Community Sense of Place and Social Sustainability Through Instagram : The establishment of Rågsved nature reserve and the demolition of Snösätra Graffiti Wall of Fame." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193909.
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Blomquist, Aviva (2021). Understanding Community Sense of Place and Social Sustainability Through Instagram: The establishment of Rågsved nature reserve and the demolition Snösätra Graffiti Wall of Fame. Human Geography, advanced level, master’s thesis for Master exam in Human Geography, 30 ECTS credits Supervisor: Danielle Drozdzewski Language: English Key words: Digital geography, sense of place, social media, public space socio-spatial planning, participation, social sustainability, cultural sustainability. This thesis investigates digital sense of place and social and cultural sustainability issues in the establishment of Rågsved nature reserve and the subsequent demolishment of (parts of) Snösätra Graffiti Wall of Fame. Drawing on theories of the more or less digital world, the non-representational, the more-than human, and the idea of geolocative social media as participatory public space (in the making), the thesis aim was to investigate how covert netnography/digital ethnography and discourse analysis can help us understand sense of place, and to identify sustainability issues through geotagged user generated data on Instagram. The empirical findings reveal conflicting community sense of place, assembled through complex entanglements between algorithms, physical structures/landscape, language, and sensory embodiments, which were simultaneously digital and non-digital. There were indications that the flows of posts geotagged on Instagram functioned as ‘claimed’ participatory public space, where stakeholder communities discussed place outside of dominant political imaginations. In addition, the posts indicated social and cultural sustainability issues. The main conclusion is that this type of discourse analysis of social media has the potential for functioning as a ‘passive’ participation strategy, and for creating deliberative discussions with stakeholder communities based on an understanding of place as they experience it.
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Perrett, Allison S. "Cultivating Local: Building a Local Food System in Western North Carolina." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4744.
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This dissertation examines a movement in Western North Carolina to build a local food system, one grounded in the conditions and relationships of place. In 2000, Mountain Family Farms launched the Local Food Campaign to raise public awareness about the region's farms and farming heritage, to educate consumers about the benefits of buying food grown by local farms, and, ultimately, to build markets for locally grown food to sustain the region's farms. The campaign sparked a social movement and over a decade later local farms and locally grown food are a palpable feature of life in the mountains of Western North Carolina. This dissertation is the result of my tenure at the organization as an employee and four years of ethnographic research.
The primary objective of my research has been to understand how the Local Food Movement in Western North Carolina is interacting with and affecting the industrialized food industry at the local level. Drawing on perspectives within anthropology, sociology, political science, geography, feminist theory, and social movements theory and from the concepts of hegemony, cultural politics, place-making, and social capital, this dissertation understands the movement in Western North Carolina within a processual framework, an integral part of the hegemonic process, which struggles to define and legitimize the practices and ideas that govern way of life. To examine this process, my research has focused on the ways movement organizers create a movement culture and mediate a tension between the dual imperatives of engaging the dominant food system and protecting the integrity of movement goals. Equally, my research has focused on understanding the impacts of movement activities on the region's food system - on the perceptions and practices of consumers and farmers and of the businesses that serve and sell food in the region.
My dissertation reveals the significance of place-making to the strategies of movement organizers - grounding movement participants and observers in the particularities of place, developing a shared place-based consciousness, cultivating different economic subjectivities that affect different material impacts. My dissertation documents the hegemonic process - the encounter and interaction between movement meanings, ideas, and practices and those of the dominant, conventional food industry. Within this process, movement outcomes are the responses of movement organizers, participants, and observers as they mediate challenges and opportunities at the intersection of disparate ideas and practices. Within a dynamic movement, outcomes are both provisional and incremental, shifting in relation to emergent knowledge and perceptions and the actions they inform.
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Nässén, Sara. "Slow Food for thought: food as cultural heritage expressed in the Slow Food movement’s external communication." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22585.
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This thesis investigates the Slow Food movement which started in Italy in the late80’s and today is an internationally spread organization with around 100 000 participants in 160 countries. The core aim within the Slow Food movement is combining everyone’s “right to pleasure” with social responsibility, summed up in their motto: “Good, Clean and Fair”. The movement is interesting from a global development perspective, since it looks at food in relation to the cultural, physical, social, environmental and political aspects of our lives, and relates to sustainability in a wide sense. In 2003, UNESCO started acknowledging so called ”Intangible cultural heritage” as a part of the common heritage of humanity, and a few years later some culinary traditions were inserted to the list. Departing from a social constructivist approach in how knowledge is constructed, combined with Pieterse’s ideas of the relation between culture and power, the key research question for the thesis is: How is the concept of Food as cultural heritage being expressed within the external communication channels of the Slow Food movement? Followed by the sub-question: How do these expressions relate to power dynamicsand to socially constructed assumptions of reality? Through a semiotic analysis, visual and textual material from Slow Food’s official websites have been analysed, using the UNESCO definition of Intangible cultural heritage as an analytical tool. The findings are that many fundamental ideas within the UNESCO definition are expressed in Slow Food’s external communication, but at the same time, that some aspects could be more highlighted in order to put a higher emphasis on the producer and the community. It is evident that Slow Food need to continuously address the critique directed towards them regarding issues of privilege and elitism, and keep a self-reflexive approach in their communication work.
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Ofori-Parku, Sylvester. "A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Risk Management, Corporate Sustainability Communication, and Risk Perception: The Case of Tullow Oil in Ghana." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19315.
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In the West African country Ghana, which has a history of poor natural resource management, discovery of offshore petroleum resources in 2007 and subsequent commercial production in 2010 (with British multinational Tullow Oil as lead operator) is a potential source of potential wealth and inequality. Using the Cultural Theory of Risk, Social Amplification of Risk Framework, and the Corporate Sustainability Framework — a proposed model—as theoretical foundations, this dissertation examines corporate sustainability practices, communication, and their implications for local residents’ risk perceptions, corporate reputation, and risk management. The study also assesses how cultural worldviews and informational networks (e.g., an environmental group, opinion leaders, and media) amplify or attenuate residents’ risks perceptions.
Data were collected via interviews with key actors including a non-governmental organization (NGO), a survey of a representative sample of Half Assini residents in one of the six coastal districts that adjoin Ghana’s offshore petroleum region, and analyses of Tullow’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and other communication texts. Extant worldview and corporate reputation measures were also developed/adapted and tested.
The study finds support for the view that cultural worldview and affect are associated with public risk perceptions. Thus, individuals who (a) do not subscribe to the worldview that government ought to regulate corporate behaviors, (b) show a relatively high sense of attachment to their communities, (c) rate the images associated with Ghana’s offshore oil production favorably, and (d) rate the images associated with Tullow Oil positively are more likely to be worried that Ghana’s offshore oil production poses significant risks for the country and their local communities. Regarding corporate sustainability communication, the study observes that Tullow uses a predominantly technical, expert-driven approach, which seeks to discursively position it as an aspirational, engaged, and responsible organization. While critiquing Tullow’s corporate sustainability and communication approach, the research also argues that corporate sustainability (CSR and risk) communication has the potential to constitute desirable corporate practices and could ultimately culminate in meaningful social change. Theoretical contributions to risk perception, risk management/communication, corporate reputation, and CSR communication are discussed. Practical implications for advocacy, corporate practices, and public participation in environmental decision-making are discussed.
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Shih, Yu Wei, and Anika Koch. "Psychological Safety for Organizational Cultural Change : An exploratory study in a Swedish multinational chemical engineering company." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-37520.
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Implementing cultural change is a huge project for any company. Not only is it time consuming, there are also many factors that determine the success of a cultural change. This study aims to explore a number of these success factors from a social perspective of sustainability, in particular the employees’ perspective. The employee’s psychological perspective is more difficult to expose compared to the economic and environmental perspectives, because it has a qualitative nature and cannot be easily captured in quantitative models. However, this does not make the employees’ psychological perspective less important. Recent studies show that psychological safety supports the individual learning process and creates an openness and motivation for change. Results of this study show that a stronger sense of psychological safety can be created by a positive atmosphere among colleagues, a high level of trust, supportive leader behaviors, and systems that facilitate efficient information and knowledge sharing. Furthermore, the study contributes to the field of organizational theory by investigating the role, effect and perception of psychological safety within one multinational company.
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Zhang, Yijing. "A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1792.
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This thesis explores the historic preservation projects in two cities: Suzhou, China, and Pasadena, California, United States. The purpose of investigating the strategies and policies used in each of the historic districts is to discuss whether preservation strategies applied in both cases could represent historic authenticity. The first two chapters focus on the project plan of the two historic districts. By evaluating the preservation policies at both national and regional level, histories of the districts, and approaches adopted by two cities, this thesis discerns the different perceptions of “authenticity” in preservation strategies in two countries. The next part of the thesis compares the two historic districts in terms of their distinctive focuses on preservation approaches. I, therefore, conclude that even though both cases have been deemed as successful models of preservation projects in each country, both historic district has demonstrated different levels of insufficient protection in culture and social sustainability.
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Mirador, Rita Maria Correia. "Prática de ensino supervisionada em educação pré-escolar e 1º ciclo do ensino básico: a sustentabilidade na terra nas suas vertentes cultural e Social." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/12278.
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O presente relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES) resulta do percurso de observação participativa e intervenção em contexto de pré-escolar desenvolvido na Escola Manuel Ferreira Patrício e em contexto de 1.º Ciclo do ensino básico desenvolvido na Escola EB1 Quinta da Vista Alegre. Suportado pela temática Sustentabilidade na Terra, nas suas vertentes: Cultural e Social, espelha toda a informação recolhida ao longo da PES em Pré-escolar e em 1.º Ciclo. Utilizámos a escala ECERS a fim de melhorar o próprio instrumento de análise e de avaliar o ambiente educativo, no âmbito da temática em estudo. Foi uma avaliação rigorosa, no início e no fim da ação em contexto educativo. A observação compreendeu o mesmo período em que foram desenvolvidas as práticas. Aquando da PES em 1.º ciclo, foi necessária a adaptação do conteúdo da escala ao novo contexto escolar. Os problemas identificados na escala ECERS revelaram-se objetivos a alcançar; Abstract:
This report of the Supervised Teaching Practice (STP) results from the participation, observation and intervention in the context of preschool developed in Escola Manuel Ferreira Patrício, and in the basic education developed in Escola EB1 Quinta da Vista Alegre. Supported by thematic Sustainability on Earth, in their cultural and social aspects, it reflects all the information collected along the STP in preschool and basic education. We used the ECERS scale in order to improve the instrument of analysis and evaluate the educational environment, regarding the thematic in study. It was a rigorous assessment, at the beginning and end of the action in an educational context. The observation included the same period in which the practices were developed. At the basic school, it was necessary to adapt the content of the scale to this new environment. The problems identified in the ECERS proved to achieve goals.
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Mausch, Anna Marleen. "Friluftsliv för Alla? : exploring and hacking our accessibility to the outdoors." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105278.
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When we are outdoors we rely on the things we bring. By questioning, if the outdoors are freely accessible and detached from our capitalistic world, I identified that to- day’s outdoor equipment industry is not only enjoying great popularity, but is also having the tendency to stay in its comfort zone, mainly engaging in ecological spheres of sustainability. With my bachelor’s thesis project, Friluftsliv för Alla?, I had the aim to initiate a shift, to broaden one’s mind, and to put a focus beyond the sustainability indicator of a product. Together with my collaborator ‘Friluftsfrämjandet’, a Swedish outdoor association, I shared concerns about social-cultural sustainability in the area of outdoor recreation, and started to look at the people who are in need of gear. An item that sparked a lot of my interest was the indispensable shelter, that is needed when we want to spend a good amount of time outside in nature. With the help of my sponsors and other stakeholders I was able to craft a fully functioning tent, that is supposed to be used and shared unconditionally.
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Meiring, Gert Hendrik. "An exploration of the role of social systems in urban renewal : an urban planning perspective / Gert Hendrik Meiring." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10216.
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Cities, as complex social systems within society, are the most complex of all human systems.
An increase in this complexity is anticipated since projections estimate that two-thirds of the
world’s population will be urbanised by 2030. Cities are “melting pots” of cultures and systems
that share the same spatial environment. In South Africa this challenge is exacerbated by one of
the highest urbanisation rates in the world. Urban growth implies tremendous change. City
centres are especially at risk to structural changes of urban growth and consequent urban
decay. Governments commonly adopt urban renewal to cope with changing urban
environments. However, the long term sustainability of current urban renewal practices is
questioned as they tend to over-emphasise economic revival and physical intervention. The
focus on people is often missed and misunderstood, even though social dynamics are the
driving forces in cities. Urban renewal is complex and multi-dimensional. In theory it moved
away from the linear top-down approach that focused on the physical environment towards a
more inclusive, integrated and socially oriented process. This is reflected in paradigm shifts in
planning thought from a physical planning and design based product orientated discipline (as
reflected in historical and modernist planning approaches), to a socio-political process in which
the communicative planning paradigm is the most recent post-modern theory.
Understanding cities as social systems and exploring their role in central business areas to
include them in urban renewal are important starting points when urban planners work with
urban renewal initiatives. As research about social systems and their role in urban renewal is
limited in South Africa, this study provides a step towards acknowledging and including urban
social systems proactively in urban renewal initiatives. This is especially relevant in central
business districts of medium sized cities such as Potchefstroom (Tlokwe Municipality) that
experience urban decay and where urban renewal initiatives have not yet been implemented.
The Mission Statement of the Tlokwe Municipality emphasises the need for social
understanding in the economic sphere, as this enjoys a high priority in the development choices
made.
A qualitative ethnographic research approach was followed to explore the role of social systems
in this context. This allowed the research to capture social dynamics in its natural setting where
no extraneous influences occur. This resulted in rich textual descriptions of how people
experience social interactions and the physical environment. Unstructured and non-participant
field observations and face-to-face, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were used as methods
to identify social systems within the research context and to understand interactions and
behaviour patterns that emerge from this context.
Findings from the observations expose a dynamic and cyclical network of inter- and intrarelationships
that culminate in continuous intense interaction amongst three social systems, namely the private sector, community groups and the general public. Pro-social behaviour
patterns (behaviour that promotes good social relations) were observed, including cultural
relativism and social awareness. Findings from the interviews provided insight into how social
systems interact with one another and with the physical environment. Themes that emerged for
the data to describe interactions among social systems include material support, friendliness,
cooperativeness, comfortableness, accommodativeness, fixed and established relations and
respect for one another. This creates a vibrant, synergetic environment conducive to
sustainability and describes an environment of hope. The counter-experience includes forced
flexibility and adaptiveness (due to unmet physical needs), feelings of being unsafe, limited
choices and a general dissatisfaction with the physical environment in terms of its support. This
describes an urban environment of fear. The role of social systems in terms of urban renewal is
inclusive, participating and socially sensitive. They should be catalysts for socio-economic
functions, contribute to maintenance and act as stakeholders.
Based on the above, the study offers recommendations to include social systems in urban
renewal in terms of the research process and method to be followed, how and where to include
social systems in urban renewal projects and suggestions for physical change to make the area
more supportive to the social dynamics. Practical guidelines are offered related to the practice
of observations and interviews for the identification and exploration of social systems. The
following suggestions are made regarding the urban renewal process: pro-active inclusion of
social systems throughout the process in the pre-project stage, during the urban renewal project
and post-project stage. Interventions to enhance the physical environment include provision of
special requests, access to open space, application of green construction and local
distinctiveness. As planners play a proactive role in urban renewal they may contribute to
enhancing the sustainability of urban renewal initiatives by understanding urban social systems
and their role in city centres in order to acknowledge and include them as important partners.MArt et Scien (Urban and Regional Planning), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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von, Mackensen Jana. "Thinking Friction : Uncover the true colours of Berlin." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-100151.
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Mcnab, Philip R. ""Planting Wholesome Seeds": Organic Farming and Community Supported Agriculture at Sweetwater Organic Community Farm." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4370.
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Sweetwater Organic Community Farm is an organic farm and environmental education center located in Tampa, Florida. The farm employs the community supported agriculture (CSA) model, in which members pay a single fee before the growing season begins and receive a weekly or biweekly share of the ongoing harvest in return. Using multiple ethnographic methods, this research aimed to understand the daily operations at Sweetwater as well as the perceptions of staff and CSA members. Findings indicated that there were myriad perceived advantages of organic agriculture but also imposing challenges that needed to be overcome. Moreover, staff members acknowledged the challenges associated with the CSA model such as pleasing and educating members and, for members, having to pick up at designated times and locations. Still, staff members also noted countless benefits, including the opportunity to connect to your food, farmers, environment, and community. In surveys, CSA members indicated that they were overwhelmingly satisfied the CSA model and Sweetwater. Complexities were uncovered that are often overlooked in the literature and merit further exploration. Among these were the pressure on farmers that resulted from receiving payments upfront and the willingness of individuals to become members without understanding the CSA model. There is a need for more studies to longitudinally examine changes in social support, food system knowledge, and eating habits that may occur over the course of the growing season.
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Silva, Rafael José Navas da. "Seis décadas de contato: transformações na subsistência xavante." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/91/91131/tde-28072008-154409/.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar as transformações ocorridas a partir da introdução da agricultura mecanizada para produção de alimentos em uma comunidade indígena xavante. Buscou também compreender as relações existentes entre a sua cultura e os modos de obtenção de alimentos. A pesquisa desenvolveu-se na aldeia Wede´rã, localizada na Terra indígena Pimentel Barbosa/MT. Foi utilizado o método qualitativo, com entrevistas, observação participante, conversas e desenhos. Pôde-se verificar que com o fim da mobilidade espacial nesta população e a introdução da mecanização para produção de alimentos, iniciada pela FUNAI nas décadas de 70 e 80 e mais recentemente, com o projeto da Associação Cana Rica, o arroz passou a ser base da alimentação xavante, com substituição de produtos tradicionais. Atualmente a agricultura é uma atividade importante para a alimentação xavante, com novas espécies cultivadas e incremento da produção nos quintais, onde são cultivadas frutíferas nativas e exóticas, entre outras. A compra de alimentos industrializados e a merenda escolar também contribuem para a subsistência da comunidade. Com estas novas fontes de alimentos, alterações se fizeram presentes nos papéis de gênero: a coleta não é praticada com freqüência pelas mulheres jovens, deixando de exercer um papel considerado feminino; as mulheres também não são as únicas responsáveis pelo plantio do milho, que hoje é realizado também pelos homens, alterando a imagem que os mais velhos têm sobre elas. A caça ainda é praticada entre os homens, seja com uso de arco e flecha ou com armas de fogo. Também a caça faz parte da vida espiritual xavante e não há outras fontes de proteína disponível, como há para os alimentos vegetais, o que contribui para valorizar o papel masculino. Com o incremento de produtos da agricultura, o equilíbrio alimentar não é alcançado; observa-se alta taxa de anemia na aldeia estudada, atingindo 56,3% no ano de 2006. Como possível causa, observa-se que os cultivos ocorrem nas épocas chuvosas, não sendo possível aproveitar a sazonalidade de produtos, como ocorre na coleta. Entre os esforços para alteração do quadro existente, podem ser citados os projetos da Associação Aliança dos Povos do Roncador e da ONG Nossa Tribo para valorização dos alimentos tradicionais, incluindo o plantio de roça coletiva, tendo como principais produtos o milho e feijão xavantes e ainda a retomada, com mais freqüência, da coleta pelas mulheres. Com isto pode-se observar a necessidade de um rigor maior na aprovação de projetos destinados à população indígena, pois aqueles que não consideram os valores sócio-culturais nas práticas de subsistência, acabam por interferir nas relações entre indivíduos e destes com a natureza, além de provocar problemas de saúde.The aim of this study was analyze the transformations occurred since mechanic agriculture was introduced on food production inside an indigenous community. It looks to understand the current linkage between its culture and the way they obtain food. This study was developed in the Wede´rã village at the indigenous lands of Pimentel Barbosa/MT. The study was based on the qualitative method, using interviews, participant observation, chats and paints. Rice is now the basic food of xavante\'s diet, supplanting traditional products, consequence of spatial mobility seeking and food production mechanization, stared by FUNAI in the 70´s and 80´s and recently from the project of Cana Rica Association. Nowadays, agriculture is an important activity to xavante\'s diet, owing new plant species and increasing the orchard production, where are among others, native and exotic fruit trees and vegetable crops. School lunch, provided by government and industrialized food purchase, contributes to the community survival. As a result of these new food sources, alterations in the genre roles came. Young women stopped practicing collection; a role considered feminine, and some activities are shared with men, as the corn crop cultivation, which today is carried out together, changing the image that elders had of women. Hunting is still practiced by men, using arch and arrows or firearms. Hunting belongs to spiritual xavante\'s life and there isn\'t another protein source, as there are for vegetables, so, this activity contributes to value men\'s role. Even though agriculture products increased, the dietary equilibrium is not reached, as shows the high anemia rate of 56.3% in 2006. This could be due to the presence of crops in rainy epochs that hinder taking advantage of the products seasonal times, as occurs in collection periods. Efforts to modify the existing truth are represented by a non-governmental organization (ONG, by its initials in Portuguese) Nossa Tribo, and Aliança dos Povos do Roncador Association, with a project looking to value traditional food, including the collective vegetable gardens and orchards, having as main products, xavante´s corn and beans as well as incentivating women collection practice. Based on the exposed arguments is evident the rigour need when approving projects aimed to indigenous populations, since, those that doesn\'t consider the socio-cultural values in survival practices interfere in the relationships between individuals and consequently, between them with the environment, causing health troubles.
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An, Chloe. "An Assessment of the Sharing Economy and Its Policy Solutions Through the Lens of Sustainability." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/189.
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This senior thesis in environmental analysis explores the promise of sustainability of the sharing economy, its shortcomings from this positive potential, and possible policy solutions to help it reach its fullest, positive potential. At its core, the sharing economy enables shared access to goods and services that would otherwise sit in idle or underutilized capacity – popular platforms such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and craigslist all fall within the sharing economy. By enabling affordable and convenient access to goods that would otherwise sit idle, the sharing economy encourages maximal use of a good that already exists rather than seeking out the production of new goods to meet demand. Unfortunately, as it grows, the sharing economy moves away from this key environmental promise because of two central challenges: first, a shift away from maximal resource use, the central pillar of its promise of sustainability, and second, negative side effects that arise from a lack of regulation of the decentralized economy. Therefore, appropriate public policy is needed to both regulate the decentralized economy to minimize negative behaviors and to encourage the positive behaviors of the sharing economy.
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Sánchez, Royo Begoña. "AN APPROACH TOWARDS HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/12269.
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This thesis uses the case study of the Fallas festival in the city of Valencia (Spain), to
assess the value of intangible cultural heritage. Within this framework the thesis
explores a number of different issues: for example how social agents frame different
qualities and benefits of cultural heritage in order to describe the value and claims for
funding the arts. It finds that value assessment for claiming funds presents many
challenges such as: identifying the values of the heritage in question; describing them;
and ranking them according to their contribution to the public welfare. It examines the
methodological techniques for assessing heritage values and goes on to discuss a
number of tools that are, or could be, used for assessment.
The thesis also explores how public bodies legitimise cultural funding. It examines the
role of non-government arts organisations in supporting the arts. It proposes the
analysis of donor decisions through a multi-attribute technique where donors state their
importance to donor situations under specific conditions or attributes. Finally, it
describes how the stakeholder approach can be applied for searching new ways of
funding festivals. It also considers how intangible cultural heritage goods can be
assessed within the process of cost-benefit evaluation. It also analyses how public
bodies, as the principal supporters of culture, deal with the problem of valuing
intangibles on social investments.
The study uses the Fallas festival to test the research hypothesis. It uses a number of
economic and statistical techniques to evaluate the Fallas Festival, these include
Contingent Valuation, Choice Experiment and Descriptive and Multiatribute Statistics.
The statistical techniques reveal that historical benefits are intrinsically valuable in the
Fallas festival. The historical value that the members of the neighbourhood
associations place on the Fallas festival justify that local social agents should support
this festival.Sánchez Royo, B. (2011). AN APPROACH TOWARDS HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/12269
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Hult, Victoria, and Elina Hedlund. "Föreställ dig transformation : en studie av hållbart stadsbyggande i teori och praktik." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45225.
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There is a fragmentation in the discussion regarding sustainable urban development in the architectural field today. This has led to the creation of several envisions that seek to achieve sustainability using different approaches. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to map different envisions in the architectural field with a focal point on three specific; spatial agency, ecological urbanism and hedonistic sustainability. The methods used in this thesis are a document study and a literature study with the aim to compare the swedish policies regarding architecture and urban development against the envisions that exist in the architectural field today. Status quo, reform and transformation are the three approaches used as the main theory to analyze the gathered empirics. We have also introduced practical examples from the envisions to give a more nuanced picture of the field and how visions and ideas are being realized. These examples are 2012Architecten in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany and finally Copenhill in Copenhagen, Denmark. The structure of the thesis is of an analyzed character to help the reader follow the reasonings and notions presented throughout the study. The conclusion shows that there are great difficulties in achieving transformation within the field today, especially regarding the practitioning and realization of visions and ideas since most of the projects are being realized with an underlying driving force in the economic aspect and the urge for economic growth. The study also shows that the current policies in Sweden do not make room for transformation since they are based on the social structures of today.Inom arkitekturverksamheten idag finns det en splittring i definitionen kring hållbart stadsbyggande vilket skapat flertalet föreställningar som på olika sätt strävar mot hållbarhet. Uppsatsen syfte är därmed att kartlägga olika föreställningar om hållbart stadsbyggande och arkitekturpraktik där fokus har lagts vid tre föreställningar; spatial agency, ecological urbanism och hedonistic sustainability. Arbetet är utformat efter en dokumentstudie och en litteraturstudie för att kunna jämföra de svenska styrdokumenten och den rådande arkitekturpolitik med de aktuella föreställningar som finns inom arkitekturverksamheten. De tre förhållningssätten status quo, reform och transformation utgör uppsatsen underliggande teori och den insamlade empirin analyseras utefter dessa. Även praktiska exempel från de utvalda föreställningarna tas upp för att ge en nyanserad bild av hur visioner och idéer förverkligas i samhället idag. De praktiska exemplen utgörs av 2012Architecten, Rotterdam, Nederländerna, HafenCity, Hamburg, Tyskland och slutligen Copenhill, Köpenhamn, Danmark. Uppsatsen byggs upp efter en analyserande struktur för att bjuda in läsaren till att följa de resonemang och begrepp som presenteras. Uppsatsens slutsats visar på svårigheter att uppnå transformation inom stadsbyggnad och arkitektur idag. Detta då praktiken inte speglar forskning och visioner utan samtliga projekt har en underliggande ekonomisk drivkraft. Studien visar även på hur den rådande arkitekturpolitiken inte ger utrymme för transformation inom stadsbyggnad, utan i stället bygger på rådande samhällsstrukturer.
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Alomari, Thabit. "Motivation and socio-cultural sustainability of voluntourism." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3295.
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Volunteer tourism (voluntourism) has been described as an alternative form of tourism to mass tourism. It has been suggested that understanding the motivations of voluntourists might lead to a better understanding of the socio-cultural dimension of voluntourism sustainability. The aim of this thesis is to identify the key motives of voluntourists and how these motives affect the socio-cultural sustainability of a society. Virtual ethnography, observation, and semi-structured interviews were employed in order to collect the research data from Eden Valley – a Canadian First Nation reserve, Global Citizen Network (GCN) – a voluntourism organiser, and voluntourists who took part in previous volunteering trips. The study found that authenticity, cultural concerns, the search for unique experience, helping the ‘other’, and self-healing are the key motives that drive travellers to participate in voluntourism projects. The data collected show that voluntourism has a greater positive socio-cultural impact on targeted communities than mass-tourism.viii, 122 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
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Vakhitova, Tatiana Vadimovna. "Enhancing cultural heritage in an impact assessment process : analysis of experiences from the UK World Heritage sites." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275526.
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This three-year PhD study looks at heritage performance in impact assessment (IA) practices, analysing the urban planning context and management experiences of selected urban World Heritage (WH) sites in the UK. The research develops recommendations for assessing the impact of plans, programmes and projects on heritage values in culturally significant urban areas with the emphasis on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of large-scale projects in an urban environment. The research analyses theoretical and empirical approaches to heritage management, investigates methodologies for heritage IA and explores opportunities for and barriers to improved heritage IA in the context of current UK policy. In particular, the research contributes with the conceptual framework of identification, interpretation and management of the cultural heritage in the urban planning system. The review of academic and other relevant literature helped to develop the conceptual framework. The data was collected by means of desk-based documents analysis, case studies, focus-group seminars and an on-line Questionnaire with the experts in the heritage and IA fields. The world’s most well-known and arguably most protected sites with officially identified Outstanding Universal Value – WH sites – provide general lessons for the heritage management and IA of new developments and infrastructure projects. The management of UK WH sites could be said to have the features of what is known as a values-based approach to conservation. This approach emphasises the identification of cultural heritage significance with the early participation of different stakeholders in the planning process; the latter has a scope for improvement in the UK context. Research on the boundaries of the heritage and IA fields leads to an improved understanding of cultural heritage and provides a framework for the IA process. The developed framework and the criteria for an enabling environment could be useful for achieving agreement between the different stakeholders, and could allow a smoother planning decision-making process, leading in turn to a reduced need for monitoring from international bodies. The results are useful for planners and developers in the context of western practice, and could also be relevant to the development of international guidelines.
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Torlegård, Chahaya, and Marthe Nehl. "Culture Moving Center Stage: Exploring the potential of Culture in Sustainable Urban Development in the City of Malmö." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24012.
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The discussion of a ‘cultural’ dimension of sustainability has been brought forward in sustainable development and in particular sustainable urban development (SUD) in the last three decades. Despite both an advancement of scientific discourse and advocacy through international organisations, empirical examples discussing explicitly leadership and organisation for implementation of culture in SUD are still rare. Through the lens of leadership and organisation, important questions regarding norms, values and behavior are being addressed that provide the foundation for future development. To advance empirical knowledge in the described field, the thesis takes a look at the city of Malmö in the form of a case study. In Malmö, culture has been assigned an important and all-encompassing role in the city’s organisation and sustainable development plan, manifested through a local policy, the so called ‘Culture Strategy’. This in-depth study aims at understanding the practical application of culture in SUD, given a theoretical framework including the possible roles of culture in SUD and the meanings of creative organisation and leadership in a neoliberal urban context. It is followed by a comprehensive analysis of a range of official documents and eight semi- structured interviews. Asking for the communication of visions and actors’ roles and understandings of culture in relation to practices and organisational structures, the thesis shows that the cultural strategy so far has a dual function as a catalyst and representative for the discussion of culture in SUD. Over-departmentalisation and a lack of communication present hinders for organisational change and the potential of development through learning is not given adequate space and time so far. In conclusion, the municipal organisation must detach from the idea to control, and rather enable ‘spaces’ for diverse actors to collectively employ creativity and allow for an experimental process to unfold.
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Olsbacka, Sabina, and Bojana Zlojutro. "Kulturstråk Nissan : En kvalitativ studie om inklusion och deltagande genom en kreativ utveckling av ett offentligt rum i staden Halmstad." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-34544.
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Städer är en plats där många individer lever tillsammans och det urbana offentliga rummet utgör en viktig plats där en rad olika utmaningar så som segregation påverkar hur individer möts. Halmstad kommun har tagit fasta på en kreativ och kulturell gestaltning när de ska förnya stadens kärna, Nissan. Målet är att sammanföra befolkning från båda sidorna av Nissan, istället för att vattnet ska vara en skiljande barriär. Detta ska de göra genom Kulturstråk, en slinga på åtta kilometer. Syftet med vår studie handlar om att undersöka hur medborgarna och projektledningen har upplevt sitt deltagande och inflytande över Kulturstråk Nissan samt hur projektet kan bidra till social sammanhållning och social hållbarhet för invånarna i Halmstad. I den teoretiska begreppsramen har vi använt oss av Jönhills (2012) begrepp exklusion/inklusion, Floridas (2006) teori om den kreativa klassen och Mitchells (2003) begrepp representation ur rätten till staden. Studien har tagit sin utgångspunkt i hermeneutiken med kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med 10 intervjupersoner. Resultatet visar att alla invånare inte varit inkluderade men att de som deltagit känt sig inkluderade.Cities are a place where many individuals live together and the urban public space is an important place where a variety of challenges such as segregation affect how individuals meet. The municipality of Halmstad has established a creative and cultural approach when renewing the city's core, which they mean is at Nissan. Their goal is to bring together the people from both sides of Nissan, instead of the water being a separating barrier. They will make this through a cultural passage, an area of eight kilometers. The purpose of our study is to investigate how the citizens and project management have experienced their participation and influence over Kulturstråk Nissan and how the project can contribute to social cohesion and social sustainability for the inhabitants of Halmstad. In the theoretical conceptual framework, we have used Jönhills (2012) concept exclusion / inclusion, Floridas (2006) theory of the creative class and Mitchell's (2003) concept representation in the theory of the right to the city. The study has taken its starting point in hermeneutics with qualitative semistructured interviews. The result shows that all residents were not included but that those who participated felt included.
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Petronelli, Barbara Elizabeth. "“TO SECURE LITERARY CULTURE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL FEELING”:RURAL OHIO CLUBWOMEN AS STEWARDS OF LOCAL LITERACY PRACTICE,1915." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1544379283827385.
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Kennedy, Neil Patrick Martyn. "Employing Cornish cultures for community resilience." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/12641.
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Employing Cornish Cultures for Community Resilience. Can cultural distinctiveness be used to strengthen community bonds, boost morale and equip and motivate people socially and economically? Using the witness of people in Cornwall and comparative experiences, this discussion combines a review of how cultures are commodified and portrayed with reflections on well-being and ‘emotional prosperity’. Cornwall is a relatively poor European region with a cultural identity that inspires an established ethno-cultural movement and is the symbolic basis of community awareness and aspiration, as well as the subject of contested identities and representations. At the heart of this is an array of cultures that is identified as Cornish, including a distinct post-industrial inheritance, the Cornish Language and Celtic Revivalism. Cultural difference has long been a resource for cultural industries and tourism and discussion of using culture for regeneration has accordingly concentrated almost exclusively on these sectors but an emergent ‘regional distinctiveness agenda’ is beginning to present Cornish cultures as an asset for use in branding and marketing other sectors. All of these uses ultimately involve commodification but culture potentially has a far wider role to play in fostering economic, social, cultural and environmental resilience. This research therefore uses multidisciplinary approaches to broaden the discussion to include culture’s primary emotional and social uses. It explores the possibility that enhancing these uses could help to tackle economic and social disadvantage and to build more cohesive communities. The discussion centres on four linked themes: multiple forms of capital; discourse, narrative and myth; human need, emotion and well-being; representation and intervention. Cultural, social, symbolic and human capital are related to collective status and well-being through consideration of cultural practices, repertoires and knowledge. These are explored with discussion of accompanying representations and discourses and their social, emotional and economic implications so as to allow tentative suggestions for intervention in policy and representation. A key conclusion is that culture may be used proactively to increase ‘emotional capital’.
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Menck, Jessica Claire. "Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997.
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Telander, Andreas, and Jessica Fahlgren. "Building a new production line : Problems, pitfalls and how to gain social sustainability." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11370.
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This thesis has been performed in collaboration with Volvo Cars Engine in Skövde, Sweden and Zhangjia-kou, China in order to receive a bachelor degree in automation engineering from the University of Skövde. The project focuses on analyzing the capacity of a future production line by using discrete event simulation. The production line is built in two different discrete event simulation software, FACTS analyzer and Plant Simulation. The focus of the study will be to compare the output results from the two software in order to give recommendations for which software to use in similar cases. This is done in order for Volvo Cars Corporation to have as a basis for further work in similar cases. The aim of the work is to verify the planned capacity of the new production line and to perform a leadership study with Chinese engineers in order to find out how they view the Swedish leadership and how this can be adapted to China and the Chinese culture and give recommendations for future work. The results of the capacity analysis show that the goals of parts produced can be reached for both planned capacities but also that there are potential constraints that have been identified in the system. The results of the leadership study also show that the overall approach should be slightly adapted to be better suited for the Chinese culture. The comparison of the two simulation software suggests that FACTS Analyzer is suit-able to use when less complex logic or systems are represented, however when building more complex models consisting of more complex logic Plant Simulation is more suitable.
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Trocchia-Balkits, Lisa. "A Hipstory of Food, Love, and Chaosmos at the Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1499825960234156.
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Boberg, Henrik, and Jiraya Chanchon. "Symbols of Sustainability : A cross-cultural study on consumers perceived symbolic benefits of energy efficient home appliances." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-202597.
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Sustainability is a growing trend and companies are increasingly engaging sustainability in their core business strategy. One example of how this is manifested is through the development of products that are labelled as energy-efficient. There is a lack of insights into how consumers perceive and gain benefits from such sustainable products, particularly so regarding the nonfunctional and non-economical benefits and into how culture influences those benefits. The purpose of this study is to investigate consumer perceived non-functional and non-economical benefits that are associated with energy-efficient products, in order to gain a deeper understanding on how the Swedish compared to the Thai culture influence consumers perception of energy efficient products within the home appliance industry. The literature review regarding the symbolic meaning of products concludes that the most relevant perceived benefits of products includes emotional-, self-expressiveness-, and social benefits. A cross-cultural quantitative study performed in Sweden and Thailand determines that culture influences consumers understanding of products and thereby influence their perceived benefit from energyefficient home appliances. How culture influences consumer perceived benefits depends on the characteristics of the different cultural dimensions established by Hofstede (2010), involving: power distance, masculinity, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
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Middlebrooks, Justin M. Mr. "The Intersection Between Politics, Culture, and Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Performance Art Activism and Contemporary Societal Problems." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1333397676.
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Abidi, Syeda Raaeha Tuz Zahra. "Socio-cultural characteristics and policies vis-à-vis seismic risk reduction throught post-quake rural reconstruction : a case study of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan." Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00979304.
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This thesis is aimed at exploring the relation of socio-cultural characteristics and policies with post-quake reconstruction of rural areas of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan. The primary concern of the study is limited to examine the traditional architectural practice ; dhajji-dewari and social composition of the community during and after reconstruction. It is analyzed that how the socio-cultural aspects of rural communities are affected by the policies, how policies are affected by the socio-cultural aspects of the community and how both of these can influence the final product. The thesis was rooted in the fact that 80% of the 600,000 damaged/destroyed buildings during 8th October, 2005 Kashmir earthquake were rural temporary (Katcha) houses. It was hence to be investigated that how far the Rural Housing Reconstruction Program (RHRP) has reduced (or increased) the vulnerability of the area for future. The impact of any policy launched during this program was not limited to few housing units rather more than 0.1 million dhajji houses could be affected through this. The rural Kashmir reconstruction was commenced with the in-hand knowledge of several previous post-quake reconstruction programs and was appreciated widely by experts. It was yet to be explored that which mistakes were committed/repeated by the stakeholders during policy making, delivery, implementation and post implementation phases. Covering the phases of policy making, delivery and implementation, the major findings of the thesis are categorized into three sections ; the sustainability generating aspects of reconstruction, vulnerability enhancing dimensions of reconstruction, and, those outcomes of reconstruction which are not yet categorized under "sustainability" or "vulnerability" by the experts focusing particularly rural Kashmir. Community satisfaction is given primary focus to rate different outcomes.The study concludes that ignoring socio-cultural aspects of the community during reconstruction may lead to vulnerability in post-reconstruction scenario. Considering the post implementation phase, the current trends are observed by examining under-construction houses. By pictorially presenting the architectural details of these houses it is examined that deviations from guidelines are in practice. People start forgetting the disaster impacts after few years and their immediate needs drive their decision priorities. It is suggested that after reconstruction program ends up, some authorities must be present in the reconstructed area to guide people for their current requirements and future needs and also to control the spread of non compliant construction.
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Carrilho, Kleber Nogueira. "SUSTENTABILIDADE E RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL : TRANSFORMAÇÕES CULTURAIS NA MENSAGEM PUBLICITÁRIA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2010. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/924.
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Previous issue date: 2010-06-21In recent decades, the discourse of sustainability and environmental responsibility have become much present in advertising in Brazil. Currently, several brands and products include in their messages issues like the environment, responsible consumption and social concern. The hypothesis is that the cultural changes occurring in society lead to this trend, without an exclusive relationship with an economic discourse. Then, the advertisement messagens are developed to provide opportunity campaigns, conceptual products and militant organizations. The objective of this research was to study the characteristics of the texts of the campaigns and watch the scene that influences the construction of the advertisement of various economic sectors, analyzing how discourses are related to business models and sustainable practices.
Nas últimas décadas, os discursos da sustentabilidade e da responsabilidade socioambiental se tornaram muito presentes na publicidade brasileira. Atualmente, várias marcas e produtos incluem em suas mensagens a preocupação com questões como o meio ambiente, o consumo responsável e a preocupação social. A hipótese levantada foi de que as mudanças culturais que ocorrem na sociedade levam a essa tendência, sem que haja uma relação exclusiva com o discurso econômico. Com isso, as mensagens publicitárias são desenvolvidas de forma a apresentar campanhas de oportunidade, produtos conceituais e empresas militantes. O objetivo da pesquisa foi verificar as características dos textos das campanhas e observar o cenário que influencia a construção da mensagem publicitária de diversos segmentos econômicos, analisando como os discursos se relacionam com os modelos de negócios e as práticas sustentáveis.
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Ritsema, Roger. "Community and Economic Development in Arctic Canada (CEDAC) - A Qualitative Study of Resource Development Impacts on Economic and Social Systems in Pond Inlet, Nunavut." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31751.
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Climate change and global commodity demands have increased access to and feasibility of extracting natural resources in Arctic regions. As a result, Nunavut is now poised to compete on the global market for oil, gas, minerals, and precious metals. The impacts of increasing resource exploration and development activities on nearby communities therefore require study. In particular, new methodologies are needed to explore how adjacent communities can harness the economic potential of resource extraction toward goals of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and cultural continuity while minimizing the associated risks. Using the predominantly Inuit community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as a case study, this thesis uses an article format to introduce the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s ‘nation building’ conceptual framework, as well as a post-colonial theory to explore resource development in the Canadian Arctic context. The nation building framework is a well-established and validated approach to understanding economic development in Indigenous society that has been refined and used in hundreds of case studies over the past three decades. Based on interviews with residents and regional decision-makers, it was found that the community of Pond Inlet currently lacks the self-determination and effective institutions needed to implement local strategies for prosperity due to a number of complex factors, including educational and capacity deficiencies; infrastructure needs; as well as a centralized decision-making structure that poorly matches local culture and serves to alienate residents. As a result, the anticipated resource boom in Arctic Canada is in danger of indirectly repeating the colonial legacy of assimilation, this time justified by contemporary economic reasons, instead of providing the region with an inclusive, balanced economic development approach in line with local ideas for development and cultural continuity.This thesis follows the article format and is organized into four chapters: Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. Chapter 2 is the first of two articles in the thesis titled: Community and Economic Development in Arctic Canada (CEDAC) – Understanding factors that contribute toward self-determined sustainable community development. Chapter 3 is the second of two articles in the thesis titled: Community and Economic Development in Arctic Canada (CEDAC) –
Mining in Nunavut: A new path to prosperity or re‐paving old paths of colonial rule?
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Hunter, Jake, and Patrik Jonasson. "ICT4D in GHANA The role of conferencing projects for cultural exchange and development." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23359.
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We studied a live video conferencing project based in Ghana, because we wanted to determine whether this is one area where Information Communication Technology (ICT) can have an impact on communication for development. We also wanted to better understand whether live video conferencing is a viable way to go forward with Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and, if so, what benefits it has to offer. To complement the study, we also looked at two other NGOs which are also using similar technology and have a purpose similar to the WPD live video-conference program, which is to create a space for knowledge and cultural exchange with the help of ICT. The additional programs will add a complementary comparative dimension to the analysis of the case study of WPD. It is important to have these two projects in mind since they use two vastly different methods and can provide a reflective understanding on how WPD can move forward as they are in a transitional phase and are currently exploring different ways to develop the project, mainly involving changes in management structure and technology. We studied the WPD project with the complementary information from the other two projects from an academic perspective to document and analyze the outcomes in order to determine which good practices are available when undertaking similar initiatives. From a theoretical perspective, we analyze the projects using research related to participatory communication, the public sphere, and the digital divide. From a practical perspective, we again examine issues related to the digital divide and the growing influence of communications technologies companies due to public-private partnerships.
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Bardici, Vera Minavere. "A Discourse Analysis of Eco–City in the Swedish Urban Context – Construction, Cultural Bias, Selectivity, Framing, and Political Action." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21306.
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In recent years, eco–city as a sustainable urban model has gained increasing prevalence and evolved into a hegemonic urban discourse. As a future vision of urban transformation, eco–city is being increasingly translated into concrete projects, strategies, and policies, mainstreaming urban sustainability and being replicated and proliferated across the world. This study aims to examine, by means of a discursive analytical approach, the construction of eco–city in the Swedish urban context – urban planning and development – with a particular emphasis on definitional and thematic issues, cultural bias, selectivity, framing, and political action. I use six analytical devices to guide the analysis of four documents as an empirical material. Findings show that the construction of eco–city in the Swedish urban context entails aspects of other sustainable urban models: smart city, sustainable city, green city, and compact city, making eco–city as an umbrella metaphor for such models. Also, only combining all projects, it is clear that eco–city has evolved into a comprehensive vision, embracing most of the requirements and norms set for a city to be ecological. While the concept of eco–city tends to incorporate social and cultural dimensions of urban sustainability, the prime focus remains on economic and environmental aspects – in other words, social considerations are marginal compared to economic and environmental ones. Moreover, the discourse of eco–city draws on and is informed by an array of established discourses. Building on previous discursive constructions of reality, it changes urban reality – aspects of its economic and environmental dimensions, by generating new ways of thinking about urban practices through new amalgamations of established discourses. The technological orientation of eco–city has links to urban–economic–political processes of regulation as well as involves selective framing in terms of discursive interpretation of urban–environmental crises as material processes, recontextualization of urban- economic imaginaries, reference to particular meta–discourses, and privileging of particular discursive chains. Technologically-oriented eco–city can be conceptualized as a specific urban practice which is contingent upon hegemonic discourses on the economic, technological and environmental regulation in relation to urbanization and on the agency of various actors advocating energy efficiency and green technologies and forming alliances on sustainable urban issues. Furthermore, the discourse of eco–city is exclusionary, in that it leaves out some topics and facts relating to the negative direct and indirect environmental effects of the so–called green and energy efficiency technologies. In addition, the discourse of eco–city is shaped by cultural frames associated with environmental and climate awareness and the role of technology in enabling and catalyzing sustainable urban transformation. Finally, using different mechanisms, political action has a great impact on the discourse of eco–city in relation with the environment, climate change, and shifts to low–carbon/low-energy cities. It plays a role in the expansion and success of eco–city.
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Gartz, Mira. "Desire, cows and resilience : Investigating motivations to steward a bio-cultural refuge in Northern Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-161296.
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In Sweden, centuries of agricultural modernization have marginalized locally adapted food cultures and food production systems. Yet in some places these practices and cultures survive, even in areas that lack conducive circumstances for agricultural production. These places are called bio-cultural refugia. Dominant agricultural practices are based on the production of only a few species which reduce biodiversity and the resilience of landscapes. Bio-cultural refugia provide important alternatives and pathways toward sustainable agricultural development, but are currently conceived of as living museums and are not well-connected to markets. This study investigates a re-emerging bio-cultural refuge in Northern Sweden, which revolves around an endangered native cattle breed, traditional recipes and an open landscape. It is unclear how bio-cultural refugia emerge or can persist. Recent literature on human adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems explains how sustainability outcomes depend on the dynamic interrelations of opportunities, abilities and desires. In this thesis I empirically investigate the role of desires to stewardship practices through a discourse analysis with roots in psychoanalytic theory. The aim of the thesis is to add to the understanding of how and why a bio-cultural refuge can emerge and persist in the Global North. I find that desires expressed by stewards in the bio-cultural refuge is mostly directed to people, and not to achieve ecological sustainability for its own sake. The most commonly articulated motivation is to care for people in the village by developing the local economy, contradicting a general conception of stewardship originating in pro-environmental values. Nevertheless, the informants do steward a bio-cultural refuge. This is explained by the coincidental opportunity to buy the native cattle and existing subsidies to keep them, and by abilities such as farming- and cooperation skills, creativity and entrepreneurial thinking. Stewardship of bio-cultural refugia is crucial for biosphere resilience. In order to maintain and develop existing bio-cultural refugia we must start to re-imagine what they can mean not only for ecologies but also for society and people, as they hold important knowledge on energy efficient food production. By creating opportunities that resonate with people’s needs and desires in particular places it may be possible to attract new stewards for bio-cultural refugia, and to (re)produce the ecological knowledge that is necessary for a sustainable and resilient future