Essays about: "sustainability change agents"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 49 essays containing the words sustainability change agents.

  1. 16. Readiness for Change Towards Sustainability : A Study of Swedish Companies: Change Agent and Employee Perspectives

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Elin Hernelind; Freja Hogréus; [2020]
    Keywords : Change Readiness; Change Agent; Employee; Sustainability; Business;

    Abstract : Background: There is an increasing importance of sustainable development in today’s society as a result of various social, environmental, and economic challenges facing the people and planet. To create the change needed to shift from unsustainable activities, everyone must participate, including business organizations. READ MORE

  3. 17. Voices of the flight-free visionary : an overview of the ‘staying on the ground’ narratives and their position in relation to (neoliberal) mobility hegemony

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sebastian Arrosamena Mellgren; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Climate change; Sweden; Transformation; Aviation; Frames; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is encouraging profound and rapid transformation in every economic sector to mitigate escalating climate change. In this context, a public and political debate about aviation as a high-carbon source has emerged in Sweden with growing numbers of people declaring that they are “staying on the ground”. READ MORE

  4. 18. Sowing hope, harvesting justice: How Vila Nova Esperança transformed the environment into an ally to claim rights

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Luciana Capuano Mascarenhas; [2019]
    Keywords : environmental justice; sustainable favelas; urban poverty; degradation narrative; informal settlements; sustainability science; Brazil; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The presence of informal settlements in large cities of the developing world is a concrete expression of urban poverty. The residents of Brazilian favelas are more likely to be exposed to environmental risks, lower life quality and risks of eviction. READ MORE

  5. 19. "The price of anything is the life you exchange for it" : a study on voluntary simplicity within the United States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Tyler Lang; [2017]
    Keywords : alternative lifestyles; modernity; voluntary simplicity; off the grid; motivations; United States; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : American consumption based lifestyles have a grave impact on the environment and personal wellbeing of Americans, creating unhealthy consumption patterns, unforeseen negative effects on individuals, and ultimately unsustainable lifestyles overall. Voluntary simplicity (VS), or individuals who resist consumerist tendencies seeking a higher quality of life through simplicity, is an answer to these concerns by promoting low consumption lifestyles, independence, and resilience among individuals and their lifestyles. READ MORE

  6. 20. No agency, no sustainability : conceptualising the loss of agency and how to restore it for sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Jan Peter Glock; [2017]
    Keywords : agency; unconditional basic income; neoliberalism; insecurity; structural transformation; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation demand humanity to depart from the growth imperative forming the economic structure of the world. In other words: Structural transformation is needed. READ MORE