Essays about: "vista"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 essays containing the word vista.

  1. 21. Climate Blame Below The Glaciers - Challenges to Climate Justice in Peruvian Mountains and German Courts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Line Skovlund Larsen; [2018]
    Keywords : Climate Blame; Climate Justice; Perceptions of Climate Change Causes; Climate Liability; Climate Litigation; Individual Guilt; Collective Responsibility; Diffuse Responsibility; Water Scarcity; Glacial Lake Outburst Flood; The Global South; The Andes; RWE; Huaraz; Peru; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates climate blame amongst a local population in the Northern Andes, Peru, and relates it to arguments on climate liability in German courtrooms. It does so on the backdrop of a climate lawsuit, which in 2017 was accepted by the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, filed by a Peruvian farmer against a German coal- and electricity company. READ MORE

  3. 22. Degrowth : a movement or a vision? Identifying barriers and potentials for a powerful agent of change for the socio-ecological transformation in Barcelona

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sara Fromm; [2018]
    Keywords : degrowth; social movements; real utopias; Barcelona; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Our current economic system is inherently unsustainable. The ‘growth fetishism’ not only is the dominant paradigm of our economies, but goes way deeper into our understanding of how well-being is defined and can be improved. The concept of ‘degrowth’ tries to question this hegemony. READ MORE

  4. 23. The emperor’s old clothes : a consumer behaviour-based case study on second-hand clothing as a sustainable fashion consumption practice in Italy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Ilaria Tafuri; [2017]
    Keywords : fashion; consumers’ behaviour; Italy; second-hand clothes; slow fashion; sustainable clothing; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The current fashion system known as Fast Fashion (FF) is responsible for severe environmental and social impacts. Fashion democratisation has increased consumers’ appetite for new trends, leading fashion companies to design an increasing number of collections per year. READ MORE

  5. 24. The ABC of tourist attitudes towards wind industry in Skåne : affective, behavioral and cognitive dimensions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Yulia Kalashnikova; [2016]
    Keywords : Skåne tourism; renewable energy; social psychology; behavior; feeling; reasoning; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The expansion of Swedish wind energy grid has come at the cost of environmental, economic and social controversy, in which the issue of landscape quality change plays a prominent role. Tourism, an industry highly reliant on visual consumption of the landscape, is especially sensitive to this change. READ MORE

  6. 25. Animal welfare assessment of dual-purpose cattle in Mexico : with focus on health and behaviour

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Linnea Edstam; [2016]
    Keywords : djurvälfärd; Welfare Quality®; dual-purpose; hållbarhet; Mexiko; mjölkkor; nötkreatur; extensiva system; välfärdsbedömning; hälsa; beteende;

    Abstract : Chiapas is the poorest state of Mexico located southeast, with a hot and humid tropical climate and daily socio-economic challenges in rural conditions. The main cattle production system found is extensive dual-purpose production, producing both milk and meat. READ MORE