Essays about: "Climate and collapse"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words Climate and collapse.

1. 1. Freight Transport in the Car-Free City : Towards a more sustainable urban freight sector

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Melisa Marta; [2023]
   Keywords : Car-free city; sustainable urban freight transport; urban consolidation center; cargo bicycles;

   Abstract : Freight transport of goods is an indispensable part of everyday life. Without it there would be no delivery of products such as food, water, construction material, technology, furniture, clothes and society, as we know it today, would collapse.  However, there are more and less sustainable ways of transporting goods. READ MORE

3. 2. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Ryan Nicholas Walsh; [2023]
   Keywords : Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ecocriticism; post-apocalypse; critical dystopia; climate change criticism; gated community; urban studies; agency; the Other; video game studies; ergodic literature.; Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ekokritik; postapokalyps; kritisk dystopi; klimatfiktion; grindsamhällen; urbana studier; agens; det Andra; spelforskning; ergodisk litteratur.;

   Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE

4. 3. Flourish or perish in a turbulent environment : A qualitative study from the perspective of environmentally sustainable SMEs.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Douglas Drake; Simon Berling; [2023]
   Keywords : VUCA; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; SME; Dynamic Capabilities; Corporate Social Responsibility Triple Bottom Line.;

   Abstract : Since the beginning of the 2020’s the world has drastically changed and forced organisations to re-adapt, adjust and reconfigure their business in order to survive. The Covid-19 pandemic rewrote the map of conducting business, as well as the war in Ukraine was a catalyst for inflation, and thereafter rising interest rates. READ MORE

5. 4. Exploring the Future in a What-if Mode - A Philosophical and Critical Investigation into the Use of Scenarios in Climate Science

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Franciszek Wieslaw Korbanski; [2023]
   Keywords : scenario; future; the IPCC; Synthesis Report; Mark Fisher; hauntology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The figure of scenarios is frequently used in present-day climate science and plays a prominent role in the architecture of the IPCC Reports. In this work, I undertake a philosophical and critical investigation into the ontological, epistemological and temporal modalities of the figure of scenario. READ MORE

6. 5. Body-Safe Apocalypse : Sexual Materiality and Frameworks for Design During and Beyond Collapse

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

   Author : Joshua (Ev) Carr; [2023]
   Keywords : collapse; sexual practices; materiality; design theory; philosophy of design; meta;

   Abstract : Following the Covid-19 pandemic, a relatively mild global disruption, our global society experienced large-scale shortages of high-tech materials, the increasing cost or absence of many commodities usually taken for granted, and the floundering of industries that facilitate our global industrial civilisation such as shipping and aviation. By comparison, catastrophic climate change stands to be far more devastating. READ MORE