Essays about: "Sustainable Activism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the words Sustainable Activism.

1. 1. Fighting for Sustainability: A Case Study about Tenerife's Activism Movement

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Author : Felicitas Brodtrager; [2023]
   Keywords : Sustainable destination development; activism; tourism impacts; stakeholder involvement; sustainability; alternative tourism model; system thinking; doughnut economics;

   Abstract : This research explores the perspectives of the opinion leaders of the activism movement in Tenerife on tourism on the island and the solutions proposed by these stakeholders to the current sustainability problems related to tourism. These issues include tourist's misbehavior in natural protected areas, waste, submarine emissions of residual water sewage, water shortage, gentrification, overtourism, overpopulation, 14,6% of unemployment in 2022, decline of agricultural land, high population density, etc. READ MORE

3. 2. Mamlets - A Sustainable Parklet Network in Malmö, Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Javier Ignacio Navarro Puig; [2023]
   Keywords : Urban Recovery; Urban Transformation; Urban Mobility; Urban Sustainability; Social Sustainability; Democratic Design; Material Upcycling; Circular Economy; Arts and Architecture; Technology and Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Today cities are the result of centuries of history and human development, accelerated during the past 100 years. Post-industrialization, modernism’s top-down city planning approach, and the prioritisation of motor vehicle design over humans resulted in more people moving to cities, more space needed to allocate new vehicles, expansion over rural areas, and exponential pollution growth. READ MORE

4. 3. Futuristic Heritage: Palestinian Craftculture in the Context of Settler Colonialism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Iman Hamdy Sharbati; [2022]
   Keywords : artisans; slow activism; Sumud; counter-futurism; Palestine; settler colonialism; crafts; heritage; embroidery; decolonization; sustainable materialism; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Through the study of the creative practices of young artisans in Palestine, this thesis addresses the symbolic and lived time experiences in the context of settler colonialism. It is based on interviews with seven craftspeople from Ramallah and Jerusalem who practice artistic forms of reproducing and rethinking heritage. READ MORE

5. 4. Exploring culture as a driver for urban sustainability

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Annete Priyadarshini; Irene Riquelme Fernández; Nicole Macharová; [2022]
   Keywords : cultural governance; collaborative governance; culture for urban sustainability.;

   Abstract : Many scholars and practitioners consider culture an essential ingredient of sustainability that is often underrepresented in the mainstream discourse on sustainability. However, in the last decade, the idea of culture as an agent of transformation capable of driving urban sustainability has gained momentum. READ MORE

6. 5. Controversial Advertisement and New Investors: Is this a knock-OAT for the sustainable Company Oatly?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Beata Edlund; Emma Pärsson; Johanna Gripwall; [2021]
   Keywords : brand activism; Oatly; corporate reputation; brand identity; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : December 2nd 2016 it was established that Oatly had a new co-owner, China Resources, a partnership that went against not only their own core values but also the values of their oat followers. However, it was not until 2019 the media storm drew in. READ MORE