Essays about: "culturally embedded sustainability practices"
Found 4 essays containing the words culturally embedded sustainability practices.
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1. Cultural Sustainability : Influence of Traditional craft on Contemporary craft cross-culturally
University essay from Konstfack/TextilAbstract : Among the four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural), it is the latter aspect that is least examined. However, understanding how culture contributes to the long-term sustainability of communities and societies is one key to a holistic understanding of sustainability itself, and further how it can impact the textile in different cultures. READ MORE
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2. Green is the New Black: Understanding Current and Prospective Pro-Environmental Activities in Ritual and Practice on Death
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Niche pro-environmental innovations in death practices are gaining attention from sector and public stakeholders but can be sidelined due to lack of ritual and practice to support their implementation. The way death practices are conducted in Sweden is examined using transdisciplinary research methods and the multi-level perspective to understand which niche innovations have and have not been incorporated into the regimes which contribute to the bereavement sector and subsequent landscape of Swedish culture. READ MORE
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3. Rebranding “Made in India” through Cultural Sustainability : Exploring and Expanding Indian Perspectives
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomiAbstract : 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”. READ MORE
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4. Borrowed practices : renew or hold : examining the potential for the spreading of libraries of things in Mexico City through social practice
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Libraries of things, non-for-profit physical spaces where people borrow objects they would otherwise buy, have spread over Europe, the U.S., and Canada and have now emerged in Mexico City, where challenges to sustainability such as increased consumption levels and insufficient waste management abound. READ MORE
