Essays about: "malmö högskola sustainability"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 42 essays containing the words malmö högskola sustainability.
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16. A Discourse Analysis of Eco–City in the Swedish Urban Context – Construction, Cultural Bias, Selectivity, Framing, and Political Action
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In recent years, eco–city as a sustainable urban model has gained increasing prevalence and evolved into a hegemonic urban discourse. As a future vision of urban transformation, eco–city is being increasingly translated into concrete projects, strategies, and policies, mainstreaming urban sustainability and being replicated and proliferated across the world. READ MORE
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17. A Foucauldian–Fairclaughian Discursive Analysis of the Social Construction of ICT for Environmentally Sustainable Urban Development – the Case of European Society
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : ICT has become so deeply embedded into the fabric of European society – in economic, political, and socio-cultural narratives, practices, and structures – that it has been constructed as holding tremendous untapped and inestimable potential for instigating and unleashing far-reaching societal transformation, addressing key societal challenges, and solving all societal problems. It has recently been seen, given its ubiquity, as a critical driver and powerful catalyst for sustainable urban development due to its potential to enable substantial energy savings and GHG emissions reductions in most urban sectors, especially buildings. READ MORE
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18. Digital Media (ICT) for development. The use of crowd sourcing maps as a tool for citizen empowerment and engagement. Case study of Map Kibera Project
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Map Kibera project and it’s Voice of Kibera reporting initiative present an example of new media applying the principle of crowd sourcing to foster social change and provide voice to community of Kibera, Kenya. The aim of this study was to analyses, firstly, how the concept of participatory communication has been applied during the implementation of the project. READ MORE
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19. Urban Commons and Social Sustainability: An Exploratory Study of Stapelbadden/Stapelbaddsparken
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Although debate on commons has been going on for the last five decades, it is only in the last two decades that attention has been focussed on new commons. Even then, urban commons though acknowledged as part of new commons, has attracted little attention among researchers of commons. READ MORE
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20. Active Citizenship and Ethnic Associational Networks in the Multi-ethnic Neighborhoods of Holma and Kroksbäck: Policy Strategies and Barriers to Foster Social Capital
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Social sustainability and sustainable communities are strongly linked to the concepts of social cohesion and social capital. Social capital arises through social networks, active citizenship, community volunteerism and taking part in social networks, which may be family, friends or associations. READ MORE
