Essays about: "permaculture"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 47 essays containing the word permaculture.

  1. 31. Permakultur : en hälsoträdgård?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Anne-Lii Lindahl; [2017]
    Keywords : permakultur; hälsoträdgård; miljöpsykologi; självförsörjning; designprinciper;

    Abstract : I detta kandidatexamensarbete utreds betydelsen av och designprinciperna för begreppen permakultur och hälsoträdgårdar. Arbetet syftar till att jämföra designprinciperna för permakultur och hälsoträdgårdar för att se om och hur dessa kan kombineras. READ MORE

  3. 32. La Tabacca: small Farming, bold Intentions. A walk through the challenging creation of alternative lifestyles.

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

    Author : Oscar Paganin; [2016]
    Keywords : Sustainable Farming; Narrative Walk; Permaculture; Synergistic agriculture; Natural Agriculture; Ethnographic Discourse Analysis; Cultural Transition; Critical Ethnography; Phenomenology; Counterculture; European Agricultural Funds; Resistance.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Considering small farming as a viable and optimal solution to achieve sustainability, the following work presents La Tabacca – a small farm in the Northwest of Italy – not as a generalisable model but as one of the many expressions of current environmentalism. After three and a half months of fieldwork – using the tool of critical ethnography – different layers and elements of the place have been taken into consideration. READ MORE

  4. 33. Greenery @ Home : Design for sustainable house planting solutions

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Xinyu Xia; [2016]
    Keywords : houseplants; product design; app design; biophilic design; permaculture;

    Abstract : This report aims to discusse how to create more sustainable indoor greenery that can make benefit for people’s health and well-being. The accounts for sustainability in this project has three layers, which are design for people’s sustainable life (people’s health and well-being), design for sustainable indoor greenery and principles of sustainable design. READ MORE

  5. 34. Diversifying livelihoods and land management : A case study on the prospects and challenges of a permaculture project in rural Las Pavas, Nicaragua

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Dobrota Susanna; [2015]
    Keywords : Permaculture; Nicaragua; Las Pavas; rural livelihoods; diversification; land management; sustainable livelihood approach;

    Abstract : The socioeconomic context of many biodiversity rich countries is argued to be heavily dwarfed in current conservation and development debate, resulting in that projects that intersect complex issues of development and conservation are often simplistically deemed as being unsuccessful. The aim of this research has therefore been to attain a more profound understanding of how socioeconomic conditions and local neoliberal contexts effect ICDP projects and to an extent also agroecological transition. READ MORE

  6. 35. Exploring one approach to food sovereignty: A case study of a Kenyan community-based organization

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

    Author : Astrid Uldum Fabrin; [2015]
    Keywords : food sovereignty; agroecology; permaculture; subsistence farming; ecovillages; intentional community; self-sufficiency; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This ethnographic case study analyses ecological, socio-cultural and economic practices taking place in a community-based organization (CBO), Organic Technology Extension and Promotion of Initiative Centre (OTEPIC), in rural Trans Nzoia County, Kenya, in order to understand how food sovereignty is promoted for community members and local small scale farmers in the given geographical context. Through a nine-week-long fieldwork, which incorporated participatory observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion, I reached findings that describe the ways in which OTEPIC promotes food sovereignty. READ MORE