Essays about: "resilient thinking"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the words resilient thinking.

  1. 16. Looking in The Mirror - Social Labs and Evaluation in Complexity

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling

    Author : Trang Nguyen; Robin Dirks; Robin Woolner; [2018]
    Keywords : social labs; evaluation in complexity; adaptive capacity; sustainability principles; backcasting; prototyping; social innovation;

    Abstract : Social Innovation Laboratories, or short, social labs, represent an emerging field of lab-based inquiry to sustainability transitions, which emphasize learning through experimentation to find new ways of addressing highly complex challenges. Yet, a key challenge for these initiatives is on one hand to know whether they are “on track”, on the other hand, to evaluate their contribution to addressing a complex challenge. READ MORE

  3. 17. Thinking outside the CAP : reducing domestic cattle farming as strategy for resilient food systems, in the context of Sweden’s defence policy

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Miriam Augdoppler; [2018]
    Keywords : Sweden’s defence policy; food systems; resilience; cattle farming; Common Agricultural Policy;

    Abstract : In the context of the newly created Defence Policy, Sweden is trying to improve overall national preparedness for times of crisis. Preserving productive arable land by reducing resource-intensive agriculture is expected to improve self-sufficiency levels in the country and thus secure the supply chain in the event of war. READ MORE

  4. 18. Desire, cows and resilience : Investigating motivations to steward a bio-cultural refuge in Northern Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Mira Gartz; [2018]
    Keywords : rural; resilience; entrepreneurship; Lacan; motivation; native cattle; sustainability; sustainable development; food security;

    Abstract : In Sweden, centuries of agricultural modernization have marginalized locally adapted food cultures and food production systems. Yet in some places these practices and cultures survive, even in areas that lack conducive circumstances for agricultural production. These places are called bio-cultural refugia. READ MORE

  5. 19. Hamnen möter : ett gestaltningsförslag för Norrtälje hamn designat utifrån designkriterier för regenerativa systemlandskap

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jessica Appelblad; Jannica Lindén; [2017]
    Keywords : regenerativitet; systemlandskap; hållbar stadsutveckling; systemteori; Norrtälje hamn; gestaltningsförslag;

    Abstract : Sverige har ett av de största ekologiska fotavtrycken i världen, per capita (WWF 2016a). En av de främsta faktorerna är expansionen av den globala marknaden (Naturvårdsverket 2016b) som har gjort det möjligt för städer att växa oberoende av dess omland (Granvik 2012, s. 114). READ MORE

  6. 20. Social-Ecological Urbanism: Lessons in Design from the Albano Resilient Campus

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Rawaf al Rawaf; [2017]
    Keywords : Social-Ecological Urbanism; Social-Ecological Systems; Resilience; Urban Ecology; Ecosystem; Ecosystem Services; Architecture; Urban Planning; Design; Active Ground; Green Arteries; Performative Buildings; Property Rights; Social Networks; Local Culture;

    Abstract : Currently there is a demand for practical ways to integrate ecological insights into practices of design, which previously have lacked a substantive empirical basis. In the process of developing the Albano Resilient Campus, a transdisciplinary group of ecologists, design scholars, and architects pioneered a conceptual innovation, and a new paradigm of urban sustainability and development: Social-Ecological Urbanism. READ MORE