Essays about: "socioecological sustainability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words socioecological sustainability.

  1. 1. Movement towards socioecological change: The case of Ecosomatics

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Wilma Lagerman; [2024-03-19]
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    Abstract : Several scholars both within and outside the field of human ecology argue that the perceptual human-nature divide contributes profoundly to patterns of unsustainability and weak sustainability visible in the world today. Deliberately engaging in conscious bodily-felt contact with the natural environment is suggested to uncover appropriate, embodied angles to approaching ecology and the environmental crisis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Engineers for Sustainability: Exploring theintegration of sustainability in engineering education : Towards more integration in engineering programmes in Sweden

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

    Author : Victor Fassina; Josefien Meerevoort; Khadija El Alami; [2022]
    Keywords : Systemic Sustainability Integration; Sustainability Competencies; Engineering Education; Strategic Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : For society to move towards sustainability, competent engineers able to tackle systemic socioecological challenges are needed. To ensure this, integrating sustainability in engineering education is instrumental. READ MORE

  4. 3. Understanding women's stewardship in the Amazon : A decolonial-process-relational perspective

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Taís Gonzalez; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender; Landscapes Stewardship; Process-relational perspective; Decoloniality; Knowledge; Amazon;

    Abstract : The widespread and increasing forest degradation in the Amazon contrasts with a range of individual or collective practices developed by local agents, which have the potential to reconcile conservation and local understanding of the quality of life and economic development. The role of women among these initiatives has been overlooked or not well understood. READ MORE

  5. 4. The “Tapestries of Practice” conceptual framework : Taking a lens of migration to trace relationships between food cultural practices and sustainability

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Naomi Terry; [2020]
    Keywords : Food system sustainability; cultural practices; migration.;

    Abstract : Globalization of food systems is cause and consequence of cultural shifts and has profound effects on the socioecological sustainability of agricultural landscapes. Despite this, empirical studies of culture in food system sustainability are rare. READ MORE

  6. 5. Change put to work. A degrowth perspective on unsustainable work, postwork alternatives and politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Maja Hoffmann; [2017]
    Keywords : unsustainability; critique of work; postwork alternatives; politics; degrowth; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Unsustainability is persistent despite growing awareness that the industrial way of life, its modes of production and consumption need to be transformed. In academic sustainability contexts, however, attention is rarely paid to how industrial societies basically operate and how our everyday life is implicated beyond the usual suspect: consumerism. READ MORE