Essays about: "sustainability practitioners"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 241 essays containing the words sustainability practitioners.

  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. Regenerating Land, Regenerating Self: Towards a Care-full Regeneration Cycle of Inner-Outer Transformation

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

    Author : Rahel Könen; Clara Wessel; [2024]
    Keywords : Land Regeneration; Inner-outer Transformation; Ethics of Care; Regenerative Sustainability Transformations; Affirmative Political Ecology; Relational Turn; Care-full Regeneration Cycle; Emergence; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The world needs rapid transformation if we are to shift towards more just and regenerative socio-ecological futures. In merging scholarly fields of transformation studies, regeneration and ethics of care this thesis explores the connection between inner-outer regeneration through the in-depth study of a transformative caring process. READ MORE

  4. 3. Potential and Limitations of the Sketch Map Tool in the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Kimon Letzner; [2024]
    Keywords : Disaster risk reduction; Participatory action research; Community risk mapping; International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement; Colombia; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : In disaster risk management, participatory mapping (PM) closes spatial data gaps in communities by integrating local risk knowledge. The thesis examined the potential and limitations of the Sketch Map Tool (SMT) as a PM tool for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement case study. READ MORE

  5. 4. How to Draw a Circle: Investigating Relationship Management in Circular Business Companies

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Louise Lee Hultberg; Aidan Luke Catterall Byrne; [2024]
    Keywords : Circular Business Models; Sustainability; Relationship Management; Circular Ecosystems; Constructivist Grounded Theory;

    Abstract : Despite the recent surge in circular business model (CBM) research, the discipline is still in its infancy. The field is primarily driven by practitioners and lacks suggestive frameworks, which complicates current CBM trials. READ MORE

  6. 5. Utilizing energy-saving techniques to reduce energy and memory consumption when training machine learning models : Sustainable Machine Learning

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Khalid El Yaacoub; [2024]
    Keywords : Sustainable AI; Machine learning; Quantization-Aware Training; Model Distillation; Quantized Distillation; Siamese Neural Networks; Continual Learning; Experience Replay; Data Efficient AI; Energy Consumption; Energy-Savings; Sustainable ML; Computation resources; Hållbar maskin inlärning; Hållbar AI; Maskininlärning; Quantization-Aware Training; Model Distillation; Quantized Distillation; siamesiska neurala nätverk; Continual Learning; Experience Replay; Dataeffektiv AI; Energiförbrukning; Energibesparingar; Beräkningsresurser;

    Abstract : Emerging machine learning (ML) techniques are showing great potential in prediction performance. However, research and development is often conducted in an environment with extensive computational resources and blinded by prediction performance. READ MORE