Essays about: "unsustainability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the word unsustainability.

  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. Navigating the Tides of Sustainability:  Gaps in IMO Legislation and the Shipping Industry´s Perception on a Transition Towards Sustainability

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

    Author : Maria Madalena Ravara; Fee Stöcker; Divya Kasarabada; Chaima Dalouhamouch; [2023]
    Keywords : Shipping Industry; Strategic Sustainable Development; Transition; Regulations; International Maritime Organisation;

    Abstract : Considered the most cost and energy-efficient mode of transportation, the shipping industry is responsible for 90% of trade and is predicted to grow. Although it has been central for the development of nations, this activity is not exempt of negative externalities, largely contributing for unsustainability. READ MORE

  4. 3. Knowing To Transform : Sustainability and Openness In a (Post?)Colonial World

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Navit Reid; [2023]
    Keywords : sustainability; open knowledge; braided knowledge; knowledge systems; situated knowledges; post-qualitative; communities of practice; transformation;

    Abstract : Sustainability is seen as the solution to the wicked crisis of our unsustainability. However, the ways in which we know, understand, and enact sustainable solutions can often mean our participation reinforces the systems, institutions, and paradigms which have created our unsustainable societies in the first place. READ MORE

  5. 4. Blocks and Credits: A Sustainability Lens on Blockchain Technology in Voluntary Carbon Markets

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

    Author : Michael Enejison; Obinna Ejide; Carly Nemanic; [2022]
    Keywords : Carbon Trading; Voluntary Carbon Market; Blockchain Technology; TSVCM; Net-Zero; Sustainability Principles; Proof of Work; Proof of Stake;

    Abstract : Society is dependent processes that emit greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The accumulation of these gases in the atmosphere prevents sunlight reflected from earth’s surface to get to space thereby warming the earth and causing climate change. READ MORE

  6. 5. A system in crisis with the worst yet to come: Social security spending in Finland 1980-2018 and some gloomy forecasts for the near-future (2019-2030)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Rolf Lennart Granholm; [2021]
    Keywords : social security; population aging; fiscal unsustainability; historical development; future forecasts; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Finland’s social security spending has been increasing rapidly over the past four decades, and is expected to continue increasing in the decades to come. The increase has been largely driven by population ageing resulting in increased old-age spending. READ MORE