Essays about: "urban social movements"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 essays containing the words urban social movements.

1. 1. Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Adam Christensson; Vendela Melin; [2023]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Title: Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice - Investigating the Motivations and Methods of Urban Foragers Course: BUSN39 Business Administration: Degree Project in Global Marketing - Master level Authors: Adam Christensson and Vendela Melin Supervisor: Annette Cerne Keywords: Dumpster diving, Social movement, Consumer resistance, Theory of planned behavior (TPB). Purpose: The study investigates dumpster diving motivations, methods, and its role as a resistance against conventional consumption patterns. READ MORE

3. 2. Upscaling agroecology in Sweden : a participatory-backcasting approach to investigate top-down measures for promoting an agroecological transition of the Swedish agricultural system

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

   Author : Pablo Ratti; [2023]
   Keywords : Agroecology; transition; top-down; scenario; participatory policies;

   Abstract : Alongside its important contribution to the increase of yields, industrial agriculture has also generated environmental, social and economical negative side effects. Moreover, the forecasted growth of the world’s population puts more pressure for solutions on how to increase food supply while reducing the negative effects of the current agricultural system. READ MORE

4. 3. Local Patriotism and the Emergence of UrbanSocial Movements : A case study of referendums from below in a postmaterialist society

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Faris Henry Gergis; [2023]
   Keywords : Local patriotism; sub-national referendums; referendums from below; urban social movements; political participation; trust in local government; Folkinitiativet för Flygplatsens Framtid.;

   Abstract : Referendums are enigmatic in their sense as consolidating— or erosive tools of representative democracy; nonetheless, an upswing in the referenda from below was recently highlighted in the literature. Thus, how local referendums from below are mobilized and whether they affect trust in local government is a significant question to be answered, which mandates bridging social movements to tools of deliberative democracy. READ MORE

5. 4. Regenerative agriculture : a contested open moment

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

   Author : Rickard Hedling; [2022]
   Keywords : regenerative agriculture; alternative food networks; food sovereignty; political ecology; discourse food systems;

   Abstract : Agriculture is both heavily impacted by climate change and responsible for greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Transitioning towards more sustainable agricultural practices is therefore imperative and requires new ways of thinking about agricultural knowledge and technologies. READ MORE

6. 5. Rural views on the transition from fossil-fuelled cars to electric cars

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

   Author : Matilda Hedelin; [2022]
   Keywords : electric cars; fossil fuels; sociotechnical imaginaries; rural development;

   Abstract : This study highlights perspectives considering the transition from fossil-fueled cars to electric cars in the Swedish passenger car fleet. The perspectives origins from semi-structured interviews with six rural residents in Värmland, Sweden, and from examined editorials, news reporting and debate articles in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN). READ MORE