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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sustainable futures"”.
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Responsible Design: Design Methods for Anthropocentric Sustainable Futures
… provide the structure designers need to develop sustainable solutions. It is an evolved version of Human Centered Design, a methodology that although well-intentioned can deliver solutions with dangerous effects on the environment. Responsible Design uses frameworks that consider the current …
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Entheogen: Envisioning Sustainable Futures through Biomimicry and Parametric Design
… within," is a creative process that envisions sustainable futures by generating biologically inspired sculptures. Biomimicry is a design process that derives aesthetic and functional inspiration from evolved forms found in nature. Biomimicry is geared towards sustainability because it mimics …
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Children’s perspectives on child well-being : a pathway to sustainable futures
… Children’s well-being can contribute to sustainable futures, thus futures that are free from adversities such as poverty, inequality, lack of basic services, and unsafe environments. The study was thus based on the ecological systems theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner. In exploring children’s …
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Children’s perspectives on child well-being : a pathway to sustainable futures
… Children’s well-being is important for enhancing sustainable futures, which has led to it being a topic that is rapidly growing in research. As most studies on child well-being explored adults’ perspectives, the goal of this study, which formed part of a group research project, was to explore …
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Children's perspectives on child well-being : a pathway to a sustainable futures
… perspectives on child well-being as a pathway to sustainable futures for them. The ecological systems theory formed the theoretical framework of the study. To explore children’s subjective well-being, an interpretivist research paradigm and a qualitative research approach were followed. As applied …
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Planning for land-use and transportation alternatives : towards household activity-based urban modeling for sustainable futures
Recent research has begun generating a much richer, activity-based behavioral framework to replace the conventional aggregate, four-step approaches. However, to date, the framework remains to be completed, at least enough to provide a robust behavioral foundation that incorporates household …
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Empowering Communities for Sustainable Futures: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Green Circular Economies, Community Engagement, and Systemic Governance
The thesis, "Empowering Communities for Sustainable Futures: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Green Circular Economies, Community Engagement, and Systemic Governance," is a thesis by joint publication. This format means that the core research findings are presented through a series of published …
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Creating Change: A case study of transformation, from ‘making greener things’ towards ‘design for transitions’
… could contribute to transitions toward just and sustainable futures. A critical pragmatism frames this mixed method research, which explores design’s role in sustainability transitions and presents a comparative case study of transition in an Australian communication and interaction design …
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Generating Stealth Agents in Educational Leadership through Imagination
… and enabling leaders to reimagine more just and sustainable futures. The findings illustrate that imaginative leadership emerges from acts of dissensus, characterized by vulnerability, movement, and tension. Ultimately, this research contributes to educational leadership theory by positioning …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… a radical nostalgia, to ground their visions of sustainable futures.<p></p>
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THE VALUE OF GLOBAL LEARNING FOR NORTHERN AND INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
… relevant programming and learning to encourage sustainable futures. Building on the lessons from Northern graduate programming, the GENI program integrated international field schools (IFSs) to deliver relevant lessons for communities building their own sustainable futures. Though operating for …
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Remembering Energic Connectivities: Appropriate Technology and Domestic Infrastructure in the Energy Crisis
… for energic relations. Visions for just and sustainable futures – for social and ecological repair – should wander further afield. One place they could go is home. In this essay, the Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program, an oft-forgotten chapter of U.S. energy history, shows us how …
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Designing for Fluid Transitions to Sustainable Infrastructure: The Case of the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway
The need for transitions to more sustainable socio-technical systems that underpin everyday life has never been more prescient. However, such transitions are daunting and difficult. Design initiates change in artefacts and therefore has an important role to play in transitions to more sustainable …
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Utopias of slow cycling : imagining a bicycle system
This research investigates post-automobility futures by exploring the mechanisms through which the bicycle could reconfigure urban mobilities and catalyse change towards slow living. Drawing upon readings in mobility and utopian studies, the thesis considers three complementary aspects that could …
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Through the garden fence
… to consider the possibility of more Edenic, sustainable futures rooted in concepts of care. An investigation into care, through my making, has been central to my research. Under the harsh structures of apartheid, the natural world carried on in spite of the social and environmental …
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Sustainable development: political/ideological aspects and implications for planning
… interpretations. There are many conceivable sustainable futures; the most important differences among them are not technical but political and ideological. The practice of environmental planning is concerned with a wide variety of contexts and situations at the human-environment interface. …
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Crafting Situated Services: Meaningful Design for Social Innovation with Textile Artisan Communities
The mainstream ecosystem has proven unsustainable in terms of livelihood, environmental stewardship, cultural heritage, and social equality. To alleviate these problems, a range of top-down strategies has been deployed, but they are often ineffective in addressing the specific needs and aspirations …
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Energy efficiency as a means to redress the energy security challenge in India : an assessment
… Trends (BAU-HT), Country Policy (CP) and Sustainable Futures (SF). The scenarios represent alternative future policy pathways - each characterized by different sets of economic, technological, energy and environmental considerations - that India could adopt to achieve its socio-economic …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… struggles for environmental justice and sustainable futures at a global scale.
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"Golden forests" of the sea: assessing values and perceptions of kelp in the Western Cape region of South Africa
… management solutions aimed towards just and sustainable futures through the recognition of the plurality and complexity of values around kelp. A critique of the IPBES conceptual framework as a methodology is also included, suggesting that its utility is dependent on the objectives of its …
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