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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"sustainability science"”.
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DEVELOPING COMPETENCE FOR INNOVATION IN KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE: an exploration of the sustainability science-policy interface
… claims for a “new type of knowledge” in the sustainability science-policy interface. It thus explores the thinking and practice of experts in the field about professional competencies necessary to induce required innovations in their knowledge practice. The thesis proposes a novel conceptual …
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Advancing landscape sustainability science using scalable spatio-temporal landscape analytics with big data and machine learning
… This dissertation operationalizes a Landscape Sustainability Science (LSS) lens to synchronize human perceptions and behaviors with ecological structure and function. I develop scalable spatio-temporal analytics that fuse “big” passively collected data with “small” curated datasets and …
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The Ontopolitics of Complexity: Toward Agonistic Democracy and Ecological Political Economy
… rarely defined and often misunderstood terms in sustainability science. In this text, I argue that the conventionalization of the concept of complexity has resulted in the conflation of “thin” (i.e., reductionist) complexity and “thick” (i.e., perspectivist) complexity, and the resultant …
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SOCIAL NORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING CLIMATE INACTION
… climate policy, academic research in sustainability science, and climate ethics. In Chapter 1, I argue that the widespread conceptualization of climate change as an international tragedy of the commons between nations is misguided and may be contributing to climate inaction in the …
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Climate Change and Potential Economic Impacts in Ireland: The Case for Adaptation
… and carrying out appropriate action. Drawing on sustainability science the terms resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity are also discussed, defined and engaged with. Key results, associated with both potential climate impact and adaptation costs, are presented from global and regional …
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Forests in Conflict: A social-ecological analysis of the nexus between armed conflict and deforestation in Colombia
… to conflict resolution, forest governance, and sustainability science. Future research should aim to improve spatial resolution, account for underreporting biases, and deepen our understanding of the feedback loops that link violence and ecosystems.<p></p>
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Harmonising Social Considerations in Firms Transitioning to a Circular Economy
… for complex transformation contexts, and to sustainability science by bridging the persistent gap between transformation aspirations and organisational realities. Practical implications provide capability assessment frameworks and implementation guidance for organisations navigating circular …
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The Role of the Automotive Industry in the Context of Sustainable Transitions
… the automotive industry's role in facilitating sustainability transitions, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their impact on these transitions. The study adopts a systems-engineering perspective, integrating insights from transition …
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Assessing the impacts of environmental stressors on watershed ecosystem services integrating hydro-ecologic models and socio-cultural perspective
… of an increasing population. Therefore, the sustainability of agro-ecosystems is an urgent need as distinct hydro-ecologic and socio-cultural dynamics are involved, which may become more relevant on the face of climate change. Although it is widely recognized that human and hydro-ecologic …
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Conceptual Challenges in Cultural Selection
… of cultural selection in the field of sustainability science. I then focus on cultural group selection in chapter 3, thought to be the most convincing form of cultural selection, arguing for skepticism regarding its scope and plausibility. Explanatory deficits extend to the social …
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Understanding Relations, Learning, and Transformation in Mongolian Herders’ Climate Change Adaptation
… the impact of learning on transformations toward sustainability. My conceptualization and analysis of relations and learning build on the complementary perspectives of social practice theory and infrastructure and infrastructuring. Social practice theory provides a lens for understanding …
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Grasping complexity: analysing risk for sustainable development
… By applying a combination of traditional science and design science, this thesis presents six such requirements, informed by available theory and new empirical studies. The thesis also presents six criteria for scientifically developing frameworks for analysing risk for sustainable …
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Planetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities
What is sustainability in Higher Education (HE)? How should it be represented? Who gets to decide? This thesis offers a response to a particular technocratic and teleological way of thinking about sustainability in Higher Education, which has a series of high profile advocates in theory and policy. …
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Sustained Effects of Reading Recovery®: Beyond the Intervention
… of the intervention’s implementation and sustainability.</p> <p>Findings indicate that a majority of students who completed the Reading Recovery® program sustained literacy achievement beyond first grade. The study highlights key factors influencing sustainability, including ongoing …