307 research outputs found
Conceptualizing Urban Systems for Sustainability Assessment: Four Powerful Metaphors
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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems
No full textOur world is becoming more and more urban. Already, about 50% of the population lives in cities posing new challenges for sustainable development. What does sustainability mean in the context of living in a city? This book provides guidelines for sustainability assessment of urban systems to be used by experts and policy makers alike. We integrate theory and methods around sustainability assessment with concepts of systems science. We present and discuss already employed concepts of sustainability assessment and new ways of conceptualizing sustainability assessment issues in urban settings around the world. The book highlights the need to find models and solutions in order to design the sustainable cities of the future in light of the complexity of urban social life. It further presents different aspects of urban sustainability from energy to housing, to mobility and health covering social, economic and environmental aspects.HERU
A Concept for Sustainability Transition Assessment (STA): A Dynamic Systems Perspective Informed by Resilience Thinking
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Vol 2: The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island.
No full textCompiled by the author\u27s son, J.R. Wyss, from his father\u27s notes. Translation by M.J. Godwin. Published by the Juvenile Library under the direction of William Godwin. Subsequently published under the title: The Swiss Family Robinson. Illustrations engraved by S. Springsguth and J. Dadley after H. Corbould
Vol 1: The Family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island.
No full textCompiled by the author\u27s son, J.R. Wyss, from his father\u27s notes. Translation by M.J. Godwin. Published by the Juvenile Library under the direction of William Godwin. Subsequently published under the title: The Swiss Family Robinson. Illustrations engraved by S. Springsguth and J. Dadley after H. Corbould
English Letters and Indian Literacies : Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 /
No full textFocusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.Focusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature at Auburn University.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
A Mixed-Method, Dialogue-Based Approach to Sustainability Assessments: Fostering Learning for Sustainable Development
No full textHow Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward
No full textAny sustainability assessment uses some notion of sustainability as a reference. It is increasingly acknowledged that sustainability is a contested concept and that its different definitions are rooted in different values. Accordingly, researchers have started to develop approaches for producing knowledge in a context of diverging values. However, little attention has been paid to these values and to how they play into sustainability assessments. In this chapter, we address this question in three parts. First, we show how different ethical positions and worldviews enter notions of sustainability and shape the solution spaces for sustainability issues which are taken into consideration. Secondly, we present different stances on how the scientific method should address the presence of values and show how they can be traced back to different values about what good science is. Thirdly, we show that values are historically constructed and shaped by the socioeconomic, sociotechnological, and socioecological order and at the same time contribute to reproducing it. We also show that this process risks leading to a prevalence of notions of sustainability that reproduce the very dynamics at the origin of the sustainability problem at hand. We conclude the chapter with recommendations for how this challenge could be overcome.HERU
Arms transfers, neutrality and Britain's role in the Cold War: Anglo-Swiss relations 1945-1958
No full textGreat Britain was neutral Switzerland's main supplier of heavy weaponry during the early Cold War. Marco Wyss analyses this armaments relationship against the background of Anglo-Swiss relations between 1945 and 1958, and thereby assesses the role of arms transfers, neutrality and Britain, as well as the two countries' political, economic and military relations. By using multi-archival research, the author discovers "traits of specialness" in the Anglo-Swiss relationship, analyses the incentives for Berne's weapons purchases and London's arms sales, sheds new light on the Cold War arms transfer system and the motivations of the participating states, and questions the sustainability of neutrality during the East-West conflict, as well as Britain's role from a western neutral and small power perspective
Cooperation for climate adaptation in tourism
No full textClimate change is an imminent challenge for many alpine tourism destinations. While the effects of changing climatic patterns are well documented with respect to the physical geographical sphere, research into the effects of climate change upon the regional socio-economic systems in the Alps is still rare. What is almost entirely missing is conceptual work identifying possible path-ways towards the implementation of adaptation measures with respect to climate change (see as one notable exception the contribution by Richard et al. 2010 in the last issue of the RGA). It is in this context that the paper at hand whishes to make a contribution by showing where the main barriers towards the successful implementation of adaptation measures lay. Theoretically, the paper builds upon distinct psychological and sociological concepts related to the actor-structure duality as suggested by structuration theory, while the Alps serve as the geographical frame of reasoning for the conceptual debate brought forward within the paper
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