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Right to repair: will the public choose to reuse e-products for longer?
No full textThe University of Southampton’s Olanrewaju S. Shittu, Ian D. Williams and Peter J. Shaw look at the right to repair, and ask will the public follow the waste hierarchy and choose to reuse e-products for longer
Shaw, Ian M, 7603
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/416315Surname: SHAW. Given Name(s) or Initials: IAN M. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 7603. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 48776.238468
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Career Interview with Ian Shaw
No full text The second interview is with Ian Shaw, co-founder of Qualitative social work, and co-editor for many years. The parallels between Roy and Ian’s backgrounds and subsequent career and scholarly development are notable. Like Roy, Ian refers to his working class background, the influence of religious belief on disciplinary interests, professional development and political leanings. Similarly, we witness the ways in which the direct experience of undertaking broadly quantitative research studies contributed to the development of distinctively qualitative methodological preferences. Taken together, these two interviews provide an insightful and inspiring window onto the intersection between individual and intellectual biography, professional practice and disciplinary identity. </jats:p
Reading Ian Shaw's Predator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance
No full textPredator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance,
Ian G.R. Shaw. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
(2016). 336 pp £18.47 (kindle edition), £81 (hardcopy), £22.99
(Paperback) ISBN-10: 0816694745, ISBN-13: 978-0816694747
Reuse in context: <i>SHIRT</i> [workshop]
No full textIndividuals’ decisions regarding their possessions have wide implications in terms of resource efficiency and environmental impacts. With reference to a specific example – a used item of clothing – this workshop seeks, through structured discussion, to gain insight as to how and why individuals make decisions regarding when personal possessions reach the end of their useful life and the fate of such items thereafter
Education in waste management (IWWG Workshop): working with local authorities to deliver waste management education and training
No full textReuse in practice: the UK’s car and clothing sectors
No full textOngoing efforts to seek better resource efficiency have highlighted the role of reuse as a contributor to achieving circular economy objectives. In order to improve resource efficiency, the motives, means and opportunities for reuse need to be understood such that best practice can be identified and measures implemented to foster more effective and more extensive reuse. This study compares and contrasts reuse in the car and car components sector with the clothing sector as a means to identify commonalities and differences, and seek facets of effective practice. The car sector is found to align more with financial motives than the clothing sector, the latter providing more marked and apparent social benefits. Three key aspects appear common to both sectors. First, whole lifecycle – cradle to cradle – approaches to enhancing reuse are emerging and have considerable merit from a circular economy perspective. Secondly, the internet has become a key tool for the facilitation of reuse and is likely to grow further in this regard. Thirdly, decisions regarding the end-of-use of consumer products are critical and need to be better understood. Fourthly, for any reuse initiative to deliver positive outcomes, consumers must be fully engaged. We conclude that whilst some sector-specific adjustments may have to be implemented in future initiatives to promote and enhance reuse activities, the overarching principles and optimum methods of reuse facilitation may well be common for contrasting sectors
Reuse in context: <i>Delivering the waste hierarchy</i> [workshop]
No full textWaste management has changed significantly in some parts of the world since the introduction of the waste hierarchy and stayed broadly the same in others. In some parts of the EU, the waste industry has become progressively more sophisticated and technological and wastes are increasingly regarded as valuable resources to be utilised and exploited commercially rather than dumped and forgotten. This relatively recent change of emphasis reflects society’s desire to secure and manage resources in a more sustainable fashion and to protect the environment, locally as well as globally. This workshop will explore what society and the waste sector will need to do if the waste hierarchy’s original objectives are to be universally achieved
Improving waste management systems using student-led activities: a case study for an international airport
No full textCollaboration between universities and external organisations offers opportunities for multiple and mutual benefits. In this case study we examine a novel coursework task that challenges students to consider and evaluate waste management in a local airport with the intention that the work thus produced sets a possible agenda for the airport to enhance its waste management performance. The students were presented with a “real world” task enriched by context and potential applications whilst the airport benefited from the information generated and the menu of recommendations that was produced. Focusing on airside (aeroplanes and related operations) and landside (air terminal and office) operations, the students’ work highlights the need for and opportunities to provide systems and facilities that are appropriate to this task. Waste audits demonstrated a range of opportunities for improving recycling rates, notably in relation to signage and management of food waste. The mutual benefits of this collaborative venture were demonstrated via: i) the airport’s uptake of students’ recommendations and desire to participate in a follow-up activity ii) positive feedback from the airport and students and iii) the quality of the exercise as a vehicle for academic learning and development of professional and employability skills. Approaches to education in waste andresource management incorporating collaborative work of this nature are strongly recommended
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