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McGuire, Julia Bayer. "Social ecological food systems| Sustainability lessons from Maine dairy networks." Thesis, The University of Maine, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10300303.

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<p> Milk production has played an integral role in the culture, landscape, and economy of Maine's agriculture. Maine dairy farmers have faced numerous sustainability challenges to economic, environmental, and social aspects of their industry. Like many other complex social ecological systems, the Maine dairy industry faces a gap between scientific knowledge and actionable management or policy. A cultural dichotomy exists between conventional and organic farming. Shifting the focus from this binary, metrics such as social capital may play a key role in solving sustainability issues. Difficultie

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Correia, Gustavo, Nathaniel Koloc, and Naomi Smith. "Embedding socio-ecological sustainability into impact investor due diligence." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2945.

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Impact investors, seeking financial returns from investments that actively create social or environmental value, use a process known as due diligence to vet incoming investment opportunities. Some industry-wide tools have come to aid investors in this task. Existing metrics are not sufficient to assess the environmental performance of investee companies, the result of which is an allocation of increasing investment dollars into ventures and industries that are not operating within the limits of the socio-ecological systems upon which society depends. This paper proposes the creation of an inve

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Hockerts, Kai. "Sustainability innovations : ecological and social entrepreneurship and the management of antagonistic assets /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/362405255.pdf.

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Mathenjwa, Fezile. "Exploring the ecological and social benefits of the Khayelitsha Wetlands Park." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27484.

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In a world confronted by rapid urbanization linked with dramatic population growth rates, there is a general consensus that quality urban green spaces are important components of urban landscapes. Urban green spaces are defined as open spaces in urban areas primarily covered with vegetation, which are available to users within the community. They have the ability to shape the image of cities and provide various important socioecological benefits, which can contribute to improving the quality of life within these urban communities. In Cape Town, the provision of readily accessible quality urban

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West, Simon. "Meaning and Action in Sustainability Science : Interpretive approaches for social-ecological systems research." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135463.

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Social-ecological systems research is interventionist by nature. As a subset of sustainability science, social-ecological systems research aims to generate knowledge and introduce concepts that will bring about transformation. Yet scientific concepts diverge in innumerable ways when they are put to work in the world. Why are concepts used in quite different ways to the intended purpose? Why do some appear to fail and others succeed? What do the answers to these questions tell us about the nature of science-society engagement, and what implications do they have for social-ecological systems res

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Håkansson, Irene. "Berlin’s Intercultural Gardens: Urban Landscapes of Social-Ecological Memory." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91106.

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Efforts to achieve urban sustainability include ecological practices within civic society. A prominent example of this is the voluntary stewardship of green urban spaces such as community gardening. People participating in these practices – so the argument goes – draw on social-ecological memory (SE-memory) – knowledge, experience, and practice of local ecosystem management. The present study scrutinises the components and implications of the concept of SE-memory. It identifies and fills a theoretical gap by investigating and adding neglected dimensions of individual memory while strengthening

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London, Jennie. "Seed Saving| A Comparison of Three Seed Saving Organizations in Support of Social-Ecological Resilience." Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1549716.

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<p> This project explores the significance of seed saving as an integral part of sustainable agriculture through the lens of social-ecological resilience. In order to take a deeper look at seed saving and its relationship to social-ecological resilience on a regional scale, this research examines the practices of three culturally distinct seed-saving organizations in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado—an indigenous pueblo organization, a multi-generational Hispanic family, and an Anglo family farm. Guided by Participatory Action Research methods, interviews were conducted and an e

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Valentini, Michele. "Pursue Social and Ecological Sustainability Through Urban Foraging : Design for Foraging: Plantarum, a Digital Mapping Platform." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-66814.

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Food production and food consumption have been shown to have a great impact on our ecosystem. Human beings have been exploiting the planet in order to feed themselves. This will have negative consequences for future life on the planet. Modern food production and consumption are among the main causes of natural resource exploitation and the problem is very likely to increase. Indeed, during the past thirty years, the global population has grown exponentially by almost one billion every decade, and it is still growing at the same pace. This demographic explosion means that dramatic shifts in the

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Törn, A. (Anne). "Sustainability of nature-based tourism." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2007. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514286674.

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Abstract Nature-based tourism has increased considerably during recent years, which has raised questions about the tolerance of ecosystems experiencing growing visitor numbers. The present thesis focuses on the ecological and social sustainability of nature-based tourism in protected areas and their surroundings. The objective of the ecological studies was to determine the effects of tourism on vegetation, soils and risk of introduction of alien plant species. The social survey investigated whether opinions concerning nature conservation and tourism by local people are dependent on socio-econo

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Daniel, Ronny, Sophia Horwitz, Laura MacPherson, and Maurita Prato. "Collaborative Services : Communities Innovating towards Sustainability." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3478.

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The current global economic system is driving an unsustainable society. The planet has limited resources, and the economic system exists within these limits. To move society towards sustainability, one must consider how to provide necessary services to a growing population while decreasing dependencies on resource consumption. This research aims to show that Collaborative Services offer one solution to communities by providing a platform for sharing and exchange of resources through innovation and participation. Collaborative Services are designed and utilized on a local scale, to meet specifi

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Ferns, Jan George. "Organizing nature as business : discursive struggles, the global ecological crisis, and a social-symbolic deadlock." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25847.

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Despite looming ecological disaster, a persistent state of insufficient action seems commonplace amongst most organizations. This thesis critically explores how this impasse is constituted by discursive struggles surrounding the global ecological crisis. These struggles are situated within the context of global environmental governance – a power arena that has, over the past 25 years, become a defining battleground regarding environmental sustainability. Here, discourses of the ecological crisis are constituted by political contests amongst, most notably, multinational corporations, civil soci

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Renner, Ansel. "Supercritical Sustainability. A Relational Theory of Social-Ecological Systems with Lessons from a Disenfranchised European Primary Sector." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671298.

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Des de la pèrdua de la biodiversitat fins a la degradació de terra i la contaminació de les masses d'aigua, els nostres sistemes de suport vital estan en declivi. La nau espacial Terra té problemes. Nosaltres tenim problemes. La ciència de la sostenibilitat ha sorgit com a resposta, oferint models del nostre camí a la salvació. Això no obstant, l'esperit dels esforços de modelatge en la ciència de la sostenibilitat està dominat per les nocions de predicció i optimització. Mentre que la predicció i l'optimització han demostrat ser extremadament exitoses en altres camps, portant a la creació de

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Crinion, Jonathan Hugh. "Creating an ecological-self : how the natural change project uses ecopsychology in an attempt to elicit social action for an ecologically sustainable future." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16394.

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Various forms of resistance are emerging in Human Geography in response to human caused environmental degradation and climate change. One such example is the Natural Change (NC) project, a World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) initiative about social change through a facilitated wilderness experience. Wilderness is seen as an affective quality, acting as a catalyst for an empirical embodied experience of the integral human connectivity to Nature. This connectivity is seen to inform the subject's framing of distanciated environmental issues and intends to re-territorialise their positionality as

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Blomberg, Charlotte, and Sandra Blomvall. "A Comparison of the Ecological, Social and Economic Sustainability in Adaptation Strategies in The Maldives and Kiribati." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23848.

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Havsnivån stiger över hela världen på grund av termisk expansion och smältande glaciärer orsakade av den globala uppvärmningen. Maldiverna och Kiribati är några av de lägst liggande atolländerna i världen vilket gör dem särskilt utsatta för den förväntade havsnivåhöjningen. Denna uppsats undersöker vilka skillnader som finns i Maldivernas och Kiribatis klimatanpassningsstrategier vad gäller ekologisk, social och ekonomisk hållbarhet genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av deras respektive National Adaptation Programme of Action- dokument (NAPA). NAPA identifierar och beskriver de mest angelägna

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Rodrigo, Martinez Peña. "The role of researchers in deliberate social-ecological transformations: a structure-culture-agency approach." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144881.

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Awareness of profound ecological, economical and social crises interacting globally at various scales has brought up the notion of the necessity of a fundamental change, which has driven studies on sustainable change in diverse fields of knowledge. Resilience scholars have approached the issue through a systemic lens that integrates social and ecological phenomena, but scientists from the social “wing” have pointed out the need of adopting a structure agency approach. This study present an analysis of the contribution of researchers to the process of deliberate social-ecological transformation

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Campbell, Isaac. "Discourse Analysis of Sustainable Consumption." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-340.

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<p>In the following C-Level Thesis, the geographically isolated consumer society that has evolved in the developed world is examined through discourse analysis. This research frames the issue of material consumption in a historical context and then interrogates the modern task of sustainability. Through review and analysis of current discourse in the sociopolitical field of sustainable consumption, this paper critically analyzes the development of modern consumer culture. The concept of ecological citizenship is presented and inspected as an effective strategy for the realization of sustainabi

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琦妍, 王., and Qiyan Wang. "Sustainability transformation : towards a theoretical framework." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12953118/?lang=0, 2016. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB12953118/?lang=0.

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本論文では、これまでの社会、生態的レジリエンス理論についての検討を行った。これまで個別に扱われてきた社会と生態系システムを統一的な構造を持つシステムとしてとらえ、持続可能なシステムの変化を生み出すメカニズムについての理論的な構築を提案した。これまで個別に扱われてきた社会と生態系システムを統一的な構造を持つシステムとしてとらえ、持続可能なシステムの変化を生み出すメカニズムについての理論的な構築を提案した。<br>The objective of my dissertation is to build and develop a theoretical framework about understanding what social-ecological transformative change is and how social-ecological transformative change happens.<br>博士(理学)<br>Doctor of Philosophy in Science<br>同志社大学<br>Doshisha University

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Barfuss, Wolfram. "Learning dynamics and decision paradigms in social-ecological dilemmas." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20127.

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Kollektives Handeln ist erforderlich um nachhaltige Entwicklungspfade in gekoppelten sozial-ökologischen Systemen zu erschließen, fernab von gefährlichen Kippelementen. Ohne anderen Modellierungsprinzipien ihren Nutzen abzuerkennen, schlägt diese Dissertation die Agent-Umwelt Schnittstelle als die mathematische Grundlage für das Modellieren sozial-ökologischer Systeme vor. Zuerst erweitert diese Arbeit eine Methode aus der Literatur der statistischen Physik über Lerndynamiken, um einen deterministischen Grenzübergang von etablierten Verstärkungslernalgorithmen aus der Forschung zu künstlich

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Rambäck, Elin. "The Recognition of Social Sustainability : A Case Study within Swedish Railway Infrastructure." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298445.

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As social sustainability has lacked recognition and consideration within physical planning since the establishment of the sustainability definition, this thesis seeks to investigate its role within a railway infrastructure’s physical planning process and project management. The study evaluates the specific case of the East Link, section Södertälje-Trosa, because it is a current project that has been ongoing for a long period of time. The thesis further seeks to investigate how the planning actors connected to the case study project have recognised the role of social sustainability and what inf

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Årevall, Agnieszka Janicka. "Urban Agriculture : Sustainability Multiplier." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2043.

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For some years now, the phenomena of urban agriculture have been present in the public discourse on cities and sustainability. It is often assumed that urban agriculture has the potential to contribute to an increased sustainability of the cities. However, many practical and theoretical obstacles might have to be overcome in order to realize this potential. One ambition of this thesis is to analyse urban agriculture as a “sustainability multiplier” – that is, as a practice that can positively affect a large number of dimensions of sustainability. Another ambition is to study how urban agricult

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Spencer, Phoebe. "Shaping Policy in the Anthropocene: Gender Justice as a Social, Economic and Ecological Challenge." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/672.

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Environmental pressures such as natural disasters, resource scarcity, and conflict related to climate change have emphasized the importance of considering social justice within its ecological context. Gender inequality is one type of injustice that has traditionally been addressed as a social matter, yet gendered divisions in bargaining power, mobility, and access to resources are exacerbated by environmental instability. One barrier to gender equity in the face of a changing climate is the mainstream economic paradigm, which promotes growth and individualism, often at the cost of environmenta

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Benitez, Capistros Francisco Javier. "Social and ecological systems dynamics of the Galapagos islands: Participatory methodological approaches to support sustainability, conservation science and management." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/244362/3/TDM.pdf.

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Les concepts de durabilité (ou développement durable) et de la conservation de la biodiversité visent à la protection des écosystèmes naturels. Bien que les deux concepts soient intrinsèquement liés, les différences pratiques concernant leur conceptualisation et leur mise en ouvre amènent le risque de divergence entre les objectifs de conservation et de la durabilité. Ceci est lié à la compréhension multidimensionnelle du concept de développement durable et aux approches bio-centriques de la conservation, qui ont eu tendance à déconnecter les systèmes humains des systèmes naturels, au lieu de

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Hergefeldt, Frida, and Lisa Strandell. "Hållbar utveckling i socialt arbete : En forskningsöversikt." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32688.

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The world faces major challenges in terms of sustainable development. Sustainable development is a guiding principle for the United Nations and the international community and it is also a recurrent concept in everyday life. The aim of this study was to compile and analyze studies in social work that includes sustainability and/or sustainable development. We have conducted a literature review where 13 studies were compiled, analyzed and compared based on the global definition of social work. The result shows that social work should play a significant role in the work for sustainable developmen

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Johansson, Elin, and Hanna Ceder. "Hållbart agerande inomFacilities Management – Fem förslag på förändrade arbetssätt vid outcourcing." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-147661.

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Sustainability is a term that is constantly gaining focus in our society and we are becoming more and more aware of the need to take the next generation into consideration when making decisions. The sustainable activity within the core business is growing and is also connected to profitability in ways that have not been seen before. However, the activities that are not included in the core business have not yet reached this long-term perspective. These non-core businesses within an organization goes under the term Facilities Management (FM). This paper focuses onReal Estate businesses, FM-supp

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Elsler, Laura G. "Multi-level Interactions between Fisheries and Trade : Modeling intertwined social-ecological systems." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159470.

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Sustainable and equitable fisheries are central for addressing the challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. International trade, once presented by Walrasian economists as a panacea for fisheries development, has not markedly decreased poverty and has been related to the overexploitation of marine species. In this light the consequences of a continued expansion of seafood trade are highly uncertain and problematic. Two competing theoretical hypotheses predict either overexploitation or recovery of marine species when connected to international trade, respectively.

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Digiovanni, Celeste. "The Rise of H2Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38224.

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In 2010, the University of Ottawa (hereafter, UO) banned the sale of single-use water bottles. UO decided that the sale of this product ran contrary to their commitments to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. This ban has been adopted by several institutions, locally and globally. However, there is still demand for portable water that operates within the boundaries of sustainability. I developed H2Ottawa at UO, through my internship with the Office of Campus Sustainability (hereafter, OCS). The goal of H2Ottawa is to bring portable water to the UO community without compromising

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Stevenson, James Ronald. "Sustainability of brackish-water pond aquaculture systems : a farm-level analysis of economic, social and ecological dimensions in the Philippines." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427839.

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Peter, Camaren. "Bayesian participatory-based decision analysis : an evolutionary, adaptive formalism for integrated analysis of complex challenges to social-ecological system sustainability." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18284.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages. 379-400).<br>This dissertation responds to the need for integration between researchers and decision-makers who are dealing with complex social-ecological system sustainability and decision-making challenges. To this end, we propose a new approach, called Bayesian Participatory-based Decision Analysis (BPDA), which makes use of graphical causal maps and Bayesian networks to facilitate integration at the appropriate scales and levels of descriptions. The BPDA approach is not a predictive approach, but rather, caters for a wide range of future scenario

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Moriel, Robles Lois. "Socio-economic driversinfluencing sustainability in asocial-ecological system : Insights from whale shark tourismin northern Quintana Roo, Mexico." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-50958.

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Wildlife tourism is promoted as a livelihood alternative activity to extractiveuse, such as the case of whale shark interaction in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Whale sharksseasonally aggregate (from May to September) northeast Yucatan peninsula, where theyannually attract about 20000 visitors.This study analyzes the socio-economic drivers, influencing the sustainability of thisrecreational activity, through semi-structured (n=44) and in-depth (n=4) interviews tolocal stakeholders, tourists surveys (n=262), and a cost-benefit analysis.Results indicate that intermediaries put pressure on the optimizati

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Nikkanen, Hanna. "A wealth of soil : Social-ecological traps, economy and agency on Finnish farms." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194321.

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Food systems are facing increasing pressure to adapt to the local, regional and global implications of the climate crisis while reducing the environmental impacts of food production and retaining their competitiveness on increasingly connected agri-food markets. Many suggested aspects of a more resilient, sustainable model of food production are directly linked to decisions made on individual farms. However, there are known social-ecological traps that limit farmers’ capacity to break away from unsustainable paths. This thesis investigates the impact of trap dynamics on the incidence of sustai

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Martínez, Velarde Claudia Leticia. "Landscape-led approaches for the regeneration of low-income medium-rise housing : a cross-cultural assessment of social and ecological sustainability." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14982/.

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The regeneration of decaying housing is becoming paramount in meeting the current international demand for new dwellings within the sustainable agenda. Medium-rise housing is proposed as ideal as it meets the planning guidance's desirable densities and for its social and ecological sustainability possibilities through the landscape. Yet, having few medium-rise housing areas regenerated with a sustainable-oriented landscape approach, the amount of research undertaken in this area is limited. Therefore, the present study addresses this gap in knowledge by studying the short- and long-term contri

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Gonzalez, Redin Julen. "Sustainable development : why is it not delivering on its promises?" Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/b746c18b-25d8-47f6-98bf-440f136e731e.

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At the Rio Conference in 1992, the sustainable development agenda promised a new era for natural resource management, where the wellbeing of human society would be enhanced through a more sustainable use of natural resources. Several decades on, economic growth continues unabated at the expense of natural capital – as evidenced by natural resource depletion, biodiversity loss, climate change and further environmental issues. Why is this happening and what can be done about it? This research examines what socio-economic and governance factors affect sustainability in complex coupled social-ecol

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Nytorp, Sara. "Ekologisk, social och ekonomisk hållbarhet i miljonprogram -Med focus på Vivalla i Örebro : Ecological, social and economic sustainability in the million homes programme -Focusing on Vivalla." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-45607.

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År 1965 togs riksdagsbeslutet om miljonprogrammet som innebar att en miljon bostäder skulle byggas under tio år. Till en början hade områdena som uppkom under den tiden ett gott rykte och symboliserade ett moderiktigt samhälle. Flera av dessa har sedan haft en negativ utveckling när det kommer till miljöpåverkan, segregation och trygghet. Ett typiskt exempel på ett område från denna tid är Vivalla i Örebro. I många av miljonprogramsområdena har underhåll varit eftersatt i många år och det talas om att miljonprogrammen läcker energi. Många av områdena står inför stora behov av renovering, något

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Angelstam, Per, Jean-Michel Roberge, Robert Axelsson, et al. "Evidence-Based Knowledge Versus Negotiated Indicators for Assessment of Ecological Sustainability : The Swedish Forest Stewardship Council Standard as a Case Study." Linköpings universitet, Biologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-90236.

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Assessing ecological sustainability involves monitoring of indicators and comparison of their states with performance targets that are deemed sustainable. First, a normative model was developed centered on evidence-based knowledge about (a) forest composition, structure, and function at multiple scales, and (b) performance targets derived by quantifying the habitat amount in naturally dynamic forests, and as required for presence of populations of specialized focal species. Second, we compared the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification standards’ ecological indicators from 1998 and 201

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Landry, Shawn. "Connecting Pixels to People: Management Agents and Social-ecological Determinants of Changes to Street Tree Distributions." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4715.

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Street trees are an important component of the urban forest that can provide direct and indirect benefits to social and ecological sustainability in cities. Temporal and spatial interactions between human and non-human management agents determine the distribution and health of street tree populations in urban areas. This dissertation seeks to enhance our understanding of the spatial patterns and processes affecting street trees by investigating the agents and social-ecological determinants of changes to street tree distributions in urban residential neighborhoods. The research was guided by th

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Ribeiro, Cátia Sofia Magrito. "Sustentabilidade, turismo e áreas protegidas: a abordagem da resiliência no contexto do Parque Natural Vale do Guadiana." Master's thesis, ISA/UTL, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5320.

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Mestrado em Engenharia do Ambiente - Instituto Superior de Agronomia<br>The Resilience thinking changes our way of understanding the Social-Ecological Systems and of assessing their sustainability because it favors a holistic vision and uncertainty is the key feature in its models. Recently a revision of this approach has been developed to analyze the sustainability of protected area tourism. This dissertation takes this conceptual framework and tries to apply it to a specific case study, the Parque Natural Vale do Guadiana‗s tourism system. In the first part of this dissertation a review abou

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Krenz, Susanne, and Ruiz Patricia Cristina Torets. "How do ecological, economic and social sustainability influence on employee motivation? : A case study of a German company in the solar energy sector." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52249.

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This research has generated interesting findings from the inductive approach and the qualitative methods that were used in the inquiry process. Thanks to the literature review, the semi-structure interviews, a focus group and secondary data it was possible to obtain the necessary information to answer the research question: How do ecological, economic and social sustainability influence employee motivation? In order to answer this question, two sub-questions were considered first, namely What constitutes sustainability in the company-specific context of Wagner & Co Solartechnik? and Does s

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Nordlander, Frida. "Sundsvalls förtätningsprocess : En analys av förtätning som ett verktyg för social och ekologisk hållbarhet i samhällsplanering." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341087.

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The aim of this study is to investigate how densification can be used to increase social and ecological sustainability in an urban area. This study focuses on the visions of the municipality of Sundsvall, a city located on the east coast of central Sweden, from a social and ecological sustainable development perspective and whether these visions are achievable for the densification of its urban centre. Additionally, this study considers how densification fulfils the social and ecological urban development of the city of Sundsvall. Given the possibility of both positive and negative impacts occ

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Barreflod, Tom-Oskar, and Matilda Nilsson. "Designing Sustainable Alpine Skis : Combining user needs with ecological, social, and economical sustainablility." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79718.

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As alpine skiing is becoming more and more popular the need for sustainable products are increasing in order to enable great skiing and snowy winters in the future. The ski industry is unfortunately far behind many other industries when it comes to sustainability and the shift towards sustainable skis is going slow. Norse Skis is a unique ski manufacturer as they have a sustainable profile and are always in the lookout for new possibilities to take that forward. The goal in this master thesis project is to develop a pair of sustainable skis that will widen Norse Skis’ product catalog. The proj

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de, Schutter Elisabeth Marie Louise, Stefan Giljum, Tiina Häyhä, et al. "Bioeconomy Transitions through the Lens of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems: A Framework for Place-Based Responsibility in the Global Resource System." MDPI AG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205705.

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Bioeconomy strategies in high income societies focus at replacing finite, fossil resources by renewable, biological resources to reconcile macro-economic concerns with climate constraints. However, the current bioeconomy is associated with critical levels of environmental degradation. As a potential increase in biological resource use may further threaten the capacity of ecosystems to fulfil human needs, it remains unclear whether bioeconomy transitions in high income countries are sustainable. In order to fill a gap in bioeconomy sustainability assessments, we apply an ontological lens

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Wallner-Hahn, Sieglind. "Fishing for sustainability : Towards transformation of seagrass-associated small-scale fisheries." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141052.

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Small-scale fisheries employ many millions of people around the world, and are particularly important in developing countries, where the dependency on marine resources is high and livelihood diversification options are scarce. In many areas of the world however, small-scale fisheries are at risk which threatens the food security and wellbeing of coastal people. Small-scale fisheries management has in many cases been insufficient and new comprehensive approaches are recommended to achieve social-ecological sustainability in the long-term. The aim of this thesis is to analyze empirically how soc

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De, Cave Marco. "Who gives a ‘dam’ about the Omo River in Ethiopia? : Water security and sustainability of the Gibe III dam through a social-ecological analysis." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36430.

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Large dams represent complex social-ecological systems, perhaps the most complicated projects among large infrastructures. Nowadays, developing and developed countries consider large dams as a viable solution to provide low-cost energy production and flood control for agriculture production. However, the debate about dams is generally focused on technical arrangements, lacking of a holistic perspective of analysis, while their effects may be disruptive for a wider number of factors. The present paper proposes to study large dams within the theory of common-pool resources, focusing on the relat

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Rinaldi, Alessio. "Rekommendationer och livsstilsförändringtill följd av Covid-19-pandemin : En studie om individens inställning till normativa riktlinjer somstrategi för att uppnå en hållbar livsstil." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84699.

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Restriktionerna och rekommendationerna införda för att bromsa besmittningen av Covid-19,har implicerat en livsstilsförändring hos individen. Restriktionerna har hindrat människanfrån att delta i sociala sammanhang som var normen innan pandemin ochrekommendationerna har uppmuntrat individen att förändra delar av sin livsstil, i syfte attanpassa sig till de nya samhällsförutsättningarna. Uppoffringarna som individen har behövtgöra, intresserade i synnerhet den sociala dimensionen. Till följd av de minskade socialainteraktionen mellan individerna i samhället, har den ekologiska dimensionen upplev

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Fernandez, Thomas, and Shkodran Mustafi. "Dubai – Ett turistparadis på jorden eller en miljöbov som destination? : En studie om den ekologiska hållbarheten i stadens turistiska utveckling." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35553.

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A destination should work for a future condition of the society with the social-, economic- and ecological sustainability perspectives in mind to be considered as a sustainable destination. We do not intend to explain the impact of the social and economic aspects, but instead we will only examine how Dubai, along with the tourism industry's rapid development, works to maintain environmental sustainability in the destination. The choice of Dubai is based on the fast-growing and productive tourism developmentin the city and its concept of building, including artificial islands and tall luxurious

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Adolfsson, Pontus, and Joakim Sylvaner. "Förtätning som planeringsideal : En studie om relationen mellan förtätning och hållbarhet i Karlstads kommun." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-58595.

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Förtätning är ett återkommande tillvägagångssätt i kommuners stadsplanering. Det innebär att stadsdelar binds samman med andra delar, såsom centrumkärnan. Förtätningen är ett ideal som uppstod i samband med kritiken mot dess motsats, utglesning. Utglesningen har ansetts vara en stor olägenhet då det innebär att människor och platser blir separerade från varandra och ökar avstånden. Teorierna går dock isär. Långt ifrån alla anser att förtätning innebär en hållbar utveckling, det vill säga utveckling där samtliga hållbarhetsaspekter får samma utrymme. Förtätning har under de senaste decennierna

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Partelow, Stefan [Verfasser], Achim [Akademischer Betreuer] Schlüter, Marco [Gutachter] Verweij, Henrik von [Gutachter] Wehrden, and Xavier [Gutachter] Basurto. "Finding sustainability: Advancing multiple methods to apply the social-ecological systems framework / Stefan Partelow ; Gutachter: Marco Verweij, Henrik von Wehrden, Xavier Basurto ; Betreuer: Achim Schlüter." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116310941X/34.

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Siman, Kelly. "Social-Ecological Risk and Vulnerability to Erosion and Flooding Along the Ohio Lake Erie Shoreline." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1597092923090799.

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Willis, Jenny. "Supporting the gastronomic use of underutilised species to promote social and ecological resilience: motivations and challenges in the Cape Town area." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7917.

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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)<br>It is well established that the modern global food system is highly unsustainable, distorted by industrialisation and corporate consolidation, with negative repercussions on the environment and biodiversity as well as human health. Innovative approaches are necessary to push food systems to be more sustainable, equitable, and healthy for all people regardless of income and wealth. In the Cape Town area, the food system is failing to adequately nourish the poor, while climate change poses increasing challenges to the region’s agricultural

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Lai, Kevin, and Lina Sundman. "Hållbarhetsintegrering i tre dimensioner : En studie av Scanias hållbarhetsarbete." Thesis, KTH, Integrerad produktutveckling, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297970.

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Integrationen av hållbarhet blir allt viktigare för produktutvecklingsföretag. Men hållbarhet handlar inte bara om att hitta klimatsmarta lösningar. För att företag ska bli konkurrenskraftiga på marknaden samt vara attraktiva arbetsgivare så gäller det att jobba för att integrera samtliga tre hållbarhetsaspekter; ekologisk-, ekonomisk- och social hållbarhet. Det gäller att kunna integrera hållbarhet i produktutvecklingsprocessen utan att någon av hållbarhetsaspekterna hamnar i skymundan till förmån för övriga aspekter. Scania är en global tillverkare av lastbilar som har ett stort fokus på hål

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Giusti, Matteo. "Nature Routines of Children as Leverage Point for Sustainable Social-Ecological Urbanism : Connecting childhood and biosphere to design sustainable civilizations in the human habitat." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134601.

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Strong sustainability requires enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex social-ecological interactions, but it also implies a ‘novel’ conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature, one in which individuals perceive themselves as embedded members of the Biosphere. The aim of this Licentiate thesis is to investigate the validity of a strategy that is centered on designing the urban green infrastructure to nurture such human-nature relationship in children’s attitudes. The research is framed by spatial cognition, conservation psychology, and social-ecological sustainabili

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