Whilst much contemporary sustainability literature may centre around the UN’s more diverse set of sustainable development goals (SDGs), the three pillars themselves were explicitly embedded in their formulation (UN2012a). This paper aims to shed light on the origins of the ‘three pillars’, taki...
It discusses the meaning of SD in terms of the TBL and the essence of national culture, and it briefly presents cultural typologies, which will be a subject of analysis in the empirical part of the paper. The research methodology used for the purposes of this study is described in the ...
As peace studies struggles to fashion an environmental agenda, peace researchers must uncover and examine the embedded social meaning of prevailing environmental discourse. As a first step toward doing so, this article considers the concepts of global change and ecological security . These concepts are...
The interlocking fables of The Overstory (winner of 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction) each feature a tree in some fashion. In a n almost mystical world slow and interconnected with ours, some of the tales are uplifting, some a bit dark. The tales intertwine in later sections of the book, ...
But some of these actors, they argue, would rather work “eminence-based” (fieldnotes October 2019) –meaning that decisions are based on authority alone. The Nigerian KTP was provided with further directive by intervening in what they called a “battle” between these different modes of ...
Examples could be the Louvre Museum and the Arab World Institute. There has been limited research that applied IGPs to meet the economic sustainability aspect, although IGPs in contemporary design will lead to utilizing low-cost materials and less reliance on electricity that, eventually reduces the...
Some governments or areas also adopted efforts to “close off the country” and “shut off the city” to avoid and contain the outbreak, resulting in a significant decrease in global carbon dioxide emissions. Another piece of data from Our World in The data revealed that global carbon dioxide...
Consuming the car: anticipation, use and meaning in contemporary youth culture. Sociol. Rev. 50, 181–196 (2002). Article Google Scholar Zavalko, A. Applying energy approach in the evaluation of eco-driving skill and eco-driving training of truck drivers. Transp. Res. D 62, 672–684 (...
The personal sphere encompasses “changes in meaning making, which includes the individual and shared beliefs, values, worldviews, and paradigms that shape attitudes, actions and perceived options” (Leichenko and O'Brien 2019, p. 192). This refers to the inner dimension of transformation or ‘...
As the core constituents of a property rights regime, these six dimensions/questions are interrelated and mutually reinforce each other in a synergistic fashion. This meaning, for example, that the making of an object of property (e.g. carbon dioxide) by a particular subject (e.g. a reforest...