Urban water sustainability: constructing infrastructure for cities and nature
In: Earthscan studies in water resource management
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In: Earthscan studies in water resource management
In: Synthesis lectures on engineers, technology and society [17]
The Origins of Sustainability -- Ecological Modernisation -- Environmental Ethics -- Society and Technology -- Engineering Consumption -- Sustainable Urban Water Systems -- Engineering, Technology and Ethics. - Sustainable development is one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century. The engineering profession is central to achieving sustainable development. To date, engineering contributions to sustainability have focused on reducing the environmental impacts of development and improving the efficiency of resource use. This approach is consistent with dominant policy responses to environmental problems, which have been characterised as ecological modernisation. Ecological modernisation assumes that sustainability can be addressed by reforming modern society and developing environmental technologies. Environmental philosophers have questioned these assumptions and call into question the very nature of modern society as underlying the destruction of nature and the persistence of social inequality. Central to the crises of ecology and human development are patterns of domination and the separation of nature and culture
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 33, Heft 8, S. 561-570
ISSN: 1471-5430
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 33, Heft 8, S. 561-570
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
In: Rural Society, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 176-190
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Rural society: the journal of research into rural social issues in Australia, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 176-190
ISSN: 1037-1656
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 159-160
ISSN: 1036-1146
In: Women in management review, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 131-133
Five years ago I began to experience a "push‐pull" feeling. The "push" made me feel there was something fundamental missing from my present job, something which was causing me to look further afield. The "pull" was a strong attraction towards a specific new area. I realized I was ready for a radical career change. Daunting as such a change appeared, determination removed many barriers.
In: Sustainable Cities Series
London is one of the world's leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city's future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice.
This book approaches the question of London's future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.
In: Journal of human rights, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 379-392
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: The Journal of sex research, Band 55, Heft 6, S. 679-691
ISSN: 1559-8519
In: Journal of political science education, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 61-78
ISSN: 1551-2177
There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvantaged, predominantly African American community who report limited engagement with their local coastal blue space, despite beachgoing being considered mainstream by a previous generation. Drawing on focus group data and sensitized to a range of theoretical perspectives aligned with race, space, and social class, we advance theoretical and empirical knowledge pertaining to blue space engagement. In doing so, we demonstrate the need for more critically informed, theoretically appropriate research in this area, which connects individual stories of the sea to the wider historical, social, and political settings in which relationships with blue space are framed and (re)produced.
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In: Journal of sport and social issues: the official journal of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 115-137
ISSN: 1552-7638
There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvantaged, predominantly African American community who report limited engagement with their local coastal blue space, despite beachgoing being considered mainstream by a previous generation. Drawing on focus group data and sensitized to a range of theoretical perspectives aligned with race, space, and social class, we advance theoretical and empirical knowledge pertaining to blue space engagement. In doing so, we demonstrate the need for more critically informed, theoretically appropriate research in this area, which connects individual stories of the sea to the wider historical, social, and political settings in which relationships with blue space are framed and (re)produced.
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 320-345
ISSN: 1552-8251
Retrofit is a rising area of concern for Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars of infrastructure. This paper sits at the junction between applied and theoretical approaches by using STS to support interventions in urban infrastructure systems and expand STS critique of retrofit. It discusses findings from a multidisciplinary project piloting retrofit possibilities to positively impact the way water, energy, and food resources were consumed in a London housing estate. Through qualitative research, we found that residents were making social and material interventions in infrastructure systems to manage the way resources were consumed at home, driven by a commonly held motivation to avoid wastefulness. We then mapped the social and material factors that helped or hindered these individual ambitions and used them to inform our codesign process. We found it helpful to think of the residents as an infrastructural community; a group of residents that share a material connection that can help mobilize collective action on shared consumption. We suggest this concept is useful for interventions and critiques of infrastructure retrofit, particularly in cities in the Global North where retrofit programs aim to rescale national systems to neighborhood levels. The concept highlights the possibilities for participation that emerge from bottom-up retrofit.