scholarly journals Designing for Circularity—Addressing Product Design, Consumption Practices and Resource Flows in Domestic Kitchens

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1006
Author(s):  
Sofie Hagejärd ◽  
Anita Ollár ◽  
Paula Femenías ◽  
Ulrike Rahe
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Resource Flows ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
Consumption Practices

Both the daily use and renewal of kitchens significantly contribute to the overall environmental impact of domestic buildings. To identify design implications related to circular consumption in domestic kitchens, 20 household interviews and one focus group session were performed, investigating how kitchens are used and transformed to meet households’ wants and needs. This study determined that daily kitchen resource use is greatly affected by kitchen design and that typical kitchen design generally does not promote sustainable resource use. Key factors that support minimization of resource use in the kitchen are the availability and planning of storage and workspaces. Furthermore, kitchens should be equipped with functions that enable households to use energy and water efficiently. Regarding kitchen renewal, various motivations that may initiate kitchen renovations can be summarised as follows: (1) Functional demands and changing needs, (2) aesthetic demands and changing trends, (3) obsolescence due to wear, and (4) linkage to another home renovation. This article concludes that a combination of design strategies is needed to reach a higher level of kitchen circularity. Moreover, these design strategies must be accompanied by circular business models and efforts to increase awareness of the environmental impact related to activities in and involving the kitchen.

Challenges, barriers, and keys to success for sustainable quality improvement in oncology: A focus group of oncology quality leaders.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (8_suppl) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Anne C. Chiang ◽  
Katherine Elizabeth Reeder-Hayes ◽  
Kristen K. McNiff ◽  
Tracey L. Evans ◽  
Inga Tolin Lennes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Key Factors

78 Background: A sustainable, standardized approach for quality assessment and improvement is increasingly expected in oncology. This requires oncology leaders to identify processes and infrastructure to facilitate sustainable initiatives for practice refinement. To date, few summative reports of lessons learned, key success factors, and barriers to regular quality improvement have been reported. Methods: After IRB protocol approval, a focus group of 11 diverse physician oncology leaders was conducted, using a guide developed through multiple discussions by investigators. The physicians represented diverse organizations with community-based, private practice and academic settings. Data analysis of interview transcripts was performed iteratively, with a grounded theory approach with a method called “constant comparisons”, with related open and axial coding techniques. Transcripts were coded independently by two or three coders, and the resulting code lists integrated prior to final analysis. Differences in coding were resolved by consensus. Results: Overall, physician quality leaders discussed needs and barriers in 5 major domains: coordination of care, communication, finances, value, and quality improvement. Two major themes emerged: rapid change cycles in a dynamic landscape of practice--changing business models and care delivery, new expensive drugs, oral chemotherapy--and their respective unintended consequences on quality of care, e.g. financial toxicity for patients, misalignment of financial incentives and a quality agenda. Participants discussed responding to these changes and key factors in harnessing the practice model to deliver quality care. Conclusions: Cancer care delivery is rapidly evolving and undergoing intrinsic cycles of quality improvement. This project helps to inform systemic quality improvement efforts targeted towards oncology practices by identifying areas of concern and highlighting key factors to be addressed to achieve value, alignment and quality of care. Institutional culture and infrastructure including resources and incentives for quality improvement/measurement were identified as critical success factors.

scholarly journals Emergent sustainability in open property regimes

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (51) ◽  
pp. 12859-12867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Moritz ◽  
Roy Behnke ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Rebecca Bliege Bird ◽  
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Property Regimes

Current theoretical models of the commons assert that common-pool resources can only be managed sustainably with clearly defined boundaries around both communities and the resources that they use. In these theoretical models, open access inevitably leads to a tragedy of the commons. However, in many open-access systems, use of common-pool resources seems to be sustainable over the long term (i.e., current resource use does not threaten use of common-pool resources for future generations). Here, we outline the conditions that support sustainable resource use in open property regimes. We use the conceptual framework of complex adaptive systems to explain how processes within and couplings between human and natural systems can lead to the emergence of efficient, equitable, and sustainable resource use. We illustrate these dynamics in eight case studies of different social–ecological systems, including mobile pastoralism, marine and freshwater fisheries, swidden agriculture, and desert foraging. Our theoretical framework identifies eight conditions that are critical for the emergence of sustainable use of common-pool resources in open property regimes. In addition, we explain how changes in boundary conditions may push open property regimes to either common property regimes or a tragedy of the commons. Our theoretical model of emergent sustainability helps us to understand the diversity and dynamics of property regimes across a wide range of social–ecological systems and explains the enigma of open access without a tragedy. We recommend that policy interventions in such self-organizing systems should focus on managing the conditions that are critical for the emergence and persistence of sustainability.

scholarly journals Online feminist publications as social enterprises: Diversifying revenue streams through corporate social responsibility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kamila Jambulatova
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Corporate Social

This qualitative study examined how feminist online publications can adopt social enterprise business models. The focus group analysis of the audiences of Refinery29, Bustle, HelloGiggles, and Jezebel first explored the audience's outlook on the commodification of feminism. The focus group also considered plausible ways of adopting social enterprise initiatives to diversify revenue streams of these publications, continue promoting gender equality, and to better establish the images of the publications. During four focus groups, twenty total participants shared a variety of feedback, including their opinions on the commodification of the feminist movement and the commodification of editorial content. They talked about how their purchasing decisions are affected by their desire to contribute to the social good. Other themes identified during the study were white feminism, the trivialization of feminist content, and the importance of companies' policies.

scholarly journals The Use of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan) for Drought Mitigation in Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E. Emefiene ◽  
A.B. Salaudeen ◽  
A.Y. Yaroson
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Cajanus Cajan ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Soil Improvement ◽  
Pigeon Pea ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
Drought Mitigation ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Change Mitigation

Drought poses one of the most important environmental constraints to plant survival and productivity and by implication-food insecurity in the tropics. Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) has the potential of fertilizing the soil thereby improving agricultural production and ensure green environmental and ecosystem stability. Despite the ability of the plant to improve soil fertility and promote greening environment, it has not attracted adequate awareness as a soil improvement plant. This paper highlights the information on the plant in order to intensify awareness for its widespread adoption to achieve the much desired sustainable resource use for greening our economy and environmental management. The successful widespread adoption of the plant will translate to effective drought, desertification and sustainable climate change mitigation approach in Nigeria.

scholarly journals “Real-time” genetic monitoring of a commercial fishery on the doorstep of an MPA reveals unique insights into the interaction between coastal and migratory forms of the Atlantic cod

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 1093-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torild Johansen ◽  
Jon-Ivar Westgaard ◽  
Bjørghild B Seliussen ◽  
Kjell Nedreaas ◽  
Geir Dahle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Genetic Monitoring ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Commercial Harvest ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
Spawning Areas

Abstract With the decline of many of the world’s fisheries, increased regulation, including marine protected areas (MPA), forms an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable resource use. Here, we present a novel “real-time” genetic monitoring programme used to protect the depleted Norwegian coastal cod stock (NCC) in an MPA during the spawning season, while a fishery targeted at the sustainable Northeast Arctic cod stock (NEAC) operates immediately outside. In the period 2009–2016, >6800 cod from the fishery were genotyped with the PanI locus that is discriminatory between these two stocks. The estimated fraction of NEAC increased during the study period until 2014; however, it did not exceed 70% for any sustained period. Therefore, the MPA remained closed for commercial harvest. Genetic analysis of eggs revealed a distinctly lower fraction of NEAC than in the catch from the adult stock, both immediately outside and within the MPA itself. We suggest that this discrepancy is likely to reflect differences in spawning areas used by NCC and NEAC. Estimated fractions of NEAC/NCC using PanI, otolith classification, and 39 single nucleotide polymorphisms were similar, thus validating the use of PanI to estimate NEAC/NCC composition.

scholarly journals Sustainable Resource Use in Enhancing Agricultural Development in China

Engineering ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbo Shen ◽  
Fusuo Zhang ◽  
Kadambot H.M. Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use

Modelos de negocio para el periodismo: una propuesta metodológica para realizar estudios de caso

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Cristian Ramón Marín Sanchiz ◽  
◽  
Miguel Carvajal Prieto ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
Revenue Streams

The journalism industry faces difficulties in creating sustainable business models for the digital age. Communications research has looked at this challenge through case studies and panoramic perspectives, but there’s a lack of holistic views and a need for focus on value creation. In this situation, this paper presents a systematic literature review that confirms there’s a clear lack of standardization between the case studies, whose main focus have been revenue streams at the expense of deeper analysis of other key factors for the economic success of a company, like the value proposition. With the aim to contribute to the solution of this problem, the paper also proposes a methodological tool that allows future researchers to analyze the business model of a journalism company in a standard way with a view to facilitate better comparisons between companies and to understand success patterns of sustainable business models in order to promote innovation and knowledge exchange. Keywords: Business Models for Journalism; Revenue Streams for Journalism; Media Companies; Digital Journalism; Media Business Models Analysis; Media Economics.

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