scholarly journals Myths and Issues about Sustainable Living

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7521
Author(s):  
Chris Butters
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Good News ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
New Research ◽  
Selection Of

There are many common misconceptions about sustainable living. These hinder both an understanding of the benefits, and broader acceptance of sustainable solutions. Professionals within sustainability know of many good project examples, but these are still little known amongst the broader public; and in many countries hardly at all. Four such misconceptions or “myths” are briefly described, and then countered by a selection of examples. Most of these have been extensively studied and are arguably largely success stories, covering many aspects of ecological, economic and social sustainability. Four points are then noted which whilst not new, demand increased attention: an integrated view of city and countryside; the still underrated role of dynamics and process; social science insights into consumption and sociotechnical change; and emerging questions about sustainability in dense settlements, i.e., urbanity in general. This paper thus argues for a synthesis perspective; some quite new research perspectives are emerging. The paper is based on the literature as well as over 25 years of professional experience, visits, workshops and in-depth exchanges with most of the projects presented. Whilst remaining attentive to obstacles, weaknesses and challenges, a key task is to achieve wider dissemination of “the good news” about sustainable settlements and living.

The Long Road to Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Good News ◽  
Correct Selection ◽  
The Third ◽  
Positive Indicators ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Selection Of

This book examines the idea of sustainable development, made up of economic, social, and environmental parts over the period of human history. This work suggests humanity has been unsustainable in all three areas for most of its history, although in the last few hundred years the scale of unsustainability has increased, while, simultaneously, answers have started to emerge. This conclusion can be seen in two parts, namely the economic and social sides of sustainable development and then the environmental ones. This work suggests that, with the correct selection of tools, solid and positive foundations for the economic and social sides of sustainable development is possible as the world globalizes. This is not, however, a foregone conclusion. Despite a number of recent positive indicators in this area, there are still very large unanswered questions with existing mechanisms and other gaps in the international architecture which, if not fixed, could quickly make problems of economic and social sustainability worse, not better. With the third leg of sustainable development, that for the environment, the optimism is not as strong. The good news is that science, laws, and policies have evolved and expanded to the level that, in theory, there is no environmental problem which cannot be solved. In many areas, especially in the developed world, success is already easy to measure. Where it is not easy to measure, and pessimism creeps in, is in the developing world, which is now inheriting a scale and mixture of environmental difficulties which are simply unprecedented.

scholarly journals The role of co-housing in building sustainable communities：Case studies from the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
Karim Hadjri ◽  
Junjie Huang
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Members ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The Uk

This paper explored the role of cohousing model in the UK and discussed the benefits and limitations of cohousing model by exploring cohousing residents’ motivation and daily living. Through case studies in the UK, semi-structured interviews were carried out to establish the environmental and social sustainability in cohousing and understand residents thinking and behaviour. This study found that cohousing can benefit various age groups, and promote residents’ thinking and behaviour change towards sustainable living. The study also found that the financial limitation and new members recruitment are the top two difficulties in cohousing development. The findings of this research will establish a better understanding of UK cohousing and highlight the potentials and possibilities of cohousing communities.

scholarly journals Foreigners as actors of Europeanisation

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5(74)) ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Fiorenzo Fantuz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
International Immigration ◽  
New Research ◽  
Selection Of

The article presents the conceptualisations that constitute the theoretical basis of a new study pursuing sociological understanding of some major social changes which have affected Polish cities in recent years. Poland has increasingly aligned itself with European countries in terms of political, socio-economic and cultural development. New flows of international immigration, meaning new individuals choosing Poland as the country where to work and settle, are making Polish cities more diverse and complex, both in a material and in a cultural way. The new research focuses on the role of foreigners as actors of urban diversification in Poland, analysing features of globalising cities, processes of Europeanisation, migrants’ discursive categorisation and anchoring. The article is conceived as a selection of critical problematisations.

scholarly journals Employee Representatives and a Good Working Life: Achieving Social and Communicative Sustainability for HRM

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7537
Author(s):  
Isabell Koinig ◽  
Franzisca Weder
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Good Working ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Control Body ◽  
New Research

This article examines the role of employee representatives, who support HRM in positioning itself and the organization as “socially responsible”. Based on a constructivist understanding of organizational communication, employee representatives are examined as previously unrecognized entities that are responsible—and also essential—for guaranteeing a good working life, which also originates through communication. The article provides an overview of existing studies on employee representatives and their positions in companies and tries to bridge the gaps among organizational communication, CSR communication, and management theory by redesigning the role of employee representatives—who have received limited academic attention to date—as communicators. The insights from an international comparative study confirm that employee representatives perceive themselves not only as a “grief box” or “control body” of management, but also as a responsible agent and “medium” for the realization of social and communicative sustainability. This not only opens up new research perspectives, but also highlights the need to conceptually deal and theoretically discuss employee representatives and their roles in internal communication processes from the perspectives of organizational communication, HRM, CSR, and sustainability.

scholarly journals The Role of Co-housing in Building Sustainable Communities: Case studies from the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
Karim Hadjri
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Members ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The Uk

This paper explored the role of cohousing model in the UK and discussed the benefits and limitations of cohousing model by exploring cohousing residents’ motivation and daily living. Through case studies in the UK, semi-structured interviews were carried out to establish the environmental and social sustainability in cohousing and understand residents thinking and behaviour. This study found that cohousing can benefit various age groups, and promote residents’ thinking and behaviour change towards sustainable living. The study also found that the financial limitation and new members recruitment are the top two difficulties in cohousing development. The findings of this research will establish a better understanding of UK cohousing and highlight the potentials and possibilities of cohousing communities.

Особенности звуковой среды Арбатского района г. Москвы

2015 ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Маргарита Андреевна Чубукова
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
New Research

This paper presents a variety of approaches to soundscape analysis. Also it aims to introduce a methodology of acoustic environment description. The soundscape of a central Moscow district was investigated and characterised by seven binary oppositions: Character of a sound presence (dominant / secondary);  Character of a sound (linguistic / non-linguistic); Source of a sound (technical / natural); “Dynamics” of a sound (dynamic / static); “Subjectness” of a sound (anthropogenic / non-anthropogenic) Role of a sound in a city scenography (event / background); “Friendliness” of a sound (friendly / unfriendly). This evaluation identifi ed main sonic peculiarities and opened new research perspectives.

scholarly journals Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Decker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modernist Architecture ◽  
New Research ◽  
Corporate Architecture ◽  
Selection Of

Research on organizational spaces has not considered the importance of collective memory for the process of investing meaning in corporate architecture. Employing an archival ethnography approach, practices of organizational remembering emerge as a way to shape the meanings associated with architectural designs. While the role of monuments and museums are well established in studies of collective memory, this research extends the concept of spatiality to the practices of organizational remembering that focus on a wider selection of corporate architecture. By analyzing the historical shift from colonial to modernist architecture for banks and retailers in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s on the basis of documents and photographs from three different companies, this article shows how archival sources can be used to untangle the ways in which companies seek to ascribe meaning to their architectural output. Buildings allude to the past and the future in a range of complex ways that can be interpreted more fully by reference to the archival sources and the historical context of their creation. Social remembering has the potential to explain why and how buildings have meaning, while archival ethnography offers a new research approach to investigate changing organizational practices.

scholarly journals Linking Information System Capabilities with Firm Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Arafat Salih Aydiner
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship

Information systems and technologies have an influence on every aspect of companies’ firm performance. Extensive studies have been conducted to determine the relationships between information system (IS) capabilities and firm performance. This study investigates and explores an extensive literature review to discover inconsistencies among past studies. The role of the resource-based view (RBV) is also examined on the subject. Assessing the relationship between these two concepts will shed highlight new research perspectives. The review will find out whether or not additional empirical investigation is necessary to gain a clearer understanding of IS capabilities and firm performance.

Social Representations and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Fabien Girandola ◽  
Grégory Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
First Line ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

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