Co Designing Economies In Transition

Author : Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino,Zack Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319665924

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Co-Designing Economies in Transition by Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino,Zack Walsh Pdf

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research. Chapter 13 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Eleni Kalantidou,Guy Keulemans,Abby Mellick Lopes,Niklavs Rubenis,Alison Gill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031468629

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Design/Repair by Eleni Kalantidou,Guy Keulemans,Abby Mellick Lopes,Niklavs Rubenis,Alison Gill Pdf

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair manifests itself through the different lenses of governance, grassroots activism, transformative design and community-led initiatives. Most importantly, the chapters demonstrate how place-based approaches can reveal blueprints for social impact in circumstances of growing environmental and social precariousness.

Author : Kwi-Gon Kim,Massamba Thioye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030801656

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Planning Climate Smart and Wise Cities by Kwi-Gon Kim,Massamba Thioye Pdf

This book provides information that facilitates integrated climate actions in cities, leveraging disruptive technologies, business models, policies, financing, and leadership solutions. It fosters the development of climate smart and wise cities. It reviews the major developments of climate actions in cities and combines climate environment and energy technology, policy and financing instruments. A range of distinguished authors assess the experiences thus far and also consider future development from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They also discuss many policy and technical options, including climate smart and wise city planning, inclusion of urban nature, international and national carbon market mechanisms and measuring its impact and digital transformation. Moreover, attention is paid to the role of natural principles, the role of transparency principles and to aspects of democratic climate governance within a climate action scheme. This book makes clear that the carbon neutrality, sustainability, circularity, efficiency, connectivity and resiliency of cities depend to a large extent on the specific digital technologies and the leadership reshaping our cities. Discussing multidisciplinary aspects of climate action, this book offers new insights to academics, policymakers and practitioners both in the public and private sectors. Those insights are not only retrospective, relevant for understanding the past, but they are also prospective and forward-looking, guiding the achievements of the SDGs and the climate goals.

Author : Aldo Roberto Ometto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031550362

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A Systemic Transition to Circular Economy by Aldo Roberto Ometto Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231003196

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Co-Designing Science in Africa by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Mark Swilling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429603723

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The Age of Sustainability by Mark Swilling Pdf

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13,000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However, the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures, new urban visions, sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching. Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately, this is a book about hope but without easy answers.

Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030361815

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Identity, Institutions and Governance in an AI World by Peter Bloom Pdf

The 21st century is on the verge of a possible total economic and political revolution. Technological advances in robotics, computing and digital communications have the potential to completely transform how people live and work. Even more radically, humans will soon be interacting with artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a normal and essential part of their daily existence. What is needed now more than ever is to rethink social relations to meet the challenges of this soon-to-arrive "smart" world. This book proposes an original theory of trans-human relations for this coming future. Drawing on insights from organisational studies, critical theory, psychology and futurism - it will chart for readers the coming changes to identity, institutions and governance in a world populated by intelligent human and non-human actors alike. It will be characterised by a fresh emphasis on infusing programming with values of social justice, protecting the rights and views of all forms of "consciousness" and creating the structures and practices necessary for encouraging a culture of "mutual intelligent design". To do so means moving beyond our anthropocentric worldview of today and expanding our assumptions about the state of tomorrow's politics, institutions, laws and even everyday existence. Critically such a profound shift demands transcending humanist paradigms of a world created for and by humans and instead opening ourselves to a new reality where non-human intelligence and cyborgs are increasingly central.

Author : Sarah Bell,Charlotte Johnson,Kat Austen,Gemma Moore,Tse-Hui Teh
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781800082229

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Co-designing Infrastructures by Sarah Bell,Charlotte Johnson,Kat Austen,Gemma Moore,Tse-Hui Teh Pdf

Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to bring the power of engineering and technology into the hands of grassroots community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises. Four projects in London are described in detail, exemplifying community collaboration with engineers, designers and scientists to enact urban change. The projects co-designed solutions to air pollution, housing, the water-energy-food nexus and water management. Rich case-study accounts are underpinned by theories of participation, environmental politics and socio-technical systems. The projects at the heart of the book are grounded in specific settings facing challenges familiar to urban communities throughout the world. This place-based approach to infrastructure is of international relevance as a foundation for urban resilience and sustainability. The authors document the tools used to deliver this work, providing guidance for others who are working to deliver local technical solutions to complex social and environmental problems around the world. This is a book for engineers, designers, community organisers and researchers. Co-authored by researchers, it includes voices of community collaborators, their experiences, frustrations and aspirations. It explores useful theories about infrastructure, engineering and resilience from international academic research, and situates it in community-based co-design experience, to explain why bottom-up approaches are needed and how they might succeed.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi,Ayotunde Dawodu,Ayyoob Sharifi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000410488

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Sustainable Urbanism in China by Ali Cheshmehzangi,Ayotunde Dawodu,Ayyoob Sharifi Pdf

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either developed or adopted by China. These are narrated as lessons learnt for other countries where we see similar trends of development patterns or emerging practices. Through various explorations of challenges, paradigms, and innovations of urban sustainability, this book highlights how planning, policy, and design are forming and reforming in the context of China. These are offered through a set of guidelines and pathways for urban sustainability at the scale of neighborhoods/communities or districts in a wider context of urban environments, as well as strategies for planners, developers, policy makers, and educators in the field of the built environment. Through a comprehensive overview of urban sustainability practices in China, this book investigates 12 case study projects. These comprehensive explorations should in turn help construct the future directions of China’s sustainable urban development and provide innovative pathways of sustainable urbanism in China and around the globe.

Author : Igor Calzada
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803823317

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Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes by Igor Calzada Pdf

Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies explores how increasing digitalisation in post-COVID-19 urban environments is rescaling nation-states in Europe resulting in new emerging digital citizenship regimes, trends, aftermaths, emancipations, and future research avenues.

Author : Marcello Colledani,Stefano Turri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Circular economy
ISBN : 9783031223525

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Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites by Marcello Colledani,Stefano Turri Pdf

This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a cross-sectorial approach. Glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or composites, are increasingly used as structural materials in many manufacturing sectors like transport, constructions and energy due to their better lightweight and corrosion resistance compared to metals. However, composite recycling is still a challenge since no significant added value in the recycling and reprocessing of composites is demonstrated. FiberEUse developed innovative solutions and business models towards sustainable Circular Economy solutions for post-use composite-made products. Three strategies are presented, namely mechanical recycling of short fibers, thermal recycling of long fibers and modular car parts design for sustainable disassembly and remanufacturing. The validation of the FiberEUse approach within eight industrial demonstrators shows the potentials towards new Circular Economy value-chains for composite materials.

Author : Michael Blowfield,Leo Johnson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191009341

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Turnaround Challenge by Michael Blowfield,Leo Johnson Pdf

Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding megatrends with the potential to reshape opportunities for growth. Three cities of the future are emerging. The first is Petropolis, the alluringly familiar but decreasingly resilient city, locked into the century old technologies of fossil fuel-driven mass production. This is the city of rising inequality, credit-fuelled consumption, offshored jobs, climate volatility, and unsustainable household and national debt. The second city is Cyburbia . This is mass production on the steroids of IT: the latest manifestation of science fictions city without pain, but one inhabited by voice-activated popcorn dispensers, of athletics' shoes with in-built Twitter feeds, of sensor-packed and censoring glass towers that risk reducing their citizens to digital factors of production in the supply chain of big data. The third is the Distributed City, where technology is deployed with the intent to connect us not virtually but physically—from Nairobi's network of innovation spaces to Hamburg's Participatory Budgeting experiments, from Barcelona's network for micro-manufacturing, to Austin's distributed smart grid. These are the cities of society's future, and they have very different implications for business success, and our ability to navigate the social, economic, and environmental megatrends that confront us. Blowfield and Johnson present the DNA of the winners of the future, high growth and disruptive businesses, emerging from the bottom up, and with the capacity to tackle society's biggest challenges head on.

Author : Michael Blowfield,Leo Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199672219

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Turnaround Challenge by Michael Blowfield,Leo Johnson Pdf

Turnaround Challenge examines the nexus of challenges confronting society and delivers a comprehensive overview of the innovators driving the next wave of growth for business. It explores three possible cities of the future—Petropolis, Cyburbia, and the Distributed City—and their implications for business success and tackling global megatrends.

Author : Hanna Lehtimäki,Leena Aarikka-Stenroos,Ari Jokinen,Pekka Jokinen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000971415

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The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy by Hanna Lehtimäki,Leena Aarikka-Stenroos,Ari Jokinen,Pekka Jokinen Pdf

This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy. With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business models, management and organisation, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate sustainability transitions. As a unique value to the reader, the book brings together public policy and private business perspectives to address the circular economy as a systemic change. Its theoretical and practical perspectives are coupled with real-world case studies from Finland, Italy, China, India, Nigeria, and others to provide tangible insights on catalysing the circular economy across organisational, hierarchical, and disciplinary boundaries. With its broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse scope, this handbook will be a valuable tool for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in the fields of circular economy, sustainability transitions, environmental studies, business, and the social sciences more broadly.

Author : Gavin Brett Melles,Christian Wölfel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819975327

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Design for a Sustainable Circular Economy by Gavin Brett Melles,Christian Wölfel Pdf

This multi-authored book aims to illustrate the social, economic, and ecological factors that should determine and be determined by design in the implementation of a sustainable circular economy and society. We take design to refer to a continuum of perspectives and applications from industrial design to policy design, and this broad perspective invites theoretical and methodological contributions from a range of fields. In addition to bringing scholarly diversity to circularity, we expand and challenge the mainstream circular economy narrative of material efficiencies and green growth to include the demands of inclusive growth and ecological boundaries consistent with sustainable development. Readers from within and beyond design, conscious of the limitations of circular green growth will find new inspiration in this book regarding the nature of a sustainable circular economy and society and the broad design agenda that must be implemented to enable a just and informed circular transition.