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The Impact Of Education On The Sustainable Development Goals Through Critical Pedagogy On Nursing Graduates, Lorraine Fields

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

The world as we know it is becoming increasingly impacted by complex and interconnected global challenges. From poverty, hunger and global pandemics to climate change and widespread inequities, people and planet are being affected. The ambitious goals for global betterment set by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 aim to address these global challenges as well as numerous others through the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030 (UN, 2015). With the 2030 deadline fast approaching, time is running out for achieving the SDGs.

Nurses are recognised as key players in achievement of the SDGs, …

Sustainability-Oriented Housing Innovation: Using The Solar Decathlon As A Knowledge Source, Yeganeh Baghi

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

The Solar Decathlon competition started in 2002. Since then, Solar Decathlon has acted as a showcase and source of innovation in the field of sustainability for housing and for the construction industry at large. This thesis has utilised data from Solar Decathlon competitions to understand the nature of innovations involved with progressively building and refining the technology required for sustainable housing. As such, the focus and drive of this thesis is to present an image of the Solar Decathlon competition as openly creating and synthesising new knowledge about sustainability-oriented innovation. It can be stated that understanding the precise factors that …

Sustainability Drivers And Practices In Vietnamese Manufacturing: A Multiple-Case Study Through The Lens Of The Sustainability Marketing Mix, Van Dien Mike Dinh

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

The present rate and extent of the Southeast Asia region's economic expansion, social disintegration, and environmental destruction necessitate additional academic research and industry action. The importance of exploring the Marketing function in the pursuit of sustainable development (SD) by the private sector has called for the discipline’s innovative ideas to address pressure from stakeholders not only on firms’ economic, but also social and environmental performance. Emerging economies, such as Vietnam, present dilemmas since rapid mass economic development aimed at lifting standards of living creates serious threats to social imbalance and environmental health. Although businesses in Vietnam have been increasingly recognising …

Examination Of The World3 Model And The Development Of A Novel Model Of A Multi-Market, Multi-Regional Economy Driven By Adaptive Heterogeneous Consumer Agents, Ashley William Heath

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Ever since the human race developed consciousness we have battled against the elements to bring about prosperity and health. For millennia we closely observed the natural phenomena that seemed to influence future outcomes, gradually building and refining our conceptions of reality, our mental models. We refined the process of observation and discovery with the scientific method, and from that point on our power to control our environment grew immensely. Now our greatest foe is not only Mother Nature, but ourselves. We still act impulsively, and make decisions which seem irrational. We may guiltily watch hour after hour of Antiques Road …

Food, Household Sustainability And Migration. Practices Of Papua New Guinean Migrants In Australia And Aotearoa New Zealand, Rebecca Suganya Campbell

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Food is central to the global challenge of sustainability and households are positioned as key sites of sustainable action by policymakers in many western neoliberal nations. Thus, ‘household sustainability’ in the Minority World has become the subject of increasing interest in the academic literature. Largely absent from this research are Majority World migrants from diverse ethnic backgrounds who live in the Minority World. The thesis asks, what can we learn from ethnically diverse communities if they are included in debates about household sustainability? To address this question, the empirical focus of the thesis is the everyday food activities of 12 …

Examining Supply Chain Practice For The Sustainable Buildings Industry: Towards Viable Cluster Formation, Emily Ryan

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Supply chains are subject to changes associated with increased global connectedness and the dynamism of markets, demanding a need for adaptation. Such changes have influenced the operations and structure of supply chains across the world. Globalisation has resulted in elongated supply chains, extending transit distances and therefore decreasing the ‘sustainability’ of goods and services, due to increased greenhouse gas emissions and other waste. Research regularly recognises supply chain clusters as a successful strategy for long term viability and a credible alternative to globalisation (de Oliveira Wilk & Jaime Evaldo, 2003; Chiarvesio & Di Maria, 2009; Danson, 2009). Michael Porter (1990, …

Young Adults, Consumption And Material-Cultural Engagements With Clothes, Elyse Ruby Stanes

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis explores geographies of clothing and accompanying questions of materiality, care and sustainability, among young adults. To date, cultural scholarship on clothing has been predominantly fixed on their symbolic and material form. Clothes are objectified, mutable and unsustainable. Meanwhile, symbolic meanings and narratives of clothing consumption shape public understandings of young adults in increasingly contradictory ways. On one hand, young adults have been lauded for their positive influence on environmental change. On the other, they are critiqued for their purported careless, hasty and thoughtless disposition to resource use and consumption. Seldom has ethnographic research combining cultural and environmental sustainabilities …

Domestic Water Cultures Of Iranian Migrant Households Living In The Sydney Metropolitan Region, Fatemeh (Samira) Nowroozipour

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

The thesis aim is to explore everyday water practices of people who migrated from Iran to Australia through a project design that employed a mixed-qualitative method. The theoretical approach of the thesis brings into conversation the work of Elizabeth Shove and Sarah Pink. In doing so, the everyday water practices are conceived as relational, comprised through the intersection of competencies, ideas, materials and situated knowledge. The question guiding this thesis is: Following migration to Australia, how do the everyday water practices of migrants from the Islamic Republic of Iran persist, change or stop. Insights are offered from 15 Iranian-Australian people, …

Development Of A Sustainability Approach For The Structural Design Of Buildings, Mehdi Robati

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Sustainability in the building industry means ensuring that a building is ecologically friendly and economically feasible, as well as providing a healthy internal atmosphere for the occupants. Recent developments in low CO2-e emissions design have highlighted the need to comprehend the characteristics and constraints of design alternatives at a global scale before making an appropriate choice. Despite the improvements in low CO2-e emissions design, the guidance currently available to structural engineers on how to incorporate whole of life CO2-e emissions impact in building design is still limited. This research seeks to identify the structural systems needed to sustain the long-term …