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Young Adults, Consumption And Material-Cultural Engagements With Clothes, Elyse Ruby Stanes
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 …
Examining Supply Chain Practice For The Sustainable Buildings Industry: Towards Viable Cluster Formation, Emily Ryan
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, …