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Design For Social And Environmental Enterprise, Clare Brass, Flora Bowden
Design For Social And Environmental Enterprise, Clare Brass, Flora Bowden
DRS Biennial Conference Series
SEED Foundation undertakes action research to develop new, innovative ways for design to most effectively contribute towards sustainable development. The research that follows is not the result of academic investigations but rather, a culmination of 20 years direct professional involvement in the sector. By aligning current political goals with cutting edge design thinking and good business sense, this paper presents our ideas on how more designers can profitably solve social and environmental problems through their work. It specifically investigates how the still emerging discipline of service design, in dealing more with relationships and experiences than material objects, offers inherent social …
A Rising Tide In Renewable Energy: The Future Of Tidal In-Stream Energy Conversion (Tisec), Michael B. Walsh
A Rising Tide In Renewable Energy: The Future Of Tidal In-Stream Energy Conversion (Tisec), Michael B. Walsh
Villanova Environmental Law Journal
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Panama City Reflections: Growing The City In The Time Of Sustainable Development, Ileana Porras
Panama City Reflections: Growing The City In The Time Of Sustainable Development, Ileana Porras
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Navigating The U.S. Transition To Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges With Appropriate Legal Tools, John Dernbach
Navigating The U.S. Transition To Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges With Appropriate Legal Tools, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
Sustainable development would require the United States to maintain and improve human prosperity while at the same time greatly reducing its consumption of energy, materials, water, and land. The scope of the challenge includes, but is not limited to, climate change. This Article suggests the elements of a legal structure for achieving sustainability.
Because achieving sustainable development is a significant learning experience, the United States will need to employ a form of governance—reflexive governance—that requires constant learning and supportive citizens and stakeholders who are also working to ensure sustainability in their own activities. The two basic problems reflexive governance must …