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Is there a role for contemporary practices of askesis in supporting a transition to sustainable consumption?

Doran, Peter - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 1, pp. 15-40

in advancing our understanding of consumerism and promoting sustainable consumption, as lifestyle change is forced up the … a site of critical opposition to consumerism as biopolitics. The article investigates Zen meditation practices as a … mediated by an all-pervasive culture of consumerism. The article draws on a series of interviews conducted by the author with …

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Personal carbon trading and sustainable consumption: the art of the state

Doran, Peter - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 3/4, pp. 323-342

Anticipating a new prominence for the carbon market and lifestyle change in post-2012 implementation of ambitious carbon mitigation targets in OECD countries, including the UK, this paper draws on Foucauldian scholarship to support an argument that personal carbon trading (PCT) may be consistent...

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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh

Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

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Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai: An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and of...

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny; Patwardhan, Anand; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010

Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced...

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Planning for Climate Change in Cartagena, Colombia: Institutionalizing Alternative Approaches

Perez, Jorge Campos - In: REVISTA ECONOMÍA & REGIÓN (2013)

Planning for climate change in cities of developing countries is a difficult task due to the lack of resources, low institutional capacity of local authorities and governments, and the informal and illegal growth of urban areas. This is worsened by the fact that the occurrence of extreme weather...

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My Urban Idol 2050 – The City of Gothenburg

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

I have been asked to write a paper over “my urban idol 2050” to be the foundation for a presentation at a session at the ERSA congress in Bratislava in August 2012. No special instructions were given, so I have chosen to write a kind of scenario for the possible future development in the...

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Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport: The Case of Land-Based Passenger Transport Infrastructure

Ang, Géraldine; Marchal, Virginie - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013

Transport infrastructure is a pillar of economic development and a key contributor to climate change. Globally, transport-related greenhouse gas emissions are expected to double by 2050 in the absence of new policies. There is an urgent need to scale-up and shift transport infrastructure...

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My urban idol 2050 - the city of Gothenburg

Karlsson, Charlie - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 14 (2015) 1/2, pp. 17-39

In this paper, the author sketches a scenario for a possible future development path for the City of Gothenburg and its surrounding labour market region - the Gothenburg region and a scenario for what the city and the region might look like in 2050. The author does not use a traditional scenario...

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National urban policy : problems and prospects

Wolman, Harold Louis (contributor) - 1996

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