One Earth for All
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Conveying Science through Art: The Case of the Kaalspruit View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Lee Ann Modley
Water issues have become complex and interconnected with many factors and sectors, making them too large to be handled by one single institution. Water problems can no longer be resolved solely by water professionals, the water science they provide is essential to resolve the water crisis, but the effectiveness of the solutions depends on the capability of the scientists to provide new, logical and practical visions to improve water systems, governance and communication. As part of integrated water resource management and public participation the current research aimed to address the knowledge gap that exists between the general public and the scientists by using applied theatre, particularly empatheatre to improve how scientific information is communicated. Using R-studio for statistical analysis, the study evaluated the effectiveness of using applied theatre to communicate and educate the community of Kaalspruit on water resource management. The study revealed that using art to convey science is an effective strategic environmental communication tool and was highly recommended by the participants to promote public participation towards the rehabilitation of the Kaalspruit River.
Zero Food Waste of Gastronomic Tourism View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Umaporn Muneenam, Melissa Yodkhayan, Pongbaworn Suwannattachote
Phetchaburi and Phuket provinces in Thailand have been honored for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) creative city for gastronomy since 2021 and 2015. Gastronomic tourism means a leisure trip to pursuit unique experience of eating and drinking. It covers and may producing waste at both food losses and food waste stages, or from food production, cultivation, processing, distribution, and to human food consumption. This study focuses the rests of community-based tourism in Satun province, Thailand—one of the highly outstanding of food cultures such as mix of Thai-Malay cultures, mix of food from ocean, plain, and mountainous areas—if they would like to propose themselves for gastronomic tourism especially in term of zero food waste from two major indicators; firstly, food service standard for tourism, and secondly, Thailand's community-based tourism indicators. Results found that the indicators for zero food waste are food waste prevention, food waste reduction, food sharing and donation, food waste recycling, and sewage and food waste disposal.
Nature Sports and the Development of an Ecopedagogy: Prospects for Sustainability View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Derek Van Rheenen
This paper articulates a paradigm shift in the adoption of a critical ecopedagogy focused on substantive and systemic change within nature sports. In analyzing the unifying concept of nature sports, we propose an ontological shift towards genuine sustainability, a communion among people and with nature. These activities comprise a group of physical practices that have the potential to challenge participants in novel ways that provide an alternative to traditional sports and the ideological values associated with these dominant sports, such as competition and personal gain. Nature sports inscribe meaning on bodies in motion, with a blurring or erasure of boundaries, as participants become one with nature rather than seeking to exploit or conquer it. These novel and countercultural practices promise the possibility of systemic sustainability, as participants redefine sport in terms of relational equity and ecoliteracy. As a utopian project, this systems approach recognizes the nature-sport nexus as a living framework to honor culturally appropriate practices and traditions in building an ecological movement centered on environmental justice. In this way, nature sports offer an opportunity to reimagine sustainable development through the promotion of a circular, rather than linear, economy—an economy based on re-creation rather than exploitation and waste,
