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Policy Uncertainty in the Lithium Triangle: Attracting Investment for Greener Energy View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jennapher Lunde Seefeldt
Building on my prior research, I discuss how policy opacity and a lack of uniformity have cautioned and hindered investment in Chile and Argentina's lithium industries. These countries are central to the world's demand for lithium access, which is so desperately needed for personal electronic devices and electric vehicles. This is especially true in a post-Covid world facing higher oil prices. If we seek greener sources of energy, lithium is more desirable. This requires investment in exploration, extraction, and processing of lithium. But the countries feature somewhat arbitrary regulations that are applied unevenly and irregularly. These policies detract the investment needed for this increasingly in-demand resource. Using interviews and secondary sources, I show how this uncertainty has affected development and offer suggestions for how to increase investor confidence in order to develop a greener industry.
How Vernacular Architecture Affects The Global: Lessons From Bangladesh View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Anindita Laz Banti
Vernacular architecture is a very adaptable and reasonable way to address human needs, which seems to be largely forgotten in contemporary architecture. It describes the shared culture of people in a specific region, including their language, heritage, religion, and customs to show the importance of their identity and existence in historical context. Despite experiencing negative challenges, the adaptation of building forms obtained from vernacular architecture have gained interest among the contemporary designers as they have been proven to be energy efficient and highly sustainable. Over time, how many vernacular buildings have been lost from a community or a place? In addition, how does vernacular architecture respond to particular conditions in this contemporary era that affect people and places of all regions? To answer these questions, this paper explores the current conditions of vernacular buildings in Bangladesh and observes their existing role in the society and community. It studies the theories and practices of contemporary vernacular that are shaping and examining the community critically. In the era of rapid technological advancement, there is still much to learn from the cumulative knowledge embedded in traditional structures. Additionally, there is a need to expand and discover more about this neglected part of architecture and reveal the world about its creation and ethnicity. Working at multiple scale, the paper critically examines and puts together different contemporary strategies into the design, which will not only increase the quality of life in the community but also significantly enhance the cultural values in the global platform.
Problems in Establishing Alliances to Comply with SDG 17 in the Successful Execution of Environmental Conservation Projects View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Elena Bulmer
The research for this study has found that the formation of alliances for the successful revitalization of the global partnership for sustainable development as defined by UN Sustainable Development Goal 17, entails considerable difficulty. This study uses for its empirical work marine environmental conservation projects and analyses the potential involvement of nonhuman actors as primordial stakeholders in these types of projects. The idea is to extend the scope of SDG 17 for it to also consider nonhuman subjects in order for it to better achieve its goal. The results of this study may be extrapolated to the business and management fields, which depend on natural resources for the development of their products. In the same way, in these areas natural resources as nonhuman actors are not present in the stakeholder maps of these projects. Environmental Conservation projects are thus especially interesting to study with regards to their stakeholder context and have been used as the experimental setting for the empirical work of this study. The primordial stakeholders of these projects are not social objects and therefore go beyond the present limits of present stakeholder theory.
Mobilizing Communication about the Climate Change Crisis: Multimodal Discursive Manifestations of Community Building and Involvement View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Carmen Daniela Maier
The premise of this study is that one of the most pressing demands of our time is to provide mobilizing communication about the climate change crisis. This is a pressing demand because communication can contribute to closing the present gap between the real threat represented by this global crisis and the necessary level of engagement for dealing with it in the near future. The purpose of this paper is to explain environmental organizations' usage of multimodal discursive strategies in their mobilizing communication in order to fight cognitive limitations and lack of genuine commitment. The paper argues that a multimodal approach could defy the limits we encounter in attempting to both analyze and employ the articulation of several semiotic modes in climate change discourses where blame, culpability, concern and engagement are discursively legitimated. Drawing upon a multimodal framework, this paper explores in detail the integration of several semiotic modes like language, image and sound in a series of videos of well-known environmental organizations. The selected videos are discursively dealing with community building and involvement meant to alleviate the accelerating climate change crisis. Such a nuanced understanding of the semiotic modes’ potent interdependence and functional differentiation is meant to provide the means for rethinking and consequently improving the usage of multimodal discursive strategies and to move the study of climate change communication forward.
Doubling Down on Green Growth with Phase II of the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme” View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Edoardo Monaco, Chenhan Shao
The key promoters of the trilateral “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19” - i.e. the governments of China, the Netherlands, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia - together with the main implementing agency - i.e. the Beijing-based “International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation” (INBAR) - have recently committed to further upscale bamboo value chains in East Africa in a new phase of the Programme that shall last until 2023. This new phase aims to consolidate the success of Phase I - especially in terms of capacity and infrastructure building, as well as transferring of technology - so as to ultimately further unlock the immense inclusive green growth potential that vast stocks of bamboo resources could deliver to a region still plagued by persistent multidimensional poverty. The paper shares research findings on relevance, achievements, and shortcomings of Phase I, as well as Phase II's objectives and expected challenges.
Planet For All: Arts Education Initiative Brief View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Gabriella Gonzales, Danli Feng, Emily Newcomer, Skye Prosper
Climate change is a huge issue in local communities around the world. Climate change is a hard topic to absorb and some people may have a hard time understanding sustainability and consistently being sustainable. Therefore our organization saw the need to present sustainability on a more local and community based level. Through collaboration, we created Planet for All. This is an organization planning to unite, empower, encourage and teach local communities on how to participate in sustainable living through our art exhibitions. If communities come together to learn about the environmental issues that face their communities, they will learn the small ways they can make a change. They can also learn how to start living their lives more sustainably in order to tackle these issues. Through this mindset, climate change can seem like a more manageable issue. By starting small, this strategic brief explores the possibilities meant for local communities in New York City. The information in this brief was found by using data from local communities, educational/sustainable resources and articles. For the next three years, through programming, interactive learning, visitor/community engagement and partnerships, our organization will be able to confidently accomplish our goals. To further engage with local communities, for two years Planet for All will partner with local schools - around the planned exhibition location - to help students understand sustainable living through creating sustainable art. And with the help of partnerships, in the last year we will host an exhibition containing two installations, as well as augmented reality.
Biophysical and Cultural Ecosystem to Respond to Biodiesel Challenges in Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, Canada: Coop Case Study View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Maria Odette Lobato Calleros, Brian Roberts
The purpose of this study is to know how the members of Cowichan Valley build a biophysical and cultural ecosystem that supports the sustainability of a biodiesel cooperative. The study uses an Ecosystem Approach and Transformative Research Methodology. Use of the territorial analysis of socio-ecological systems is based on organizational social networks. Findings include the desired transition to sustainable fuels, such as biodiesel, requires the reconfiguration of the local context where it is produced and consumed, recognizing local, provincial, federal and global relationships. In the case of study of a social enterprise, it is known how its survival and growth requires the continuous transformation of itself and its local context. This study adds a socio-technical perspective that identifies the main threats and opportunities of the context and the prosumer of biodiesel as a trigger for the local construction of a biophysical and cultural ecosystem that supports the sustainability of biodiesel production and distribution in this local context.
Change and Sustainability: Environmental Processes, Mountain Agriculture, and Kinship Relations in Solčavsko View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ana Svetel, Veronika Zavratnik, Blaz Bajic
The paper focuses on the notions and practices related to change and sustainability in the region of Solčavsko in northeastern Slovenia. Based on ongoing ethnographic research, the paper elaborates on the interrelatedness of the perceptions of transformations of the environment on the one hand and the community-based »identities«, kinship placement, affective topographies, and the economic practices, primarily agriculture, forestry, and family-run tourism, on the other. The question of how do the local farmers perceive their position, and position of their family-owned homesteads, in a wider network of actors qualified, or not, to conceive and implement environmental policies and practices (municipality, the government, EU, the Alpine association, the hunting societies, etc.) is related to terms such as guardianship, responsibility-obligation, and foresight.
