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A Study into Attendee Attitudes and Behaviours at Music Festivals towards Sustainability Whilst at Events: Creating a Value Segmentation Framework for Industry Use View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Briony Whitaker
Existing research has already identified that music festivals are clear victims of littering and poor sustainable behaviours and that there is a need to address attendee behaviours in order to minimise the amount of waste that is produced to ensure longevity of this particular event sector. Not only is this an obvious issue in terms of environmental repercussions, but it also compromises the future of the festival industry, where the term ‘festival sustainability’ is also seen as relating to how organisers can ‘remain competitive and successful… [and to] achieve long-term viability’ (Zifkos, 2015, p.10). For hallmark festivals, like Glastonbury Festival, UK, the closure or moving of the festival site would have an enormous impact on the specific festival experience that has been cultivated over the 51 years that it has been held. This research project explores the behaviours, attitudes and values of attendees towards littering and sustainability whilst at music festivals. to create a value segmentation framework. This will aid the design of sustainability interventions by allowing festival organisers to target specific groups based upon values rather than a blanket intervention for everyone. During the summer of 2023, Briony will be conducting an ethnographic study of music festivals to create a sustainability value segmentation framework that will allow us to group attendees together based upon their attitudes and values towards sustainability whilst at the event. The intention is that this framework can be utilised by festival organisers to design sustainability interventions that target attendees based upon values inside festivals.
Sustainability Constitutionalism: A New Constitutional Pathway View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rhett Martin
The development of environmental constitutional rights has provided important advances in recognition of issues such as standing, procedure, remedies and enforcement. The constitutionalization of environmental norms represents a significant development in both constitutional and environmental law and cross disciplinary research. These developments have not been mirrored in respect to sustainability rights with an equivalent entrenchment of sustainability norms in the constitutional framework of nations. Just as environmental rights are seen as a legitimate avenue for constitutional protection, this paper argues a similar position should accord to sustainability rights. Before such a position is possible, it is arguably necessary to examine the process for constitutional change across jurisdictions. A comparative review is offered between Australia and Malaysia and the options each jurisdictions provides for the adoption of sustainability rights in each country's constitution. This provides a suitable template for change at an international level and advance the position of sustainability constitutionalism to accord and align with similar advances in environmental constitutionalism.
The Environmental Sustainability of Green Roofs
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Débora Fiorentin
Green infrastructures and inherently green roofs (GRs) play a key role in increasing cities' resilience to climate events, such as heat waves and flooding, while also improving the building's thermal performance, which makes the GRs aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda, especially SGD 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) and 13 (Climate action). While many studies have evaluated the environmental performance of GRs using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, the most environmentally friendly GR has yet to be identified. This work encompasses the environmental results from a systematic literature review regarding LCA studies on GRs, identifying the differences between GR types. This work identifies the main trends in methodological choices, including functional unit, system boundaries, multifunctionality, and sensitivity analysis, and enables the understanding of their effect on the environmental sustainability of GRs, namely in the most evaluated impact category - climate change (CC). This study shows that extensive green roofs are the most addressed and that the manufacturing stage of insulation layer materials is the hotspot for the environmental impacts. CC results varied from 3.08 kg CO2eq to 155.88 kg CO2eq, and no correlation between the GR type and the one with the best environmental performance could be identified. Future research should focus on evaluating GRs sustainability, considering the GRs specificities and benefits, to enable the widespread application of GRs to create sustainable and resilient cities.
