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1	Building a Greener Future: Reconstructing the Discourse on Sustainability in the German Construction Sector : How do stakeholders within the German construction sector translate sustainability in their daily practices and to what extent do these practices align with the principles of the Gaia hypothesis? Meesenburg, David January 2024 (has links) Sustainability is viewed as a solution to climate change and social unrest, yet the systems we use to understand and implement it often contribute to the very problems they aim to solve. This thesis investigates how stakeholders in the German construction sector integrate sustainability into their daily practices. Using James Lovelock’s concept of Earth as a self- regulating system, the study explores stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainability. Based on qualitative interviews, the research identifies three main themes: certification systems, economic pressures, and the intrinsic connection of stakeholders to Gaia. Findings suggest that while certification systems guide sustainable practices, they are often used due to other motivations than for genuine environmental efforts. Economic pressures further hinder the adoption of sustainable practices, as stakeholders prioritize short-term gains over long-term ecological benefits. However, a strong connection to Gaia and could inspire deeper engagement with sustainability. The thesis concludes that adopting the interconnectedness emphasized by the Gaia hypothesis could lead to more effective and authentic sustainability practices in the construction sector. Anthropocene Sustainability Gaia Hypothesis Stakeholders narratives Construction Industry Germany Certification Economic pressure Environmental impact New Climatic Regime Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
2	Terrestrial Reorientation of Managing - Blockchain Projects - for Sustainability Storm, Joe January 2022 (has links) This thesis is a post qualitative inquiry that explores a different research approach concerning climate change and what Bruno Latour calls the Terrestrial. We are now living in a New Climatic Regime or locked-down age, according to Latour, where life continues – yet is ever more suspended and disorienting. This frozen image of modern life is drawn in our new landscape – that is political, organizational and it concerns terrestrial sustainability – along with an emerging worldview (of Gaia) that is challenging to understand and manage for. It also reorients how we are managing sustainability and what we connect to it. This new landscape – that is also a mapping of dominant trajectories for organizing and Terrestrial reorientation with the world – is traversed, extended, and explored with two blockchain projects for sustainability. The projects are organizing their own currency for putting-on-chain, tokenizing, or attaching to nature, carbon and other actors. The key coordinates and blockages of this new landscape for sustainability are also drawn from these two cases – mapping their organizing trajectories and Terrestrial reorientation. The research and writing of this inquiry gathers with Terrestrial earth-bound movement for managing, living and organizing in connection with the common world for habitability. Climate change management post qualitative inquiry Bruno Latour sustainability organization blockchain economy Gaia Terrestrial New Climatic Regime Philosophy Filosofi Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Övrig annan humaniora Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap

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