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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Biting Into The Doughnut: Exploring Enterprise Applications and Evaluation of The Doughnut Model

Barwari, Milena, Aprubs, Janis January 2024 (has links)
In its recent surge in popularity, Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics has garnered significant attention and has been applied on a global, national, and local scale. However, its implementation within organizational settings has yet to be adopted, despite evident interest. This paper delves into the potential application of the Doughnut Model (DM) within an enterprise context, examining both its strengths and limitations stemming from its core structure and principles, as well as the complexities of enterprise environments. By conducting interviews with Länsförsäkringar and another insurance company, this paper seeks to interpret the advantages and limitations of integrating the DM into organizational frameworks. Qualitative research methods, including interviews with sustainability managers, asset managers, and business development managers, were employed to gather diverse insights from industry professionals. Additionally, interviews with professors were conducted to gain deeper insights into the model's structure and foundational principles. Through qualitative thematic analysis, various advantages and limitations were uncovered. Advantages primarily revolved around visual representation, business strategy, grasping sustainability, inclusiveness, business transparency, comparability, regulations, and awareness. Identified limitations brought into question certain aspects of DE. These limitations included critiques of its principle's negative stance on GDP growth, challenges to its Western-centric ideology, and its oversight of altruistic social behaviors. Furthermore, concerns were raised regarding its historical and perceptual context, which could potentially mislead due to its anthropocentric characteristics and compartmentalized framing. Moreover, challenges in applying the model to enterprises were identified, such as external pressures to comply with upcoming regulations, resource constraints, financial limitations, and the overarching imperative of ensuring the company's survival. The absence of software tools and clear instructions on measuring all indicators further complicates implementation, highlighting the need for additional research in this area. It is recommended that future studies focus on developing guidelines for firms to address all boundaries effectively, offering pragmatic approaches for integration in operations.
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Munkmodellen i svensk stadsplanering : :En fallstudie om munkmodellens tillämpning i kommunal stadsplanering / The Doughnut in Swedish Urban Planning : :A Case Study of the Application of the Doughnut in Municipal Urban Planning

Bäcklin, Linda, Sahlgren, Lina January 2024 (has links)
Our planet is facing a socio-ecological crisis in which we are failing to meet the basic needs of the people in our society whilst living within the planetary boundaries. This has brought about the need to reassess the general approach to economic policy and thus the emergence of an alternative perspective, namely Doughnut economics. The Doughnut provides a framework consisting of a social foundation of well-being and an ecological ceiling of planetary boundaries, between which is a safe and just space for all. This framework has been applied in urban planning worldwide since its emergence in 2017 but still lacks practical implementation. This thesis sheds light on an urban development project in the municipality of Tomelilla in Sweden with the intention of implementing the Doughnut.   Through a case study, the first phase of the project which constitutes a Masterplan is reviewed. This study consists of a document analysis as well as several interviews. The thesis shows that the application of the Doughnut in the Masterplan encounters several difficulties. The encounter between the Doughnut and practical reality has been identified as one of the fundamental challenges. This challenge is rooted in a more radical move into the Doughnut which faces constraints in regulations and laws as well as the receptivity of society and the construction industry. In addition, the model lacks guidelines to guide trade-offs between social and ecological aspects. As a result of these challenges, it is concluded that the masterplan cannot be implemented within the framework of the Doughnut model. It is however observed that the model should be seen as a tool for approaching the Doughnut as well as for promoting sustainability, rather than seeing the Doughnut as an end state. The visual strength and apparent simplicity of the model has been highlighted as a contributing factor to the model's ability to constitute a tool for communication with the capacity to promote discussion, dialog and new ways of thinking about complex issues. Finally, due to the model's ability to visually communicate 21 different social and ecological aspects in a simple and clear way, our thesis argues that the Doughnut encourages a holistic and sustainable way of thinking. Thus, the application of the Doughnut in urban planning can promote the development of sustainable cities. / Vår planet står inför en socioekologisk kris inom vilken vi misslyckas med att tillgodose människors basala rättigheter och behov. Detta samtidigt som vi tär på planetens resurser och överskrider de planetära gränserna.  Detta har lett till ett behov av att omvärdera det allmänna synsättet på ekonomisk politik och därmed framväxten av ett alternativt perspektiv, nämligen munkmodellen. Munkmodellen utgör ett ramverk bestående av en social grund av välbefinnande och ett ekologiskt tak av planetära gränser, mellan dessa återfinns ett säkert och rättvist utrymme för alla. Detta ramverk har tillämpats inom stadsplanering över hela världen sedan dess uppkomst år 2017, men präglas fortfarande av en bristande praktisk implementering. Denna uppsats behandlar ett stadsutvecklingsprojekt i Tomelilla kommun i Sverige med avsikt att implementera munkmodellen.   Genom en fallstudie granskas den första fasen av projektet, vilken utgörs av en masterplan. Denna fallstudie består av en dokumentanalys samt ett flertal intervjuer. Uppsatsen vittnar om att tillämpningen av munkmodellen i masterplanen möter flera svårigheter. Munkmodellens möte med den praktiska verkligheten har identifierats som en av de grundläggande utmaningarna. Detta då en mer radikal förflyttning in i munken möter begränsningar i såväl regleringar och lagar som mottagligheten i samhället och byggbranschen. Dessutom saknar modellen riktlinjer för att vägleda avvägningar mellan sociala- och ekologiska aspekter. Som ett resultat av dessa utmaningar konstateras att masterplanen inte kan genomföras inom munkmodellens ramar.​​ Däremot konstateras att modellen bör ses som ett verktyg för att närma sig munken och främja hållbarhetsarbete, snarare än att se munken som ett slutgiltigt tillstånd. Modellens visuella styrka och skenbara enkelhet har lyfts som en bidragande faktor till modellens förmåga att utgöra ett kommunikationsverktyg med kapacitet att främja diskussion, dialog och nya tankesätt kring komplexa frågor. På grund av Munkmodellens förmåga att visuellt kommunicera 21 olika sociala- och ekologiska aspekter på ett enkelt och tydligt sätt argumenterar slutligen vår uppsats för att munkmodellen uppmuntrar till ett holistiskt och hållbart sätt att tänka. Därmed kan munkmodellens tillämpning i stadsplanering främja utvecklingen av hållbara städer.
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Hållbar samhällsutveckling inom ett normkreativt avfallsprojekt

Orahim, Allanmikel Sargon January 2018 (has links)
The global social, ecological and economic challenges facing humanity today have given rise to the UN's 17 Global Objectives and Agenda 2030 to achieve sustainable development. Kate Raworth, professor of economics from Oxford University, has in the same spirit developed a visual framework with seven related conditions for mankind to live by, to strive towards living within a safe and fair zone of sustainable development. This framework and associated conditions for sustainable development are applied in this study with the intention to investigate and concretize the potentially contributing sustainable development effects of a norm-creative waste management project in a process of sustainable societal development. The results of the study show clear evidence that the waste management project has contributed to sustainable societal development according to the respondents who participated in the study. However, further studies are required to concretize these results through a more scientifically objective methodology. / De globala sociala, ekologiska och ekonomiska utmaningarna som mänskligheten står inför i dagsläget har gett upphov till FN’s 17 globala mål och agenda 2030 för att vägleda mänskligheten mot en hållbar utveckling. Kate Raworth, professor i ekonomi från Oxfords universitet, har i samma anda utvecklat ett visuellt ramverk med sju tillhörande förutsättningar för mänskligheten att sträva mot för att leva inom ett säkert och rättvist utrymme av hållbar utveckling. Detta ramverk och tillhörande förutsättningar för hållbar utveckling appliceras i den här studien med syftet att undersöka och konkretisera ett normkreativt avfallsprojekts potentiellt bidragande effekter till en hållbar samhällsutveckling. Resultatet av undersökningen påvisar tydliga belägg för att avfallsprojektet har bidragit till en hållbar samhällsutveckling utefter det teoretiska ramverket enligt respondenter som deltagit i studien. Det krävs dock vidare studier för att konkretisera dessa resultat i mer objektiva sammanhang.

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