[PDF] Sustainable Lifestyles After Covid 19 eBook

Author : Fabián Echegaray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 100040997X

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This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles. Drawing on examples from Brazil, China, and Israel, and with a particular focus on cities, this book explores the short and long-term changes in individual consumers and citizen behavior as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. On the basis of extensive market and opinion research data, aggregate data, observational evidence, and news reports, the authors provide a detailed account of the transformations that have occurred as a result of a triple shock of public health emergency, economic shutdown, and social isolation. They also examine which of these behavioral changes are likely to become permanent and consider whether this may ultimately promote or restrain sustainable lifestyle choices. Innovative and timely, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and professionals researching and working in the areas of sustainable consumption, urban and land use planning, and public health.

Author : Fabian Echegaray
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a major disruption in how people live their lives. Impacts are visible in all domains of practice. It has affected the way we work, study, entertain, consume, socialize, develop and experience family life and love relationships, the means as much as the contents for our wellbeing and financial security, how we approach healthcare issues, our role as citizens and perceptions of authorities, and even the meaning of household and living habitats. This report scans and projects what these impacts are and what they mean for working towards a sustainable future. In particular, we focus on the implications for progressing in the direction of sustainable lifestyles, recognized as one vital goal and perspective to build effective game-changing, purpose oriented action.

Author : John Erik Meyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030917827

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The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared. Climate change, scarcity, depletion of natural resources, and the inevitable transition to renewable energy are one time events. Taken together, they present an existential threat to human society. This book is a guide to navigating these megatrends, which confront us now but whose consequences will unfold over decades. By presenting clear options on the path to a renewable energy future, this book gives readers a broad perspective as well as detailed, well-illustrated examples to weigh in making decisions which will secure stability and prosperity for their families, their communities and their nations.

Author : Shivya Nath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353052653

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Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030692841

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This book gathers and disseminates opinions, viewpoints, studies, forecasts, and practical projects which illustrate the various pathways sustainability research and practice may follow in the future, as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares itself to the possibilities of having to cope with similar crisis, a product of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iusdrp.html and the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) https://esssr.eu/. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to severe human suffering, and to substantial damages to economies around the globe, affecting both rich countries and developing ones. The aftermath of the epidemic is also expected to be felt for sometime. This will also include a wide range of impacts in the ways sustainable development is perceived, and how the principles of sustainability are practised. There is now a pressing need to generate new literature on the connections between COVID-19 and sustainability. This is so for two main reasons. Firstly, the world crisis triggered by COVID-19 has severely damaged the world economy, worsening poverty, causing hardships, and endangering livelihoods. Together, these impacts may negatively influence the implementation of sustainable development as a whole, and of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in particular. These potential and expected impacts need to be better understood and quantified, hence providing a support basis for future recovery efforts. Secondly, the shutdown caused by COVID-19 has also been having a severe impact on teaching and research, especially –but not only – on matters related to sustainability. This may also open new opportunities (e.g. less travel, more Internet-based learning), which should be explored further, especially in the case of future pandemics, a scenario which cannot be excluded. The book meets these perceived needs.

Author : Parker, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529215781

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What might the world look like in the aftermath of COVID-19? Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change. A rapid intervention into current commentary and debate, Life After COVID-19 looks at a wide range of topical issues including the state, co-operation, work, money, travel and care. It invites us to see the pandemic as a dress rehearsal for the larger problem of climate change, and it provides an opportunity to think about what we can improve and how rapidly we can make changes.

Author : Chinmay Chakraborty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030664902

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This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influences on human health, handling and management of biomedical waste. According to WHO, 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air exceeding safe limits. The advent of "sustainability‟ in development science has led planners to apply evolving notions of "sustainability‟ to the contemporary debate over how cities and regions should be revitalized, redeveloped, and reformed. Market allocation of resources, sustained levels of growth and consumption, an assumption that natural resources are unlimited and a belief that economic growth will „trickle down‟ to the poor have been its hallmarks. The recent advance technology helps to promote green and clean modern societies continuously. The Internet of things will be playing an important role in the upcoming years in environment protection and sustainable development. There is a focus on paradigm shift in the sustainable development for the green environment during the period of isolation of COVID-19. This is the moment for the mobilization against the climate crisis. The sudden fall in pollutants and subsequent blue skies signifies a dramatic shift for India and also other affected countries during this period. Fighting climate change requires a collaborative approach between all spheres of society unlike the former. It must heavily redirect resources towards local, sustainable activities, including education, health, sustainable agriculture and circular management of resources. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic which has resulted in the dramatic change in the different aspects of the environment. The global lockdown has led to a rejuvenation of nature, ecosystems, biodiversity. Even urban environments are discovering a degree of peace and serenity, which led to decrease in greenhouse gas emission.

Author : Robert Earhart, PhD
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
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The theme of this book is learning from the current Covid-19 pandemic. The goal is to see how we might apply theoretical and pragmatic economic and management approaches to better understand the challenges to come from anthropogenic climate change. Can we really expect the same social, political and economic systems that failed to prevent and effectively mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic to do the same with anthropogenic climate change? If the management of the Covid-19 pandemic was a dress rehearsal for Anthropogenic climate change, then there is a high probability that our opening night performance may result in a fiasco. Moreover, if we consider climate change as a pandemic, one that has been denied and sometimes ridiculed by humankind over the past fifty years, we will need far more than a vaccine program to mitigate it. This book is not offering any specific strategic proposals. There are no checklists, no simple policies, no tidy software solutions, nor any specific technologies or green-branding campaigns that will offer us a singular coherent solution that we can take from the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic as we dive headfirst into the Anthropocene. What we do offer is a case for an on-going profound engagement with the very forces that threaten to destroy us.

Author : T. M. Vinod Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811959404

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This book is about containment, life, work, and restart cities affected by COVID 19, using selected empirical case studies. This book presents the spread of coronavirus spatially and temporally, analyses containment strategies and includes recommended strategies. Further, it analyses how life and work get transformed during the lockdown, and gradual opening up, and presents the future of work and life in cities impacted by COVID-19. This book discusses the concept of smart life and works in cities post-COVID-19 such that they do not reduce the quality of work and life and cannot create adverse economic and living consequences called the restart of a city after COVID-19. Selected Cities of special interest are studied. Special interest is because Kerala and Maharashtra got the worst affected in India by COVID 19 pandemic and the book focus on that.

Author : Magnus Boström
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1666902454

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The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption draws on a variety of theories and research to contribute to our understanding of unsustainable mass consumption. It addresses the role of identities, social relations, interactions, belonging, and status comparison, and how perceived time scarcity is both a cause and an effect of consumption. It examines the power of consumer norms and how overconsumption is normalized and shows how consumption is embedded in the time-space arrangements of everyday life. Magnus Boström contextualizes such drivers within the larger institutional and infrastructural forces underlying mass consumption, including the economy, growth politics, and the problematic promises of consumer culture. Boström further draws on lessons from lived experiments of consuming less and discuss how insights about the flaws of consumer culture can help shape a growing critique and countermovement – a collective detox from consumerism.