Environmentally Conscious Architecture: Local–Global, Traditional–Innovative, and Cultural Challenges

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Making Emergy Analysis More Popular for Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing - Challenges and Opportunities

As the need for changing the current non-sustainable industrial activities becomes increasingly obvious, engineers are being forced to consider more holistic techniques for design and assessment of industrial products and processes. As a result, techniques such as life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis (MFA) have been developed and are increasingly popular. Many of these techniq...

Towards environmentally sustainable human behaviour: targeting non-conscious and conscious processes for effective and acceptable policies

Meeting climate change targets to limit global warming to 2°C requires rapid and large reductions in demand for products that most contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These include production of bulk materials (e.g. steel and cement), energy supply (e.g. fossil fuels) and animal source foods (particularly ruminants and their products). Effective strategies to meet these targets requir...

Affordances and Product Design to Support Environmentally Conscious Behavior

We developed an affordance-based methodology to support environmentally conscious behavior (ECB) that conserves resources such as materials, energy, etc. While studying concepts that aim to support ECB, we noted that characteristics of products that enable ECB tend to be more accurately described as affordances than functions. Therefore, we became interested in affordances, and specifically how...

[Effects of community identity and topophilia on environmentally-conscious behavior].

This study classified environmentally-conscious behaviors of residents (n = 335) along Lake Biwa as a common goods into personal and group behavioral intentions, and examined the determinants of these intentions. Identification with the community was a social identity, and differed from attachment to Lake Biwa, which was defined as topophilia. The results indicated that group behavior was affec...