Rethinking and Reflecting on Sustainable Communities and Sustainable Lifestyles

Insights for sustainable lifestyles and communities: Ecocitizens as key informants

It is no easy task to understand either the complexities of sustainability or the meaning and implications of its related concepts, such as sustainable lifestyles and sustainable communities. This paper proposes directions for a situated comprehension of these notions. It will argue that a citizen-centred approach focussing on alternative forms of civil society such as the Simple Living movemen...

Sustainable Lifestyles – How Values Affect Sustainable Practises

This paper presents a project that explores how different values and lifestyle choices are related to sustainable practices. The goal has been to develop an understanding of both complexity in people’s everyday practices as well as patterns in this complexity to be used when designing interventions for sustainable lifestyles. In the project, we have used a mixed methods approach in order to dev...

The impact of green university on students sustainable lifestyles

Sustainability orientation at universities impacts on students in choosing sustainable lifestyles as future leaders of green management. The present research aimed to investigate the effect of the green university on the sustainable lifestyle of postgraduate students of Sistan and Baluchestan University in Iran. The research method was correlational which was performed on a sample of 332 postgr...

Planning Sustainable Communities: An Appropriate Basis for Sustainable Residential Communities?

This chapter evaluates the impact of commodification of land and housing on the sustainability of the residential built environment. Commodification, an institutionalized practice in the western industrialized world, refers to the capacity of individuals to trade land and housing freely in the marketplace. This practice is so commonplace that it rarely undergoes any fundamental analysis in term...

Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development