Sustainable human development—but how?

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...

How Sustainable Is Concrete?

An analysis was carried out to determine whether concrete is a sustainable housing material. Sustainability generally means having no net negative impact on the environment, and this analysis compared the environmental impact of producing concrete and steel. To make this comparison, we first designed a simple reinforced concrete beam and a steel I-beam with the same moment capacity, and we then...

How sustainable are we?

part of being human is our capacity to transform the natural world around us. although we rightly rejoice in our scientific knowledge, we are increasingly aware of the damage that we are causing as our technological powers have gone beyond harnessing forces and resources locally, to controlling and redirecting on a massive scale. if all the peoples of the world consumed resources at the rate of...

How sustainable is globalisation?

In 1957, at a high point in the Cold War, the Russians launched the fi rst satellite – the Sputnik. The fact that the Russians had got into space fi rst came as a great shock to the Americans, who responded with a crash investment programme in the training of scientists and technologists. Jahoda calculated that if this increase in human resource investment had been sustained over the decades, b...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development