Kategorier: Alla - indigenous - health - climate - economy

av Alyssa Liu för 8 månader sedan

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Ways to Better Understand Sustainability

Understanding sustainability involves examining its impact on society, mental health, indigenous perspectives, scientific approaches, economic implications, and the environment. Societal aspects include how local communities adapt to climate change and the importance of ethnographic studies in these regions.

Ways to Better 
Understand
Sustainability

Ways to Better Understand Sustainability

Scientific

Geological Perspectives and History
Natural drivers of climate change
Reonstructing climate change over time

Chemical proxies

Fossils

Sediemtns & Rocks

Data
Using graphical representations to effectively present climate data
Importance of Open and Sustainable science

FAIR principles

Transparency and Reproducibility

Society

Mental Health
Climate change signifcantly impact our mental health

Temperature and suicide

Seasonality and suicide

Eco-anxiety

Indigenous Perspective
Need for Indigenous representation
Holistic and deep connection to the land
Local Experiences
Importance of studying climate change ethnographically
Local communities deal with climate change in different ways
Local communities face different challenges from climate change

Economic

Industry Perspective
Principles of United Nations Global Impact
Corporate Social Responsibility

Building climate resiliency

climate adaptation

climate mitigation

Engineering and Design
Incorporate sustainable technologies and systems
Using engineering principles to develop sustinable solutions
Circular Economy
Natural Capitalism

Service and flow economy

Biomimicry

Radical Resource Productivity

Cradle to cradle
Minimize waste and extraction of natural resources

Environmental

Fires
disruption to peatlands and natural habitats
exacerbated by human activities
Peatlands
Water regulation
Soil fertility
Important for biodiversity conservation
Method for greenhouse gas emission regultaion