Sustainablity

Kentin yoğunlukla tüketim odaklı gelişimini tetikleyen makro ölçekli ve salt yapı odaklı uygulamaların yerine mikro ölçekli kentsel müdahaleler, son yıllarda sayısı giderek artan bir alternatif kentsel pratik olarak karşımıza çıkıyor. Katılım, topluluk inşası ve taktiksel şehircilik gibi kavramların öne çıktığı bu “alternatif” mekânsal pratikler kentte birlikte üretmenin ve tasarlamanın yollarını arayarak kamusal mekân vasıtasıyla kurulabilecek bir müşterek yaşamın ihtimallerini ortaya çıkarıyor. Bu müşterekliğe odaklanan Paris merkezli atelier d’architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa), kentte süregelen kültürel, sosyal ve politik gelişmelerle ilgili tasarım-araştırma-eylem odağında uygulamalar yapan ve böylece bahsettiğimiz mikro ölçek ile ilişkilenen bir kolektif platform. Pratiklerinde yukarıdan aşağıya tasarım yöntemlerini benimseyen platform, kenti daha ekolojik ve daha demokratik hale getirmek için birçok proje yürütüyor. Platformun öne çıkan mikro-politik kentsel pratiklerinden biri olan R-Urban, ekonomi, konut, kentsel tarım ve kültür gibi alanlar arasında bir bağ kurmaya çalışan ve böylece mevcut kentsel krizin üstesinden gelebilmek için kentsel esneklik kapasitesini artırmayı hedefleyen bir stratejiler bütünü. Proje kapsamında, yerel sürdürülebilir kaynaklar aracılığıyla üretim ve tüketim arasında bir denge kurmaya çalışan stratejilerle yurttaşların ve çeşitli kurumların birbirini destekleyen işbirlikçi uygulamalar yürüttüğü bir yerel ağ kurulması hedeflenmiş. Paris, Colombes ve Londra gibi farklı kentlerde yürütülen R-Urban projesinin, müdahale ettiği kentteki yerel halkı kolektif konut üretimi, geri dönüşüm ve kentsel tarım gibi sürdürülebilir uygulamalara yönlendirmesi düşünülmüş.

Travel and tourism was and still one of the largest and most important business sectors in the world, and maybe one the main tools in foreign exchange. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. However, later it was noticed that all of this growth and success was not without costs and side effects. There has been increasing awareness of the cultural, social and economic impacts, in addition to, environmental impacts of tourism. All of these impacts, especially the environmental ones, started to become subjects of study and research.
Natural resources have always been consumed by human plans and used up for money without any consideration of how the resources consumption affects nature and species living there and their lifestyles. Scientific studies of environmental changes have proved that tourism can have bad effects on nature as a result of human actions.
Tourism has turned out to have impact on water, air, soil, in addition to, creating noise pollution and affecting species behaviors. Also there is environmental harm from the infrastructure and facilities that serve touristic destinations, such as, highways, runways and accommodations which need large expanses of land, in addition to the increasing use of planes, ships, buses and cars which clearly have bad environmental effects. Sometimes touristic destinations are also directly affected by tourists.
All sorts of touristic developments and using of resources continues to harm the environment. Changes in nature caused by human activities have led to reevaluating and rethinking of positions towards nature and environmental ethics, and reconsidering tourism negative environmental impacts. Governments and organizations used tourism planning as a tool to control the negative impacts and side effects of tourism developments. But in my opinion there is also a hidden propose which is protecting the exact same resources which support and reinforce the whole tourism industry and its profitability. The boundaries of violation towards the environment should be redefined, and the human position towards it must be reevaluated. Tourism can help in drawing attention to the value of nature to humans, and take a role in protecting the environment with all of its element.
Environmental ethics doesn’t only deal with the human interactions and relationships, but also plays an important role in defining the human-nature relationship. These ethics help in finding a formula of how humans behave towards the natural environment, and applying these formulas in long-term sustainable development plans, which can bring significant economic benefits for investments, and more importantly, protect natural resources for future generations.

Cruising has become one of the popular trends in tourism. Each year large cruise ships are built to meet the increasing demand for cruising. Cruise industry is like any other sector of tourism, uses resources and generates wastes which lead to environmental, social and cultural costs and benefits. During the early days of cruising, no one paid much attention to the damages which were caused by cruise ships. With the increase in awareness, the concerned stakeholders formulated new plans and policies which focused on reducing the negative impacts caused by the cruise ships. The objective of this research is to showcase the innovative sustainable practices adopted by the cruise companies to reduce or prevent the negative impacts caused to the environment, culture and the destinations where the cruises dock. The data for study has been taken from secondary sources such as journals, magazines and the Internet. The data focused on the mitigation measures currently in use by the cruise lines and the innovative programs they have launched to go beyond just conservation. The data was analyzed in detail and the relevant points were taken down. After analyzing the data in detail, the findings indicated that the cruise industry has adopted several programs aimed at environmental conservation, Socio-cultural growth and environmental and climatic research. Competition with other cruise lines has also been a motivation factor for them to launch such programs. The industry has partnered with environment groups and research organizations for further development and innovation of sustainable conservation strategies. They have developed new policies which focus on saving energy or utilizing energy more efficiently. With such conservation and mitigation measures, the cruise industry is set to go greener than before and head towards a brighter future.

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Fashion's great innovations often spring from inspired designers developing unique concepts and challenging the status quo. But how do they do it? To find out, follow ten exceptional fashion design students as they respond to a brief, exploring their diverse strategies and the thinking behind their final collections.

This second edition of Fashion Thinking features six new interviews, with insight from the director of Open Style Lab, Grace Jun, and Yeohlee Teng, whose designs have earned a permanent place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. There are also four new case studies, incorporating new technology including adaptive design for the visually impaired and the use of augmented reality.

Beautifully illustrated and structured to clearly demonstrate how to take ideas from concept to design, Fashion Thinking demystifies the creative thinking process to help you develop your own unique collection.

The publically traded Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is one of the 500 largest companies in the United States, and has produced the top selling American vehicle for the last 32 years (Miller, 2014).  At the turn of the century, Ford was facing severe financial difficulties and an organizational culture described by some as poisonous (Reed, 2012).  In 2006, William Ford, Jr. decided that he needed an outsider’s help to turn the company around.  The newly hired CEO, Alan Mulally, restructured the company and introduced several policies aimed at creating a new strategic vision and cultural change.  The success of these changes allowed Ford to survive the Great Recession without a federal bailout (Reed, 2012).  Although there is room for improvement, Ford has gone to great lengths to improve the culture of their company and has continued to find success in a tumultuous economic environment.

—Sustainable international development (SIND) is a kind of international development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability and efficacy of future generations to meet their own needs [@25,26,27 Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer, World Engineers' Convention(WEC) 2004, Shanghai, China]. Total quality management (TQM) or continuous improvement system (CIS) can be defined as a set of systematic activities carried by an institution to efficiently achieve institutional objectives that satisfies beneficiaries at the appropriate time and price. TQM is a comprehensive and structured approach to sustainable educational management that seeks to improve the educational services through refinements in response to continuous feedback. Educational quality is defined as the degree of excellence with respect to totality of features and characteristics of educational services that bear on its ability and efficiency in terms of knowledge and character to satisfy a given or implied need while training the human mind. CIS of an education sector that shall achieve academic and research excellence and thus lead to SIND. International Organizational for Standardization (ISO)'s 9000 standards focus on quality management (TQM) of all sorts of organizations. It defines the features on quality management system (QMS) that need to be in place to ensure that institutions identify and focus on improving areas where they have significant deficiencies. The objectives of the study are (i) to conduct action-based and field research on TQM to present QM ideas on education, (ii) to identify quality compliance requirements (QCRs) for an educational sector adherence to established standards based on an educational research conducted on quality circles (QCs) duly launched in twelve educational institutions in south India and (iii) to promote sustainable policy recommendation to strengthen quality and quantity educational services. Education coupled with entrepreneurial process is an intricate SIND process which is a targeted area of research to alleviate poverty from the emerging enterprising spirit. Output of the process is an international and national educational service to the beneficiaries concerning to both educational quality and quantity management. TQM processes are divided into four sequential categories such as plan, do, check, and act (PDCA cycle) for continuous process improvement. In the planning phase, educationalists define the problem to be addressed, collect relevant data, and ascertain the root cause of the academic problem; in the doing phase, educationalists develop and implement a comprehensive solution , and decide upon a measurement to gauge its and efficiency ; in the checking phase, educationalists confirm the result through before-and–after data comparison; in the acting phase, educationalists document their results , inform others about process changes, and make recommendations for the problem to be addressed in the next PDCA cycle. It is concluded that TQM as a management approach of an educational institution centered on quality, based on the participation of all its members and aiming at long term success through learner satisfaction and benefits to all members of the institution and society. TQM in an educational sector is based on quality management from the student's point of view. Based on this action-based and field research conducted on TQM, sustainable policy recommendation may be taken to strengthen both quality and quantity educational services concerned to both knowledge and character in educational sector. In the present article, importance of possible inclusion of TQM and steps involved for an implementation of framework in education sector are discussed. Educational Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) software effectively and efficiently integrates the islands of information within the educational institution through, internet of things-sustainable architecture.

Sustainable supply chain management is more than ever an important subject to deal with. With the increase of environmental concerns as global warming, companies have to integrate this aspect into their management and this for a lot of essential reasons as the following: to keep a good brand image, to reduce operation costs and to agree with lawful measures. In this review we will analyze how the literature has highlighted the concept of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), and what are the strategies outlined to help companies in their approach to sustainable development concerns. We will notice that three factors are central and need to be considered. These are called by the literature "the triple bottom line approach" and entail the economic, environmental and social factors. A focus will be made on this process in order to measure the performances of a company using SSCM as a method of management.

Significant system change often comes from unleashing paradigm shift that builds consensus across boundaries to deliver the desired change. Development policy is the tool of engagement and as such the interrelationships governing the interaction become the cement toward consensus building. There is increasing interest in using systems thinking to help policy-makers facilitate interaction among people, encouraging inclusion and diversity, and making interconnectedness of things critical to policy delivery. The cycle of unintended consequences that derails policy objectives can better be managed by applying a systemic approach that builds on data, engagement, perceptual dynamics, and contextual underpinnings to engender a shared purpose. This participative consciousness can increase policy-makers' capacity to communicate, establish trust, and invariably block self-centered efforts of powerful individuals who stand to gain from policy capture. Understanding the relational dynamics (lattice of interdependence) can help to better deal with the structure of the resource system. Because the major source of uncertainty is the lack of knowledge, the structure of the resource system, its boundary and internal characteristics must be established. Systems thinking provides the tools to unravel policy problems entangled in complex social, economic, environmental, political, and institutional contexts.

The Ahupuaʻa is a complex system and worldview that evolved over thousands of years. It is a sustainable land management way of living that relates all things as divine, sacred, and at times prohibited or kapu. This worldview is manifested by the life from mountain to ocean. It is what would be considered these days as sustainability. In the ahupuʻa worldview, social systems and ecosystem are integrated as one. When social systems are separated from ecosystem, great ecological damage can be done. One example is the deforestation of North Korea by Japanese colonial forces. This deforestation of North Korean lands lead to millions of deaths. When social systems lead by anthropocentric values leave out sustainable development practices, ecological destruction can and will continue to lead to a chain effect of events unforeseen and sometimes unnoticed till it is too late. One example of seeming unrelated environmental problem that occurs during deforestation is water pollution. Forest hold soil, nutrients, and water that sustain the ecological systems. Without forests, soil is washed away with all its richness into the oceans and streams. This influx of runoff water causes a type of pollution called nutrient pollution. Nutrient pollution causes algae blooms which suffocate marine life and blocks light that is needed for some marine plants. Deforestation also is a key contributor to soil runoff water that directly effects one of the most valuable resources in the ecosystem, the coral reefs. The ahupuaʻa worldview can teach us how to heal and restore the damage done to our ecosystems by giving us a model on bridging social systems and ecosystems as one lifestyle. In

According to the Saudi vision 2030, numerous new settlements with residential housing areas will be set up in the hot-arid areas. The use of the high-temperature air in these areas for electricity generation to the residential houses is quite essential while providing urban buildings with a suitable level of infrastructure and facilities is a significant step to success in the re-urbanization project. Solar chimney power plant (SCPP) is considered to be one of the promising power generation facilities which use solar energy to generate electricity. It is a solar thermal power plant utilizing a combination of a solar air collector and a central updraft tube to generate a solar-induced convective flow, which drives pressure staged turbines to generate electricity. This paper presents a description of the functional principle of the SCPP components, and some results from designing a medium scale unit using a simple mathematical model are given.

Korstanje M 2017. Green tourism in Latin America. International Journal of Research in Tourism and Hospitality(IJRTH). Volume 3, issue 1 (1-8) Disponible en https://www.arcjournals.org/international-journal-of-research-in-tourism-and-hospitality. ARC ACADEMICIANS RESEARCH CENTRE, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA, ISSN 2455-0043


This discussion centers on the limitations and opportunities of green tourism for Latin America. This reflects the past experience with CICATUR as well as the next guidelines towards a sustainable tourism. Basically, this situates as sometime else than a simple review of already-existent studies and literature. Rather it focuses on a critical discussion on the role of development in generating centre-periphery dependence. While the current problems of ecology seems to equal nations in the same level, no less true is that richer nations tend to impose their own discourse respecting to their right to contaminate further than pour nations. Doubtless, the problem of climate change is far from being solved and in this work we explain the reasons behind. As one of the largest ecological reservoirs of humankind, Latin America has much to say in this issue.

The concept of environment is intrinsically related to human development. More than two and a
half decades after the Brundtland Commission report emphasized upon the pressing need to
formulate and implement the blueprint for an environment-inclusive sustainable development
vision, environmental concerns still remain largely unaddressed. Such a situation has had a
visible bearing on health concerns, physical security, social cohesion and ability to meet material
needs. While some progress towards sustainable development has been made through desired policies
and changes in governance approaches, much remains to be done. India, an emerging superpower,
is no exception to the same. One of the fundamental reasons behind such a situation has
been the fact that environment awareness has largely been seen as a concept exclusive of
educational consciousness. Thus, there is the pressing need for a transformation in the education
system, from being an environment-exclusive exercise to an Environmental Inclusive
Educational System (EIES). That alone can ensure the “practice in decision-making and selfformulation
of a code of behavior about issues concerning environmental quality” among
citizens as envisaged by International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources in its 1970 Nevada Conference.

Over the past decades, the growth of the meeting and convention industry has generated substantial direct and indirect impacts on local and national economies (Lee and Back, 2005; Crouch and Brent Ritchie, 1997). Thailand's meeting and convention industry has developed dramatically over the last decade. Interest in the industry has grown, and competition has intensified in the marketplace due to the significant contributions to the local and national economies (Weber and Ladkin, 2005; Sangpikul and Kim, 2009)

Thailand’s tourism has began to pay attention to the promotion of sustainable ecotourism, which can contribute to meet the twin objectives of environmental conservation and socioeconomic development, since 2001. Moreover, recently approaches to “green initiatives” which aim to maintain the delicate balance between tourism promotion and environmental protection to ensure long-term sustainability were developed by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in 2009 as a crucial tool to promote the tourism industry. Furthermore, for the MICE industry, the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB), 2007) announced a “Green Meeting” initiative in 2007. This campaign aims to promote environmental responsibility within the country’s rapidly growing Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions, or MICE industry. In addition, within the recent year TCEB continues to encourage Thai MICE operators to do more, and to bolster their capability to comply with the ISO 50001 standard and will also contribute to the sustainability and competitiveness of the nation's MICE industry in the long run (Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB), 2011).

This paper will critically analyse stakeholders’ perceptions of the environmental sustainability of MICE industry in Thailand. Comparing current best practice models of sustainable MICE development and exploring the perception of industry’s stakeholders will be utilize for the investigation. Thus, this study will contribute the current issues of MICE industry and possible solution for future development of sustainable MICE industry in Thailand.

Keywords: stakeholders’ perceptions, environmental sustainability, MICE industry

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Lee, M. J. & Back, K.-J. (2005) A review of economic value drivers in convention and meeting management research. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. [Online] 17 (5), 409–420.

Sangpikul, A. & Kim, S. (Samuel) (2009) An Overview and Identification of Barriers Affecting the Meeting and Convention Industry in Thailand. Journal of Convention & Event Tourism. [Online] 10 (3), 185–210.

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Weber, K. & Ladkin, A. (2005) Trends Affecting the Convention Industry in the 21st Century. Journal of Convention & Event Tourism. [Online] 6 (4), 47–63.

Building information modelling (BIM) is an example of a systemic process of innovation in the construction industry BIM is a set of interacting policies, processes, and technology to create a methodology to manage the fundamental construction design and project data in digital format during the entire life-cycle of a building BIM was expected to bring substantial improvements in productivity in the construction industry.
In this way, the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Building practice promises to improve communication and cooperation among participants
through greater interoperability of data. However, to implement BIM on construction
project, professionals need to set and row BIM based tools, project operations, and the business models of the companies which collaborate on a project. As many researches mentioned there are lots of valuable benefits of using BIM based planning and scheduling 4 dimension (4D) but the slow adoption of this new method is a fundamental problem in developing countries like Iran. The Aim of this study is to identify the state of the art of strategic implementation of using BIM based scheduling in comparison with conventional based scheduling in Iran in the construction industry, hence the related and measurable objectives are to explore the obstacles to the use and
implementation of Building Information Modeling in the planning and design stage in Iran and identify strategies that will improve the efficient BIM implementation in the construction industry in developing countries. The scope of this study is limited to the construction phase within Iran. The briefly Identified barriers of using BIM in this country is that Legal/legislative backing by government, subsidizing the price of the software by the government and authors and providing trail software, mobilizing clients
on the importance of BIM by service, training and retraining, managing Cultural Change are items which were found in this study.

The research aimed at understanding how strategies developed by nature endure and sustain organisms and the environment in which they are placed. Accordingly, this understanding of biological strategies led to the development of a product design process that enhances both the innovation and sustainability of the product and its surroundings. An in-depth comparison was discussed of two main strategic directions that shape existing nature-inspired design process; outcome-focused strategies and process-focused strategies. Two processes were developed that follow nature's method of adapting to survive in changing environments which were tested in the product design field. The approach of experimentation was divided into two main parts; case studies and interactive participant labs to experiment and apply the research outcome. Participants from different disciplines and professional backgrounds were involved in both experimentation methods. The methods were analysed using observation, interviews, questionnaires, and focus group discussions. The experiments showed that participants from the design, engineering, and management fields produced sustainable outcomes by applying the proposed processes in their projects. By introducing nature-inspired processes during the start of project development, participants were able to create sustainable solutions. The proposed framework can be applied in the education sectors for design students. It can also be applicable for professional design projects to achieve advanced sustainable outcomes.

Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is about "the use of services and
related products; which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while
minimizing the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste
and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardize the needs of
further generations.”
Achieving economic growth and sustainable development requires that we urgently
reduce our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and
resources. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, growth in human being’s life needs its
most basic and fundamental requirements which are food and shelter. After preparing these
most basic needs of people, we can expect moving forward the goals.
Damaged areas due to natural disasters are very prone to irresponsible consumption and
production because of their specific circumstance. Especially when the main losses have
occurred in agriculture. It truly means that the damage is in a much larger scale, that not only
destroys houses of dwellers, but also can cause more costs for the agriculture industry
recovery.
Agriculture is the biggest user of water worldwide, and irrigation now claims close to
70 percent of all freshwater for human use. As the financial and environmental costs of
resource depletion and negative ecological impacts begin to affect economic growth,
countries around the world need to find ways to manage finite resources while meeting the
needs of a growing and increasingly urban world population. By integrating sustainable
consumption and production (SCP) patterns into national development planning and
implementation, policymakers can make it easier and cheaper to produce goods and services
more efficiently, with lower risks to humankind and the environment.

This research was began to consider the subject that how visual arts are configured with social consciousness and practice for the sustainable community in 2009. The first achievement of my research, which title is "The Configuration of the Visual Arts Images for Sustainable Community(Ⅰ) - The Crux of Avant-garde and Mass Culture" was published in this journal of aesthetics in 2010. 
As the following research, this essay deal with the visual images in cold war era and the global era, these periods are related in political, economical and cultural point of view. It is useful to remind ourselves that cold war era was a period of strong political tension and diverse artistic challenge between the East and the West. And we have to pay attention to a situation that the field of art and culture as well as political and economical sector becoming controlled by global capitalism the here and now. I will argue that artworks and images produced under state cold war during 1947-1991 and globalism after the cold war should rather be considered in more complex terms.
For the second chapter of the present essay, I want to focus on the ideological function of visual image as a social imaginary. Twentieth-century political ideologies, be they socialist, capitalist or fascist, had striven to transform and transcend the natural world through material power by building mass utopias.
The root of consumerism in our global capitalist society is connected with the policy on which the west did to promote the east's collapse. That is my suggestion for the third chapter. In this chapter, I will compare the art works between 1960-80's and 2000s, and examine their limitation or capacity for sustainable community.
From my observation, It seems like more and more global capitalist system is forcing from all nations to individuals to consume the same kind of culture and life. If contemporary art would be configured as the counter social imaginary with concerning history, society and the public, the force can be reduced.

The existence and dilemmas of metropolitan fisheries have been overlooked in research on the resilience of coastal marine socio-ecological systems. Yet, they could produce a model of sustainable fisheries with significant global impact. To fill that research gap, this study investigates an inshore fishery population that has sustained itself within Hong Kong's rapid urban development, seeking to understand the reasons for its survival. The results indicate that the values of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism exacted by fishing enabled the fishers to make necessary adaptations and reposition themselves in mariculture and service industries. These new ventures, while retaining marine-based livelihoods, draw the fishers away from fishing activities. The paradox of this value-based resilience of a metropolitan fishery is discussed for its potential to generate policies to strengthen linkages among the fishers’ business activities and to create a sustainable fishery model useful in other contexts.

The Paris Agreement signed by 195 countries and the European Union in
December 2015 provides a global framework for mitigation and adaption
strategies in face of climate change. The hospitality industry is hungry for resources, in particular energy, but also directly affected by changes in the environment
whether operating a ski resort in the Alps or a coastal retreat, whether a restaurant sourcing its food locally or organically, the effects of climate change are felt first-hand. Thus, the agreement has direct implications on the future of the industry.

An ode to the bodysuit / Style by Laurie Clémence

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when my love of the bodysuit began. Yet, I can determine it was sometime in my childhood. At around aged seven I began various genres of dance classes; including ballet. Despite my love of each class and having a place to channel my creative energy by moving so freely, all I remember of them is how beautiful I felt moving in what I was wearing. Per typical dance outfits; I had my hair firmly combed back with water and hairspray, a scrunchie, a dusky rose bodysuit and my pink ballet slippers. It was an atypical childhood memory and although I look back on it as idealistic, it is not much because of learning to dance and more because of how I felt in the outfit I danced in. Today at twenty-six, not much has changed in terms of how I want to feel when clothed. My dressing rituals adhere to a few set rules; I must feel comfortable, I must be able to move gracefully and I must feel my most feminine self. The sentiment I remember of putting on a bodysuit then is much similar to what I feel when I put one on now. I still love moving to music and still do that; albeit in a more liberated fashion. The feeling that has remained the same and a constant in my life is what I feel when I put on a certain item of clothing. The bodysuit for me has an undeniably assured feeling to it. 

If I were to go on a date, whether I knew about it at the last minute or it had been planned for a month in advance, a bodysuit is the first thing I will choose to wear. Truthfully they hold you in all the places you want to be held, they make the waist narrower, emphasise the lumbar and elongate the torso. However, the upper half and its many varieties is perhaps where its true beauty lies. I broadcast this to my friends like some badly kept style secret; the upper half of a bodysuit (whether V shaped, thinly strapped or a tie front) spreads so beautifully across the neckline and decollate. Admittedly, the neck is one of my favourite parts of a woman’s body and the bodysuits visive of it only convinces me my love of it is necessary. However, it does not naïve when I ask of myself and my friends; have you ever seen a woman not look beautiful in a bodysuit? Unanimously, we agree they enamour women’s bodies.

It’s possible that this love-cum-obsession is helped by the many contemporary brands that are making both exquisite and sustainable bodysuits. I regularly search through the offerings of Gil Rodriquez, Tank Air Studio, The Bodysuit of Barcelona (yes, my friend launched a whole line dedicated to the art of this great piece), Baserange and Wolford. My contemporary searches are driven by modernising my vintage collection; which of course still includes my rose bodysuit from childhood. I keep them safely stored in my archive; knowing perfectly well a vintage search for a bodysuit is a fine art I have had to master. One that requires me to ask; what makes me so committed to this piece? Will I keep these forever? I answer myself as honestly as I can and decide it’s because I can be a very relaxed dresser – I want my wardrobe to exist around my life, rather than it be my life. I wear a lot of trousers and jeans because my slightly tomboy-ish nature wants to be active and comfortable when driving or moving around, yet I most definitely always want to express my femininity – and the bodysuit curtails my anxiety of not feeling that. 

I am so committed to the bodysuit that I recently completed a year search for a particular one. Early last year, I saw a photograph of Lily-Rose Depp in a floral peach suit and I instantaneously wanted it; not a copy or duplicate but the identical. The search was led by my early fixation with Vanessa Paradis and the pursuit felt like a cycle completing itself. My mum listened to Paradis’ music copiously in my childhood and I vividly remember listening to her in the car on a cassette (nineties!) before my seven-year-old self-arrived at those precious dance lessons. This preoccupation followed through into young adulthood when images of Vanessa supported and led me to a deep love and resonance for her slight frame, gapped-teeth and unique beauty. This was the refresh I needed when my twenty-year-old self worried about societal norms of beauty and my affiliation for her daughter felt only natural. When I saw that bodysuit on Lily, complimented perfectly with Levi’s 501s – I knew I had to have it. 

After twelve months of searching, I garnered it had to be a vintage piece because I failed on all contemporary brand fronts. One day on a whim I typed into eBay 1960s bodysuits and there it was – at last; a vintage Mary Quant bodysuit made in England. I have since bought a quantity of it that I would rather not disclose publicly. However, as I so well know there is no heavy consideration that has to take place before buying a bodysuit as I know it will work with anything in my wardrobe; jeans, a skirt or shorts and make me feel elegant. It arrived and it only further cemented that this is a lifelong love and my attitude when pulling out a bodysuit is; there it is, I’ll put it on, it’ll look good and it’ll emphasise all of my best features – let me go out now and have fun. The femininity I feel in a bodysuit is unparalleled in comparison to other items, I feel so divinely soft and held in them. Maybe it is that of my semi-tomboyish nature that feels so comfortable in something that is quite hardy holding me across my stomach and keeping me secure, but I also dare any woman to not look good in a bodysuit. I will go as far to say it won’t happen; because they love women and women love them back.

A B S T R A C T The environmental conscientiousness food trend is only expected to increase as consumers demand more information on the environmental and social impacts of their food purchases. Drawing from consumers' lay theories and the match-up hypothesis, this study examines the influence of the interaction between healthiness and sustainability levels on consumer product evaluations. In particular, it argues that the fit between healthiness and sustainability (both high or both low) drives consumer buying preferences as well as product perceptions. However, a general skepticism in sustainability claims moderates this effect.

The article discuss two different approaches to exit  from  pandemic experience , a recovery to  previous way of life,  caracterized by the same economic model in unsustainable inbalance with planetary  limits  and a renaissance of social, economic, and environmental develompment according to planetary boundaries.

In today's retail marketplace, consumers receive little or no consistent brand-level sustainability information, but this may change in the near future. Developing hypotheses based on the comparative brand processing and information disclosure literatures, we conduct a retail laboratory choice-based experiment to test predictions related to the effects of brand-level sustainability information on choices, product evaluations, and retailer perceptions. Compared to the status quo condition in which no sustainability information is provided for the product category at the retail point of purchase, the addition of positive (negative) sustainability information for the brand yields higher (lower) product evaluations and increased (decreased) brand choice. In addition, due to greenwashing concerns, many consumers may be skeptical of product-level sustainability information, and we address the moderating role of this skepticism on retailer-related perceptions.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers significant opportunities for construction management as it provides an effective method for design and documentation, supports communication and collaboration, and enhances the most important factors of a project (time, cost, and quality). The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers to BIM implementation at AEC (architecture, management, construction, and quantity survey) companies in Jordan, and to look at the similarities and differences in perceptions on the significance of these barriers between respondents from different AEC companies. To accomplish these objectives, a questionnaire survey was created to gather feedback on the 20 major barriers to BIM implementation identified through a comprehensive literature review. The top significant barriers were identified using the Relative Importance Index (RII) and Mean value; and to assess variances between respondents in the four AEC firms, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) w...

From the 20th century to the 21st century, environmental problems have become the most difficult issues for the human beings. Many have noticed the weakness of capitalism and the failure of free market system which assume there is no limit of the earth, but the truth is exactly opposite. Many have also realized that that the waring from the environmental scientists could not solve problems alone, but the spiritual movement and action is required for the true environmental renewal. In Asia, we probably have even more religious tradition for the Sustainability. For example, it has been illustrated clearly that the ideal status of Ren is living in an ecological way that the heart can extend to take care of all things (Zhang Zai and Cheng Hao). Interestingly, those thoughts could also be found in the Christian tradition-both Pierre Teilhard De Chardin and Thomas Berry have indicated that status as the ecological communion with Christ. Moreover, as the scholar of Taoism, Wang Bang-Xiong (王邦雄) has explained that the highest Tao is about creating and sustaining life. It is time to connect the faith and tradition among Christianity, Confucianism, and Taoism for putting those ecological thoughts into policies and practice. After all, the environmental problems is probably even more serious then the social issues in the Axial Age, and we could absorb those great thoughts for the great fight.

While persuasion has often been considered an important design tool for achieving sustainable behavior, a growing scholarship is criticizing it for its narrow focus on individuals and an overarching economic worldview. This criticism is often based on the limitations of economic-rationales that many persuasive design efforts hold and cannot fully capture the values of people who reside outside the modern scientific world-especially where values originate from and are shaped by religiosity and spirituality. We join this discourse and argue that such a narrow view of persuasion sidelines the theological roots. Based on our six-month long ethnography with the Islamic communities in a Bangladeshi city, Kushtia, we describe how 'motivation' and 'habit' are built there-two of the basic components of persuasion. Drawing from a rich body of literature on the sociology of religions and theology, we highlight how Islamic values are closely tied to the idea of persuasion and reflect a vision of sustainable living. We further discuss how such a deeper understanding of religious values can help design for sustainable living and broaden the scope of CSCW literature in the various domains.

This article investigates the role of the body in the adoption of sustainable social practices. Based on Social Practice Theories, it indicates the role of routinization in the maintenance of unsustainable lifestyles. Grounded in a case study carried out in a Brazilian ecovillage, it shows that the existence of environmental values does not automatically lead people to change their behaviors. The transformation of daily practices demands a change in habits and automatisms embodied through one’s socialization in the consumer society. The intentional embodiment of new practices is a process that demands time and a work of conscious perception, facilitated when there is an explicit and articulated change effort, shared by a social group.

Research has shown that time access restrictions in city centers might increase social sustainability aspects such as livability or safety, but might also increase the number of vehicles and the total distance travelled; which have negative environmental impact and can decrease economic sustainability. In this paper we see that this negative effect could also be the result of other access restrictions, like load factor restrictions, and may be related to factors other than the number of vehicles and total distance travelled. Such as if the distribution center is in the outskirts of the city and customers are situated outside the city center. In this study a common urban distribution network scenario is presented – the milk run – where only the load factor is changed. Increasing the load factor is usually regarded as a way of improving efficiency, but we observe that under certain conditions improving the load factor affects economic and environmental sustainability, by increasing total costs and emissions. Following insights from this study, policy makers and companies should be careful when using single key performance indicators in urban freight distribution.

Business practices are often highlighted by development studies for their contribution to the resilience of the rural population. However, business contributing to rural development has to fulfill distinct characteristics and roles compared with urban counterparts. Commercial organizations that are solely targeting economic growth and lacking social aspects of development might not contribute to the overall sustainability of the region. This paper draws on three notions discussed in the literature-social innovations, sustainable rural development, and bridging organizations-to illustrate the relationship between business activities and rural capital. Two textile craft initiatives from rural India, Kala Raksha and Khamir, were investigated in order to trace the developmental roles and characteristics of business in rural. The research identifies a set of rural social innovations and elaborates on their five bridging roles contributing to the development of the region. Findings indicate that social innovations playing bridging roles have the potentials to contribute to the sustainability of rural enterprises and the development of the region.

In recent years the concept of sustainable development, especially in the cities, has been taken into consideration in both micro and macro levels. The concept of public participation in making and implementing decisions is an important factor to achieving sustainable development. In this paper, the concept of public participation to achieve sustainable development in cities based on literature survey is evaluated and then seeking the answer to this question explaining how can poor population would be encouraged to participate in the development process. Finally, the results are adapted with framework  of sustainable development and public participation factors and this evidence leads to prove that such measures as creative design  in public spaces, city branding, employing successful place-making and sense of place, enriching creative setting ,and improving local business performance in retail sectors, have provided adequate incentives to encourage the disadvantage society classes and besides,  have taken  a step towards sustainable development.

Building information modelling (BIM) is an example of a systemic process of innovation in the construction industry BIM is a set of interacting policies, processes, and technology to create a methodology to manage the fundamental construction design and project data in digital format during the entire life-cycle of a building BIM was expected to bring substantial improvements in productivity in the construction industry. In this way, the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Building practice promises to improve communication and cooperation among participants through greater interoperability of data. However, to implement BIM on construction project, professionals need to set and row BIM based tools, project operations, and the business models of the companies which collaborate on a project. As many researches mentioned there are lots of valuable benefits of using BIM based planning and scheduling 4 dimension (4D) but the slow adoption of this new method is a fu...