‘Already existing’ sustainability experiments: Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival

Browne, Alison; Jack, Tullia; Hitchings, Russell

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.021

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“…To answer our questions around how academic internationalization is being performed during the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent grounding of academic flying, we use the concept of "already existing experiments" (Browne, Jack, and Hitchings 2019). (Fam, Lahiri-Dutt, and Sofoulis 2015).…”

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Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel

Jack¹,

Glover

2021

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Academia, as many other sectors, has faced wide-ranging disruptions due to COVID-19, with teaching and research activity conducted entirely online in many countries. Before the pandemic grounded travel, academics were often hypermobile, some traveling more than 150,000 kilometers per year for conferences, board meetings, collaborations, fieldwork,seminars, and lectures. It is no surprise then that academic flying is among the leading causes of universities' greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Despite growing awareness surrounding GHG emissions from flying and calls for reducing aeromobility, academics have continued to travel. The COVID-19 pandemic, in equitably stopping all flying, offers a unique opportunity to study emerging low-GHG modes of academic internationalization. In this article, we look at academic internationalization, inspired by digital ethnography, to explore how the academic landscape has adapted to meet internationalization goals within the context of a sudden grounding of travel. By investigating flight-free academic internationalization, we illuminate some of the implications and discuss potential opportunities and challenges of achieving less GHG intensive academic internationalization.

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Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel

Jack¹,

Glover

2021

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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“…Our study illustrates the importance of not only exploring the reflexive and conspicuous to gain an understanding of sustainable consumption (Browne, Jack, and Hitchings 2019;Shove and Warde 2002). Rather, our study demonstrates how the ordinary and daily practices around food are characterized by change and improvisation.…”

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“…This change also has a sustainability side-effect of reducing meat consumption by introducing more legume-based meals. Another recent example comes from Browne, Jack, and Hitchings (2019)'s work on festivals which they explore as sites of already existing sustainability experimentations. They emphasize the importance of looking beyond engineered experiments towards the flexibility and adaptability of existing everyday practices in order to foster sustainable futures.…”

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“…Practice theories highlight the ordinary daily sustainability that might remain hidden in a top-down engineered experiment or an attitudes-focused perspective. Similar to Browne, Jack, and Hitchings (2019)'s call for looking outside of intentional interventions for sustainable consumption practices, this study looks at 'inconspicuous sustainability' that may emerge in de-and reroutinization of food practices after being diagnosed with an NCD. 'Inconspicuous sustainability' here refers to actions that are sustainable in outcome but not necessarily in intention.…”

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Inconspicuous sustainability in food practices of Dutch consumers with type 2 diabetes

Brons

Oosterveer

Wertheim-Heck

2020

Environmental Sociology

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Efforts to involve consumers in the transition towards sustainable diets often presume a degree of reflexivity on the concepts of health and sustainability in the minds of consumers 'doing healthy and sustainable food'. Departing from the hypothesis that people with type 2 diabetes have been confronted with a physical health issue which has spurred some reflexivity around food consumption, we study how this reflexivity subsequently relates to sustainability in food practices, through the process of de-and reroutinization of mundane food practices. We take a practice-theoretical approach to compare and contrast reflexivity and performance in food practices, combining in-depth interviews with observations during food shopping and cooking. Our findings illustrate a diversity in the extent to which food practices are disrupted after being diagnosed with diabetes. We conclude that reflexivity is not necessarily inspired only by being diagnosed with a major health issue, but that there are more factors determining whether or not lifestyle changes actually take place, such as experiencing bodily discomforts and broader societal attention to lifestyle change. In terms of sustainability, positive environmental effects could be identified 'piggybacking' onto changes in practices that were performed towards a healthier diet, such as diversifying protein intake and eating less processed foods.

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“…Thus, for the planning of a festival, the following elements must be considered: effects on the natural environment, solid, gaseous and liquid waste as a result of the procurement choices, depletion of natural resources, the use of non-renewable resources and the result of the supply choices, the local protected or restored environment, the impact on water deficiency (Browne, et al, 2019) and equitable distribution of access to water, proliferation of genetically modified organisms etc. (Jones, 2014).…”

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Large-Scale Cultural Events: An Argument for Strengthening Ecological Awarenes

Cetină¹,

Elena²,

Narcisa³

et al. 2020

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The economic-social and technological dynamism, the changes produced in the natural environment force the society to change the attitude and the behavior towards the environment by developing the ecological awareness, a process that must materialize in a behavior of acquisition, purchase and consumption based on ecological principles and criteria. The major differences in consumer behavior, business practices, and entrepreneurial practices are an effect of cultural differences. Under the conditions of sustainable and systematic development of the states of the world, it has become necessary to consider cultural institutions as organizations that through their purchasing behavior based on ecological principles and by creating and transmitting thematic messages, can significantly contribute to the development of the ecological awareness of the society. In this context, the purpose of the research is to determine the impact of major cultural events on increasing the awareness of the society regarding the protection of the environment, through the component of ecological acquisitions. The opinion poll conducted took into account the participants' perceptions during large-scale cultural events regarding the importance attributed by organizers to the development of the ecological awareness and the way in which they practice ecological acquisitions. Also, through this survey it was aimed to establish the existence or non-existence of the relationship between the degree of reception of the message with ecological theme of the organizers and the demographiccultural characteristics of the attending public, implicitly of the society. The aim was to analyze the need of increasing major cultural events organizers' degree of involvement in increasing participants' ecological awareness by diversifying the types of actions that will stimulate acquisition, buying and ecological consumption behavior.

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‘Already existing’ sustainability experiments: Lessons on water demand, cleanliness practices and climate adaptation from the UK camping music festival

Cited by 31 publications

References 81 publications

Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel

Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an “already existing experiment” in academic internationalization without air travel

Inconspicuous sustainability in food practices of Dutch consumers with type 2 diabetes

Large-Scale Cultural Events: An Argument for Strengthening Ecological Awarenes

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