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Living our Values, Living our Hope: Building Sustainable Lifestyles in Seattle Intentional Communities.

机译：履行我们的价值观，履行我们的希望：在西雅图有意社区中建立可持续的生活方式。

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Sustainable consumption and the sustainable use of resources is a growing concern as negative environmental impacts such as carbon emissions, overuse of natural resources, and degradation of non-renewable resource stocks continue to rise. Disproportionate consumption by Northern countries and particularly the United States is the cause of both negative environmental impacts and environmental justice problems. Therefore changing consumption practices of the North is seen as a necessary solution. Unfortunately, most strategies to reduce consumption in the North have failed. Questions remain about what sustainable consumption looks like and how it might be implemented.;This dissertation examines the sustainable consumption practices of urban communities, in Seattle, Washington, USA Through ethnographic case studies and the quantitative analysis of consumption in two intentional communities, this research examines factors that led those communities to consume more sustainably. Intentional communities are groups of people, including unrelated adults, who share their lives (and in this case housing) according to a shared set of values and goals. The communities in this study lived in single-family housing and shared the values and goals of environmental sustainability and social justice. Quantitative methods included weighing garbage, surveying consumption, and analyzing utility bills. Most notably the communities were able to reduce their consumption by 70-75% of US averages through choices made in waste reduction, water consumption, and miles driven. Ethnographic research methods included semi-structured and unstructured interviews, and participant observation such as attending community meetings and events and participating in the labor structure of the communities.;This dissertation demonstrates that intentional communities, as common property institutions, are effectively generating social structures that facilitate sustainable lifestyles through four major strategies: 1) adopting an alternative habitus and building more sustainable cultural capital; 2) creating new institutions, most significantly common property institutions; 3) working together to provide systems of provisioning through collective economics; and 4) founding individual, collective, and institutional practices on a very specific set of beliefs and values, or worldview, that emphasizes egalitarianism, social justice, and the environment. In conclusion, this analysis suggests that a biocentric paradigm alone is insufficient to produce sustainable practices.
机译：随着诸如碳排放，自然资源的过度使用和不可再生资源库存的退化等负面环境影响，可持续消费和资源的可持续利用日益受到关注。北部国家，尤其是美国的过度消费是造成负面环境影响和环境正义问题的原因。因此，改变北方的消费习惯被认为是必要的解决方案。不幸的是，减少北部地区消费的大多数策略都失败了。关于可持续消费的面貌以及如何实施仍有疑问。;本文通过人种学案例研究和两个有意社区的消费定量分析，研究了美国华盛顿州西雅图市城市社区的可持续消费实践。研究了导致这些社区可持续消费的因素。有意社区是一群人，包括无关的成年人，他们根据共同的价值观和目标分享生活（在本例中为住房）。本研究中的社区居住在单户住宅中，并具有环境可持续性和社会正义的价值观和目标。定量方法包括称量垃圾，调查消耗量以及分析水电费。最显着的是，通过在减少废物，用水和行驶里程方面做出选择，社区能够将其消费量减少美国平均水平的70-75％。人种学的研究方法包括半结构化和非结构化访谈，以及参加观察，例如参加社区会议和活动以及参与社区的劳动结构。；本文证明，有意社区作为公共财产机构，正在有效地产生社会结构。通过以下四个主要策略促进可持续生活方式：1）采取另一种习性并建立更多可持续的文化资本； 2）建立新的机构，最重要的是公共财产机构； 3）共同努力，通过集体经济学提供配置系统； （4）建立在一套非常特定的信念和价值观或世界观之上的个人，集体和制度实践，这种观念和价值观强调平等主义，社会正义和环境。总之，该分析表明，仅以生物为中心的范例不足以产生可持续的实践。

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    Rivera, Rebeca F.;

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    University of Washington.;

  • 授予单位 University of Washington.;
  • 学科 Anthropology Cultural.;Sustainability.;Sociology Social Structure and Development.;Urban and Regional Planning.;Environmental Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 378 p.
  • 总页数 378
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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