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Sustainable consumption and the well-being dividend: Insights from the zero-waste movement in Chinese cities

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
Achieving deep cuts in the carbon footprints of everyday consumption is an indispensable component of climate actions globally, not least in the wealthier nations. Can sustainable consumption—and especially reduced consumption—enhance human well-being as
Mallory Xinyu Zhan
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Suicidology as a Social Practice

Social Epistemology, 2014
Suicide has long been the subject of philosophical, literary, theological and cultural–historical inquiry. But despite the diversity of disciplinary and methodological approaches that have been brought to bear in the study of suicide, we argue that the formal study of suicide, that is, suicidology, is characterized by intellectual, organizational and ...
Fitzpatrick, Scott J., Hooker, Claire, Kerridge, Ian   +2 more
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Transition and Social Practices

Journal of Sustainable Development, 2017
Against the background of environmental problems arising from the growing extraction of natural resources and resource depletion, achieving a sustainable development is an indispensable challenge in the twenty-first century. In this article we want to show how socio-technical and product-service innovations can change social practices – the routine ...
Liedtke, Christa (Prof.Dr.), Hasselkuß, Marco (Dr.), Speck (geb. Lukas), Melanie (Prof.Dr.), Baedeker, Carolin (Dr.)   +3 more
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On the Pertinence of Social Practices for Social Robotics

, 2018
In the area of consumer robots that need to have rich social interactions with humans, one of the challenges is the complexity of computing the appropriate interactions in a cognitive, social and physical context. We propose a novel approach for social robots based on the concept of Social Practices.
Aurélie Clodic, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Frank Dignum, Samuel Mascarenhas, Virginia Dignum, Agnese Augello, Manuel Gentile, Rachid Alami 0001   +7 more
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“AND IT ALL HAPPENED IN OUR LIFETIME” – PROGRESS AND COMFORT: THE MEANING OF TECHNOLOGY DOMESTICATION PRACTICES

Etnografia Polska, 2020
The domestication of technology in People’s Republic of Poland was the key factor in the shift towards consumer society. Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article discusses the meanings of the social practices of domestication of technologies in the ...
Joanna Zalewska
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Movimento estudantil brasileiro: Práticas militantes na ótica dos Novos Movimentos Sociais

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2003
The author analyzes the relationships among the various organized groups that comprise the student movement, ranging from the most institutionalized to those that prefer non-institutionalized ways to take part in politics.
Marcos Ribeiro Mesquita
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Psychology and social practice.

Psychological Review, 1900
Mode of access: Internet.
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Initial Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment in Nonclinical Settings: Framingham-Simplified Model Predictive Performance in a Canadian Cohort

CJC Open
Background: The Framingham risk model is recommended for estimating 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Canada. Its simplified version (Framingham-SP) replaces lipids with body mass index, eliminating the need for laboratory testing.
Jacquecin Garçon, MPH, Mathilde Lavigne-Robichaud, PhD, Alain Milot, MD, Denis Talbot, PhD, Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet, PhD, Chantal Brisson, PhD, Clermont E. Dionne, PhD, Xavier Trudel, PhD   +7 more
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A violência na escola: como os sociólogos franceses abordam essa questão Violence in schools: how French sociologists approach the issue

Sociologias, 2002
A violência na escola é um fenômeno social. Para tornar-se objeto de pesquisa, esse fenômeno deve ser definido pelo pesquisador. Ademais, uma boa parte do esforço de pesquisa consiste em definir do que se fala.
Bernard Charlot
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Social and Geographical Distribution of Mobility-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Poznań and Tri-City Functional Urban Areas

Quaestiones Geographicae
Mobility is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a major contributor to human-induced climate change. Much of these emissions result from urban residents’ travel within urban areas (i.e.
Czepkiewicz Michał, Brudka Cezary, Krysiński Dawid, Schmidt Filip   +3 more
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