28 research outputs found
Living in Living Cities
This paper presents an overview of current and potential applications of
living technology to some urban problems. Living technology can be described as
technology that exhibits the core features of living systems. These features
can be useful to solve dynamic problems. In particular, urban problems
concerning mobility, logistics, telecommunications, governance, safety,
sustainability, and society and culture are presented, while solutions
involving living technology are reviewed. A methodology for developing living
technology is mentioned, while supraoptimal public transportation systems are
used as a case study to illustrate the benefits of urban living technology.
Finally, the usefulness of describing cities as living systems is discussed.Comment: 40 pages, 4 figures, overview pape
Sustainability, epistemology, ecocentric business and marketing strategy:ideology, reality and vision
This conceptual article examines the relationship between marketing and sustainability through the dual lenses of anthropocentric and ecocentric epistemology. Using the current anthropocentric epistemology and its associated dominant social paradigm, corporate ecological sustainability in commercial practice and business school research and teaching is difficult to achieve. However, adopting an ecocentric epistemology enables the development of an alternative business and marketing approach that places equal importance on nature, the planet, and ecological sustainability as the source of human and other species' well-being, as well as the source of all products and services. This article examines ecocentric, transformational business, and marketing strategies epistemologically, conceptually and practically and thereby proposes six ecocentric, transformational, strategic marketing universal premises as part of a vision of and solution to current global un-sustainability. Finally, this article outlines several opportunities for management practice and further research