Perspectives of sustainability actors in an outdoor recreation economically dependent community : a qualitative case study assessed with strong and weak sustainability
Hirn, Trexler (2020)
Diplomityö
Hirn, Trexler
2020
School of Energy Systems, Ympäristötekniikka
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020090768823
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020090768823
Tiivistelmä
An emergent design qualitative case study investigation is performed interviewing ten active sustainability actors in the research setting of Vail, Colorado, USA guided with the central research question of “what are the sustainability perspectives of the Vail outdoor recreation economically dependent community?” Following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic an additional research question investigating what is most important for sustaina-bility in the community emerged and was answered with typed response. The perspectives revealed from the active sustainability actors were presented through the five identified themes of cultural changes, sustainable destination, energy efficiency, waste reduction and transportation. The prevailing theme is that attitudes towards sustainability are changing as the effects on the local society are becoming more pronounced and the vulnerability of the community to disturbance on both local and global levels.
The sustainability perspectives were then assessed against strong and weak sustainability frameworks. Natural capital, if considered on a local or global scale, is declining, and the community is not strongly sustainable. The assessment of weak sustainability further reveals produced capital has been consistently growing representing exponential trends, and long-term resilience is challenged by the dynamics of human capital and social capital systems. Specifically, the resources directed to extreme affluence consumption strongly challenges the resilience of the whole community as exemplified by an unexpected event such as the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Future research is suggested to focus on social and human capital systems to counter the prevailing trend of exponentially growing produced capital with increasing disturbance of natural capital while emphasizing the basis of natural capital’s cultural value in the research setting.
The sustainability perspectives were then assessed against strong and weak sustainability frameworks. Natural capital, if considered on a local or global scale, is declining, and the community is not strongly sustainable. The assessment of weak sustainability further reveals produced capital has been consistently growing representing exponential trends, and long-term resilience is challenged by the dynamics of human capital and social capital systems. Specifically, the resources directed to extreme affluence consumption strongly challenges the resilience of the whole community as exemplified by an unexpected event such as the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Future research is suggested to focus on social and human capital systems to counter the prevailing trend of exponentially growing produced capital with increasing disturbance of natural capital while emphasizing the basis of natural capital’s cultural value in the research setting.
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