Sustainability Defined Sample Clauses

Sustainability Defined. All of these theories are drawn from various understandings of sustainability and come together to form a cohesive measure of sustainability in GLAM crowdsourcing communities. Resilience theory provides us a cycle of growth or destruction that we can measure on a timescale that can be observed in this doctoral study. Specifically, it outlines a lifecycle model for communities with observable stages forming a repeatable cycle that can either continue indefinitely or have clear signs of ending. The clear markers of the R and Omega phases in particular will be used to determine the likelihood of resilience in a community being studied and therefore provide clear evidence of sustainability Social Learning theory provides the mechanism that will help establish whether the adaptive cycle will renew or end. The ways that individuals grow through community interaction shapes their relationships with each other and that factors into how the R and Omega phases of the adaptive cycle will play out. Observing the ways in which volunteers and institutional stakeholders settle conflicts, maintain a balance of power, create shared goals, and develop together in a cooperative fashion are all factors that determine if the adaptive cycle will repeat sustainably. Complexity theory tells us that these relationships are multifaceted and highly contextual so while our definition of sustainability can be broadly applied it requires specifics for each individual community. The measurements provided by Xxxxx and Xxxxxxxx give us observable conditions which we can measure within each crowdsourcing community being studied regarding the relationships between individuals and groups. The pressures that have a negative impact on sustainability can be better understood as part of the social learning relationship dynamics and can be tested more directly to determine how community will move forward in the adaptive cycle. The ways in which relationships are maintained and grow through social learning can essentially be understood to adequately meet the demands of complexity theory’s pressures or not and if a community is unable to address too many of those pressures it can be understood to reach a failure state in the adaptive cycle. In simple terms, sustainability can be defined as the ability for a community to manage relationships between stakeholders in such a way as to develop resilience to the pressures that make communities unstable. Instead of understanding sustainability as an arbit...