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Bakgrunn: Forekomsten av overvekt og fedme er økende i de nordiske landene og iverden forøvrig. Utviklingen er bekymringsfull fordi den bringer med seg uhelse og alvorlig sykdom. Ulike virkemidler er tatt i bruk for å løse problemene forårsaket av overvekt og inaktivitet. Samtidig prøver man å påvirke til endret helseatferd. Det er behov for å utvide kunnskapen om hva som i denne sammenheng er effektive strategier. Hensikt: Studiens hensikt er med kvalitativ metodikk å studere hvordan personer som har lykkes med å endre livsstilsvaner, opplevde og håndterte endringsprosessen. Metode: 14 personer, derav åtte menn, i alderen 23 til 68 år er intervjuet individuelt. Modifisert versjon av Grounded Therory er brukt som metode i innsamling av data og i analyseprosessen. Resultat: Studien viser at deltakernes vellykkede livsstilsendring har forløpt gjennom en rekke sosiale prosesser som kan beskrives ut fra tre hovedkonsepter som her er samlet i følgende kategorier; Motiverer til endring, danner nye vaner og håndterer seg selv. Det som kjennetegner endringsprosessen i sin helhet er hvordan hovedpersonene har utviklet større grad av kontroll og håndterbarhet i egne liv. Konklusjon: Vellykket livsstilsendring er en psykologisk empowermentprosess med vekt på prosesser omkring selvregulering, motivering, psykisk uhelse og det å danne nye vane.

Lifestyles. --- Alternative lifestyles.

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Economics --- Alternative lifestyles --- Sustainable development --- France

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Depuis plusieurs années, les réseaux sociaux sont envahis de hordes de voyageurs d’un nouveau genre. Ils tournent le dos à leur foyer, plaquent tout, parcourent la planète au volant de vans rutilants taillés pour finir sur « Insta » ; décident de tout miser sur leurs Tiny House à roulettes ou, enfin, bouclent leur powerpoint à Bali. Van-Lifers, inventeurs de maisons mobiles, cadres trimant dans des cabanes en mode Digital Nomads : ils sont de plus en plus nombreux a abandonner le mode de vie sédentaire. Pourquoi renoncer au confort domestique ? Que signifie « chez soi » quand sa maison est montée sur quatre roues ? Est-il possible de concilier vie professionnelle et road trip permanent ? Qui tient les manettes de ce nouveau business juteux ? Et surtout, que nous disent ces voyageurs 2.0 de l’état actuel du la société et de ses aspirations a une vie alternative ? Derrière ce désir d’un cadre de vie moins figé et ouvert à l’aventure, ces « nouveaux nomades » nous forcent à nous interroger sur notre rapport au temps et à l’espace.

Nomads --- Knowledge workers --- Flexible work arrangements --- Alternative lifestyles

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Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter culture in 1960s America (though there were earlier forms of alternative cultures in America and other Western countries). Alternativity is associated with marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed on individuals and sub-cultures, and was originally represented and constructed through acts of transgression, and through shared sub-cultural capital. This edited collection maps the landscape of alternativity and marginalization, providing new theory and methods in a currently under-theorized area, setting out the issues, questions, concerns and directions of this area of study. It demonstrates the theoretical richness and empirical diversity of the interdisciplinary field it encompasses, and is deliberately feminist in its approach and its composition, with a majority of the contributors being women. Divided into three sub-sections, focused on sub-cultures, bodies and spaces, contributors explore this exciting new terrain, both through critiques of theory and new theoretical developments, and case studies of alternativity and marginalization in practice and in performance, expanding our understanding of the alternative, the liminal and the transgressive.

Subculture. --- Marginality, Social. --- Alternative lifestyles. --- Body image --- Social aspects.

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Today humanity uses, on average, the equivalent of 1.6 earths to provide the resources we use and to absorb our waste. A pathway to sustainable resource use is the circular economy. This concept aims at optimising the value of the resources used and to minimise the amount of resources used. The author addresses the question of what kind of law we need to realize a circular economy. He argues that many legal frameworks and rules on the national and the European level will have to be reconsidered, amended and some completely newly framed to foster a truly circular economy.This is the inaugural lecture which Professor Chris Backes delivered on 12 April 2017 on the occasion of accepting the Chair of Environmental and Planning Law at Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law.

Environmental law --- Sustainable living --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement