A number of ESCOs in Ontario are expanding their standard business model of energy performance contracting to include financing and expertise for the inclusion of renewable energy generation. This paper is a qualitative exploration of this business practice, referred to here as “renewable energy contracting”. Through semi-structured interviews with ESCO experts and a literature analysis, this rese

This essay examines Zygmunt Bauman’s Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies from a methodological perspective. Bauman’s method is influenced by phenomenology and psychoanalysis, and has many followers in different fields. I provide a critique of this method, and show it to be inadequate for explaining or drawing conclusions about the world. Instead, I propose a return to classical socio

Climate change is a real challenge with global impacts in scope. The negative impacts of climate change are being experienced globally through raising temperatures, rising sea levels, melting ice and glaciers, extended drought and floods, soil erosion among others. The most vulnerable and affected by climate change are the developing countries that lack adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate

Problemformulering/bakgrund: Samhällets utveckling har givit arbetsmarknaden nya förutsättningar, som påverkat fackförbunden negativt. Facken har gått från att ha en nästan konstant stigande medlemskurva, till att se medlemsgraden sjunka de senaste två decennierna, vilket fångat mitt intresse. Fortsätter medlemsgraden sjunka, hotar det balansen mellan arbetsgivare och fackförbund, vilket ökar risk

It is frequently claimed that what is known as the “flying geese model” of dynamic comparative advantage has with few mistakes explained the East Asian catching up process. This paper offers a critical study on, especially from the prospect of South Korea, whether the flying geese model is acceptable to explain the economic relations among the three Northeast Asian countries, South Korea, Japan, a

Scattered in our galaxy today are planets that have no host star and are only bound to the galaxy. These so called free floating planets are believed to be formed around stars but have later been ejected by passing stars perturbing their orbits, or have undergone close interactions with another planet in a planetary system. This results in one of the planets becoming tightly bound in an often ecce

Thirteen stellar objects known as extended globular clusters were found in the Halo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Three of these extended clusters have quantitative properties which are subsequently used to determine whether clusters of extended size could survive in the orbits of the Milky Way Galaxy. The question of whether extended clusters could survive in the orbits of the Milky Way, is interestin

In order to achieve the environmental quality goals it is required to reduce emissions, particularly carbon dioxide emissions from road transport. A step in the right direction, from an environmental perspective, is to increase the use of electric railway. This means that a well-developed and functioning network that is customized to the European standards is required in order to motivate and mana

Title: Customer Value Driven Continuous Improvements in Sales and Service - Introducing the Customer Value Assessment Method (CVAM) Authors: Magnus Flodberg and Joakim Olsson Supervisors: Fredrik Häglund, Institute of Economic Research, Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University Bertil I. Nilsson, Industrial Management and Logistics, Faculty of En

This is a study on how the widespread use of GlobalGAP standards, a food safety certification scheme commonly used by the large food retailers, affects African countries’ propensity to export fruit and vegetables. The theoretical framework for this study is based on the ongoing debate on whether standards work as a catalyst or a non-tariff barrier to trade. The question at issue for this paper foc

Germany’s current energy grid was built to match energy production from major power plants (coal, gas, nuclear). Due to the 2011 decision to exit all nuclear power until 2022 and ambitious national CO 2 reduction targets, the need to modernise and extend the grid has received substantial attention. In the past, implementation of grid extension projects had shown to be slow and raise serious pu

This paper is an investigation of the urban climate of Malmö (population about 230,000) in the south of Sweden. The purpose for this study has been to investigate and combine information, obtained by two different methods for measuring temperature, conventional equipment as well as thermograms taken from the air.

During the process of its socio-economic development, Vietnam has been achieving the remarkable successes in poverty reduction, and the economic growth that is recognized by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the international communities. However, the fast industrialization and urbanization are attracting the increasing inflow of rural migrants to urban areas. Besides that, the govern

The idea of a common language has always existed in some form in China, from the ya yan of Confucius to the modern day mandarin – known as Putonghua. During the Qing dynasty the Beijing dialect slowly became dominant, and in the years following the Xinhai revolution this was made formal through a series of decisions aimed at standardizing the language. The current definition dates back to the 1956

Det sker en allt snabbare förändring av landskapet. Urbaniseringen ökar hela tiden med bostadsbebyggelse, industrier, flygplatser och vägar för att nämna en del av det. Andra företeelser minskar istället i antal och utbredning såsom ängs- och hagmarker, lövskog, märgelgravar, åkerholmar, stengärden, bäckar med flera. Detta är allvarligt då växt- och djurarter utrotas och fler riskerar att försvinn

Dependence on fossil fuel is an issue for the many countries, it is particularly challenging for Small Island Developing States. Reliance on fossil fuel is becoming for many SIDS an economic burden. Due to the constant fluctuation in oil prices which leads to high fuel prices, high cost of living, and high electricity bills when the price of this commodity is high. This results in constant pressur

Partially due to years of poor water management practices in Moldova, water resources are increasingly becoming a concern. This situation is intensified by the pollution of water bodies that could be used for drinking water supply. An improvement of the water supply system in Moldova’s capital city Chisinau would result in an upgrading of water quality and hence increased health and living conditi

Fjärranalys har med hjälp av bilder med hög temporär upplösning blivit ett kraftigt verktyg för att övervaka Land use/Land cover (LULC) förändringar. Sudan har under lång tid varit utsatt för intensiv Markanvändning/Markytsförändringar (LULC). Dessa LULC förändringar har resulterat i omfattande land degradering. Omvandlingen av naturskog och skog är fortfarande den vanligaste orsaken till expansioRemote sensing with high temporal resolution images has become a very strong tool for monitoring the Land use/Land cover (LULC) changes. Sudan has long been experiencing intense LULC changes. These LULC changes have resulted in widespread land degradation. The conversion of natural woodland and forest is still the main source for agricultural expansion in Sudan. Rainfed mechanized farming (RMF) is

The Gaia satellite, to be launched in August 2012, will measure highly accurate absolute parallaxes of hundreds of millions of stars. This is done by comparing parallactic displacement of stars in different parts of the sky. The accuracy of this method highly depends on the stability of the so-called basic angle between the two fields of view of the Gaia instrument, and periodic variations could l