As of 2008 more than half the world’s population was living in urban areas and that trend is expected to continue. Satisfying and sustainable design is now a top priority for urban and community planners. While much of the current discourse and research is centered on large-scale sustainable technological development projects such as low carbon impact housing and transportation, many studies and p

This thesis explores the relationship between the Fair Trade system and producers' vulnerability to climate change. It is African focused, using material collected in Senegal, and as such looks at what adaptation strategies and resilience building potential the movement has using the Sustainable Livelihood Approach. It outlines the current environmental awareness of the movement, what climatic

I denna uppsats undersöker jag ekobyn Solbyn i ett historiskt perspektiv med hjälp av Doreen Masseys och Allan Preds kulturgeografiska teorier om plats. Solbyn ses i ljuset av ett längre skeende, som en del av en kritik mot det etablerade moderna samhället genom formulerandet av ett naturnära alternativ. Detta alternativ förstås även med Michael Foucaults begrepp heterotopi. Undersökningen är base

Pensioners betydelse för individer, för stater och för den globala ekonomin är tydlig i en värld med en åldrande befolkning. Exitbeskattning är en av de åtgärder som en stat kan överväga för att behålla kapital i den nationella ekonomin, för att förhindra förlust av skattekrediter, eller för att kompensera för förlusten av andra skatteintäkter. Men är exitbeskattning av pensionsrättigheter och peThe importance of pension schemes is becoming clearer as the world’s population continues to age. Pension schemes are not only important for individuals, but also for states and for the global economy. Exit taxation of pension rights or pension capital can be one of the measures a state considers to keep savings within the states own financial system, to prevent the loss of tax credits or to comp

With this thesis I contribute with critical and applied research that challenges empirically and theoretically the naturalization of research categories regarding gender within the different frameworks of development studies. In this study, I investigate initiatives to incorporate gender considerations into a project I collaborated within Chalatenango, El Salvador. This project was conceived withi

By challenging conventional categories in research that frequently make invisible important actors and actions in the society, this case study about rural territorial dynamics highlights ways in which people’s different roles are crucial for the societies’ various functions, productive or reproductive, and for their sustainability. This is done through the consideration of gender as a system that

Syftet är att belysa hur man på historiska museiutställningar i Skåne, Halland och Blekinge manifesterar och framhäver landskapens danska historia för att således skapa en bild av hur respektive landskap förvaltar och ger uttryck för sin historia före och kring Roskildefreden 1658 samt om det eventuellt går att skönja ett danskt historiskt medvetande i de undersökta utställningarna. Uppsatsens hyp

In this thesis I examine the forest as the nexus of social and environmental worlds in Israel. By exploring the history of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and afforestation, I synthesize the given literature using a lens of human ecology to delve into the cultural, social, political, and ecological processes by which afforestation is simultaneously a tool of nation-building and a mechanism of ethno

My thesis uses Anna Tsing’s metaphorical concept friction to investigate the interaction between the Egyptian national government, the international, national and local development organizations, and a local Bedouin community. My research is based on fieldwork in South Sinai, Egypt from August until December 2010. My thesis tries to explore an alternative understanding of sustainability, inspired

Facing interdependent, systemic problems such as resource depletion and climate change, recent civil society organizations’ (CSOs) strategies seem to address only parts of the current challenges the world faces. Different and partly new modes of learning, organization and innovation are emerging on the agenda of several CSOs operating in the field of sustainability. The linkages in between the CSO

For the last few decades, economic globalization has enabled the expansion of business activities around the world. This has led to important changes in the structure of international society. Non-governmental actors, business enterprises in particular, have gained political influence in the global political agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility appears in this context of economic globalization

In, the Balinese Village of Buahan Kaja, BPTP (Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology), a sector of the Indonesian concerned with research and technology, has implemented a program (Pri Mitani) which aims to (a) aid farmers in the conversion from conventional chemical based methods to organic, sustainable systems, (b) help farmers produce better quality produce that can be competitive on

The explicit sustainability education these students receive gives them narrowly circumscribed ideas about sustainability as recycling and solar panels. At the same time school experience has the implicit lessons about sustaining one’s social position through consumption and display of imported fashion and products associated with France/the west, practices with contradictory implications for sust

This thesis is about how these small farmers in two socio-ecological systems in southern Ecuador accommodate their agro-ecologies and gender systems to national and international forces and networks, and how it relates to processes of ecological appropriation conflictive with their possibilities of wellbeing. Loja, in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes, maize growers embrace industrial production, with

The socio-ecological conditions of fish-stock depletion pose great challenges to fish-dependent economies. Such challenges are currently felt on the Faroes, where fish and fish related products account for 94 percent of total exports. Hence, ideas on how to make the fisheries sustainable are thriving. By drawing attention to the diverse ways that Faroese have organised socio-ecological relations o

Syfte Syftet med uppsatsen är att se om Price to Book-tal är en bra evalueringsvariabel; om en kategorisering efter Price to Book-tal genererar en portfölj med högre avkastning än andra. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att utröna huruvida Juni månad presterar bättre än andra månader i genomsnitt. Genomförande Under genomförandet har månadsavkastningar för indexet OMXSB, under perioden 2002-2009, in

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Floden Rio Sucio rinner genom staden Santo Domingo, ett litet samhälle beläget i centrala Nicaragua, ca 5 timmars bilresa från huvudstaden Managua. Rio Sucio betyder smutsig flod på Spanska. Floden har fått sitt namn dels för att den innehåller en stor mängd sediment, vilket gett den en brunaktig färg, och dels för att den innehåller stora mängder tungmetaller, The central mountainous region of Nicaragua is an area subjected to heavy environmental pressure due to anthropogenic activities. For over a hundred years mercury has been used in gold mining activities in this area causing pollution of water resources. The lack of infrastructure in this region has made investigations regarding water quality and availability scarce. This work is focused around the

Skogarna på den norra hemisfären har en betydande roll i den globala kolbalansen på grund av deras förmåga att agera som kolkälla. En annan aspekt som gör de intressanta är deras känslighet för tänkbara kommande klimatförändringar där en möjlig följd är ökad störningsfrekvens. Störningar (som bland annat innefattar storm, insektsangrepp och brand) påverkar skogens kolbalans genom att minska upptagOn the night between the 8th and 9th of January 2005 one of the worst wind storms Sweden has experienced took place. The storm caused damage to 270 000 ha of forest and 75 · 106 m3 wood. Due to the great areas affected, this event has a significant effect on the forest carbon balance. The aim of this study includes determining the usefulness of MODIS (moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer)

The Danish language is a tough language to master, even for native speakers. There are great differences between the orthography and the spoken language – which leads to lots of spelling errors. New trends such as virtual social networks add new aspects to the language and they influence people’s habits and their approach to the Danish language. This paper counts the numbers of different spelling