Our purpose in this chapter is to give a brief perspective on islands in global historical-political ecology, focusing on ecologically unequal exchange and the formation of landesque capital. We emphasize how these processes are intertwined and recursively connected in broader contexts of uneven development. Empirical examples draw on our research into the historical-political ecology of islands a

At the end of the 1980s, a tri-polar world comprising the US, EU and Japan emerged. However, the economic turbulence of the early 21st century has destabilized this order, and the rise of other Asian powers has implications for the formation of a new economic configuration. This book discusses the probability of the different tentative global economic power balances to emerge, as well as the diff

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This thesis examines the volatility in the equity and short-term interest-rate markets, and the spillover from the short term interest rate market to the equity market. It consists of three papers and focuses on adapting and proposing models for the estimation and forecasting of financial market volatility. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the parametric and nonparametric volatility models,

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The shift from internal combustion to electric engines is currently transforming the automotive industry. Yet, the business model path forward for electric vehicles (EVs) is still uncertain, as the perspectives of different industry actors, especially incumbents and new entrants deviate. The understanding of varying views regarding business model design thus needs to be intensified. Therefore, the

Tibet, the land of snows, has always in many people's minds been a mystical land with a deeply rooted religion and a people living in harmony with themselves and nature. Once one step outside this picture, the confrontation with the reality of the enormous problems and suffering that the Tibetan people had gone through during the last fifty years becomes almost to painful. Much of the violatio

Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingen beskriver fonologin, morfologin och syntaxen för Lalo-språket, närmare bestämt som detta talas i Longjie landsortskommun i provinsen Yunnan i Kina. Lalo är ett språk som talas av ca 500 000 människor i sydvästra Kina. Språket tillhör burmesisk-yipho-språken, och har SOV-ordföljd, toner, fonationstyp, klassmärken m m. Avhandlingen är baserad på fältdata, i

The ongoing development of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) global methane (CH4) budget shows a continuation of increasing CH4 emissions and CH4 accumulation in the atmosphere during 2000–2017. Here, we decompose the global budget into 19 regions (18 land and 1 oceanic) and five key source sectors to spatially attribute the observed global trends. A comparison of top-down (TD) (atmospheric and tran