Over the past decades, sustainable production and consumption pattern has been addressed on a global level. Business is a powerful stakeholder in the development of sustainable consumption and production systems as it represents a great proportion of competence, resources and mechanisms (Charter, Gray, Clark and Woolman, 2008). The global approach toward achieving sustainable production and consum

By using a case study of a smallscale fishing community in the Mediterranean Sea, Sigri (Lesvos, Greece), this thesis aims at exploring the drivers and barriers for an effective local implementation of the target Good Environmental Status by 2020. The future of the Mediterranean Sea is increasingly linked to the people who live by its coasts and depend on it for their livelihoods. On the other han

The purpose of this thesis was to study whether gender inequality in the OECD-countries has an effect on economic growth during the period 1980-2007. The variables used to measure gender inequality were chosen based on their inclusion in the UNDP’s Gender Empowerment Measure and measures women’s access to political decision-making, jobs with career advancement as well as jobs with decision-making

I en komparativ studie undersöktes regleringen av flera former av eutanasi (dödshjälp) och assisterat självmord i Sverige, Nederländerna, Schweiz och Italien. Även Europadomstolens praxis, samt attityder till och förekomst av eutanasi behandlades och resultaten sammanställdes. Bland de jämförda länderna är aktiv eutanasi, dvs. att aktivt förkorta en annans liv, tillåtet endast för nederländska lThe regulation of several types of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy was examined, as well as case law from the European Court of Human rights, and attitudes towards and occurrence of euthanasia. The results were then analysed. Active euthanasia, i.e. to actively shorten the life of another person, is legal only for Dutch physicians. The physician

The objective of this study has been to investigate if and how traditional actors and practices are taken into account in contemporary professional social work in Ghana. A ten-week ethnographic field study was conducted in the Department of Social Work at the University of Ghana where the research objective was investigated from a perspective of social work education. Traditional actors refer to e

Efter det Stora språnget framåt svepte en svår hungersnöd över Kina. En längre period av ofördelaktigt väder och vänsterextrem politik gjorde att Henan drabbades extra hårt av svälten. Samtidigt som kannibalism härjade så genomdrev provinskommitténs förste sekreterare Wu Zhipu (吴芝圃) även insamlingen av det då största bidraget till den nationella spannmålsreserven någonsin. Det var Wus nit i att föThe economic policies of the Great Leap Forward led to a nationwide famine in the end of the 1950s. The starvation was especially severe in Henan due to a lengthy spell of unfavorable weather and leftist political policies. The situation was further aggravated by Henan's province committee's first secretary Wu Zhipu (吴芝圃) insisting on making the most ambitious contribution to the national

The aim of this essay is to examine whether fiscal policy has any effect on the GDP-gap under fixed- and floating exchange rate. According to the Mundell Fleming-model a fiscal expansion has a positive effect under fixed exchange rate and no effect under floating exchange rate. Sweden among other countries suffers from the financial crisis of 2008. A common response to recessions is to conduct fis

This essay analyzes the novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. The aim of the essay is to show how the writer uses different genres, such as love story, fairy tale and gothic, and how this combination is what lies behind Twilight's immense popularity.

The valuation of assets and the value of investments has been a frequently discussed phenomenon in the academia over the years. Discussions have concerned the game of chance, behavior of investors and computer traded automatic algorithms. Despite these hypotheses investing gurus as Warren Buffet basically try to find undervalued stocks where the fundamental value exceeds the market value of the st

The purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to create a model of a converting line factory. The model will be used to investigate factory performance when altering the order structure as well as other what-if scenarios. The model should also be easily adaptable so that it can be used to model other factories as well without the need to rebuild it from scratch. The main results of this study show that

En av de mest anmärkningsvärda förändringarna i Europas familjerätts-system är framväxten av rättsverkningar kopplat till samboskap. Denna utveckling har även under det senaste årtiondet följts av en snabb förändring av samhällsattityderna gentemot samkönade par vilket har lett till ökat rättsligt erkännande i många av EU:s medlemsländer. Ett område av EU-rätten som potentiellt skulle kunna påverkOne of the most remarkable changes in European family law systems is the development of new institutions that provide a legal status for unmarried couples. Over the last decade, this change has also been accompanied by a rapid evolution of social attitudes towards same-sex couples that has lead to legal recognition in many Member States of the EU. An area of EU law where such developments could ha

Studiens syfte är att titta på hur motivationen i ensemblegrupper på ett estetiskt gymnasium påverkas av att ha respektive inte ha en lärare som formell ledare. Två ensembler har observerats i en situation med en ensemblelärare samt i en situation utan lärare. De deltagande eleverna intervjuades med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer. Bland resultaten kan nämna att informellt lärande i formella situaThe purpose of this study is to look at the motivation of the two ensemble groups in a high school with an arts program. Two ensembles have been observed in a situation where there is one ensemble teacher, and in the absence of teachers. The participants, all except the teacher, have since been interviewed using qualitative interviews. Discussion is about how formal and informal learning has an im

Denna uppsats har undersökt effekterna av FN:s fredsbevarande trupper på den ekonomiska tillväxten i Afrika. Paneldata för 33 länder har använts mellan åren 1980 och 2007 för att se hur de fredsbevarande trupperna påverkat den ekonomiska tillväxten, samt vilka aspekter av fredsarbetet som har en påverkan. Kopplingen mellan stabilitet och ekonomisk tillväxt är central i denna uppsats, samt de freds

Denna uppsats kartlägger sambanden mellan etnisk fraktionalisering och ekonomisk tillväxt, genom att studera den etniska fraktionaliseringens påverkan på de offentliga institutionernas kvalitet, vilket påverkar den ekonomiska tillväxten. Sambanden undersöks på ett teoretiskt plan, och efter ett teoretiskt resonemang testas, med kvantitativa tester, om den negativa effekten av etnisk fraktionaliser

Due to the multiple benefits of biogas systems, the Chinese Government has made great efforts to promote the development of biogas systems in rural China, especially household biogas plants and medium and large scale biogas plants to treat manure and waste water from intensive livestock and poultry farms. This thesis conducts a comprehensive literature review to understand the current situation of

The tourism season in Europe is mainly limited to a few months in the summer. Thus, there is a need to develop attractive tourism products that can contribute to an extension of the tourism season. Photo tourism, which is based on the breakthrough of digital cameras, camera function of cell phones in combination with the use of computers among the general public, is one of the tourism products tha

Personal computers (PC) have become an indispensable product in modern life. Along with the growing volume of computers, the environmental burden and impact at the end-of-life phase known as e-waste become significant. Considering the material-intensive nature of the production of computers, and the environmental burdens caused by landfills, incinerations and improper recycling activities, persona

India has a composite federal structure comprising of 28 States with a strong unitary bias. A majority of rivers in India crisscross the political boundaries of two or more States. The river waters often give rise to inter-State water conflicts. Most of the conflicts are normally resolved by way of mutually agreeable water sharing agreements. However, in the cases of intransigence, the Constitutio

Sedan några år tillbaka har det kommit fram förslag om att bygga höghastighetståg mellan Malmö och Stockholm. Förutom att förbättra kommunikationen är tanken med förslagen att koldioxidutsläppen minskar genom att flygresenärer övergår till att resa med tåget när dess restid förkortas. Syften med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur flygresenärernas efterfråga på tågresor mellan Malmö och Stockholm påver