Dissertations / Theses: 'Social sciences -> social sciences -> future studies'

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Hooft, Mark A. van't. "The effect of handheld technology use in pre-service social studies education on the attitudes of future teachers toward technology integration in social studies." Connect to resource online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1120662308.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2005. Advisors: Alicia R. Crowe, Shawn Fitzgerald. Keywords: teacher education; mobile computing; handheld computing; social studies education; attitudes. Includes survey instrument. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-128). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Eshchanov, Bahtiyor. "How to meet the future energy needs of Uzbekistan." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-32693.

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This thesis work considers the perspective of Uzbekistan energy system. Current data of Uzbekenergy system is very complex because of some consider energy as only electricity generationwhile others add transportation, resources used in household, district heating, and energyresources spend to transport these materials. Another obstacle in researching the Uzbek energy system is always-positive approach ofprevious provided researches. Neither decision makers of the system, nor scientists approachcurrent conditions from criticism point of view. Indicators are swelled to planned-by-stateextent and events are explained only from positive point of view, however, there is extremely small room for positive aspects compared with negatives. Uzbekistan is energy self-sufficient country with positive energy balance in total. Uzbekistan is the only country to enlarge the natural gas production to 35% after the collapse of SovietUnion. There are different estimations of proven reserves’ time span: from 35 years to 55 yearsin most optimistic calculation. Other fossil fuels have smaller share of 7 and 8% for oil and coal correspondently. Insignificant decline in oil and minor increase in coal production is predicted. Hydropower generation hasreached its upper limits and not a subject for large increase. Nuclear energy is not implemented in Uzbekistan. It is predicted to be the main source ofenergy in the close fifty years for Uzbekistan. Due to rapid increases in production and netexports, fossil fuels do not have more than fifty years to exhaust. Nuclear energy needs longterm preparation, basic and fundamental conditions. Total primary energy consumption increase by World Energy Outlook 2005 is 50% for the year2025. Uzbekistan is unlikely to meet these growing needs without introducing nuclear energy. www.ima.kth.se

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An, Jihyun. "Feminist Futures : Futures studies through the lens of feminist epistemologies." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224522.

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This study explores how futures studies could engage with critical feminist perspectives in an intrinsic manner and what feminist futures might mean. The study brings attention to the less discussed subject of epistemological basis in futures studies. Literature study and semi-structured interviews with practitioners and researchers working with feminist approaches in the fields related to futures development was deployed. I’ve analyzed Wendell Bell’s discussion on epistemological foundation of futures studies from feminist epistemological perspective, and have suggested the potential of feminist epistemology of situated knowledges and partial objectivity for futures studies. Based on the findings from the semi-structured interviews, an alternative feminist scenario set in Swedish society in the year of 2050 in the format of a fiction is presented with the aim to provide a detailed and situated narrative of political and daily lives in feminist futures. The feminist futures scenario should not be understood as the singular feminist future suggested for implementation. The intention is to demonstrate how the visionary dimensions of feminist studies could be articulated in various forms of futures studies, and to open up space for rich debates on envisioning feminist futures. Denna studie utforskar hur framtidsstudier skulle kunna anta ett kritiskt feministiskt perspektiv på ett djuplodande sätt och vad feministiska framtider skulle kunna innebära. Litteraturstudier och semistrukturerade intervjuer med utövare och forskare som arbetar med feministiska tillvägagångssätt inom fält relaterade till framtidsutveckling har genomförts. Jag har analyserat Wendell Bells diskussion om den epistemologiska grunden för framtidsstudier utifrån ett feministiskt epistemologiskt perspektiv, och har föreslagit feministisk epistemologi om situerad kunskap och partiell objektivitet som potentiell epistemologi för framtidsstudier. Utifrån fynden i de semistrukturerade intervjuerna presenteras ett alternativt feministiskt scenario för ett svenskt samhälle år 2050 i ett fiktivt format med syftet att ge ett detaljerat och situerat narrativ om det politiska och dagliga livet inom feministiska framtider. Det feministiska framtidsscenariot bör inte läsas som den enda feministiska framtiden avsedd för implementering. Avsikten är att visa hur feministiska studiers visionära dimensioner kan uttryckas på olika sätt i framtidsstudier och ge utrymme för en bred debatt om hur feministiska framtider kan gestaltas.

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Hjelt, Britta. "Perspectives of Future Trends of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility : Illustrated with Four Case Studies of Swedish Multinational Companies." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-49855.

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The ecological pressure threatening our planet is about to become even more severe as population is expected to grow 30 % by 2050. The injustices between the developed and the developing countries are enormous, where the developing countries have to survive on just a small fraction of what the developed countries consume.In order for our planet to remain sustainable large changes have to be made.As large multinational companies represent a majority of the world trade they have to assume an extra large part of responsibility in order for the changes to happen. Based on this I have conducted a qualitative research based on semi structured interviews with four multinational Swedish corporations with the aim to identify future trends of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR). The definition of CSR in this study was “human rights”, “anti-corruption”, “labour standards” and “environment”.The results of this research show that the companies in this study have CSR programs that are designed to help fulfilling their missions and goals, which means that the firms practice strategic CSR. “Human rights”, “anti-corruption” and “labour standards” is considered to be very important today and to a large extent taken for granted in Sweden. Business value is being allocated to ”labour standards” and “environment”. The major change foreseen in the future is that the business value of “environment” is expected to increase dramatically.The corporations covered in this research are increasingly taking their responsibility and the trend is going towards having CSR fully integrated in their businesses, being an increasingly important part of their strategies and a natural part of everyday business.

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Christiansson, Camilla, and Ida Lund. "I väntan på vårt barn - En studie kring kraven och förväntningarna på blivande adoptivföräldrar : Expect an addition to family - A study about the demands and expectations on the future adoptive parents." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Health Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3746.

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To be able to adopt, the future adoptive parents must participate in parental education and have a home investigation done. The home investigation is extensive and great demands are made on the parents. The purpose with this study was to get an insight and understanding in the parents’ thoughts and feelings about the demands and expectations that are made on them during an international adoption. To answer this, we used these questions: Which demands and expectations are made on the future adoptive parents by the home investigator and the parental educator? How do the future adoptive parents experience the demands and expectations that are made on them before an adoption? Does the apprehension about the demands and expectations differ between the future adoptive parents and the home investigator contrary the parental educator? We used a qualitative method, interviewing four couples of parents, one home investigator and one parental educator. The result showed that there are both similarities and differences in the respondents’ apprehensions about the demands and expectations.

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Lindell, Johan, and Gustav Nilsson. "The future for football supporters : strategic customer perception of organizational change." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-6264.

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The interest for professional football has increased during the last decades; more people attend football games and buying club merchandise. This has lead to increased turnover for the football clubs. This new development has forced the football clubs to transform in order to take advantage of the opportunities an increased turnover creates. The way Swedish football clubs have changed; is to start joint stock companies besides the non-profit football club. The supporter clubs today have a close relationship with the football clubs they are connected to. The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how the organizational change in the football club affects the close relationship between the supporters and the football club. The problem has been investigated with help of an open questionnaire, which has been sent out to supporter clubs connected to football clubs in the highest division in Sweden.The result of this thesis shows that the organizational change that has taken place in the Swedish football clubs, has not affected the relationship between the supporters and football clubs in a negative way. However, some of the supporters feel that the development has lead to a situation where the supporters have less opportunity to participate in the decision-making process. To conclude, the supporter clubs felt that a change in organizational form had or would mean that they did not have the same opportunity to be involved in the decision-making process.

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Sattari, Amir. "Nanotechnology and Sustainability : A Critical Review of Current Trendsand Future Developments." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33099.

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This report considers both contributions and adverse consequences, uncertainties, and unknownrelationships that are potentially involved in the advances of techno-economic and humanisticinterests towards the advances in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (N&N). Because of thedistinctive physical and chemical properties of materials at nanoscales, which have not beenunderstood deeply yet, besides the huge potentials to benefit many areas of research andapplication, it is recognized that application of N&N may raise new ecological, health and safety,socio-economic, and regulatory challenges that will require scientific, techno-economic, andsocietal considerations. A comprehensive literature survey of peer reviewed journals, books, andother authoritative sources indicate that there have been very few studies on these fundamentalaspects and the research investments are mainly sponsored for market purposes, rather than forpure scientific structure-function discoveries or sustainability attitudes. The overarching issue ofimportance in this study is to consider the high level of uncertainties and lack of knowledge inN&N, and the great potential threats and impacts of engineered nanoproducts that can be eitherin form of known-unknowns or even unknown-unknowns. Moreover, measures of improvementto govern N&N developments to become sustainable, including public communication, call forpure and high quality non-prescribed research on unknown characteristics of N&N, health and environmental friendliness based on a life cycle approach, and the industrial ecology approach,together with implementation of the related results in practice have been suggested. www.ima.kth.se

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Vadgama, Dimple. "Children of Immigrants: Parenting the Future of America." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2018/schedule/23.

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According to Cohn (2015), by the year 2065 about one-in-three Americans would be an immigrant or have immigrant parents projecting that incoming immigrants, and their children will steer majority of the United States (U.S.) population growth in the next 50 years. According to the projections for 2065, 78 million will be immigrants and 81 million will be individuals born in the U.S. to immigrant parents (see Figure 1). After immigrants from Mexico and China, the third largest immigrant group residing in the U.S. is from Asian-Indian origin. The percentage of Asian-Indian immigrants compared to all other immigrants in the U.S. has consistently proliferated. Considering this pattern of incoming Asian-Indian immigrants, research on parental involvement among Asian-Indians raising children who are U.S. citizens and future Americans is sparse. According to a national level study on paternal involvement with young children, “virtually no research has examined fatherhood among immigrants. Eighteen percent of current births are to mothers born outside of the U.S.; if the fathers also are foreign-born, this is a major gap in existing knowledge” (U.S. Department of Education, 2001, p. 22). The current study aimed to understand Asian-Indian immigrant couples’ factors influencing fathers’ involvement with school-aged children (6-10 years). Specifically, the study focused on the marital adjustment, parenting self-efficacy and gender-role beliefs about parenting. Parenting is believed to be codependent and nested within a family and cultural structure. While parenting research consistently demonstrates more maternal involvement with children, often fathers’ involvement gets little or no attention. One of the major limitations of fathering research is single source data, often comprising of only mothers’ reports. The purpose of this study was to address this research gap by examining the nested nature of human development using family systems theory. Actor-partner interdependence model (APIM), a type of dyadic data analysis, was used to examine the actor (spillover) and partner (crossover) effects of parents’ independent variables on their as well as their partners’ reports of paternal involvement. Self-report surveys were collected from 127 Asian-Indian immigrant parents. All the measurement scales had high reliabilities. Results for fathers revealed significant spillover effects of marital adjustment, parenting self-efficacy, and parenting gender role beliefs on fathers’ involvement, and for mothers, only marital adjustment effect on their reports of father involvement. These findings indicate that father involvement is enhanced when both fathers’ and mothers’ are adjusted in their marriage, when fathers’ feel competent in their parenting role and they have egalitarian gender beliefs about parenting. Partner or crossover effects were found from mothers’ marital adjustment onto fathers’ reports of involvement and, fathers’ parenting self-efficacy onto mothers’ reports of fathers’ involvement. These partner effects reveal that fathers’ involvement depend on how adjusted mothers are in their marriage and, mothers’ reports of fathers’ involvement depend on how efficient fathers are in their parenting role. In summary, the current study strongly supported family systems theory and demonstrated how the current immigrant parents, and the future families of America, adapt to succeed and re-structure lives in their ‘new home’.

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Rodrigues, Ana Carolina, Joshua Cubista, and Rowan Simonsen. "Designing Labs for a Sustainable Future." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3011.

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Through this thesis the authors explore how Labs can be designed in order to catalyze systemic sustainable change by A) contributing to systemic socio-ecological sustainability, B) providing an adaptive and experimental alternative to forecasting and traditional planning, and C) providing forums for collaboration, collective impact, capacity building, and the emergence of systemic solutions to local and global challenges. Through their research the authors performed a literature/field review, reviewed organizational documents, and analyzed a select set of Lab theories, processes, and cases. Additionally the authors interviewed leading experts in Lab design/facilitation, sustainability, the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), systemic change, and transformative action. The synthesis of this research is offered to emerging Lab designers, practitioners, and facilitators interested in moving society toward a sustainable, regenerative, and thriving future.

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Fredström, Linna. "Reimagining climate futures : Using critical futures studies to explore scenarios for Ljungby municipality in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194398.

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A growing body of research is calling for radical transformation of society to avoid catastrophic levels of climate change and create a more sustainable and just future. To make this possible, climate researcher will need new approaches and methods that help envision and enable transformations. In this thesis I explore how transformative scenario studies can incorporate critical social theory to enable more reflexive and actionable results. I develop climate change scenarios for a Swedish municipality and adopt a novel combination of the Manoa method and causal layered analysis. This methodological contribution, combining the creativity of the Manoa method and critical perspective of causal layered analysis, is coupled with a transdisciplinary approach. Through collaboration with local actors, including political, private, and civil society representatives, the study maximizes the relevance of the results to the local community. Building on the area’s cultural heritage of oral storytelling, the final scenarios are developed in collaboration with local storytellers and presented back to the community as a set of short stories. The study makes two noteworthy contributions. First, by allowing local context and culture to guide the creation and dissemination of results the study shows the power of a transdisciplinary approach. Second, by applying a critical theory lens, the study unveils how underlying assumptions limit our capacity to imagine different futures and that challenging these assumptions can increase the transformative potential of scenario research.

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Zlateva, Iva Troj. "Omvärldsanalys och dess etiska aspekter : En kort studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17820.

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This study aims to examine Business Intelligence research conduct within Swedish government agencies and workplaces in order to understand the recent debate regarding Business Intelligence research ethics and thus answer the following question: Does Business Intelligence praxis in Sweden meet ethical guidelines recommended by international field experts? A theoretical analysis of relevant and also recent publications, including a Business Intelligence method review, was conducted using qualitative content analysis. In order to validate the results from my theoretical analysis I conducted a series of interviews with a number of professionals who useBusiness Intelligence research in their work and decisionmaking process. Program: Magisterutbildning i strategisk information och kommunikation

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Nilsson, Sara. "Palm oil - towards a sustainable future? : Challanges and opportunites for the Swedish food industry." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97335.

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The food industry faces problems relating to the sustainability of palm oil as a food commodity. These problem areas include social, environmental, economic and health issues. The food industry also competes with increasing palm oil demands from the energy sector. This case study identifies and analyzes different perspectives regarding sustainable palm oil as a food commodity in Sweden through interviews with palm oil experts in different businesses and organizations. This study focuses on how the food retailer Axfood manages the identified views. The results show that Axfood handle the problem areas by their membership in the organization Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). At the moment are certificates bought for all their usage of palm oil, but discussions have been started to change to another palm oil certification system within the RSPO. From the results was it concluded that higher demands are placed on palm oil from the energy sector than from the food industry. Common demands need to be placed on the fat and oil industry to reach more sustainable levels of the certified oil. Sustainability has different meanings for different actors within the palm oil industry. Decreasing the usage of palm oil is part of the solution to achieving a more environmentally responsible palm oil industry.

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Pagounis, Michail. "Evaluation of the web-based energy calculation tool Miljöhuset and future perspectives." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33056.

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The residential sector was accountable for the consumption of 143 TWh in 2007, comprising35 % of Sweden’s total final energy use. The City of Stockholm has high ambitions in the environmental area. Miljöhuset is a web based energy calculation tool that helps to manage energy use, choose energy and cost efficient measures as well as present the environmental impacts of a building. This study had the aim to analyze the energy calculation tool from a scientific − and userperspective and to suggest potential further improvement of the tool. This was done in two maindirections: The first was to examine issues related to the tool itself such as user-friendliness,environmental impacts presentation, results transparency etc. The second direction was to explore potential future development possibilities for Miljöhuset and the possibility of using it asa support in energy declarations. The educational aspect of the tool was examined too, by attempting to identify whether there is a possibility for Miljöhuset to be utilized for this purpose too. In order to examine the aforementioned issues, a Stakeholders Opinion Assessment (SOA)method was used: 18 persons representing 18 different stakeholders answered a questionnaire and gave an interview. Through this procedure, it was possible to identify strengths and weaknesses of Miljöhuset and analyse stakeholders’ opinions on the same. The findings of this study are that Miljöhuset has a good user interface and a holistic approach towards the operation of a house by integrating economic, environmental and energy aspects into one tool. Furthermore, the participants’ perception is that Miljöhuset is understandable and itsvalues/parameters relevant. However, improvements will be necessary in order to increase itsacceptance. Such improvements include both user friendliness and accuracy of the results. A number of stakeholders that are interested in the tool have been identified and further discussions were suggested in order to specify the type of interest these stakeholders expressed. A morethorough discussion and analysis of suitable future target groups would be valuable since future development should be tailored to them. Such an analysis could also more clearly define the potential of Miljöhuset as an educational tool or as a support in energy declarations. The possibility of whether or not the introduction of a fee for Miljöhuset would be beneficial hasbeen studied. The results did not allow drawing firm conclusions about this aspect, however, and further research is suggested. Finally since there are other tools that fulfil similar functions as Miljöhuset, further study about the competition in the web based energy calculation environment is also suggested. www.ima.kth.se

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Hoy, Sara, Christina Swarna Sarker, and Eike Niclas Schmidt. "Planting Seeds for the Future: Sustainability, Theory U, and Youth." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-16474.

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Youth will be dealing with the global sustainability challenge that our world is currently facing. They are considered to play a crucial role as future leaders in the transition towards a more sustainable society. These leaders need an inherent understanding of the sustainability challenge that they are confronted with. This research explores how sustainability practitioners can use Theory U in order to help younger generations approach sustainability. Both the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) and Theory U informed this research as they use a systems thinking approach to deal with complexity. A qualitative research approach was chosen, and sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results revealed seven overarching themes around youth, youth and sustainability, and using Theory U with youth. The findings suggest that Theory U can support sustainability practitioners in working with youth as it offers a strong systems thinking approach, personal development, and connectedness for youth. Complementary with the FSSD’s rigorous approach to sustainability, Theory U offers great potential to youth and sustainability that is yet untapped. In equipping youth at an early age with leadership skills, capacities, and a wider awareness, Theory U can plant the seeds for future sustainability leaders to grow.

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Ankarbåge, Jan Fritz-Patrik. "Visualizing a better city : – How the city portrays a technological marvel as means to enter the future." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148917.

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This study explores how the center ’Visualisering C’ in Norrköping municipality ties into an actor-network that includes Linköping University, Norrköping municipality and Region Östergötland. The purpose was to discern how the master signifier was ‘development’ was constructed and connected within the discursive field with differencing actors with the Visualisering C as a focal point for the actors. The method I used was discourse theory that explores the discursive field with the help of discursive concepts such as nodal point, master signifiers, floating signifiers among others. The study used public documents found on websites and archives. The results showed that the Visualisering C acted as pre-packaged solution for the issues that the other actors were faced with. Meanwhile, it came to be through the joining of discursive focuses of the individual actors.

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Hernandez, Cedillo Maria Fernanda. "Exploring possible effects that diversity of preferences for the future within communities could have for adaptive co-management : Case study of a community of farmers in Bali, Indonesia." Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42944.

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Adaptive co-management (ACM) has downplayed the role that diversity withincommunities could play in management schemes. It has understood communities asgroups of persons with similar interests. This thesis attempts to explore some of theconsequences that diversity of preferences of the future over social-ecologicaltrajectories within communities could have on adaptive co-management processes.The relevance of understanding this lies in the urgency of finding solutions thatpromote better resource and environmental management aimed at sustainability. Thefollowing work uses scenarios as a way to explore the effects that diversity ofpreferences within communities might have on ACM processes.

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Ehliasson, Kent. "Framtidsstudier i stora organisationers långsiktiga planering : analysmodell och fallstudier." Doctoral thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Technology and Social Change, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-4891.

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People use a variety of means to orient themselves towards the future. A more organised approach to handling the future known as "futures studies" is often used in a variety of contexts including long-term planning within large organisations. In the effort to enhance the quality of such studies, there have been arguments for better methods (which makes sense), but methods may not be the most important aspect in the production of futures studies. Greater theoretical awareness in the substantive questions upon which the study is based is more important. To that end, the intent of this dissertation is to infuse a keener awareness of fundamental assumptions in futures studies and contribute to increasing their quality.One objective of the dissertation is to formulate a method or procedure to analyse the futures studies of large organisations, apply it to two empirical cases and thereafter analyse its strengths and weaknesses. The method I discuss and develop extensively in this work consists of an analytical framework that focuses on three aspects of each future study: its architecture, its relationship to a few of the key future issues of our time and its assumptions regarding our views on society, humanity and technology. A second objective is to systematically study future documents from two large organisations and attempt to clarify motives, orientation, methodology and distinguishing characteristics in their future processes. The cases I have chosen are the Swedish Armed Forces and the telecommunications company Ericsson, which were both in a period of transition around the mid 1990s.The dissertation shows how the method has been used to bring to the fore and clarify central ideas in futures studies, identify ambiguities and fuzzy thinking and to show and expose more covert assumptions. The analysis also illustrates that certain aspects of the model have been observed in the empirical material, other ideas are found to a lesser extent and certain perspectives are entirely absent. The paper stresses that the model developed has both strengths and weaknesses, but the overall assessment is that it was well-balanced and maintains appropriate depth in relation to desired efficiency. The study shows that the analytical method is relevant and adequate to understand and describe the direction and content of futures studies and in so doing enhance their quality.

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Vega, Moreno Guido Atilio. "The rural agribusiness development and environmental conservation in highland areas of Peru : An analysis of the current and future situation of organic farming in three districts of the Lurin River Basin." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33519.

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Rural agro-industry gives added value to peasant‟s agricultural production. In Peru, many small farmers from highland areas are linked in this activity as a means of subsistence. These farmers, since ancient times, have performed all their field activities in balance with nature. In fact, the rural agribusiness has mostly been developed under agroecological principles. The main objective of this thesis the description of the characteristics of rural agribusiness and how this activity based on agroecology contributes to the conservation of the environment in the highland areas of Peru. The situation of rural agribusiness is reviewed from the global and local context of organic agriculture. It has also been taken the region of Lurin River Basin as a case study, where environmental, productive, marketing and institutional characteristics are described. Moreover, a study of the current and future situation using the scenario methods, and an analysis of sustainability is carried out for an organic farmers‟ organization called “Association of Ecological Producers of the Lurin River Basin „Monticielo‟”. Results of this thesis indicate that rural agribusiness in highland areas of Peru, specifically in the Lurin River Basin, is crucial sector it contributes to food security and generating income for rural families, conserve biodiversity and farmers` traditional knowledge has been used to address emerging issues of climate change. However, the main problems facing small producers are productivity, technology, marketing and organization. In the scenario analysis it has been identified that "Organic-point of sale" scenario can become a marketing point of eco-business efficiently, which could increase sales and improve the quality of life for farmers and for the environmental conservation. In conclusion, being closely linked to ecological farming practices, rural agribusiness is an important tool that contributes to the welfare of rural small farmers and environmental conservation. www.ima,kth.se

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Boldero, Christina, William Paton, and Charlotte Schou. "Community Mapping & Strategic Sustainable Development : Navigating Towards A Sustainable Future." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3137.

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The world faces sustainability challenges directly attributable to human behaviour, and expected to irreparably degrade the socio-ecological system. Cartography (mapping) is a diverse planning and communicating discipline used for strategic development of global and local solutions to these challenges. Its flexible yet robust technology can generate common understanding of issues and inspire successful solutions. This thesis studied community mapping, specifically how community mapping practitioners (CMPs) can use community mapping tools (CMTs) more effectively for Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD). Data of current SSD strengths of six CMTs was collected using the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) and 13 interviews with practitioners. Thirty-six Key Elements (KEs) of guidance for CMPs to use CMTs were developed. A Compass Model was designed to interlink the KEs, in eight interrelated categories, with the ABCD Strategic Planning Process (ABCD). The results suggest that CMPs using CMTs combined with an SSD approach have the potential to create effective solutions towards sustainability.

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Sjödén, Madelene. "Geografiundervisning för en hållbar framtid. : En kvalitativ studie av geografilärares syfte och innehållsval." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67383.

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SAMMANFATTNING I den globala värld vi lever i idag behöver vi geografiska kunskaper i såväl samhället som på individnivå, för att på bästa sätt kunna bemöta en värld i ständig förändring. För att vuxna och framförallt unga människor av vår tid skall kunna se världen ur ett geografiskt perspektiv behöver vi ha en bra undervisning i geografi i vår svenska skola. Tidigare forskning visar på vikten av att ha en bra balans mellan ämnet (geografi), läraren och eleven, samt av vilken betydelse lärares uppdateringar inom ämnet har för att ämnesinnehållet skall vara relevant i det samtida samhället. För att undersöka lärarnas val av innehåll och syn på framtiden utfördes en kvalitativ intervju med fyra gymnasielärare. En induktiv ansats användes vid intervjuanalysen för att finna det unika i lärarnas svar. När en analys av resultaten utfördes användes en deduktiv ansats för att se hur resultaten förhåller sig till olika geografididaktiska typologier. Analysen visar att geografiundervisningen gått från att, under tidigare kursplaner, ha varit baserad på faktakunskaper, naturdeterminism och delvis samhällsvetenskap, till ett i dagsläget mer sammanhållet geografiämne med dynamik, pluralism och konfliktperspektiv som grundar sig i aktuella händelser och samhällsdebatter. Resultaten i denna studie visar i stor utsträckning att dagens geografiundervisning handlar om att ge eleverna förutsättningar och kunskaper att bemöta framtidens utmaningar och för att möjliggöra en önskad framtid. Nyckelord Ämnesinnehåll, curriculum-making, geografiundervisning i framtiden, förmågor. Abstract In the global world we live in today we need geographical knowledge of society, as well as from an individual perspective to be able to meet a world in constant change. For adults but especially for young people of today to be able to see the world from a geographical perspective there is a need for relevant education of the subject within the Swedish school system. Previous studies show how important it is to have a good balance between the subject (geography), the teacher and the students, and the importance of the teacher’s up to date practice within the topic to be able to teach relevant subject matter. To study the teachers´ choices of content and their vision about the future, qualitative interviews were completed with four geography teachers at upper secondary level. An inductive approach was chosen for the analysis of the interviews to find unique qualities within their answers. When the analysis was conducted, and results gathered, a deductive approach was used to correlate the findings and how they may relate to different didactical typology within geography education. The analysis deduces that geography education has moved away from being based on factual knowledge, nature- determinism and partly social science to a more cohesive geographical subject with dynamic, pluralism and conflict perspective that is based on current affairs and social debates. To conclude, the results in this study show that the geography education today, is fundamentally based around providing an education that will give students a clear framework, to build knowledge that will meet the challenges of the future and enable them to achieve a desired outcome. Keywords Subject content, curriculum-making, future geography education, capabilities

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Greer, Aaron Andrew. "Imagined Futures: Interpretation, Imagination, and Discipline in Hindu Trinidad." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11995.

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xi, 249 p. : ill. (some col.) Globalization has inaugurated many rapid changes in local communities throughout the world. The globalization of media, both electronic and print, has introduced new pressures for local communities to confront while also opening up new imaginative possibilities. As many observers have noted, transnational media transform local public cultures, or shared imaginative spaces, but never in predictable, totally hegemonic ways. This dissertation focuses on the efforts of a small Hindu community called the Hindu Prachar Kendra located in Trinidad, West Indies, as they develop critical strategies that help their children read, negotiate, and in some cases contribute to local and global public cultures. I argue that though many Hindu parents and teachers of the Kendra share anxieties about the effects of local and global popular cultures on their children, they also use many features, ideas, and texts emerging from imaginative media in creative ways. Furthermore, their concerns about media shape their interpretation and instruction of Hindu practice. Committee in charge: Philip Scher, Chair; Lynn Stephen, Member; Lamia Karim, Member; Deborah Green, Outside Member

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Fleschurz, René Patrick. "Renewable electricity generation in the Eurpean Union : Best practice, drawbacks and future challenges." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5534.

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This paper gives a general review on renewable electricity production in the European Union based on the example of Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It gives the answer to the question which forms of renewable electricity production are competitive in Europe and why. Furthermore it describes how and why renewables are used in different member states of the EU. This review is based on existing literature on the subject, statistical data of national and international organisations and departments as well as recent articles in journals and newspapers. As a result it becomes clear that there are different boundaries to the use of renewable electricity production in the EU due to specific demands for an economic use. But even though these demands are met, the success of renewable electricity production depends on several factors like the historic development and the supply of fossil resources, political support or external events such as the oil crisis. It also becomes clear that the use of renewables can cause environmental problems (hydropower) or problems in the field of security of supply (grid stability). One can draw the conclusion that countries with a continuous support system in the past are performing well in the objective to increase the share of power produced by renewables and serve as good example for countries lagging behind in this goal.

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Grimpe, Martineau Marc-André. "How mobility networks have been dealt with socially and how they can better be dealt with in the future." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-107864.

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The city, since the industrialization period, is no longer the product of a single mind. With bold and massive investment in infrastructure networks that followed this period, engineering professions gained unparallel social status and gained importance in municipality ranks. In parallel to this, social sciences have been very slow to pick up on the issue of mobility. The global neoliberal environment and more competitive one in which cities are confronted today, has resulted with local governments, public-private partnerships and new ways of augmenting chances of economical investments. Municipality documents used as a basis for the production and construction of urban environments are not equipped to deal with commercial and political motivated drawings and plans. There is a lack of communication between both languages that result in an unfiltered ‘laissez faire’ of aesthetics. Spatial design fields are capable of creating terminology that can properly address the serious issues concerning our networks of flows but are not enough by themselves considering the economical environment and the following self-generated urbanity inflicting our cities. Landscape architecture offers an open-ended perspective on small to large scale networks of infrastructures, thus possibly being able to bridge the gap between institutional planning mechanisms and actual design. The theoretical background generated from this research will be applied to a case scenario. Boulevard Taschereau (also called provincial road 134 at some parts) is among the most important and used arteries of the South Shore of Montréal, Québec (Canada). A contextual solution to boulevard Taschereau’s congestion issues will have to be generated in order for it to meet the expectations and social needs of its current and future users.

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Peipke, Erica. "The impact of an oil spill on artisanal fishermen in Baía de Guanabara and possibilities for a sustainable future." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-32722.

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Brazil is a country with enormous social differences and, alongside the advancements of the industrialdevelopment and the creation of a modern society, a large part of the Brazilian population lives under fairly poor conditions, providing their subsistence by the practice of traditional knowledge; employing primitive tools and methods. One example is the sector of artisanal fishery, which at present accounts for about half of the active fishermen in Brazil (Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego, 2005). Even though these so called artisanal populations are not part of the industrialisation, they commonly suffer the consequences of the intense exploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources caused by the industrial development. The purpose of this report is to describe how the sustainability of the local artisanal fishermen population in Baía de Guanabara was affected by the oil spill at the Duque deCaxias refinery (REDUC) in January 2000. A further objective of the report is to answer how asustainable development of this population can be promoted in the future. In order to fulfil these objectives a field study was conducted in Baía de Guanabara, which included local fishermen fromfour different colonies and associations in the bay and key informants representing other stakeholders involved in the oil spill. In the report the impact of the accident on the artisanal fishermen population of Baía de Guanabara is described and several measures are discussed, which might be valuable inorder to promote a sustainable development of artisanal fishermen communities in the future. www.ima.kth.se

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Chacón, Lisa, Benjamin Hornblow, Daniel Johnson, and Chris Walker. "Strategic Sustainable Development for the Stationary Power Sector : Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Strategic Investment for the Future?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2382.

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An examination of the stationary power sector is performed using The Natural Step framework and Sustainability Principles (SP), in order to aid decision makers in developing policy to balance energy needs while reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in order to address climate change. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is evaluated for its sustainability aspects, and is found to be a potentially sustainable approach which can be a bridging technology to a more sustainable energy mix, as well as a remediation technology which can remove CO2 from the atmosphere when utilized in combination with biomass fuel. Initial actions for restructuring the stationary power sector should emphasise demand reduction and efficiency efforts, followed by switching to renewable energy sources. If the first two strategies can not provide sufficient CO2 reductions, then investments in CCS technology may be an appropriate choice. CCS with coal-fired power can be a means to decouple CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, but other SP violations associated with coal use must also be fully addressed before this strategy can be considered a truly sustainable option.

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Henry-Campbell, Suzette Amoy. "The Future of Work: An Investigation of the Expatriate Experiences of Jamaican C-suite Female Executives in the Diaspora, on Working in Multi-national Companies." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/124.

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The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of Jamaican Expatriate Female C-suite executives in the diaspora of working in Multi-national Companies (MNCs). A further question to be answered was the meaning they derived from their experiences. With little research emerging from the Caribbean about this elite class of professionals, the research intended to expose the challenges faced as an outsider in unfamiliar spaces. Research on other groups have exposed limiting factors to women’s progress in MNCs. Critical Race Theory with a brief mention of Critical Human Geography and Intersectionality are lens applied to critique the experiences of the eight participants. This research mined the extant literature that looked at navigating barriers, disrupting stereotypes and gender diversity in international careers. The method of inquiry applied to this research was existential phenomenology and its utility in getting to the essence of the women’s lived experiences highlighted the glass-border phenomenon. In reflecting on the outcome, this research opens the door for scholars and practitioners alike, to critically assess the expatriate literature and to probe further the complex relationship between international business, the movement of black talent across geographic and culturally diverse boundaries and the challenges encountered. The results of this study illuminated several themes from the participants textural descriptions: (1) Moving from Invisible to Visible – Disrupting Bias; (2) Who am I? – Identity, Gender and Heritage; (3) Renegotiating the Rules of Engagement paired with Re-branding the Role and Authority of Women in Business; (4) Male Sponsorship Leads to Acceptance; (5) Improving Skill and Competency Capital for New Roles; (6) Building and Maintaining Bridges – Network Management.

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Karlsson, Linnea. "Leaving street life : How can centres assist street children in leaving the street life?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254940.

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This is qualitative study about Kenyan street children. The aim of this study is to get a better understanding of the pull and push factors towards the street and towards rehabilitation centres. The question formulation is; How can rehabilitation centres assist street children in leaving the street life? 25 former street children have been interviewed in a combination of focus group and individual interviews. The theoretical framework that is used for the analysis is elucidation the perspective of childhood, the street child and the street, theories about socialisation and stigma. The result shows: Pull factors exist in both directions. The pull factors towards the street are freedom, friends in the streets and drug addictions. The pull factors towards the centre are access to education, a chance to be treated like full human beings and to be able to get a better future. The street children are active social agents who have to have a desire to leave the street, it is not possible to force them off the streets. What is offered in the centre has to be viewed as better than what they have in the streets. One way for the centres to help the street children to get the desire to leave the streets is by helping them to focus on their future. The centre can also help the street child to make the transformation to the centre easier. The most important aspects is to offer drug rehabilitation programs and make the re-socialization process easier by acknowledge the positive things the street children have learned in the street and to treat them as active social agents.

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Deva, Faton. "A Future Wine Cluster in Kosova?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5724.

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This thesis deals with the Kosovar agricultural economy and the introduction of new approaches. Kosova is an economy in transition with high unemployment, young population and structural problems. The privatization process promises a better future and economic growth. However, hard work and new approaches are needed. Privatization does not mean immediate growth. Hereby, clusters are considered as an appropriate approach to develop rural areas. Especially the wine sector in Kosova could be an example for cluster development as it is a promising sector. Wine has a long history in Kosova although wine consumption is not widespread. This sector is a rare example where exports are higher than imports. Climate conditions cheep working force and as stated the background make this sector attractive. Foreign agencies and investors are very interested in this sector. This thesis will show the main problems and main opportunities of this sector. It will describe the structural changes and current developments. Cluster creation is not a government function. Further, it is not a tailor-made solution. In fact, clustering involves many roles. Each participant has certain duties but the whole process needs coordination. The monitoring and supervision of the whole process, the identification of needs and permanent exchange of the participants are organized in a cluster. At the end, a win-win situation is created even if competition is raised to a high level. Competition and the functioning of free markets guarantee the success of the sector and as a results regional development. One cluster helps to create another. Starting one process means that many others could follow. By reading this thesis, the reader should recognize potentials and understand the local circumstances. This is the aim of the study. Faton Deva "Shkodra" 14, Prishtina 10000 Kosova mob: +377(0)44122883 e-mail:faton99d@gmail.com

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Legind, Ann-Sofie, and Sofia Ranbäck. "Sport events for future generations : A study of motivations behind environmentally sustainable actions within Swedish recreational sport events." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Globala studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40381.

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A growing number of studies acknowledge the effect that sport events have on its surrounding environment as well as the effect the surroundings have on sport events. This has led to a larger focus on environmental sustainability within event organisations, something that however is motivated in very diverse ways and from different perspectives. This thesis, therefore, explores motivations behind the incorporation of environmentally sustainable actions within Swedish recreational sport events, and aim to provide an overview of how it is implemented within their operations. This has been done by a qualitative multiple case study with comparative elements. An outline of earlier research of motivational factors towards sustainable actions does together with an elaboration of central concepts, provide a theoretical background for the case study. The theoretical background has been further used to create an analytical framework with three main themes of motivation ‘strategic’, ‘pressure’ and ‘moral/ethical’. The cases, Vasaloppet and Vätternrundan, has been explored through face to face interviews with specific employees of the event organisations and later analysed through the analytical framework of the thesis. In addition to the interviews, documents regarding their sustainability work have together with the information that could be found on the web pages of the two events been analysed through the themes of the analytical framework. The results show a close similarity when it comes to the main challenges they are facing. Both Vasaloppet and Vätternrundan have transport as their main source of environmental impact, and the trash generated along the arena is another main challenge in order to reduce littering. Out of the three main themes of motivation, the moral and ethical motivation proved to be the main one, whereas the strategic and pressuring motivations came second and were in many cases closely entwined and related to each other. A difference in motivational background is further expressed by the respondents and policy documents of the event organisations, as Vasaloppet displayed a more proactive attitude while Vätternrundan were more reactive.

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Stjernfeldt, Sandra. "The shared future of the past : Heritage for place development in Västra Götaland." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445283.

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The purpose of this research was to investigate place development and the role of heritage in Västra Götaland, partially through the case of the destination island of Åstol. An overarching area of interest was how regional development and heritage may intertwine. First, the region’s development strategy was analyzed in relation to a regional developer’s understanding of heritage as synonymous with the sustainable reuse of buildings and places. The second analytical chapter dealt with the region’s place development method. Place development is about cross-sectororal collaboration, where heritage is one of many resources that are to be reused innovatively. The last analytical chapter highlighted Åstol. Heritage is an ongoing development goal in Åstol’s strategy plan. Nature has shaped the island’s heritage, the locals and its identity of today. Branding as a calm, historical fishing community is useful for Åstol, as it gives the place both unique and universal characteristics in a Bohuslän west coast environment.

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Johansson, Marcus, and Filippa Söderman. "Framtidens måltider : Hur tankar och idéer kan visualiseras med hjälp av scenariometodik." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för naturvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20794.

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Genom tiderna har måltiden förändrats och kommer förmodligen fortsätta göra så även framledes. Framtidsstudier är ett sätt att undersöka vad som kan tänkas ske i framtiden och då även hur måltiderna kan förändras. Syftet är att undersöka framtidens måltider med hjälp av en scenariometodik. Måltiden har tidigare studerats utifrån olika perspektiv och det har också funnits olika uppfattningar om måltiden som dels främjande av social gemenskap, dels som en företeelse som blivit betydligt mer individualistisk. Five Aspect Meal Model används som en teoretisk modell i den här studien för att undersöka olika aspekter av framtidens måltid. Scenariometodik är ett verktyg för att designa olika, lika rimliga, framtider. Fokusgrupperna var av tvärvetenskaplig karaktär för att skapa en bredd. Urvalet baserades på studenter med en pågående utbildning vid något av Sveriges lärosäten. Studien resulterade i en ny metod för att undersöka framtidens måltider samt fyra olika scenarion kring dessa. Den tekniska måltiden, den effektiva måltiden, den individuella måltiden samt den traditionella måltiden. Dessa scenarion skiljer sig på olika sätt i hur måltiden är utformad och vad som anses vara viktiga aspekter av måltiden. De fyra scenariona är alla möjliga framtider och det mest troliga är att flera av dem kommer att samexistera i framtiden. Människor kommer att önska olika måltider och kanske till och med röra sig mellan olika scenarion beroende på tillfällen och omständigheter. Over time, the meal has changed and will probably continue to do so in the future. Studies regarding the future are a way of examining what might happen and also how the meals may change henceforth. The purpose is to investigate the meals of the future using a scenario methodology. The meal has previously been studied from different perspectives and there have also been different views on the meal, on one hand as the promotion of social community and on the other hand as a phenomenon that has become significantly more individualistic. The Five Aspect Meal Model is used as a theoretical model in this study to investigate different aspects of the future meal. Scenario methodology is a tool for designing various, equally reasonable, futures. The focus groups were interdisciplinary in order to create a diversity. The selection was based on students with an ongoing education at a Swedish educational institution. This study resulted in a new method to study the meals of the future and four different scenarios regarding this. The technical meal, the efficient meal, the individual meal and the traditional meal. These scenarios differentiate in various ways regarding how the meal is designed and what is considered important aspects of the meal. The different scenarios are all possible futures and the most likely is that several of them will coexist. People will desire different meals and may even alter between different scenarios depending on occasions and circumstances.

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Heider, Cynthia. "Sympathy and Science: Social Settlements and Museums Forging the Future through a Usable Past." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/512948.

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History M.A. Affiliates of the United States settlement house movement provided a historical precedent for engaged, community-centered museum practice. Their innovations upon the social survey, a key sociological data collection and data visualization tool, as well as their efforts to interpret results via innovative, culturally democratic exhibition techniques, had a contemporary impact on both museum practice and the history of social work. This impact resonates in the socially-responsive work of community museums of the recent past. The ethics of settlement methodology- including flexibility, experimentalism, empathetic practice, local community focus, and social justice activism- foreshadow the precepts and practices of what is now known as public history. Temple University--Theses

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Johansson, Håkan, and Thomas Norman. "Hållbar väg till klimatmålet." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42918.

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Samhället står inför stora utmaningar att begränsa klimatpåverkan till hållbara nivåer både globalt och nationellt. Transportsektorns klimatpåverkan är stor och vägtrafikens utsläpp dominerar. Utmaningarna är stora även för att nå annan ekologisk och social hållbarhet, inte minst vad gäller städer. Forskningen pekar generellt på att strategier för att begränsa klimatpåverkan kan bidra till social och ekologisk hållbarhet både genom minskad klimatpåverkan och genom åtgärderna i sig. Utsläppen från vägtrafiken kan minskas genom ett transporteffektivt samhälle, energieffektivare fordon och förnybar energi och framförallt genom en kombination av dessa. De frågor som vi ställer oss här är hur olika vägar att nå klimatmålet för transportsektorn påverkar social och ekologisk hållbarhet men också hur genomförbara dessa vägar är? För att få svar på detta utgår vi från tre olika scenarier som Trafikverket tagit fram och som alla når klimatmålet för vägtrafiken. Dessa scenarier kombinerar de tre sätten att minska utsläppen på olika vis med olika kombinationer av ekonomiska styrmedel. Scenarierna beskrivs utförligt och hållbarheten i dessa analyseras med stöd av vetenskaplig litteratur, facklitteratur och svenska rapporter från myndigheter inom området. Scenariernas genomförbarhet är också viktig. Vi undersöker om det går att genomföra scenarierna tekniskt, politiskt samt tids- och resursmässigt. Empirin hämtar vi genom en enkät och intervjuer med några kommuner och regioner i Sverige. Resultatet pekar på att ett scenario som bygger på att klimatmålet för transportsektorn nås genom elektrifiering och biodrivmedel sannolikt bidrar negativt till såväl social som ekologisk hållbarhet. Genom att komplettera ett sådant scenario med skatter på drivmedel och körd sträcka, så att trafikarbetet för personbil och lastbil minskar - kan scenariot bidra till ekologisk hållbarhet. Ett sådant scenario bidrar dock inte till social hållbarhet. För att bidra till både social hållbarhet och ekologisk hållbarhet behöver styrmedel för att minska biltrafiken i större utsträckning riktas mot staden samtidigt som åtgärder genomförs för att effektivisera och förbättra alternativen till personbilsresor och lastbilstransporter. Sett ur ett längre perspektiv bör även den väg som har möjligheter att hålla sig inom ekologisk och social hållbarhet också vara den väg som är mest genomförbar. Samtidigt kan konstateras att åtminstone delar av samhället inte slagit in på denna väg. Här behövs sannolikt både bättre kunskap och tydligare styrning för att hamna på rätt väg. En hållbar väg till klimatmålet. Society faces major challenges in limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) to sustainable levels both globally and nationally. The GHG emissions from the transport sector is large and road traffic emissions dominate. The challenges are also considerable for achieving other ecological and social sustainability, not least in terms of cities. Research generally indicates that strategies for limiting climate change can contribute to social and ecological sustainability both through reduced climate change and through the measures themselves. Emissions from road traffic can be reduced through a transport-efficient society (shift and avoid), more energy-efficient vehicles and renewable energy (biofuels and electricity) and, above all, through a combination of these. Our question is how different paths of achieving the climate objective for the transport sector affect social and ecological sustainability, but also how feasible these paths are? To get an answer to this, we start from three different scenarios that the Swedish Transport Administration has developed, and which all reach the climate objective for the transport sector. These scenarios combine the three ways to reduce emissions in different ways with different combinations of economic policy instruments. The scenarios are described in detail and their sustainability is analyzed with the support of scientific literature and Swedish reports from authorities in the subject area. The feasibility of the scenarios is also important. We investigate the possibility to implement the scenarios technically, politically and in terms of time and resources. Empirical data are obtained through a survey and interviews with some municipalities and regions in Sweden. The results indicate that a scenario reaching the climate objective through electrification and biofuels is likely to make a negative contribution to both social and ecological sustainability. Supplementing with taxes on fuel and mileage, so that the mileage for cars and trucks is reduced - can contribute to ecological sustainability. However, such a scenario does not contribute to social sustainability. In order to contribute to both social sustainability and ecological sustainability, policy instruments to reduce car traffic need to be directed towards the city to a larger extent, at the same time as measures are implemented in the society to improve logistics and to make alternatives to car and truck more attractive. In a longer perspective, a path that has the potential to stay within ecological and social sustainability should also be the path that is most feasible. At the same time, it can be stated that at least parts of society have not taken this path. Here, both better knowledge and policies are probably needed to get on the right path. A sustainable path to the climate goal.

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Giers, Arekrans Sophie. "Assessing the Stockholm Water and Sewage System: Sustainability and Resilience in a Long-term Perspective." Thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188587.

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This report presents a case study on the Water and Sewage (abbreviated as WS in the following) system of Stockholm, which is faced with several challenges over the coming decades. The purpose is to explore the current and future threats and challenges that can have an impact on the WS system, with the aim of identifying a sustainable and resilient way of handling potential issues and incorporating a wider perspective when planning for a continued water and sewage infrastructure of sufficient capacity and quality. The study asks what the current and potential future challenges for the Stockholm WS system are, what is required to enable a sustainable and resilient WS system in a long-term perspective, which actors are involved or need to be involved beyond Stockholm Water, to provide Stockholm with a resilient and sustainable WS system, and what would be required for efficient governance? A content analysis of literature was made in order to develop three possible future scenarios, each with its own set of challenges. The scenarios were discussed with several interviewees from the WS-sector. The information provided during the interviews was used in a resilience analysis, based on the framework developed by the Resilience Alliance Workbook for Practitioners. A discussion follows in relation to the connected theoretical concepts of futures studies, resilience theory, governance and sustainability. The findings in this study suggests that the main challenges facing the WS system are primarily climate change and population increase. The WS system has to expand to support a growing population, as well as be adapted to cope with the consequences of climate change. Also pulse disturbances, such as sabotage and bio-terrorist attacks, were discussed and constitute a worry to which there is less preparedness. Further, a different challenge was found in the difficulties in planning for this required expansion and development where there is a lack of support, funding, communication and division of responsibilities. In order to retain a WS system that is able to provide high quality water services of sufficient quantity, communication and coordination between actors need to improve, and someone has to take a lead in continued work to ensure that all actors and stakeholders move in the same direction. Long-term planning is required on all parts, and there is a need to make decisions that will enable a sustained water and sewage structure in the long run. It is also required that water is made a priority; that water and sewage related issues are allowed more space in the municipal planning process and are discussed at a much earlier stage. Further, all municipalities will face challenges that concerns the WS system, leading to an increasing requirement of a more extensive regional cooperation, where planning and development occurs across municipal borders, focusing on watershed- and drainage areas. This study focuses on specified resilience, which means that only a limited number of challenges and events that could affect the WS system have been studied. Further studies are encouraged to determine the general resilience of the system, and provide a more detailed and comprehensive assessment.

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Kent, Avidan. "International competition policy and the WTO: Future Pathways." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=67049.

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Abstract The process of globalization is changing the world's economic structure as economic borders between countries are being diminished in favour of the creation of a new global market. It seems though that, at least at some fields, this process lacks international thinking. Competition regulation is an example of a field in which international thinking is currently lacking. This paper focuses on the deficiencies that the lack of competition policy creates for international trade, and the obstacles to the acceptance of a competition policy. This paper also examines structural and legislative issues with regard to international competition policy. In this paper, the author aspires to provide a pragmatic breakthrough for this deadlocked situation. Thus several suggestions are proposed on both the legislative and the judicial levels. RésuméLe phénomène de la globalisation occasionne une transformation de la structure économique mondiale en cette ère où les frontières entre les pays sont abolies en faveur de la création d'un nouveau marché global. Il semble cependant, a tout le moins sous certains aspects, que ce processus souffre d'un manque de réflexion à l'échelle internationale. L'encadrement légal de la concurrence constitue l'un de ces aspects.Cette thèse s'intéresse aux carences que l'absence d'une politique de réglementation de la concurrence occasionne sur le marché international ainsi qu'aux obstacles à franchir pour la mise en place d'une telle réglementation. Les questions structurelles et législatives à l'égard de la politique de concurrence internationale seront également étudiées. L'auteur aspire à fournir une solution pragmatique à cette impasse. Aussi, plusieurs solutions seront proposées aussi bien sur le plan législatif que sur le plan judiciaire.

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Wong, Ping-man. "The evolution of a secondary school subject in Hong Kong : the case of social studies /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13267942.

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Nilsson, Tobias, and Linda Jonsson. "Social studies now and then." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-32896.

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Syftet med vårt examensarbete är att undersöka de förändringar som uppstår vid införandet av en ny kursplan i ämnet samhällskunskap för grundskolans senare år då vi anser att en ny läroplan innebär förändringar. Förändringarnas innehåll ska också sätta avtryck i själva undervisningen i ämnet och därför vill vi med denna undersökning finna dessa förändringar och diskutera förändringarnas innehåll utifrån teorier om ungdomars lärande. För att få svar på våra frågeställningar har vi valt att studera de förmågor som krävs av eleverna utifrån den tidigare och den nya kursplanen i samhällskunskap och diskutera dessa. Med förmågor menar vi det som krävs av eleverna för att uppnå betyget godkänt i ämnet. Vi har valt att använda oss av är en komparativ undersökning med en kvalitativ metodisk inriktning, nämligen en textanalys då vi ansåg det vara mest lämpligt i relation till vår undersökning. En del av de slutsatser vi har kommit fram till är att den nya kursplanen Lgr11 kräver att eleven kan tillämpa samhällsvetenskapliga begrepp i större utsträckning än i den tidigare kursplanen Lpo94 samt att eleven kan tillämpa modeller i sina beskrivningar. Vidare så stärker Lgr11 en mer individuell identitetsutveckling.

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Blanco, Moreno Andrea Catalina. "Subjective expectations and individual decisions of future graduate students." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22256/.

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The gains derived from human capital can be affected by life –changing decisions. In my thesis I explore three of these decisions: the decision to migrate abroad (Chapter 1), the decision to migrate inside your own country (Chapter 2) and the decision to become an entrepreneur (Chapter 3). The three decisions involve a great deal of uncertainty that individuals express through expectations. I study these decisions by analyzing subjective expectations of future college graduate students. In chapter one I use the survey and data collection of Delavande and Zafar and for the second and third chapter I designed one survey and did the data collection in Bogotá, Colombia. Beyond the study of the determinants of individual migration and entrepreneurial expectations as strategies to allocate human capital, I contribute to the literature on subjective expectations. Chapter 1 investigates the role of subjective expectations and beliefs in the decision of migration of Pakistani college students to USA, Saudi Arabia and China. Findings suggest that students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and exposure to Western ideas react differently to the same potential migration destinations, not only in their preference for earnings but also in their individual preference for risks and amenities. Chapter 2 investigates what should be the incentives that a government must provide to promote the migration of future graduates from a developed urban centre to less developed ones in Colombia, as a strategy for regional development. The expected earnings, expectations about provision of schools, access to health and roads are the most important determinants to promote this specific type of migration in Colombia. Chapter 3 examines the role of earning expectations and personal characteristics on the subjective probability of becoming an entrepreneur of future graduates from Bogotá, Colombia. The expected earnings as an entrepreneur together with the preference for independence and having a previous entrepreneurial experience in the family affects positively the subjective probability of becoming an entrepreneur. These results are similar to other studies giving evidence that it is feasible to use subjective expectations as a measure of entrepreneurial intentions.

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Rogers, Pamela. "Problematizing social studies curricula in Nova Scotia." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104888.

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This study questions the implementation of social studies curriculum in Nova Scotia. Indigenous knowledge, and anti-racism educational principles form the basis of high school curricula created from the perspective of African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaq histories. The courses, African Canadian Studies and Mi'kmaq Studies, were implemented in 2002. To understand the distance between the intended objectives and practical realities of the curriculum, three methods were used: narrative, critical discourse analysis, and teacher interviews. Narrative provided a springboard for the analyses that follows by situating the context in the classroom. Centering on specific language use, critical discourse analysis connects implementation problems to the discourses employed in each curriculum document. The teacher interviews exposed the depth of issues through practical experiences, and critique of the school system, which link back to the knowledge which African Canadian Studies and Mi'kmaq Studies were formulated upon. The analysis connects the three methods to illustrate implementation issues in a broader context. Cette étude question l'implémentation du programme des sciences humaines en Nouvelle-Écosse. Les connaissances indigènes (autochtones), et les principes de l'éducation anti-raciste forment la base des programmes d'études secondaires créés à partir de la perspective des Afro-Nouvelle-Écossais et des Micmacs. Les cours, d'études afro-canadiennes et d'études Micmaques, ont été mis en place en 2002. Pour comprendre la différence entre les objectifs visés et les réalités du programme, trois méthodes ont été utilisées : le narratif, l'analyse critique du discours et les entrevues avec les enseignants. Le narratif a servi comme point d'accès pour l'analyse qui suit, en situant le contexte de la salle de classe. Centré sur le langage employer, l'analyse critique du discours a lié les problèmes d'exécution des cours aux discours utilisés dans chaque document du programme. ont été formulées. L'analyse lie les trois méthodes pour illustrer les questions d'implémentation dans un contexte plus large.

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Elkhalifa, Abdel Rahman Ibrahim. "Development and future of English Law and Islamic Law in the Sudan." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97844.

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This thesis addresses The Development and The Future of English and Islamic Law within the given historical, political, social and legal context of the Sudan. In so doing it uses a comparative methodology. Part I highlights the genesis and the development of Islamic Law in the Sudan over three centuries. Emphasis is on the legal aspect of this long history, though other relevant factors are highlighted as well. The characteristics of this era are significant in understanding later developments of both English and Islamic Law as well as their future in the Sudan. Part II focuses on the factors that were conductive to the development of English Law from 1899 to 1956. It examines how the British investment in English legal education, legal training, dissemination of English language and different aspects of the Sudanese public life created a factor of unexpressed consciousness of legal training and affinity which led to the ultimate adoption of English Law and the assimilation of the Sudan into the English legal heritage. Part III presents how the generation of the Sudanese lawyers who were reared in the colonial era enhanced the development of English Law after the independence. Their methodology of adopting and not adapting English Law is thoroughly examined. [...] Cette thèse traite du développement et de l’avenir de la loi anglaise et islamique dans le contexte historique, politique, social et légal du Soudan. Pour se faire, elle utilise une méthodologie comparative. La partie 1 souligne l’origine et le développement de la loi islamique au Soudan sur une période de trois siècles. L’emphase porte sur l’aspect légal de cette longue histoire, bien que d’autres facteurs significatifs soient également mentionnés. Les caractéristiques de cette période sont nécessaires afin de comprendre le développement ultérieur de la loi anglaise et islamique ainsi que leur avenir au Soudan. La partie il traite des facteurs qui ont mené au développement de la loi anglaise de 1899 à 1956. Elle analyse la facon dont l’investissement britanique dans l’éducation et la formation juridiques anglaises, et dans la dissémination de la langue anglaise, ainsi que les différent aspects de la vie publique soudanaise ont créé une certaine affinité dans les milieux juridiques soudanais avec la loi anglaise; ce qui a abouti à son adoption ultime et à l’assimilation du Soudan dans l’héritage juridique anglais. La partie III présente la facon dont les générations d’avocats soudanais, formés au cours de la période de colonisation, ont participé au développement de la loi anglaise après l’indépendance. Leur méthodologie dans l’adoption et l’adaptation de la loi anglaise est analysée entièrement. [...]

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Welts, Leslie. "The failure and future of policy instruments in managing harmful algal blooms." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=117202.

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Harmful algal blooms threaten waters across the globe. The blooms degrade water quality, are toxic to humans, and threaten the health and habitat of aquatic biota. The blooms thrive in water bodies with excessive quantities of nutrients and their presence is exacerbated by climate change-induced weather patterns. Agricultural runoff is responsible for a majority of the excess nutrients in Lake Champlain and Lake Erie, but there are simple land use practices agricultural producers can implement to significantly reduce the amount of runoff leaving their land. Despite the fact that there is scientific consensus about the primary cause of harmful algal blooms as well as the solutions for resolving the problem, legislatures grapple to regulate agricultural producers' land use practices. This struggle occurs mainly because legislatures lack the proper legal tools. Traditional policy instruments focus on resolving disputes between individuals or the government policing specific actors and are therefore ill-equipped to address widespread environmental issues that are not easily traceable to a single source.Yet, there is hope: reflexive law theory advances policy instruments aimed to encourage producers to self-regulate. These policy instruments create incentive structures to align actors' goals with societal goals by harnessing the power of the market and by creating situations where social pressures will nudge actors toward more socially desirable behaviours. Watersheds that have implemented them to address agricultural runoff have seen largely encouraging results. In this project, I trace the development of environmental policy instruments, using Lake Champlain and Lake Erie as prominent case studies that illustrate the inadequacies of traditional legal regimes in addressing widespread environmental issues. I also present reflexive law strategies that can compensate for these inadequacies. I argue that the current legal regimes in the Lake Champlain and Lake Erie watersheds are inadequate to curtail agricultural runoff and must be supplemented by reflexive law policy instruments if legislatures are to make progress in the battle against harmful algal blooms. Des fleurs d'eau d'algues néfastes menacent des plans d'eau à travers la planète. Les fleurs d'eau nuisent à la qualité de l'eau, elles sont toxiques pour les êtres-humains et elles menacent la santé et les habitats du biota aquatique. Les fleurs d'eau se répandent dans des plans d'eau ayant une quantité excessive de nutriments, et leur présence est exacerbée par les tendances météorologiques provoquées par les changements climatiques. La plupart des nutriments excessifs dans le Lac Champlain et le Lac Érié sont dus aux effluents d'élevage mais il existe des pratiques d'aménagement du territoire simples que les agriculteurs peuvent mettre en œuvre afin de réduire considérablement les effluents venant de leurs terrains. Malgré le consensus scientifique sur la cause primaire des fleurs d'eau d'algues néfastes ainsi que sur les solutions pour résoudre le problème, les législatures peinent à règlementer les pratiques d'aménagement du territoire des agriculteurs. Cette lutte a surtout lieu car les législatures manquent d'outils juridiques appropriés. Les instruments de politique traditionnels mettent l'accent sur la résolution de différends entre particuliers ou sur la surveillance par le gouvernement de certains acteurs spécifiques. Ils sont ainsi mal adaptés pour faire face aux vastes problématiques environnementales pour lesquelles il est difficile d'identifier une seule source.Pourtant, il y a une lueur d'espoir : la théorie du droit réflexif propose des instruments de politique qui ont pour objectif d'encourager les agriculteurs à s'autoréguler. Ces instruments de politique créent des structures de motivation afin d'aligner les buts des acteurs sur les buts sociétaux, en mettant à profit la puissance du marché et en créant des situations où des pressions sociales pousseront les acteurs à se comporter d'une façon plus socialement souhaitable. Les bassins versants qui les ont mis en œuvre afin de faire face aux effluents d'élevage ont obtenu des résultats globalement encourageants. Dans le cadre de ce projet, je trace le développement des instruments de politique environnementaux en prenant le Lac Champlain et le Lac Érié comme études de cas majeures qui illustrent les incapacités des régimes juridiques traditionnels à faire face à ces vastes problématiques environnementales. Je présente également des stratégies du droit réflexif qui pourraient compenser ces incapacités. Je défends le fait que les régimes juridiques actuels dans les bassins versants du Lac Champlain et du Lac Érié soient incapables de réduire les effluents d'élevage et doivent donc être complétés par des instruments de politique du droit réflexif afin que les législatures progressent dans la lutte contre les fleurs d'eau d'algues néfastes.

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Olsson, Anna, and Schultz Marina Idee. "Användandet av revisionsberättelsen utifrån revisorernas perspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Hälsa och Samhälle, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-8102.

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Revisionsberättelsen är ett viktigt verktygför kommunikationen mellan revisorerna och intressenterna. Dagensrevisionsberättelse är väldigt standardiserad och i samtliga delar finns detförslag till exakta formuleringar. Enligt tidigare forskning finns det enintressekonflikt mellan intressenterna och revisorerna. Denna konflikt handlarom att intressenterna vill utvidga informationsinnehållet irevisionsberättelsen vilket revisorerna är kritiska till eftersom detta skulleinnebära mer ansvar och mer att stå till svars för. För att lösa denna konflikthar revisionsberättelsen debatterats flitigt och i en debatt diskuteras om mankan göra revisionsberättelsen intressantare genom att betygsätta företag iexempelvis intern kontroll och bolagsstyrning. Debatterna kringrevisionsberättelsen har också utmynnat i en ny revisionsberättelse som skallbörja användas från och med 1 januari 2011. Vårt syfte med denna studie är därför att utifrån revisorernas perspektivanalysera och beskriva revisorernas uppfattning om revisionsberättelsen ochdess formalisering samt om där finns en vilja bland revisorerna att utöka sittansvar genom fler uttalanden i revisionsberättelsen. Studien baseras på enempirisk undersökning i form av sex kvalitativa intervjuer. En av dessaintervjuer är med studenter som är i slutet av sin högskoleutbildning inomrevision. Anledningen till att vi valt studenter som en av våra respondenter äratt vill analysera om deras uppfattningar skiljer sig från de övriga. Vårundersökning visar att revisorerna har synpunkter på hur innehållet ochstrukturen i revisionsberättelsen skall förbättras men samtliga anser attrevisionsberättelsen tillgodoser intressenternas behov. Formaliseringen avrevisionsberättelsen uppskattas av samtliga revisorer och de tycker att tydligariktlinjer är viktigt. Alla respondenter är dessutom villiga att ta mer ansvargenom fler uttalanden i revisionsberättelsen. Slutsatsen angående studenternaär att de har samma uppfattning som majoriteten av respondenterna. The audit report is an important tool for the communication between auditors and stakeholders. Today's audit report is very standardized andin all part there are exact proposals for the formulation. According to previous research, there is aconflict of interest between stakeholders and auditors. The conflict is aboutthe stakeholders want more information in the audit report which the auditorsare critical towards, since it would mean more responsibility. To resolve theconflict the audit report has been debated a lot. One discussion is about howto make the audit report more interesting for the stakeholders. There is aproposal about rating the company on example internal control and corporategovernance. All the debates have also led to a “new audit report” and this auditreport shall be used from January 1st 2011Our purpose of this studyis therefore to analyze and describe the auditors’ opinion about the contentand structure of the audit report. We also want to investigate the auditors opinionabout the formalization of the audit report and if they are willing to increasetheir responsibility. The study is based on six qualitative interviews. One ofthese interviews is with students and the reason for this is to compare iftheir perception differ from the others. Our conclusions are that the auditorshave opinions how to improve the content and the structure of the audit report.All the auditors think that the audit report meet the stakeholders needs. Theformalization of the audit report is estimate by the auditors and all intervieweesagreed that the guidelines are important. The study also indicates that theauditors are willing to take more responsibility by more statements in theaudit report. The conclusion regarding the students is that they have the same opinion as the majority of the auditors interviewed.

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Albrecht, Martin. "Enabling socio-technical transitions – electric vehicles and high voltage electricity grids as focal points of low emission futures." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206973.

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Today humankind is facing numerous sustainability challenges that require us to question CO2 intensive practices like those present in the transport and energy sector. To meet those challenges, many countries have adopted ambitious climate targets. Achieving such targets requires an understanding of the wider socio-technical context of transitions. The aim of this licentiate thesis is therefore to analyse such socio-technical transitions towards low-emission futures enabled by the electrification of passenger cars and high voltage grid development. A combination of different transitions theories (for ex. Multi-level perspective and Technological innovation systems) and institutional theory has been used. To reach the aim paper I analyses the climate impacts of electric vehicles (EVs) and policy measures to achieve a breakthrough scenario for EVs. The results show that a mixture of short and long term policies are needed that take into account the technology development stage and behavioural aspects of EV adopters. Paper II addresses the need to include the high voltage transmission grid and its planning procedures as a central part of debates on transitions. Therefore the opportunities, challenges and reasons for conflict in the established regime are studied. The results show that in order to achieve a sustainable grid development regime, it is necessary to spend time on achieving legitimacy and social sustainability. The third paper uses semi-structured expert interviews and focuses on innovation dynamics for EV adoption. By focusing on dynamics instead of single policy measures, it is possible to grasp interactions within a niche, but also in between a niche, regime and landscape. The results show that strong initial technology legitimacy was needed to start substantial innovation dynamics. This could be further strengthened with a strong and broad coalition of actors. Both those factors led, if present, to an improved variety and match of policy instruments. As such this thesis has shown that transitions are not just about technology or policy instruments as such but about the dynamics and processes needed to enable them. This can be relevant in other transitions that otherwise may underestimate the importance of these components. QC 20170512 Norstrat

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Schwetje, F. Kenneth. "Managing outer space traffic in the future : a challenge to legal and technical experts." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65354.

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Andersson, Roger, and Annika Johansson. "Socialpedagogiskt arbete i grundskolan - möjligheter och framtidSocial pedagogic work in compulsary school - potentials and future." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Health Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3834.

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This study illustrates the views of working socialpedagogues when it comes to socialpedagogical and social work within compulsary schools. The focus of the study is on how social problems can be prevented and get noticed among children and youths in compulsary school, and what possibilities of development there are in preventive social work. The socialpedagogue’s capability for supporting this development, together with people that are important in the children’s and youths’s lifes, opens up new possibilities in the future for the social work in schools. The main concepts in the study is treatment and attitude, interaction and cooperation with different people inside and outside the school as well as individual- and grouporientated work.

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Vergara, Fatima. "Addressing Social Connectedness and Social Isolation among Older LGBTQ Adults through Software Design." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10785689.

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This project describes the development of a software application geared towards connecting LGBTQ older adults with each other with an aim to reduce social isolation. Older adults tend to lose their connections with others throughout the aging process. LGBTQ older adults experience more challenges in creating and maintaining social relationships compared to their heterosexual peers. When social connections are lost, social isolation threatens the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of older adults. The software application was designed and revised using feedback from two expert panel focus groups of LGBTQ older adults, 50 years and older, residing in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties.

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Po, Sum-cho. "Value education in social studies for primary schools in Hong Kong : a study of the different approaches used by teachers of social studies /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18531696.

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Walsh, Donald E. "Present and future military uses of outer space : international law, politics, and the practice of states." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65527.

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Al-Nofli, Mohammed Abdullah. "PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES GOALS AND CONTENT AREAS IN OMAN." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791777641&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009. "Department of Curriculum and Instruction." Keywords: Citizenship education, Curriculum development, Global education, Oman, Social sciences, Social studies, Social studies teachers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-126). Also available online.

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Jonas, Anthony Stephen. "Social studies video projects in the middle school." Online access for everyone Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2006/a_jonas_071906.pdf.

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