Scientific summary: Amongst other affected countries, Namibia endured seasonal floods in different parts of the country namely, Karas, Kavango, Caprivi, Ohangwena, Omusati, and Oshana regions. However, the study was only conducted on the floods within the Ohangwena region. Major flooding in this region became eminent from 2007, and only rapid appraisal assessments were conducted. As a consequence,

The AKP ’s proactive foreign policy and the decline of EU-Turkey and US-Turkey relations, along with Turkey’s strengthening ties with its Eastern neighbors, has sparked a heated scholarly and media debate about the axis shift of Turkish foreign policy—from the West to the East. The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze if the arguments of the axis shift supporters are grounded enough to prov

Popular science Mauritania and Senegal are two countries located at the border of West Africa. Their urban population is increasing significantly since the last decades because of rural immigration and natural growth of urban population. Using GIS and remote sensing techniques, the rate of urbanized area is estimated for two coastal cities of Mauritania (Nouadhibou and Nouakchott) and for three co

The EU ETS emission-trade system must both enable a decrease in GHG-emissions and be a driver for growth in the renewable energy-sectors. Implemented in 2005, it has been given fifteen years until 2020 to show some acutely needed results. The EU ETS was set out to meet both ecological and economical challenges at once and it is the worlds largest, most encompassing and most expensive climate-progr

This study addresses the question of economic and workplace related determinants and consequences of fathers’ parental leave use in Sweden. The analysis is based on the Swedish Level of Living Survey for the years 1991 and 2000. The results show that wages and the probability of taking parental leave beyond the ‘daddy month’ are inversely u-shaped: with very low hourly wages it does not seem to be

In the future an increasing number of industries will have to comply with greenhouse gas reduction directives. Plans and projects that aim to reduce CO2-emissions are associated with multiple sources of uncertainty and the use of point estimates could lead to misjudgements and erroneous decisions. Within other fields of science uncertainty analysis is a commonly used tool to improve decision basis

Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för hur lyxvarumärken inom mode använder sig av arv/heritage och konstvärlden, samt hur dessa kopplingar bidrar till stärkandet av varumärkets aura och brand equity. Studien grundar sig på en litteraturstudie i luxury branding och brand heritage samt empiri av lyxvarumärken i modebranschen genom deltagande och dold observation i de valda varumärkenas butik

Området kring akulleqglaciären ligger i närheten av bosättningen Paamiut, sydvästra Grönland. Tonalit- trondhjemit och granodioritgnejser (TTG) utgör huvudlitologin i området. Inom TTG-gnejserna återfinns ett cirka 1 km brett hästskoformat bälte av suprakrustala bergarter. Ultramafiska metamorfa bergarter utgör linser i det suprakrustala bältet och pegamtiter intruderar de olika litologierna (KolbThe Akulleq glacier area is located to the east of Paamiut settlement, South-West Greenland. Tonalite- trondhjemite- granodiorite (TTG ) gneiss constitute the main rock type with an approximately 1 km wide, horseshoe shaped supracrustal belt situated within the TTG gneiss. Meta- ultramafic rocks form lenses in the supracrustal belt and pegmatites intrude the different lithologies (Kolb, 2011). Qua

The aim of this thesis has been to explore and systematize the factors and influences, gendered perspectives, and interrelationships in educational equality in Lao PDR with comparative perspectives from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The effects of ethnic minority cultures and linguistics, socio-economics, governmental policy, and national and local infrastructure have been analyzed using social

This thesis uses Vietnamese household’s surveys from 2006 and 2008 to assess income inequality in Vietnam and households access to credit in order to boost their income. Three econometric models are introduced to explain which factors affect income, household’s value and loan value, all important factors in order to obtain loans in theory. The Vietnamese financial market is still underdeveloped wh

This study aims to add new knowledge to our understanding of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon and focuses on the links between poverty and gender norms and practices. The overall research question that this study is concerned with is about the effect of self-help group participation on women’s self-perceptions of options, their access to social, economic and cultural capital, and subsequ

The youth of China seems poised to put their mark on our world no matter our projection of the future. They find themselves bridging two civilizations, having their thoughts shaped by a society in which, due to a transformation of unprecedented speed, past and future value systems exist simultaneously, and they know that as China grows stronger in the economic and military sphere, it could be a qu

In this paper the Rawlsian contractual method–including the original position and the veil of ignorance–is used to create principles of security. The method enables transcendence from contemporary restrictions to a broadened view where general principles guide us to the most important aspects of security. The principles guide us to the core. I arrive at two and only two principles: existential sec

As commercial mobile devices grow more powerful their field of application expands. A mobile device that looks more and more like a computer can also be used like one, even in a industrial context. There are many different commercial mobile software and hardware platforms on the market today. Companies in the process of incorporating such mobile platforms in their systems stand before a difficult

Uppsatsen fokuserar på jägeristaten och deras roll som lokala statliga ämbetsmän, klämda mellan stat och allmoge i den känsliga skogsfrågan under åren 1761-1805. I uppsatsen skildras situationen ur jägeribetjänternas perspektiv. Ämbetsgruppen beskylls ofta för att ha varit korrumperad och ha begått övergrepp mot allmogen, vilket undersökningen inte stödjer. Resultaten talar för att de olika indiv

Regionalism, that has been always with us in different forms throughout the history and emerged as an alternative theory after the end of Cold War, enables us to explain new world order. Since the end of WWII, there are two types of regionalism explaining the dynamics of regional formations. The one that came into question from the end of WWII till end of Cold War is names as ‘old’ regionalism and

In the thesis, first the author discussed whether same-sex marriage is a human right, and why it is a human right. After that, the author argued against those obstacles, such as religious or cultural objections, that denying such a human right, and the last part the author tried to analyse why there is a gap between the ideal and reality human right, especially in the same-sex marriage issue and w

Detta examensarbete grundar sig på en översättning av Gabo y Fidel. El paiaje de una amistad (2004) av Ángel Esteban och Stephanie Panichelli. Boken handlar om vänskapen mellan författaren García Márquez och Fidel Castro. Min uppsats består av en inledande textanalys efter den modell som Hellspong & Ledin (1997) presenterar. Därefter följer en genomgång av överväganden och strategier för övers