This thesis is a case study of an industrialised community in Karelia, Russia. Kostomuksha is home for approximately 30 000 people who are to a smaller or larger extent influenced by the iron ore mining, which is why the town was actually founded. This research looks at how the residents see their relationship with the natural environment in the industrialised settings. In order to investigate the

Though the diffusion of electric vehicle (EV) is high on the global agenda, and there are efforts to speed up the shift: some countries intend to ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEV), and some OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) have announced the goal of electrification, the diffusion of EV is slowly. Technological innovation theory explains that we need to harmonise tec

Många flygbolag använder idag komplexa intäktsoptimeringsstrategier i sin vinstmaximering. En av dessa är trängselprissättning, på engelska kallad peak-load pricing. I denna uppsats undersöks om flygbolag använder trängselprissättning av biljetter under en dags rusningstider. Frågeställningen är därför: ”Hur påverkar dagliga rusningstider flygpriser?”. Uppsatsen ämnar svara på denna genom att stud

Purpose - Due to a need of the ability to think strategically in today’s business world, the purpose of this study is to examine on the question whether strategic thinking can be developed via academic education. Methodology - Two samples of the program Industriell Ekonomi, fifth-year students and first-year students, were tested regarding their ability to think strategically. The test was conduc

There has long been a crisis of housing affordability in London, which the government and private sector are failing to address. On top of the socio-economic challenges brought about by this, London’s current and new stock of housing are not built to the necessary environmental standards to achieve legally binding environmental targets. However, the contentious Brexit vote and the continued uncert

In the near future, our species, and many others, face an upcoming shock in the global climate; one that could result in the potential extinction of more than just the human race. In order to combat this issue, the field of sustainability emerged throughout different sectors of society. One of the places that this topic has blossomed is within academia, and there are few things more important than

En digitalisering av det ekonomiska biståndet har idag genomförts i en av Sveriges kommuner, men planeras samtidigt genomföras i flertalet kommuner. Implementeringen har visat sig få både positiva och negativa organisatoriska konsekvenser, dels som grund i de uppfattningar som anställda socionomer haft. Dessa uppfattningar har bland annat inkluderat oro och missnöje, och lett till uppsägningar.

Trots stora satsningar på system inom sjukvården så finns fortfarande problem, ett av dessa kan ses vara användarnas medverkan vid systemutvecklingen. Att användarna får medverka vid utveckling av system inom vården kan anses vara av stor vikt då utvecklare och ansvariga kan sakna viktig klinisk insikt. Att användarna får medverka kan även leda till ökade kvalité på systemet och kan vidare leda ti

This paper investigates which factors determine how a private equity-backed fund exits their investment in a portfolio company located in the Nordic markets. A total of 397 Nordic portfolio company private equity exits occurring between January 2005 and December 2017 have been analyzed in this paper. The three main exit strategies in this study are Secondary Buyouts, Trade Sales, and IPOs. The maj

This paper investigates how the financial sector's institutional characteristics can allow an economy to benefit from financial deepening and limit the negative effects it can have. Specifically, it tests how macroprudential regulation and financial liberalisation affect the shape and behaviour of the finance–growth relationship. This is done by analysing a sample of 55 developing and develope

With many people not really understanding what the European Union is and how it works the EU is left to fight a lack of interest, identification and participation. The present thesis approaches the problem by looking at the linguistic and rhetorical device of metaphors as a popular means of creating understanding by explaining a complex topic in a transferred way. Numerous metaphors exist in EU di

Shocks in utero can have lasting effects on an individual's physical and socio-economic outcomes. By merging direct rainfall data at the district-level with an individual-level dataset on children's education and socio-economic factors I create a proxy for in utero income shock with negative rainfall to evaluate the effect on Kenyan children's cognitive score in rural districts. I find

De senaste decennierna har antalet förmögenhetsskatter, det vill säga skatt på individers innehav av tillgångar, stadigt minskat. 1990 beskattade hälften av alla OECD-länder förmögenhet. År 2000 var de drygt en tredjedel. Idag existerar sådan förmögenhetsskatt endast i Frankrike, Spanien, Norge och Schweiz. I samband med finanskrisen 2007-2008 aktualiserades den på nytt och några länder som till e

Waste management is an important facet of sustainable development, as improper waste disposal will lead to various negative environmental and health impacts. Recycling has been found to be a useful way to manage waste materials and reduce the negative impacts of waste accumulation. In Thailand, attempts to increase recycling are being hindered by lack of public participation. The aim of this study

Why do Christians become vegans and how do they motivate their vegan lifestyle? I have talked to fifteen Christian individuals that have considered their diets and all of them have at one point in their lives thought about becoming vegans. Thirteen of them were vegans during this study. One pastor feels that she cannot become a vegan yet because of her line of work and a man stopped being a vegan

In the global context of an ever-growing trend of automobility and all its drawbacks, cycling offers an environmentally and socially sustainable transport alternative. Copenhagen has become one of the best cities for cycling, and impressive advances in promoting this practice have raised their cycling share up to 41% of all trips to work/education. However, municipal cycling goals have been postpo

Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on timely and reliable information. However, standardized methodologies and regularly available data exist for only 40% of the 232 indicators. The “Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” is supposed to bridge these data gaps by harnessing ongoing developments in information technology, particularly big data. Currently existing pil

To-date, sustainable consumption in grocery is gaining awareness. In response, different sustainable retailing approaches emerge. They entail different scale of changes to consumers’ current shopping practices, as well as varying visions of a sustainable living. This paper aims to shed light on the congruity between consumers’ notions of sustainability and retailers’ sustainable practices, in hope