In this thesis I examine the forest as the nexus of social and environmental worlds in Israel. By exploring the history of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and afforestation, I synthesize the given literature using a lens of human ecology to delve into the cultural, social, political, and ecological processes by which afforestation is simultaneously a tool of nation-building and a mechanism of ethno

My thesis uses Anna Tsing’s metaphorical concept friction to investigate the interaction between the Egyptian national government, the international, national and local development organizations, and a local Bedouin community. My research is based on fieldwork in South Sinai, Egypt from August until December 2010. My thesis tries to explore an alternative understanding of sustainability, inspired

For the last few decades, economic globalization has enabled the expansion of business activities around the world. This has led to important changes in the structure of international society. Non-governmental actors, business enterprises in particular, have gained political influence in the global political agenda. Corporate Social Responsibility appears in this context of economic globalization

The explicit sustainability education these students receive gives them narrowly circumscribed ideas about sustainability as recycling and solar panels. At the same time school experience has the implicit lessons about sustaining one’s social position through consumption and display of imported fashion and products associated with France/the west, practices with contradictory implications for sust

The socio-ecological conditions of fish-stock depletion pose great challenges to fish-dependent economies. Such challenges are currently felt on the Faroes, where fish and fish related products account for 94 percent of total exports. Hence, ideas on how to make the fisheries sustainable are thriving. By drawing attention to the diverse ways that Faroese have organised socio-ecological relations o

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Floden Rio Sucio rinner genom staden Santo Domingo, ett litet samhälle beläget i centrala Nicaragua, ca 5 timmars bilresa från huvudstaden Managua. Rio Sucio betyder smutsig flod på Spanska. Floden har fått sitt namn dels för att den innehåller en stor mängd sediment, vilket gett den en brunaktig färg, och dels för att den innehåller stora mängder tungmetaller, The central mountainous region of Nicaragua is an area subjected to heavy environmental pressure due to anthropogenic activities. For over a hundred years mercury has been used in gold mining activities in this area causing pollution of water resources. The lack of infrastructure in this region has made investigations regarding water quality and availability scarce. This work is focused around the

Skogarna på den norra hemisfären har en betydande roll i den globala kolbalansen på grund av deras förmåga att agera som kolkälla. En annan aspekt som gör de intressanta är deras känslighet för tänkbara kommande klimatförändringar där en möjlig följd är ökad störningsfrekvens. Störningar (som bland annat innefattar storm, insektsangrepp och brand) påverkar skogens kolbalans genom att minska upptagOn the night between the 8th and 9th of January 2005 one of the worst wind storms Sweden has experienced took place. The storm caused damage to 270 000 ha of forest and 75 · 106 m3 wood. Due to the great areas affected, this event has a significant effect on the forest carbon balance. The aim of this study includes determining the usefulness of MODIS (moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer)

The Danish language is a tough language to master, even for native speakers. There are great differences between the orthography and the spoken language – which leads to lots of spelling errors. New trends such as virtual social networks add new aspects to the language and they influence people’s habits and their approach to the Danish language. This paper counts the numbers of different spelling

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Människan har blivit en viktig aktör inom systemet jorden, bland annat genom en betydande omvandling av stora landarealer och en stor påverkan på atmosfärens sammansättning. En omfattande avskogning för jordbruksändamål inleddes redan för tusentals år sedan vilket bland annat har medfört ett kolflöde till atmosfären. Enligt en nyligen framlagd hypotes skulle mänHumanity has become a major actor within the Earth system, particularly through transforming large parts of the land surface and by altering the gaseous composition of the atmosphere. Deforestation for agricultural purposes started thousands of years ago, which might have resulted in a detectable human influence on climate much earlier than the industrial revolution. This study presents a first at

The aim of this study is to understand the local phenomenom of pits in pairs on the Early Neolithic TRB gathering place of Almhov, Malmö, by studying the distribution of the osteological material in regard to species and body part frequencies. The results show that it is probable that at least two routines to place the animals in these pits were used. One method was to dig two pits, excluding anim

Gröna tak kan minska problem med s.k. urban heat islands och kan användas för dagvattenhantering. Andra miljöfördelar som en förbättring av luftkvalitet, biodiversitet och bullerminskning finns också. Detta projekt fokuserar på lokala (kommunala) medel för att skapa en bättre miljö med extensiva gröna tak, vilka är nästan underhållsfria. Ett delområde i Lund som inkluderar Universitetet och UniverGreen roofs have the potential to mitigate problems with an urban heat island and to act as an element in stormwater management. Other environmental benefits exist as well, such as improvement of air quality, biological diversity and noise reduction. This project focuses on local community efforts to create a better environment through the use of extensive green roofs, which require almost no main

Sammanfattning Under 1960-talet kunde vetenskapsmän konstatera att en generell uppvärmning av atmosfären resulterade i klimatförändringar. En av källorna till den globala uppvärmningen var och är fortfarande den höga koncentrationen av växthusgaser i atmosfären som uppstår genom mänsklig aktivitet vid förbränning av fossila bränslen. Trots den vetskapen dröjde det en bit in på 2000-talet innan kliSummary In the 1960’s scientists discovered that general heating of the atmosphere or global warming results in climate change. One of the reasons behind global warming is the high concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere, which is a bi-product of fossil fuel combustion caused by human activity. Climate change did not become a European Union priority before the 21st century when the c

The spaghetti bowl of regional trade agreements has been growing rapidly the past two decades. While services trade has often been excluded from these agreements, the recent trend suggests that a shift has occurred and that policy-makers are paying more attention to services trade. As Canada and the European Union (EU) are negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, services sector inclusion is a maj

A rich literature in economics has identified Institutions as a key factor in explaining the disparity in growth across countries. It is thus essential to look at the determinants of institutional quality. This study tries to capture the affect of one of the possible determinants of institutional quality that is trade openness. Theory suggests that there is a positive relationship between trade op

EU-domstolens avgörande i mål C-29/08 SKF har varit föremål för mycket uppmärksamhet och diskussion sedan det kom under hösten 2009. Avgörandet gäller möjligheten att dra av ingående mervärdesskatt på tjänster förvärvade för att genomföra försäljning av aktier i dotterbolag I denna uppsats har EU-domstolens SKF-dom stått i centrum. Den har att satts in i ett perspektiv och analyserats mot bakgrunThe decision of the ECJ in case C-29/08 SKF has been the subject of a lot of attention and discussion since it was delivered in 2009. The decision concerns the possibility of deduction of input VAT on services acquired in connection with the sale of shares in subsidiaries. In this thesis the decision of the ECJ in SKF has been the center of attention. It has been put into perspective and has been

Syfte Utifrån antagandet om att en investerare nyttomaximerar sin portfölj genom hög förväntad avkastning, är syftet med denna studie i ett första skede att undersöka och analysera hur en portfölj av två fondkategorier bör kombineras och varför. Det sker i sin tur utifrån investerares skilda preferenser vad gäller riskbenägenhet och placeringshorisont. I ett andra skede syftar studien att undersö

Syfte: Studien ämnar ge en förståelse av den externa kommunikationens vikt, vid en påtvingad organisationsförändring där ett minskat medlemsantal kan hota organisationens existens. Metod: För att besvara studiens syfte användes kvalitativa intervjuer med fem anställda på Akademiska Föreningen, som arbetade före eller efter kår- och nationsobligatoriet avskaffades. Teori: Den teoretiska referensr

This essay investigates a case of public interaction in the field of climate change. The three levels of public management in Skåne, Sweden (municipality, regional and county) are currently engaged in a form of cooperation to bring together the three forms of political responsibility in one committee. It is a new approach to the climate issue and the aim of this thesis is to evaluate the theoretic

I wanted to take a closer look at schoolchildren´s (age 11-12) image of hunter/gatherers. By comparing two groups, one that had visited the Skateholmsexhibit and one that had not, I investigated to see if the level of knowledge was different between the groups. I handed out a questionnaire with six questions to the students and did a compilation of the answers. I found out that the answers were s