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Climate change poses a serious threat to sustainable urban development, placing many cities at risk. As a consequence, city authorities are increasingly facing the challenge of finding ways to include adaptation strategies into their work, although related knowledge and competence is still scarce and fragmented. With the aim to contribute to knowledge development and organizational learning, the o
In order to understand ritual in the past, archaeology has long relied on theories developed in other disciplines. While these theories, which often rely on written or oral information, have added many important dimensions to our interpretation of the archaeological record, they have often proven difficult to successfully articulate with the archaeological sources. Moreover, archaeology has tended
En av anledningarna till att Europeiska Unionen tilldelades Nobels fredspris år 2012 är den roll som organisationen har spelat för utvecklingen av mänskliga rättigheter i Europa, trots att det finns avsevärda oklarheter kring hur stort inflytande gällande rättigheter som EU faktiskt utövar. Med utgångspunkt i den normativa institutionalismens fokus på normers avgörande betydelse för hur organisatiOne of the reasons that the European Union was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2012 is the role that the organization has played for the development of human rights within Europe, even though there is a great deal of obscurity as for the extent of the influence regarding rights that EU is really exerting. With a starting point in the focus of normative institutionalism on the crucial significance
Abstract This study centers on organizations' ability to work with dialogue and feedback during organizational change. The aim is to examine to what extent dialogue and feedback contribute to the process of sense making. The study is based on a case study of the corporate energy group Eon and its current organizational change Cleaner & better energy. The empirical material consists of ten
Gender mainstreaming has since the mid-1990s been the strategy adopted in order to incorporate the gender perspective in all decision making. Although the strategy existed for almost 18 years, research shows that the implementation of gender mainstreaming still suffers from shortcomings. Many municipalities mention the lack of methodological support, knowledge and specific Equality strategists as
Background Presona AB manufactures fully automatic balers and compactors for waste management. A simple and clear supply chain is wanted. High inventory costs and long lead time have been identified; the long lead time partly is due to insufficient supplier processes. The company is not satisfied with the stock turnover. The communication with the suppliers today is handled by fax which is time de
Denna uppsats, med rötterna i traditionen av politisk ekonomi, applicerar ideologikritisk metod för att analysera det upplevda förhållandet mellan lokaltidningar och deras ägare. Fokus ligger på hur ägarna utövar kontroll över tidningarna och hur detta, i motsats till autonomi, upplevs av nyhetschefer på den svenska marknaden för lokalpress. Med hjälp av den analytiska uppdelningen av styrning i aIn this essay, rooted in the tradition of political economy, an ideology critique has been carried out in order to analyze the relationship between local newspapers and their owners. Of particular interest has been the ways in which owners exercise control over the newspapers, and how this, as opposed to autonomy, is experienced by news directors on the Swedish market for local press. The analysis
This study analyses aspects of instructor behaviour and their possible effects on the ability of the participating crew to analyse their own performance following simulator training events for Flight Crews. Eight briefings and debriefings related to one airline’s training sessions were observed. The debriefings were recorded and transcribed. The analysis was performed using the “Debriefing Assessm
Icke-skadliga virusinfektioner i grönalger På cellnivå är den klassiska virusinfektionen en rättfram process: En värdcell infekteras. Virusets gener tar över och styr värdcellens maskineri för bland annat transkription (DNA-kopiering) och translation (proteinproduktion), därmed tvingas värdcellen producera nya virioner (viruspartiklar). När tillräckligt många virioner tillverkats så aktiveras andThe common way in which algal virus-host systems are discovered is when an algal culture collapses due to the virus-induced lysis. Therefore, the presence of a viral infection in a seemingly healthy culture of Chlamydomonas sp. is an oddity. This study describes such an infection in an algal sample from Örsjön, a lake in southern Sweden, sustained in culture for over six years with no observed adv
The following thesis is examining compliance with EU-law from a member state perspective. The variation in the compliance level between the member states from 1995 to 2005 is analyzed to prove the fact that the Nordic member countries during the measured time period experienced a low number of infringements. The infringements that did occur were resolved faster and more efficient in the Nordic cou
With China's open door policy in the late of 1978 and accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the progress of globalization has accelerated the comprehensive development of China's society, in which the progress of intellectual property protection just is a typical example, because the reform and evolution of intellectual property protection not only reflects the China's dev
The purpose of this composition was to examine which international and Swedish laws exist to govern the protection of asylum seekers claiming persecution on the grounds of sexual orientation. Additionally I wanted to look at what the need for such a right to refuge would be based upon, i.e. why asylum seekers ought to be granted such protection. In order to fulfil my objectives I based my material
A current debate is going on in Sweden about the health-care organization, how it is structured today and how it should be structured in the future. Despite major changes in the county council structures, they still got problems with for instance economy and the providing of staff. As an answer to these problems new solutions are being developed. In this thesis I examine such a solution consistin
The 2002 Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka has resulted in mass-migration of IDPs back to their places of origin. Vanni, in the northern LTTE-controlled part of the country, is also seeing a large number of IDPs coming to settle, including Muslims that had been forced to leave the area by the LTTE. The question is how this resettlement process is taking place, who is involved in it, and what are th
Title: Evaluating packaging logistics performance at IKEA for improvements in product and packaging development Authors: Håkan Dahlborg and Carina Johnsson Supervisors: Jenny Klevås ? Division of Packaging Logistics, Department of Design Sciences, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund Caroline Bramklev ? Division of Packaging Logistics, Department of Design Sciences, Lund Institute of Technolog
The aim of this study was to investigate the behavior of a dense jet discharged into lighter ambient water. This situation can be found for brine water discharged from desalination plants. Desalination plants discharge heavier brine water, generated in the process of manufacturing fresh water, to the receiving water, usually the sea. Future extended use of desalination technologies implies larger
This study is a qualitative analysis of how three political parties, elected into the Swedish parliament, through their texts about gender equality construct Sweden and the western world as democratic and developed. The result of this process is that the people outside of the western world are constructed as the Others, who are viewed as undemocratic and undeveloped. As theoretical perspectives I
One of the unsolved puzzles in democratization studies today is the prevalence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. Previous comparative studies have overlooked the region because it does not contain a single case of successful democratization. Middle Eastern scholars, on the other hand, tend to lack the theoretical tools on what it would take for this area to democratize. The purpose of t
Deforestation has wide implications for the environment and especially for those who rely on it for survival. Rural women in many parts of the world often carry a lot of responsibility in gathering resources and maintaining the livelihoods of their families yet face disproportionate impacts due to limited control and access to these vital resources. This qualitative case study aims to give the rur
This thesis studies the democratic implications of the "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" case in the decade following 2010. The aim is to examine the complexities of campaign finance regulations in regards to issues of elite influence, corruption and transparency. The subsequent proliferation of independent expenditure committees, or Super PACs, who can spend money on camp
