Search for dissertations about: "city break"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words city break.

  2. 1. On the road to climate neutral Swedish transportation: Energy system modelling to support the transition at national, regional, and local levels

    Author : Jonas Forsberg; Anna Krook-Riekkola; Andrea Toffolo; Åsa Lindman; Hannah E. Daly; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Energy transition; Energy system modelling; TIMES-City; TIMES-Sweden; Transportation; Decarbonisation; Climate mitigation; Energiteknik; Energy Engineering;

    Abstract : Transportation is a critical pillar of modern society. Over the past decades, growth in mobility of people and goods have been both enabled by and dependent upon fossil fuels. Strong action is needed to break this dependence in order to reduce CO2. READ MORE

  4. 2. The labour of infrastructuring : An inquiry into participatory design in the public sector

    Author : Alicia Smedberg; Per-Anders Hillgren; Kristina Lindström; Liesbeth Huybrechts; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Participatory Design; Infrastructuring; Agency; Labour; Citizenship; Feminist Technoscience; City Planning; Public Sector; Deltagande design; Infrastrukturering; Medborgarskap; Feministisk Vetenskapsteori; Offentlig sektor; Interaktionsdesign; Interaktionsdesign;

    Abstract : Every organisation, cooperation, project or social movement is quintessentially a cluster of alignments between people, places and things. Through these alignments, networks are made, and through these networks action can be made possible or be constricted. READ MORE

  5. 3. Urban environmental stewardship : Roles and reasons for civic engagements in governance of social-ecological systems

    Author : Johan Enqvist; Maria Tengö; Örjan Bodin; Bengt Karlsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Environmental governance; urbanization; social-ecological systems; Bangalore; India; collective action; naturresurshushållning; Natural Resources Management;

    Abstract : Stewardship as a concept is increasingly brought forward as a goal to reach sustainability goals of ensuring human wellbeing within the limits of Earth’s life support systems. Scholarship on the required capacities for planetary stewardship is growing rapidly, as are the insights. READ MORE

  6. 4. Numerical analyses of the hangingwall at the Kiirunavaara mine

    Author : Tomas Villegas; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Mining and Rock Engineering; Gruv- och berganläggningsteknik;

    Abstract : The mining method used in the Kiirunavaara Mine induces failure in the hangingwall which caves and subsides by the effect of stress relaxation and gravity. Since the orebody is dipping towards the city of Kiruna, surface disturbances are approaching the town as mining proceeds to a greater depth. READ MORE

  7. 5. Architecturally Innovative Multi-Storey Timber Buildings : Methodology and Design

    Author : Axel Kaiser; Andreas Falk; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Träbyggnad; Timber Structures;

    Abstract : This investigation applies architectural ideas of mass-customised difference and repetition, and tests them within the engineering paradigm of very tall timber buildings – taller than have ever been erected in the history of architecture. According to Edward Glaeser’s book, Triumph of the City, the cheapest way to deliver new housing (at least in the USA) is in theform of mass-produced two-storey homes, which typically cost only about $84 per square foot to erect. READ MORE