Search for dissertations about: "environmental accountability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words environmental accountability.

2. 1. The Limits of Control? The Role of Sustainability Control for Constructing Accountability within Organisations

   Author : Leanne Johnstone; Magnus Frostenson; Tommy Borglund; Sabina Du Rietz; Matti Skoog; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accountability; accountabilisation process; accountability dynamic; hierarchical accountability; institutional incrementalism; social and environmental accounting; socialising accountability; sustainability controlling; sustainability control systems;

   Abstract : Sustainability control is grounded in pragmatic research traditions which imply that the design of formalised sustainability control systems (de-signed by managers) is enough to ensure strategic plans are met in re-sponse to external accountability demands. Through this, the individualis-ing aspects of control in a hierarchical accountability sense are empha-sised, and the main accountability relationship becomes between the supe-rior and subordinate. READ MORE

4. 2. Negotiating social-ecological fit through knowledge practice

   Author : Simon West; Lisen Schultz; Emily Boyd; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Knowledge practice; adaptive governance; adaptive management; social-ecological systems; problem of fit; performative; narrative; Natural Resources Management; naturresurshushållning;

   Abstract : Adaptive governance and management (AG and AM) have been proposed to address the “problem of fit” between ecosystems and governance systems. AG and AM are intended to reconfigure the relations between knowledge and action through, for instance, experimentation, collaboration and monitoring, to enhance social-ecological feedbacks. READ MORE

5. 3. A systems thinking approach to corruption and natural resources in the context of sustainability

   Author : Johanna Gisladottir; Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdottir; Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir; Ingrid Stjernquist; Birgit Kopainsky; Robert Klitgaard; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; naturgeografi; Physical Geography;

   Abstract : With growing awareness of the current climate crisis, it has become better recognized that natural resource management has global as well as local implications.  Discourse on the importance of sustainability has followed. Natural resource sectors have been known as areas prone to corruption risks due to the usually high revenues involved. READ MORE

6. 4. Sources and fate of plastic particles in northern European coastal waters

   Author : Therese Karlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; plastic pollution; microplastics; method development; polyethylene; FTIR spectroscopy;

   Abstract : Plastics are integral parts of our lives and have allowed for important technological leaps within society. However, an unwanted consequence of our current consumption of plas-tics is marine plastic pollution and in order to reduce its impact we need to understand its sources and fate patterns. READ MORE

7. 5. Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context

   Author : Karin Eliasson; Tina-Simone Neset; Victoria Wibeck; Suvi Huttunen; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; The European Green Deal; Food policy; Focus groups; Food systems; Biodiversity; Accountability; Agency; Phosphorus; Soybean; Footprinting; Den europeiska gröna given; Livsmedelspolitik; Fokusgrupper; Livsmedelssystem; Biodiversitet; Ansvarsskyldighet; Handlingsutrymme; Fosfor; Sojabönor; Fotavtryck;

   Abstract : Food systems are central to global sustainability, while being complex systems where places and people are intertwined over large distances and at different scales. Transformations towards sustainable food systems have been called for in both research and policy, and Sweden and the European Union have declared high ambitions to act as global leaders in these transformations. READ MORE