Search for dissertations about: "rural marketing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words rural marketing.

  2. 1. There and back again? : Dutch lifestyle migrants moving to rural Sweden in the early 21st century

    Author : Marco Eimermann; Mats Lundmark; Dieter Müller; Susanne Stenbacka; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lifestyle migration; international counterurbanisation; creative class; place marketing; Emigration Expo; Bergslagen Database; interview study; Dutch families; rural Sweden; 21st century; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis has a twofold aim. First, it studies motivations and decision processes of Dutch families moving to rural Sweden, with a focus on Hällefors municipality in the Bergslagen area. Second, it explores how this migration flow can be conceptualised within migration theory. The results of the study are presented in four papers. READ MORE

  4. 2. Migration and Place Attractiveness

    Author : Thomas Niedomysl; Urban Fransson; Bo Malmberg; Bertil Vilhelmson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Social and economic geography; Interregional Migration; Place Attractiveness; Sweden; Tourism; Marketing; Promotion; Life-course; Age; Survey Research; Residential Preferences; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The thesis includes six self-contained papers that from various perspectives examine place attractiveness and migration in Sweden. Paper I provides an extensive overview of Swedish municipalities’ place marketing engagement to attract in-migrants, based on survey responses from 220 municipalities. READ MORE

  5. 3. Progress, Hunger and Envy: Commercial Agriculture, Marketing and Social Transformation in the Venezuelan Andes

    Author : Monica Lindh de Montoya; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; markets; rural trade; commercialization; Venezuela; entrepreneurship; social change; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi;

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  6. 4. The construction of food and meal culture for political and commercial ends : EU-summits, rural businesses and World Exhibitions

    Author : Richard Tellström; Inga-Britt Gustafsson; Birgitta Svensson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : authenticity; commercial; cultural form; cultural value; food and meal culture; origin; political; professional; Culinary Arts and Meal Science; Måltidskunskap; Måltidskunskap; Culinary Arts and Meal Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how cultural values of food and meal culture were expressed and used by professional agents. The overall aim was to analyse and synthesise the interpretation and creation by professionals in commercial food and meal production of what they defined as a local, regional or national food and meal culture. READ MORE

  7. 5. Making the Most of It? : Understanding the social and productive dynamics of small farmers in semi-arid Iringa, Tanzania

    Author : Peter Gregersen; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social changes; Malthus; Boserup; Tanzania; semi-arid Africa; Iringa; conservation; sustainability; soil fertility; degradation; population; Matthew principle; social differentiation; farmerisation; de-peasantisation; livelihood diversification; rural change; agrarian change; agricultural change; small farmers; dynamics; theory of social work; Sociala förändringar; teorier om socialt arbete; Malthus; Boserup; Tanzania;

    Abstract : While much of semi-arid Africa is still sparsely populated with unused land, there are everywhere pockets of high and increasing population density in attractive locations. Small-scale farmers can respond to beginning land-scarcity in a number of ways. READ MORE