Search for dissertations about: "Alf Hornborg"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Alf Hornborg.

2. 1. Artificial Earth : On the Genealogy of Planetary Technicity

   Author : Daniel Andersson; Jonas Anshelm; Johan Hedrén; Alf Hornborg; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : As technology transforms the conditions by which we come understand and interact with the world around us, it is relevant to ask questions about the historicalontological aspects of these patterns of change. The widespread adoption of the term “Anthropocene” during the last twenty years indicates the wide acceptance of the view that human activities have become such a powerful driving force for global environmental change that our destructive legacy will be recorded in geological history. READ MORE

4. 2. Sustainability goals combining social and environmental aspects

   Author : Eléonore Fauré; Göran Finnveden; Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling; Alf Hornborg; Jonas Nässen; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Sustainability goals; goal conflicts; trade-offs; environmental justice; backcasting; future scenarios; climate and energy targets.; Hållbarhetsmål; målkonflikter; miljörättvisa; backcasting; framtidsscenarier; klimat och energimål.; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how to take into account both environmental and social sustainability goals to be used in scenarios or in policymaking.In paper I, we select four sustainability goals that have to be fulfilled by 2050 in normative future scenarios for Sweden in a degrowth context. READ MORE