Search for dissertations about: "Carl Folke"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Carl Folke.

  2. 1. Evaluation of ecosystem life-support in relation to salmon and wetland exploitation

    Author : Carl Folke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ekosystem i vatten;

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  4. 2. The photo-diary and follow-up appointment on the ICU: Giving back the time to patients and relatives. : A descriptive and interventional study

    Author : Carl G Bäckman; Sten Walther; Folke Sjöberg; Lotti Orwelius; Lars Berggren; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : Background: Patients on the ICU often spend a great deal of their time either unconscious or heavily sedated. When they return from the zone between life and death they are often in a state of confusion where dreams and delusions are intertwined with reality and it is not always easy to distinguish them apart. READ MORE

  5. 3. Dry spell mitigation to upgrade semi-arid rainfed agriculture : Water harvesting and soil nutrient management for smallholder maize cultivation in Machakos, Kenya

    Author : Jennie Barron; Carl Folke; Theib Oweis; Stockholms universitet; []
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    Abstract : Improvements in on-farm water and soil fertility management through water harvesting may prove key to up-grade smallholder farming systems in dry sub-humid and semi-arid sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The currently experienced yield levels are usually less than 1 t ha-1, i.e. READ MORE

  6. 4. Recalling Urban Nature : Linking City People to Ecosystem Services

    Author : Stephan Barthel; Carl Folke; Thomas Elmqvist; Johan Colding; Per Olsson; Susanne Stoll-Kleemann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ecosystem service; functional group; resilience; social-ecological system; urban; institution; property right; knowledge; sense-of-place; social-ecological memory; adaptive governance; scale-crossing broker; ecosystem management; Biology; Biologi; Natural Resources Management; naturresurshushållning;

    Abstract : Societal development is dependent on the generation of ecosystem services (ES) to sustain it; however, many ES are degrading. This thesis investigates how social-ecological features behind practices of actor groups shape the generation of ES. READ MORE

  7. 5. Humans and Seagrasses in East Africa : A social-ecological systems approach

    Author : Maricela de la Torre-Castro; Nils Kautsky; Carl Folke; Patrik Rönnbäck; Edward H. Allison; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : seagrasses; social-ecological systems; institutions; seaweed farming; artisanal fisheries; common-pool resources; natural resource management; Zanzibar; Tanzania; East Africa; Western Indian Ocean;

    Abstract : The present study is one of the first attempts to analyze the societal importance of seagrasses (marine flowering plants) from a Natural Resource Management perspective, using a social-ecological systems (SES) approach. The interdisciplinary study takes place in East Africa (Western Indian Ocean, WIO) and includes in-depth studies in Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar, Tanzania. READ MORE