Search for dissertations about: "Civil defense"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Civil defense.

  2. 6. Stewardship in an urban world : Civic engagement and human–nature relations in the Anthropocene

    Author : Johan Enqvist; Maria Tengö; Örjan Bodin; Bengt G. Karlsson; Richard C. Stedman; Morgan Grove; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agency; Bengaluru; boundary object; care; civil society; community; environmental ethics; knowledge; natural resource management; New York City; problem of fit; rigidity trap; sense of place; social–ecological system; urbanization; water governance; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : Never before have humans wielded a greater ability to alter and disrupt planetary processes. Our impact is becoming so noticeable that a new geological epoch has been proposed – the Anthropocene – in which Earth systems might no longer maintain the stable and predictable conditions of the past 12 millennia. READ MORE

  4. 7. Fear of flying in civil airline passengers: a manifold phenomenon with various motivational roots

    Author : Gunilla Amnér; MedCUL Medicinska fakultetens centrum för undervisning och lärande; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aerophobia; Psychology; Psykologi; fear of flying;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises four papers reporting results from a project studying the fear of flying phenomenon. Paper I is an evaluation study of a new percept-genetic instrument, the Flight Situation Test (FST). A group of 24 subjects with a fear of flying (FoF) and 19 controls (non-FoF) were tested. READ MORE

  5. 8. Mission Experience : How to Model and Capture it to Enable Vicarious Learning

    Author : Dennis Andersson; Niklas Hallberg; Sofie Pilemalm; Henrik Eriksson; Alexander Bordetsky; José J. Cabeza Gonzalez; Linköpings universitet; []
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    Abstract : Organizations for humanitarian assistance, disaster response and military activities are characterized by their special role in society to resolve time-constrained and potentially life-threatening situations. The tactical missions that these organizations conduct regularly are significantly dynamic in character, and sometimes impossible to fully comprehend and predict. READ MORE

  6. 9. Everybody knows? : Conversational coproduction in communication of addiction expertise

    Author : Katarina Winter; Mikaela Sundberg; Johan Edman; Mikael Klintman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conversational coproduction; coproduction of knowledge; science and technology studies; expert communication; science communication; public participation; publics; experts; addiction; codependency; media; politics; conversation analysis; biomedicalization; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The coproduction idiom within Science and Technology Studies (STS) centers on how science and society produce knowledge together. The current thesis explores expert communication – which is immersed in the relationship between science and society – as a case for understanding such coproducing processes. READ MORE

  7. 10. Essays on Elite Networks in Sweden : Power, social integration, and informal contacts among political elites

    Author : Gergei Farkas; Jens Rydgren; Christofer Edling; Trygve Gulbrandsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; elites; social networks; social capital; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to present work on a number of salient characteristics of elite relations in Sweden, studied from a social network analytic perspective. Elite integration, the distribution of elite power, and the significance of elites’ informal relations represent the three main themes explored in the original studies that comprise the thesis. READ MORE