Search for dissertations about: "Countryside"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word Countryside.

  2. 1. German second home owners in the Swedish countryside : on the internationalization of the leisure space

    Author : Dieter K. Müller; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism; second homes; countryside; Sweden; Germany; tourist motivation; innovation diffusion; integration; gentryfication; GIS;

    Abstract : Between 1991 and 1996 the number of German second home owners in Sweden increased from about 1,500 to more than 5,500. The purpose of this thesis is to give a comprehensive description and analysis of the German cottage purchases in Sweden, 1991-96. READ MORE

  4. 2. Socio-economic dynamics in sparse regional structures

    Author : Örjan Pettersson; Ulf Wiberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Northern Sweden; Norrland; Sparsely populated areas; Countryside; Rural change; Regional development; Forestry; Population; Welfare; Glesbygd-- Sverige -- Norrland; Regional utveckling-- Sverige -- Norrland; Norrland-- sociala förhållanden; Norrland-- ekonomiska förhållanden;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse socio-economic changes in northern Sweden. Focus is on the period 1985-2000. READ MORE

  5. 3. Reutilisation of agricultural buildings : tourism and sustainability in the Swedish periurban context

    Author : György Ängelkott Bocz; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Agricultural buildings (ABs) dominate the countryside and their reutilisation in periurban areas is important in rural diversification and in maintaining a living countryside. These constructions have been examined in various studies, but the reutilisation of ABs in tourism in a spatial context has not yet been scientifically analysed. READ MORE

  6. 4. Images of Work and Love : The Dynamics of Economy and Emotions on the Big Screen in Sweden and Mexico 1930–1955

    Author : Rosalía Guerrero Cantarell; Orsi Husz; Maths Isacson; Ann Ighe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work; Romantic Love; Modernity; Emotional capital; Worthiness; Respectability; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the intertwinement of economy and emotions within the context of modernity. By investigating how work and romantic love interact in fiction films from the period 1930 to 1955, I seek to shed light on how two cultural practices that might normally be assumed to belong to separate dimensions of life – the economic and the emotional – are actually closely connected to each other. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Argolid under Roman rule (31 BC - AD 600)

    Author : Renée Forsell; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Ancient history; power structures; social structure; Christianisation; religious life; trade; subsistence; settlement patterns; Western Argolid; Southern Argolid; Methana; Troizenia; Epidaurea; Late Roman Greece; Argolid; Roman Greece; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the region of Argolid in the eastern part of the Greek Peloponnese during the Roman Imperial era, taking up a variety of aspects of life there based mainly on archaeological evidence. The introduction presents the study area and the background to the study. READ MORE