Search for dissertations about: "Desert"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the word Desert.
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1. The negotiable desert : Expert knowledge in the negotiations of the Convention to Combat Desertification
Abstract : As the awareness of environmental problems increases, so too do the number of international rules and regulations to prevent them. To set up new rules, decision-makers need knowledge about the environmental issues addressed and therefore often consult experts. READ MORE
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2. Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality
Abstract : Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards how much, in what ways, and on what grounds executives are paid. READ MORE
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3. NOUR - Daylighting and thermal effects of windows in desert houses
Abstract : This study is on a combined effect of window, the daylighting and the thermal effects, in desert houses. It is comprised of two complementary studies. In the introduction a historical review on the development of use daylight has been carried out in order to place the case study in a historical perspective. READ MORE
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4. A Future for the Past of Desert Vernacular Architecture
Abstract : Desert vernacular architecture has always been the product of a sustainable building cycle. People inherited the traditional way of building from their ancestors and the knowledge was transferred and developed from one generation to another. READ MORE
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5. Minds, Brains and Desert: On the relevance of neuroscience for retributive punishment
Abstract : It is a common idea, and an element in many legal systems, that people can deserve punishment when they commit criminal (or immoral) actions. A standard philosophical objection to this retributivist idea about punishment is that if human choices and actions are determined by previous events and the laws of nature, then we are not free in the sense required to be morally responsible for our actions, and therefore cannot deserve blame or punishment. READ MORE