Search for dissertations about: "Earth sciences"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 2365 swedish dissertations containing the words Earth sciences.
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1. Learning-by-modeling Novel Computational Approaches for Exploring the Dynamics of Learning and Self-governance in Social-ecological Systems
Abstract : As a consequence of global environmental change, sustainable management and governance of natural resources face critical challenges, such as dealing with non-linear dynamics, increased resource variability, and uncertainty. This thesis seeks to address some of these challenges by using simulation models. READ MORE
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2. Sustainability for Whom? The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education
Abstract : Global initiatives regarding environmental change have increasingly become part of political agendas and of our collective imagination. In order to form sustainable societies, education is considered crucial by organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. READ MORE
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3. Development of a Risk-Based Decision Model for Prioritizing Microbial Risk Mitigation Measures in Drinking Water Systems
University dissertation from Gothenburg : Chalmers tekniska högskolaAbstract : Risk management of drinking water systems is crucial since our society relies on these systems to be robust and sustainable to supply safe drinking water now and to future generations. Pathogens may spread in drinking water systems and cause waterborne outbreaks resulting in human suffering and large costs to the society. READ MORE
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4. Sustainability for Whom? The Politics of Imagining Environmental Change in Education
University dissertation from Gothenburg : Chalmers tekniska högskolaAbstract : Global initiatives regarding environmental change have increasingly become part of political agendas and of our collective imagination. In order to form sustainable societies, education is considered crucial by organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. READ MORE
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5. Seeing and Knowing the Earth as a System An Effective History of Global Environmental Change Research as Scientific and Political Practice
University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic PressAbstract : Previous research connecting scientific knowledge production with governing of the global environment usually start in international climate change negotiations and related assessments. From that vantage point Earth system science and models are studied as an expansion of Global Circulation Models. READ MORE
