Search for dissertations about: "Food"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 2061 swedish dissertations containing the word Food.
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1. Teenagers and Food : The Impact of Culture and Gender on Attitudes towards Food
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2. Shaping sustainable food systems : Local participation in addressing global challenges
Abstract : The current unsustainable trajectory of food systems puts the social and ecological processes and functions on which human flourishing depends at risk. This last decade has seen, on one hand, continued insistence on transformative action and on the other, uncertainty and instability with respect to traditional, established institutions, such as the state. READ MORE
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3. Contested Food : The Construction of Home and Consumer Studies as a Cultural Space
Abstract : Education about and for the home has been part of the Swedish education system for over one hundred years, and Home and Consumer Studies (HCS) has been compulsory for all pupils since the common nine-year school system was introduced in 1962. For all this time food has been a central theme, however we know very little of what food means in this context. READ MORE
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4. Food in the Future : energy and transport in the food system
Abstract : This thesis explores possible future forms of a sustainable food supply system from an energy aspect. Particular attention is devoted to local food supply as a means to reduce energy use for transport. The thesis consists of a covering essay and three studies: one futures study of the entire food supply system and two case studies of local farming. READ MORE
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5. Environmental Imprint of Human Food Consumption : Linköping, Sweden 1870 - 2000
Abstract : Human food consumption has changed from the late 19th century to the turn of the millennium, and so has the need for resources to sustain this consumption. For the city of Linköping, situated in southeastern Sweden, the environmental imprint of an average inhabitant’s food consumption is studied from the year 1870 to the year 2000. READ MORE
