Search for dissertations about: "Leverage Points"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words Leverage Points.

2. 1. Learning as a Key Leverage Point for Sustainability Transformations

   Author : Jayne Bryant; Göran Broman; Merlina Missimer; Edith Callaghan; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Leverage Points; Education for Sustainable Development; Sustainability Transformations; Organisational Change; Transformational Learning; Strategic Sustainable Development; Leadership for Sustainability; Strategic Sustainable Development; Strategisk hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : The global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action is needed. Transformational learning and leadership development are key leverage points for supporting society’s transition towards sustainability. READ MORE

4. 2. Essays on systemic risk and financial market volatility

   Author : Dominika Krygier; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; systemic risk; Volatility; Volatility forecasting; Bitcoin; implicit guarantees; Financial stability; Leverage; Value-at-Risk; CoVaR; networks; Centrality; interconnectedness; Financial crisis; Stock market; Banks; Financial Markets;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four independent research papers. All papers are empirical and cover the area of financial market risk, with a particular focus on systemic risk and volatility in financial markets. READ MORE

5. 3. How on Earth : Operationalizing the ecosystem service concept for local sustainability

   Author : Katja Malmborg; Lisen Schultz; Albert Norström; Elin Enfors-Kautsky; Erik Gomez-Baggethun; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ecosystem service bundles; System dynamics; Participatory methods; Usable knowledge; Leverage points; Learning; Complexity; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : Ecosystem services are co-produced in social-ecological systems. Due to their social-ecological framing, ecosystem services hold the potential to be a concept around which different stakeholders with vested interests in different aspects of landscape management can meet. READ MORE

6. 4. On the profitability of momentum strategies and optimal leverage rules

   Author : Christian Lundström Tjurhufvud; Tomas Sjögren; Sami Vähämaa; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Bootstrap; Exchange Traded Products; Kelly criterion; Money management; Opening Range Breakout Strategies; Optimal fraction criterion; Time series momentum; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of an introductory part and five self-contained papers related to the profitability of momentum strategies and optimal leverage rules.Paper [I] tests the success rate of trades and the returns of the Opening Range Breakout (ORB) day trading strategy. READ MORE

7. 5. Nature Routines of Children as Leverage Point for Sustainable Social-Ecological Urbanism : Connecting childhood and biosphere to design sustainable civilizations in the human habitat

   Author : Matteo Giusti; Stephan Barthel; Lars Marcus; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Nature routines; strong sustainability; sustainable social-ecological urbanism; connection to nature; children; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling; Sustainability Science;

   Abstract : Strong sustainability requires enhanced knowledge and understanding of complex social-ecological interactions, but it also implies a ‘novel’ conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature, one in which individuals perceive themselves as embedded members of the Biosphere. The aim of this Licentiate thesis is to investigate the validity of a strategy that is centered on designing the urban green infrastructure to nurture such human-nature relationship in children’s attitudes. READ MORE