Search for dissertations about: "Political ecology"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words Political ecology.

  2. 26. A new storm over the Naqab : The temporality of space in Israeli settler colonialism

    Author : Johanna Adolfsson; Anders Wästfelt; Ulf Jansson; Irus Braverman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Settler colonial studies; posthumanism; political ecology; transhumance; frontier; Negev Naqab; Israel Palestine; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography;

    Abstract : How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its borders, is continuously narrated as under threat of being lost to the Palestinian Bedouins. READ MORE

  4. 27. Ecosystem Services and Disservices in an Agriculture–Forest Mosaic : A Study of Forest and Tree Management and Landscape Transformation in Southwestern Ethiopia

    Author : Tola Gemechu Ango; Lowe Börjeson; Tobias Plieninger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conservation; deforestation; ecosystem disservices; ecosystem services; forest; Ethiopia; land grabbing; livelihood; Oromia; policies; political ecology; trees; tropical landscape mosaic; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

    Abstract : The intertwined challenges of food insecurity, deforestation, and biodiversity loss remain perennial challenges in Ethiopia, despite increasing policy interventions. This thesis investigates smallholding farmers’ tree- and forest-based livelihoods and management practices, in the context of national development and conservation policies, and examines how these local management practices and policies transform the agriculture–forest mosaic landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. READ MORE

  5. 28. Making sense of sufficiency : Entries, practices and politics

    Author : Åsa Callmer; Karin Bradley; Jonathan Metzger; Marlyne Sahakian; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sufficiency; sustainable consumption; anti-consumption; decluttering; political ecology; KonMari; Tillräcklighet; hållbar konsumtion; anti-konsumtion; rensning; politisk ekologi; KonMari.; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Urbana och regionala studier; Urban and Regional Studies;

    Abstract : The affluent groups and societies in the world have made material consumption part of their lifestyle. Today, overconsumption has come to constitute an acute environmental problem, both with regards to the natural resources needed to satisfy our ever-growing wants, and to the mountains of waste it leaves behind. READ MORE

  6. 29. Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors

    Author : Mikael Klintman; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ecology; critical realism; electricity; environment; epistemology; green identity; greening; meta-theory; nature; ontology; social science; public participation; waste; windpower; sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The book has two interrelated objectives. One objective is meta-theoretical and concerns the exploration of theoretical debates connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. READ MORE

  7. 30. A QUEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY : Chicana/o Literary Experiences of Water (Mis)Management and Environmental Degradation in the US Southwest

    Author : María Isabel Perez-Ramos; Sverker Sörlin; Marco Armiero; Joni Adamson; Maria Herrera Sobek; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Environmental humanities; ecocriticism; environmental history; comparative literature; U.S. Southwest; Chicana o; subaltern literature; environmental justice; water; political ecology; postcoloniality; decoloniality.; Miljöhumaniora; ekokritik; miljöhistoria; litteraturhistoria; sydvästra USA; Chicana o; subaltern litteratur; miljörättvisa; vatten; politisk ekologi; postkolonialitet; dekolonialitet.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. READ MORE