Search for dissertations about: "Pollution"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 813 swedish dissertations containing the word Pollution.
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6. Air pollution in Nairobi slums : sources, levels and lay perceptions
Abstract : BackgroundAir quality in Africa has remained a relatively under-researched field. Most of the African population is dependent on biomass for cooking and heating, with most of the combustion happening in low efficiency stoves in unvented kitchens. READ MORE
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7. Pollution, Health and Housing Markets : Essays on the Consequences of Environmental Policy
Abstract : The objective of the thesis is to estimate the health and housing market effects of environmental policies and estimate how these effects are distributed among individuals.The first essay estimates the health effects of a noise mitigation program that provided dwelling insulation and noise barriers. READ MORE
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8. Flamelet modelling of soot formation in diffusion flames
Abstract : In this work the steady and unsteady flamelet models have been applied to soot formation in laminar and turbulent diffusion flames. The aim was to study how different model parameters affect soot formation in diffusion flames. It was shown that certain assumptions are more crucial in laminar diffusion flames than in turbulent ones. READ MORE
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9. Genetic response to pollution in sticklebacks; natural selection in the wild
Abstract : The last century, humans have been altering almost all natural environments at an accelerating rate, including the Baltic Sea that has highly eutrophicated areas and many coastal industries such as Pulp-mills. For animals living in a habitat that changes there are basically two alternatives, either to cope with the change or become locally extinct. READ MORE
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10. Lichens and air pollution : a study of cryptogamic epiphytes and environment in the Stockholm region
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