Search for dissertations about: "Regime shift"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 79 swedish dissertations containing the words Regime shift.

  2. 1. Natural Disasters and National Election : On the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the 2005 Storm Gudrun and the 2006 Historic Regime Shift

    Author : Lina M. Eriksson; Kåre Vernby; Charles Parker; Henning Finseraas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; retrospective voting; party support; regime shift; natural disasters; crisis response; international crisis response; international law; effective representation; multiparty systems;

    Abstract : The 2006 Swedish parliamentary election was a historic election with the largest bloc transfer of voters in Swedish history. The 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party (S) received its lowest voter support since 1914 as roughly 150,000, or 8%, of the 2002 S voters went to the main opposition, the conservative Moderate Party (M). READ MORE

  4. 2. Regime Shifts in the Anthropocene

    Author : Juan Carlos Rocha; Garry Peterson; Debra Peters; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; regime shifts; critical transitions; ecosystems; drivers; impacts; ecosystem services; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : Abrupt and persistent reconfiguration of ecosystem’s structure and function has been observed on a wide variety of ecosystems worldwide. While scientist believe that such phenomena could become more common and severe in the near future, little is known about the patterns of regime shifts’ causes and consequences for human well-being. READ MORE

  5. 3. Regime Stability and Foreign Policy Change : Interaction between Domestic and Foreign Policy in Hungary 1956-1994

    Author : Tomas Niklasson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WTO; comecon; CMEA; gorbachev; antall; kádár; ethnic minorities; hungarian politics; hungary; political opposition; authoritarian regime; reference society; two-level game; stabilisers; foreign policy change; foreign debt; economic reform; democratisation; coercion; legitimacy; regime stability; political stability; warsaw pact; CSCE; OSCE; EU enlargement; NATO enlargement; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : Domestic and foreign policy cannot always be kept apart. A change of Government at national level may impact on foreign policy, and foreign policy adventures sometimes translate into consequences at home. READ MORE

  6. 4. Complexity and Change in a Simple Food Web : Studies in the Baltic Sea (FAO Area 27.IIId)

    Author : Henrik Österblom; Sture Hansson; Robert W Furness; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Avian cholera; Bottom-up; Bycatch; Clupea harengus; Ecosystem; Food web; Gadus morhua; Halichoerus grypus; Regime shift; Sprattus sprattus; Top-down; Trophic cascade; Uria aalge; Marine ecology; Marin ekologi;

    Abstract : An influence at one trophic level can result in dynamic impacts also on other components of a food web. These dynamics are known as trophic cascades, and can be both top-down and bottom-up. After a near-collapse of the Baltic cod Gadus morhua stock in the 1980s, its main prey sprat Sprattus sprattus increased dramatically. READ MORE

  7. 5. Anthropogenic Disturbances and Shifts in Tropical Seagrass Ecosystems

    Author : Johan S. Eklöf; Nils Kautsky; Patrik Rönnbäck; Teresa Alcoverro; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Aquaculture; feedback mechanisms; Kenya; management; overgrazing; regime shift; resilience; seagrass; seaweed farming; sea urchins; Tanzania; trophic cascades; Zanzibar; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; Marine Ecotoxicology; marin ekotoxikologi;

    Abstract : Seagrasses constitute the basis for diverse and productive ecosystems worldwide. In East Africa, they provide important ecosystem services (e.g. fisheries) but are potentially threatened by increasing resource use and lack of enforced management regulations. READ MORE