Search for dissertations about: "SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Political science"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 892 swedish dissertations containing the words SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Political science.
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6. Barriers and bridges for introducing agroforestry and community-based forestry among food insecure households in eastern Africa
Abstract : The aim of introducing agroforestry and community-based forestry is to secure and improve livelihoods, maintain and restore ecosystem services, and contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, the adoption and scaling up of these systems among food insecure communities have proved to be difficult. READ MORE
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7. Reconstruction planning in post-conflict zones : Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community
Abstract : The history of mankind has been plagued by an almost continuous chain of various armed conflicts - local, regional, national and global - that have caused horrendous damage to the social and physical fabric of cities. The tragedy of millions deprived by war still continues. READ MORE
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8. Getting the transport right - for what? : What transport policy can tell us about the construction of sustainability
Abstract : This thesis studies transport as a governing tool that shapes the physical environment and human society, as well as having environmental impacts. The aim is to learn what policy for transport can say about what sustainability means and does. READ MORE
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9. Deconstructing political protest
Abstract : Part I of the thesis Deconstructing Political Protest is an introduction to the theoretical, epistemological and (anti)ontological approach guiding the analysis in the articles comprising Part II. Investigations into the ideological organisation of political protests are the focus in all four articles. READ MORE
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10. Seeing and Knowing the Earth as a System : An Effective History of Global Environmental Change Research as Scientific and Political Practice
Abstract : Previous research connecting scientific knowledge production with governing of the global environment usually start in international climate change negotiations and related assessments. From that vantage point Earth system science and models are studied as an expansion of Global Circulation Models. READ MORE