Search for dissertations about: "Sustainable development through Climate change"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 76 swedish dissertations containing the words Sustainable development through Climate change.
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1. Sustainable Urban and Regional Development and Related Ecosystem Services and Water-Climate Interactions
Abstract : To accommodate a growing global population while mitigating climate change, urban areas must grow while minimising environmental impacts. To achieve this, a city must be treated as a complex socio-ecological system in which many actors and subsystems act in unclear and unpredictable ways. READ MORE
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2. Conditions of ‘Sustainability’ : The Case of Climate Change Adaptation in Sweden
Abstract : By describing climate change as one of the greatest challenges of our time, the Swedish government has expressed a commitment to climate change adaptation as an integral part of the country’s sustainable development efforts. Sweden has also been portrayed as a frontrunner of climate policy and sustainable development. READ MORE
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3. The Construction of a Sustainable Development in Times of Climate Change
Abstract : This dissertation is a contribution to the debate about ‘climate justice’, i.e. a call for a just and feasible distribution of responsibility for addressing climate change. READ MORE
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4. Entering the dynamic risk space : Assessing planetary boundary interactions through process-based quantifications
Abstract : The planetary boundaries framework is an effort to define a safe operating space for humanity. Its rationale is that sustainable development needs to be achieved in ways that safeguard the stability of the Earth system on which human prosperity relies. READ MORE
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5. Climate change mitigation through CDM : bioenergy technology and energy efficiency in the steel industry
Abstract : Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to sustainable development facing the international community. Increased attention has been given by industries and governments from both industrialized and developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the clean development mechanism (CDM), one of the Kyoto Protocol's (KP) flexible mechanisms. READ MORE