Search for dissertations about: "WTO"
Showing result 21 - 24 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word WTO.
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21. Agricultural land and landscapes : assessing the resource situation and developing an alternative system of agri-environmental payments : models with applications in Sweden
Abstract : The agricultural land provision of private and public goods is studied by inter-disciplinary approaches on the supply from a resource economics perspective and on efficient policy measures from a welfare economic perspective. The socially optimal production of landscape public goods is derived theoretically by introducing the concept of quantitative hectares where measures of area and biodiversity etc. READ MORE
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22. Energy Auditing and Efficiency in a Chain Hotel : the Case of Scandic, Järva Krog
Abstract : Energy efficiency and conservation measures in hotels is an area of research at the Department of Energy Technology, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH), Sweden. As a continuation of the research work, this project was focused on a hotel's resource-use performance, considering both internal and external factors that influence their consumption. READ MORE
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23. Fair Enough? : Ecologically Unequal Exchange, International Trade, and Environmental Justice
Abstract : The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that contemporary international trade facilitates a net flow of resources from the peripheral global South to feed industrial processes and capital accumulation in the core North. This situation, it is argued, imperils the development of the South. READ MORE
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24. The Use of Sustainability Criteria : In the Case of the EU Legislation on Biofuels in the Transport Sector
Abstract : In the licentiate thesis, it is researched and analyzed how sustainability criteria may be used in a legal framework, with the purpose to promote and safeguard sustainable products and their production. The research and analysis are conducted on the basis of the EU approach to use sustainability criteria for biofuels in the transport sector, legally expressed in Directive 2009/28/EC, and its amendments in Directive 2015/1513. READ MORE