Search for dissertations about: "change of land use"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 324 swedish dissertations containing the words change of land use.
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1. Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
Abstract : As a global society we are entering an era where land areas and land-based resources are coming to the fore once again for capital accumulation and economic growth, for the first time since the end of the 18th century when Malthus forecasted a contradiction between population growth and agricultural output. That constraint on economic growth, imposed by limited land areas, was overcome by the combination of fossil fuels (coal, oil) and appropriation of space overseas (colonialism, trade). READ MORE
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2. Essays on the Political Economy of Land Use Change
Abstract : This thesis consists of three articles. The two first ones construct theoretical models for land use change between agriculture and forestry in the presence of lobbies representing both sectors. The third article tests empirically the hypothesis forwarded in the first essay. READ MORE
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3. Peakflow response of stream networks : implications of physical descriptions of streams and temporal change
Abstract : Through distributed stream network routing, it has quantitatively been shown that the relationship between flow travel time and discharge varies strongly nonlinearly with stream stage and with catchment-specific properties.Physically derived distributions of water travel times through a stream network were successfully used to parameterise the streamflow response function of a compartmental hydrological model. READ MORE
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4. Rooting for forest resilience : Implications of climate and land-use change on the tropical rainforests
Abstract : Tropical rainforests in the Amazon and Congo River basins and their climate are mutually dependent. Evaporation from these forests help regulate the regional and global water cycle. Furthermore, these rainforests themselves depend on precipitation to sustain their structure and functions. READ MORE
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5. My house is my husband - A Kenyan Study of Women´s Access to Land and Housing
Abstract : This thesis explores women’s access to property in Kenya. It consists of three parts. The first gives the Kenyan background, the theoretical and methodological approach. READ MORE