Search for dissertations about: "coastal transition"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words coastal transition.
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1. Tourism, Ecosystem Functions, and Human-Environmental Relations
Abstract : The thesis aims at deconstructing the sustainable tourism paradigm: can tourism be "a global strategy for sustainable development", as the tourist industry claims? And will developing countries in particular profit from tourism development?To most international organizations and institutions (from the World Wide Fund for Nature to The World Bank), tourism, if carefully managed, is a positive, sustainable development tool. However, the research presented in this thesis exposes this view as unrealistically optimistic for at least three reasons: first of all, global environmental change caused by tourism has never been investigated and integrated with the discourse on sustainable tourism development. READ MORE
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2. Teachers’ lives in transition : gendered experiences of work and family among primary school teachers in northern Sweden, c. 1860–1940
Abstract : In this thesis, primary school teachers in a coastal area of northern Sweden c. 1860–1940 are studied with the overarching purpose to investigate the link between professional work and private life. READ MORE
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3. Wind and atmospheric stability characteristics over the Baltic Sea
Abstract : In recent years there has been an increase in offshore wind energy, which poses the need for accurate wind speed estimates in the marine environment, especially in coastal areas where most wind turbines will be placed. This thesis is focused on the Baltic Sea, which is a small, semi-enclosed sea where land-sea interaction play an important role in explaining the wind patterns. READ MORE
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4. Aerosol deposition to coastal forests: a wind tunnel approach
Abstract : Aerodynamically rough surfaces of forests provide for efficient air/ canopy exchange of mass, heat and momentum. In that context, the effects of forest edges come into focus, and therefore, coastal-zone forests constitute aparticular concern. READ MORE
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5. Reconstructing Si cycling in transition zones during the Holocene using terrestrial and aquatic records
Abstract : Global biogeochemical cycles and their interactions are an important parts of climate research. Investigations during the last decades emphasize the key role of diatoms – siliceous phytoplankton – in the silicon (Si) cycle as they are important carbon sequesters in both marine and lacustrine environments. READ MORE
