Search for dissertations about: "cultural landscape"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 109 swedish dissertations containing the words cultural landscape.

2. 21. Tourism as Interaction of Landscapes : Opportunities and obstacles on the way to sustainable development in Lamu Island, Kenya

   Author : Siw-Inger Halling; Peeter Maandi; Erik Westholm; Elisabeth Gräslund Berg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lamu; sustainable development; tourism; landscape; moral landscapes; tourism and gender relations;

   Abstract : Abstract Lamu Island on the Kenyan coast is the home of a society with a thousand year history of contacts with other cultures through trade and shipping.  The loss of its traditional socio-economic base has led to the entry of tourism as the main income generating activity and the major contact with distant peoples. READ MORE

4. 22. The Eco-Gost in the Machine : Reflexions on Space, Place and Time in Environmental Geography

   Author : Johan Hultman; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; landscape; culture; consumption; individual mobility; household resource use; ecocycles; sustainable development; urban ecology; Social geography; Socialgeografi;

   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to propose a way to introduce social and cultural aspects of environmental degradation to the sustainable development debate. This is done by a reflexive and critical examination of environmental research as it has been applied to different spatial levels (and thus levels of social complexity). READ MORE

5. 23. Deciduous tree occurrence and large herbivore browsing in multiscale perspectives

   Author : Gunilla Cassing; Larry Greenberg; Christina Skarpe; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; aspen; rowan; sallow; GIS; browsing; landscape; forest management; Biology; Biologi;

   Abstract : Aspen ( Populus tremula), rowan (Sorbus auquparia) and sallow (Salix caprea) are deciduous tree species of low economic value for forestry and contribute to biodiversity of boreal forests. The species are rare in managed forest landscapes, and severely browsed by moose. READ MORE

6. 24. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

   Author : Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

   Abstract : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. READ MORE

7. 25. Environmental Atmosphere: Outdoor Environmental Assessments for Design and Education

   Author : Lisa Tucker Cross; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Landskapsarkitektur; Landscape design; POE; outdoor environment; housing exhibitions; housing environments; expert checklist; environmental atmosphere; architectural education; cross-cultural; Physical planning; Fysisk planering;

   Abstract : The primary goal of this thesis was to develop an Expert checklist for assessing and de-veloping outdoor residential environments. The checklist was utilized by 5 experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning who were all fa-miliar with the concept of architectural psychology. READ MORE