Search for dissertations about: "forestry decision making"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words forestry decision making.
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1. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China
Abstract : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. READ MORE
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2. Strategic technology decision-making in Swedish large-scale forestry
Abstract : Technological development gives Swedish forest companies and forest owners’associations opportunities to maintain competitiveness in the highly cost-sensitivemarket for forest products. Development efforts are typically performed throughunstructured decision processes. READ MORE
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3. Regional Nutrient Budgets in Forest Soils in a Policy Perspective
Abstract : Sweden's forests are one of its most important natural resources, as well as being important from ecological and social perspectives. Nutrient sustainability is essential to maintain the production capacity and reduce the effects of acidification and eutrophication. READ MORE
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4. Direct and indirect pressures of climate change on nutrient and carbon cycling in northern forest ecosystems : Dynamic modelling for policy support
Abstract : Northern forest ecosystems play an important role in mitigating climate change by sequestrating carbon (C), while additionally providing and regulating other ecosystem services. A majority of the Swedish environmental quality objects (EQOs) that guide Swedish environmental policy and management are associated with the forest, and they have proven difficult to achieve. READ MORE
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5. A decision-making framework for enhancing client well-being : When designing windows and blinds
Abstract : The current state of window and blind design moves beyond evaluating a single function, such as energy consumption, to include a human perspective in architectural design approach to create value. A current thought among architects and design professionals is that the highest value outcomes can be obtained when any architectural design contributes to enhanced well-being. READ MORE