Search for dissertations about: "green economy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words green economy.

  2. 1. Parties, Power and Patronage : Papers in Political Economy

    Author : Olle Folke; David Strömberg; Torsten Torsten Persson; Donald Green; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three empirical essays in political economics."Shades of Brown and Green: Party Effects in Proportional Election Systems" is the first paper to develop a method for estimating the causal effect of party representation in proportional election systems. This method is applied to Swedish municipalities. READ MORE

  4. 2. Entrepreneurship in Russia: Western Ideas in Russian Translation

    Author : Oksana Shmulyar Gréen; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Keywords : Russia; entrepreneurship; capitalist development; Western business education; Russian marchants; Soviet managers; middle classes; networks;

    Abstract : Aim of this thesis is to outline, both historically and in our own time, the development of entrepreneurship in Russia, a country where the very existence of the phenomenon has for a long period of time been either denied or confined to the margins of illegality and semi-legality. The primary focus of this work is on the emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs that came to thrive in the 1990s, the most turbulent but also the most promising years of Russia’s economic, political, and social transformation. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Technology and Economy of Farm-Scale, High-Solids Anaerobic Digestion of Plant Biomass

    Author : Mattias Svensson; Bioteknik; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; farm-scale; Bioteknik; farmhouse construction; Lantbruksteknik; Biotechnology; agricultural machines; kontroll av utsläpp; Agricultural engineering; Miljöteknik; pollution control; Environmental technology; Lantbruksekonomi; straw bed priming; stratified bed digesters; nitrogen recycling; greenhouse gases; Sweden; Agricultural economics; sequential single-stage fed-batch; ley crops; sustainability; wheat straw; sugar beet tops; crop residues; high-solids; economy; Anaerobic digestion; biogas upgrading;

    Abstract : Anaerobic digestion is a microbially mediated process occurring in nature in the absence of oxygen and other non-carbonaceous electron acceptors. The majority of the carbon of the organic matter degraded in the process is transformed into carbon dioxide and methane. READ MORE

  6. 4. Landscapes of Dispossession : The Production of Space in Northern Tanintharyi, Myanmar

    Author : Mads Barbesgaard; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; production of space; Political economy; class differentiation; Political ecology; Agrarian Political Economy; landscape geography; dispossession; Myanmar; Geopolitics; Geoeconomics; Human Geography; Political economic geography; land grabbing; Ocean Grabbing; Green grabbing;

    Abstract : Since 2007, rural areas, particularly across the global south, have been ravaged by what has been dubbed a “global resource rush”. On the heels of this rush, a new wave of dispossession studies across the fields of agrarian political economy, human geography and political ecology is emerging. READ MORE

  7. 5. From energy efficiency to integrated sustainable urbanism in residential development in China

    Author : Zhichang Cai; Ronald Wennersten; Getachew Assefa Wondimagegnehu; KTH; []
    Keywords : ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; China; Green Building; New Cave house; Eco-office; Mass-Housing; Green Residential Development; Industrial Ecology; Landsea Housing Project; Hammarby Sjöstad; Systems Thinking; Industrial engineering and economy; Industriell teknik och ekonomi;

    Abstract : China has adopted Sustainable Development as a national strategy for all industries. In civil construction sector, sustainability is regarded as the development of Green Building in China. Since 2000, China has introduced a series of policies and laws to promote Green Building. READ MORE