Search for dissertations about: "historical land use"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 73 swedish dissertations containing the words historical land use.

  2. 1. Historical Urban Agriculture : Food Production and Access to Land in Swedish Towns before 1900

    Author : Annika Björklund; Mats Widgren; Johannes Renes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; urban agriculture; urban history; urban geography; Sweden; town; food production; food consumption; Uppsala; historical geography; land allocation; cadastral maps; urban land-use; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis analyses the role of historical urban agriculture in a long-time perspective, through a combination of overarching surveys of Swedish towns and detailed studies of one town – Uppsala in east-central Sweden. The study shows how agricultural land – town land – of various sizes was donated to towns repeatedly during medieval times and in the 16th and 17th centuries. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Lie of the Land: Gender, Farm Work, and Land in a Rural Vietnamese Village

    Author : Cecilia Bergstedt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anthropology; Vietnam; gender; agriculture; farming; wet-rice cultivation; farm work; division of labour; land; land access; place;

    Abstract : This anthropological study investigates ways in which perceptions of gender intersect with the everyday dealings of land and farming practices in a village in the northern part of Vietnam. The point of departure for this study is a desire to take a closer look at how processes of gendering actually take place and become meaningful on a day-to-day basis. READ MORE

  5. 3. A land of one's own : Sami resource use in Sweden's boreal landscape under autonomous governance

    Author : Gudrun Norstedt; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ALS; archaeology; boreal forest; dendrochronology; forest history; historical maps; interdisciplinary research; lidar; Sami; settlement patterns; ALS; arkeologi; boreal skog; bosättningsmönster; dendrokronologi; historiska kartor; lidar; samer; skogshistoria; tvärvetenskap;

    Abstract : The Sami dominated large parts of boreal Sweden well into the 18th century, and knowledge of Sami subsistence patterns is therefore a key to the region’s forest history. Although much research has been done on Sami resource use and landscape impact, the context is often vaguely understood. READ MORE

  6. 4. Wells of Experience : A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia

    Author : Karl-Johan Lindholm; Paul J. J. Sinclair; Thomas Elmqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Archaeology; Namibia; Kalahari; Omaheke; archaeology; wells; land-use history; pastoralism; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The conventional view on the Kalahari in southern Africa expresses that the area is unsuitable for livestock herding. For this reason, it is argued that livestock herders avoided the Kalahari in the past and were only able to establish themselves in the later half of the twentieth century, when deep-reaching boreholes were introduced in the area. READ MORE

  7. 5. The interplay between atmosphere, hydrology and land use by environmental modelling

    Author : Fabio Pereira; Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Land use changes; expansion of sugarcane; hydrological cycle; coupled models;

    Abstract : Interactions between land surface and atmosphere induced by human activities and natural environmental dynamics act on a time scale that varies from seconds to millions of years. It is by exchanging heat, water, energy and carbon that land surface and atmospheric processes are closely interrelated and influence each other in reciprocal ways. READ MORE