Search for dissertations about: "home land"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words home land.

  2. 1. My house is my husband - A Kenyan Study of Women´s Access to Land and Housing

    Author : Diana Lee-Smith; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Urban areas; Surveys; Social structure; Rural housing; Rural areas; Research; Legal aspects; Land use; Land ownership; Land acquisition; Kenya; Income distribution; Housing; Home ownership; Food; Firewood; Family; Domestic labour; Community organization; Data collecting; Urban housing; Urban powerty; Use of dwelling; Water; Women; Architecture; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Abstract : This thesis explores women’s access to property in Kenya. It consists of three parts. The first gives the Kenyan background, the theoretical and methodological approach. READ MORE

  4. 2. The evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004

    Author : Fredrick Omolo-Okalebo; Inga Britt Werner; Robert Home; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; planning; planning ideas; implementation; colonial; postcolonial;

    Abstract : Through a descriptive and exploratory approach, and by review and deduction of archival and documentary resources, supplemented by empirical evidence from case studies, this thesis traces, analyses and describes the historic trajectory of planning events in Kampala City, Uganda, since the inception of modern town planning in 1903, and runs through the various planning episodes of 1912, 1919, 1930, 1951, 1972 and 1994. The planning ideas at interplay in each planning period and their expression in planning schemes vis-à-vis spatial outcomes form the major focus. READ MORE

  5. 3. Felling Forests from Afar: Quantifying Deforestation Driven by Agricultural Expansion and International Trade

    Author : Florence Pendrill; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Forest transitions; Land cover; Carbon footprints; Agriculture; Forestry; Carbon emissions; Land use; International trade; Deforestation;

    Abstract : Deforestation is a major source of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and the largest threat to terrestrial biodiversity. Most forest loss is due to the expansion of agricultural land use increasingly driven by international demand for food, fuel and fibre. READ MORE

  6. 4. Spaces of diasporas : Kurdish identities, experiences of otherness and politics of belonging

    Author : Minoo Alinia; Håkan Thörn; Östen Wahlbeck; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kurdish diaspora; Kurdish identity; home land ; Sweden; Kurdisn community; exile; forced migration; gender; movement for location; experience; Kurdish nationalism; ; Social work; Socialt arbete; Kurdish diaspora; exile; homeland; diasporic community; Kurdish identity; movements for [ocation; Kurdish nationalism; Sweden; forced migration.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : Det är doktorsavhandling. Den diskuterar identitetsprocesser inom the kurdiska diasporan. Det är kvalitativ studie baserad huvudsakligen på intervjumaterial. Boken har nyligen blivit översatt och publicerat i Turkiet. READ MORE

  7. 5. Leaving Home in a Peasant Society. Economic Fluctuations, Household Dynamics and Youth Migration in Southern Sweden, 1829-1866

    Author : Martin Dribe; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; historical demography; economic stress; migration; family strategy; longitudinal analysis; leaving home; event-history analysis; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : This study deals with the process of children leaving home and its interactions with the household economy in preindustrial society. A theoretical model of leaving home is outlined and then analyzed multivariately, using a longitudinal micro-level dataset for a sample of parishes in western Scania, Sweden, for the period 1829-1866. READ MORE