Search for dissertations about: "indigenous knowledge"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words indigenous knowledge.

2. 21. Potentials and wood fuel quality of logging residues from indigenous and planted forests in Mozambique

   Author : Rosta Mate; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Search for complementary and alternative renewable energy sources is imperative to meet the current growing demand for wood fuel and for diversification of electricity supply sources in Mozambique. Logging residues from timber harvesting operations and whole tree biomass from short rotation coppice (SRC) are available options. READ MORE

4. 22. A toolbox for co-production of knowledge and improved land use dialogues : the perspective of reindeer husbandry

   Author : Per Sandström; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : In northern Sweden, forestry, wind and hydropower, mining, infrastructure development and associated influence zones together constitute a complicated, land use situation that strongly impacts reindeer husbandry, a unique and extensive land use system. This situation has led to challenges for land managers and decision makers. READ MORE

5. 23. Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War : Perspectives from the Russian North

   Author : Dmitry V. Arzyutov; Peder Roberts; Per Högselius; Julia Lajus; Bathsheba Demuth; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental Archive; Russian Arctic; Encounters; Cold War; Indigenous and Academic Ways of Knowing; Miljöarkiv; ryska Arktis; möten; det kalla kriget; ursprungliga och akademiska kunskapssystem.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

   Abstract : To what extent the environmental history of the Arctic can move beyond thedivide between Indigenous peoples and newcomers or vernacular and academicways of knowing? The present dissertation answers this question by developing thenotion of an environmental archive. Such an archive does not have particular referenceto a given place but rather it refers to the complex network that marks the relationsbetween paper documents and human and non-human agencies as they are able towork together and stabilise the conceptualisation of a variety of environmentalobjects. READ MORE

6. 24. Language policy and Sámi education in Sweden : ideological and implementational spaces for Sámi language use

   Author : Kristina Belancic; Eva Lindgren; Patrik Lantto; Ylva Jannok Nutti; Hilde Sollid; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sámi language use; Sámi Indigenous education; implementational and ideological spaces; Swedish Sápmi; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik;

   Abstract : In Sámi schools in Sweden, the use of the Sámi languages and Swedish as languages of instruction is regulated by government and education policy; legislation allows Sámi and Swedish to be used for teaching and learning. However, agency and personal beliefs about Sámi languages play important roles in language use. READ MORE

7. 25. From data to decision - learning by probabilistic risk analysis of biological invasions

   Author : Ullrika Sahlin; Biologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; probabilistic models; establishment success; prediction; forecasting; uncertainty; risk; invasive species; Bayesian methods;

   Abstract : Predicting an uncertain future with uncertain knowledge is a challenge. The success of efforts to preserve biodiversity, to maintain biosecurity and to reduce a negative impact from climate change, depend on scientifically based predictions of future events. READ MORE