Search for dissertations about: "issues of consumption"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 288 swedish dissertations containing the words issues of consumption.

  2. 1. Essays on Societal Cost of Alcohol and Related Issues - A Health Economic Analysis

    Author : Johan Jarl; Socialepidemiologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Wages; Productivity loss; Societal cost; COI; Consumption groups; Alcohol consumption; Drinking history; Health; Sickness absence; Sweden.;

    Abstract : The consumption of alcoholic beverages has wide effects, for example, causes premature mortality, prevents certain heart diseases, increases crime rates, and affects quality of life. The main problems with alcohol consumption from an economic point of view are lack of information for consumers when making consumption decisions, externalities, and the addictive nature. READ MORE

  4. 2. Negotiating Tensions : Designers’ responsibilities in democratic entanglements

    Author : Maja Frögård; Bo Westerlund; Jonathan Metzger; Moa Matthis; Erling Björgvinsson; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; design; workshop; co-design; democracy; entanglements; tensions; responsibilities; framing; negotiation; proposals; participatory design; urban planning; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the roles and responsibilities of designers when we design workshops with democratic ambitions. Reflecting on my experiences from making co-design workshops for citizen participation to support sustainable urban development in municipal planning processes, I inquire into designers’ societal entanglements and explore these from democratic, social, political and designerly perspectives. READ MORE

  5. 3. The materiality of media discourse : on capitalism and journalistic modes of writing

    Author : Peter Berglez; Stig Arne Nohrstedt; Stig Hjarvard; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; capitalism; journalistic modes of writing; media discourse; cultural materialist CDA; dialectics; dysfunctional homologies; ideologemes.; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study is to analyse the relationship between the capitalist hegemonic order and the mass media, with the latter restricted to two elite newspapers (Swedish DN and Slovenian Delo) and the selection of news materials from three bodies of international media coverage: NATO’s military intervention in former Yugoslavia, 1999, the political demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank in Prague, 2000, and 9/11, 2001. There are two sub-purposes, one theoretical-methodological and one political-democratic. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Prima Porta Garden Archaeological Project. Terra sigillata from the Villa of Livia, Rome. Consumption and discard in the early Principate

    Author : Allan Klynne; Philip Kenrick; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Villa of Livia; terra sigillata; Central Italian sigillata; fabrics; trade; consumption; discard; refuse; formation processes; chronology.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This study examines a corpus of Italian sigillata from the Villa of Livia outside Rome, and presents the excavations during which it was found. Most of the material stems from archaeologically secure contexts, a refuse tip and dump dating to the late Augustan and Neronian periods respectively. READ MORE

  7. 5. Caring for people and the planet : preschool children’s knowledge and practices of sustainability

    Author : Farhana Borg; Monika Vinterek; T. Mikael Winberg; Arjen E.J. Wals; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumption; daycare center; economic sustainability; environmental education; environmental sustainability; guardians; kindergarten; parents; preschool; preschool director; recycling; sharing resources; social sustainability; sustainable development; teacher; young children; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work; Utbildning och lärande;

    Abstract : Children across the globe today are continuously being exposed to and affected by various kinds of real-world complexities and challenges; however, research on their knowledge and practices in terms of sustainability is limited, in particular with regards to how preschool- and home-related factors are associated with their learning for sustainability. Since 1998, different types of eco-certification have been awarded by the Swedish National Agency for Education and Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation to promote education for sustainability (EfS) in all areas of education and learning. READ MORE