Search for dissertations about: "security in construction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words security in construction.
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1. Shifting Dangers in the Shape of Threats and Risks : The Discourse of Swedish Security Policy, 1979-2020
Abstract : Modern societies have become increasingly preoccupied with the identification and preemption of risk, represented as future possibilities of harm. The study demonstrates how the concept of risk has influenced the contemporary Swedish security discourse and what it means to construct security following a risk logic. READ MORE
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2. Talking Threats : The Social Construction of National Security in Russia and the United States
Abstract : Why are some issues seen as threats? This dissertation attempts to explain the dynamics of threat construction by national decision-makers. The theoretical ambition is twofold: first, the dissertation aims at improving the research on threat construction by suggesting a broad approach that analyzes this process in a structured manner. READ MORE
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3. Threat Construction inside Bureaucracy : A Bourdieusian Study of the European Commission and the Framing of Irregular Immigration 1974-2009
Abstract : This dissertation examines how we construct security threats. Theoretically, it contributes to the literature on securitization and threat construction, which has hitherto overlooked how influential bureaucracies that – in contrast to the police and the military – have little to gain from widened threat perceptions, may still contribute to threat construction. READ MORE
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4. Two topics in cryptography : lattice problems and the security of protocols
Abstract : In this thesis we present new results in two areas – cryptographic protocols and lattice problems. • We present a new protocol for electronic cash which is designed to function on hardware with limited computing power. The scheme has provable security properties and low computational requirements, but it still gives a fair amount of privacy. READ MORE
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5. Labour Productivity in the Building Industry – Studies of Uganda
Abstract : Research has been pointing out that productivity in the building industry is stagnant and in some cases declining. Poor productivity of craftsmen is one of the causes of cost and time overruns on building projects. READ MORE