Nowadays the private sector tends to increase its engagement into social and environmental issues and cooperate with the public organizations in order to contribute to the development of the societies where the companies operate and also mitigate the environmental damages incurred by industry. The increase in social responsibility by private firms is generally articulated by and pursued through th

This thesis examines the Technical and Vocational Education and Training(TVET) related contents (including legal instruments and other guidance) from human rights bodies,ILO and UNESCO these three international bodies and also from China this national context. It analyzes the related legal frameworks of TVET from those sources and assesses their impacts in the national level, finally concludes the

Previous research on hydropower projects impact on people’s socio-economic development has mainly focused on relocated people, immediately after they were relocated, arguing that relocation result in underdevelopment of people´s livelihoods. Henceforth, this research contribute to the literature through including a long-term perspective to highlight immediate and long-term impacts on relocated and

Kockums is a leading company that develops military marine systems, for use both below and above the water surface [1]. Future submarines have a need to be operated more accurate than today’s submarines to perform various types of new operations. Therefore, on behalf of the conceptual design department on Kockums, a maneuvering system was to be developed to operate a submarine more accurate at low

In this thesis I examine pastoralists’ marginalization when it comes to land ownership in Tanzania, through a Minor Field Study based on interviews. The perception on pastoralism is since colonial times very negative and their way of living do not seem appropriate for the 21st century by the government. Pastoralists face a multitude of problems such as land alienation, degraded resources, conflict

Result This thesis has resulted in a new Project Management (PM) tool for the Scania Engine Development Project Coordination group, customized for engine development long-term test planning and tracking. The PM tool also shows resource use, capacity, and forecast of all Scania’s engine test benches located in Sweden, Germany and Brazil. Issue of study As a result of the continuously increasing

There is probably millions of photographs in the world that no one knows about because of the difficulty archivists have writing about them. It is exceedingly difficult to classify and describe photographs and very often textual models for written sources are applied uncritically to visual materials. Most libraries, archives and museums are now involved in the process of digitisation to improve ac

Ambitionen är att förstå hur det praktiska förhållningssättet till korruption inom kommuner kan se ut; och hur detta kan tänkas påverka hur riskerna för att tjänstemän skall agera felaktigt. Utifrån detta används därför de olika indikationer som tidigare forskning resulterat i och jämförs med vad som framkommer utifrån de intervjuades utlåtanden. För att kunna bilda denna förståelse används en ana

The first European macro-regional strategy, the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) was launched in 2009. The EUSBSR has been a role model for other macro-regions in the EU, which makes it relevant to study from a governance perspective. This thesis adopts a case study design with the aim of examining how the EUSBSR governance system can be characterised and in what ways the

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the meaning and knowledge production on labor immigration in a Swedish governmental context. This examination is done through a post-structural policy analysis focusing on understanding the discoursive construction of labor immigration and the labor immigrant is the thesis done with Carol Bacchi’s method of analysis named ”What’s the problem represented

A postcolonial critic has been articulated towards the failed state literature saying that it places failed states in the third world in a position of deviancy from western states. This thesis examines if the criticism against that literature also has any empirical relevance by studying in which way Zimbabwe, seen as a failed state, is portrayed by the media in Great Britain. This is done by a dis

Lean has become a popular organization model during the late 21st century, and it is widely spread through healthcare with high expectations of improvement and reorganization. The implementation of a certain policy is in the literature seen as a crucial step in policy realization. To better understand Lean and its adaptation to healthcare, this study examines how Lean is being implemented into Swe

In the spring of 2010, the Swedish government published an action plan for Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE). The submitted paper examines and analyzes the formation of the policy document and its sources of inspiration. Swedish policy formation on social enterprises and work integration social enterprises is analyzed on the bases of both Dolowitz and Marsh's theoretical framework as

Denna studie resonerar kring neorealismen och neoliberalismens syn på problematiken i relationen mellan Turkiet, Syrien och Irak gällande vattnet i Tigris-Eufrat deltat. Syftet är att studera likheter och skillnader de teoretiska perspektivens sätt att se på samarbeten och konflikter. De jämställs ibland till tvillingar genom deras utgångspunkt i det anarkiska strukturen men också som två absoluta

Asyl- och migrationspolitik har under en lång tid varit en nationell angelägenhet för de europeiska staterna, medlemsländerna har under senare tid försökt harmonisera denna till ett mer överstatligt projekt. Den senaste ledstjärnan för samarbetet och för hantering av asylströmmar är Stockholmsprogrammet där solidaritet mellan medlemsländerna spelar en betydande roll. I programmet slogs det fast at

This paper examined the language and content of the U.S. Forest Service's Serious Accident Investigation Guide (SAIG), which is used to investigate what the organization terms 'serious wildland fire accidents'. The purpose of research was to identify whether the language in the guide was objective, or if it biased the accident analysis process and conclusions of the accident report. Qu

Several founding democratic norms of the European Union (EU) may nowadays be found in their emerging stage in the post-Soviet countries outside of the Union’s borders. This is an indication that norms may get diffused, float around the continent and find a fertile soil in a new environment. Thus Georgia, located thousands of kilometers away from the EU, is highlighted as a success story of its coo

This paper explores Europeanization of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs by looking at the impact of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) on the Ministry. Despite being intergovernmental, voluntary, governed by treaties and not laws previous studies suggest that CFSP has an impact on the domestic arena. The analysis is based on the conceptual framework developed by Smith (2000) in whi

This thesis explores the state of regional cooperation, particularly in the field of security, among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Norden). The author examines correlation between a set of socially constructed factors and the creation of a common Nordic profile in a regional security organization, the OSCE. Formally, Norden is divided in the EU and the non-EU members, but unofficia

Depletion of the indigenous energy resources of the EU, growing dependence on the external energy supplies, volatile prices of the global energy resources, increasing global rivalry for hydrocarbon reserves and recent Russian-Ukrainian disputes over natural gas prices which as a consequence has resulted in gas supply disruptions to several EU member states escalated the significance of the Europea