Amid the many food safety scandals and rapid urbanization, China’s peri-urban areas have recently witnessed the emergence of alternative food systems (AFSs). Situated in a context different from that of the West, their impact has remained poorly understood and under researched. This paper explores how Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) can enhance food security in China’s cities. Based on Polan

Nämndemän har varit med och påverkat dömandet i våra domstolar i mer än 800 år. Deras inflytande har varierat en del under århundradena men aldrig har de haft så stor domsmakt som idag. I tingsrätten dömer vanligtvis fyra domare varav en är juridiskt utbildad (ordföranden) och tre är nämndemän. I röstningsförfarandet väger allas röst lika tungt. Det är kommunfullmäktige som väljer vilka som ska siLay judges have been able to influence the judgments in our courts for more than 800 years. Their influence has varied somewhat over the centuries but never have they had such great judicial power as today. In District Courts there are usually four judges, one of whom is legally trained and three who are lay judges. In the voting process every judge has the same power. The city council decides who

By using panel data for 21 counties in Sweden from 2003 to 2013, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between tourism development and economic growth in this country, within the neoclassical growth framework. To address the objective of this study, the appropriate panel data methods are used, namely both static and dynamic panel approaches. The results show that tourism is a po

This thesis investigates and problematizes how the English-language mass media constructs the discourse on Japanese corporate governance. The purpose is to analyse and problematize the discourse on mass media with regard to orientalism. By looking at a number of examples from the discourse, this thesis questions the fundamental assumption that the mass media is an impartial conveyor of information

This thesis examines how innovation affects firm performance in the United States during the financial crisis in 2008. A difference-in-difference estimation combined with Coarsened Exact Matching is applied on a panel data set of 4,928 U.S. firms between 2004 and 2011. Two opposing theoretical frameworks concerning the outcome are used to state hypotheses regarding if innovative firms perform bett

The aim of this study was to examine the organizational conditions in foster care placements when it comes to control and oversight. More specifically its aim was to do this through a group of social workers point of view to see what their organizational experiences were to work with private companies which recruits foster care families, and whom or what they identify as the causative factors when

Välgörenhet har en lång historia i Kina och välgörenhetsorganisationer har länge spelat en betydande roll för utövandet av välgörenhet. Redan under Qin-dynastin (221-207 f.Kr) talas det om välgörenhetsorganisationer som formats av vanliga människor men främst av överklassen i samhället. Denna uppsats undersöker välgörenhetsorganisationers utveckling från dåtid till nutid. Uppsatsen berättar först

This essay aims to present and analyze the theoretical and the practical aspects of the social work education from the student’s perspectives, on how the theoretical and practical aspects have collaborated and competed during the education. It also aimed to analyze the student’s perspectives from theories of symbolic interactionism. Five students on the Social work education that studied on the

The international migration of both skilled and unskilled persons from the global South to the North has reached an alarming proportion.This study investigates the underlying factors that informed the decisions of some African students not to return to their countries of origin after graduation from the Swedish Universities. The participants are former and present students of two Swedish Universit

Denna kvalitativa studie ämnar fördjupa forskningens förståelse om multifunktionella organisationer i förändring. Studien har genomförts med utgångspunkt i Helsingborgs stad som fallorganisation, där en förändring inom kommunikations- och informationsverksamheten har undersökts. Utifrån det hermeneutiska perspektivet har empiriinsamling skett genom 11 enskilda intervjuer. Empirin har sedan analyseThis qualitative study intends to deepen the understanding of research in multifunctional organizations in change. The study is based on a case-study, where we have been studying a change in the communication activities in Helsingborg city. The study is based on a hermeneutic perspective and has been conducted through 11 individual interviews. The empirical data has been analyzed through a qualita

The shipmaster is the centralised focal point of power on a passenger ship, and upon him/her rests the decision to evacuate the ship if it is deemed to be in a situation that is non-survivable. This thesis set out to explore a societal normative view of the shipmaster in this decision space; a view that can be observed in accident reports and maritime legislation. A case study, of a government acc

Title: Multi-Sided Platforms: Understanding their strengths and weaknesses Seminar date: 2014-05-22 Course: FEKN90 Företagsekonomi: Examensarbete på Civilekonomprogrammet (30 ECTS) Authors: Lucas Ehrenstråhle and Elin Mathies Supervisor: Magnus Johansson Five keywords: MSP, activities, resources, differentiation and platforms The purpose: is to investigate why small actors use multi-sided pl

Inkomsten i relation med den mentala hälsan är ett intressant och ännu inte så utforskat område inom ekonomi. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om inkomst och arbetssituation har en påverkan på den mentala hälsan samt om kvinnors och mäns mentala hälsa påverkas olika av dessa faktorer. Med hjälp av en egenskapad enkät samlades det in svar från 276 olika individer. Utifrån dessa svar utförd

CoVaR is one of the pioneering systemic risk measures proposed during the financial turmoil of 2008, introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2008). It is based on the familiar risk measurement Value-at-Risk (VaR). In this thesis we apply both the time-invariant and time-varying CoVaR model to econometrically quantify the systemic risk in the Japanese banking sector. Specifically we study the system

This paper aims to examine the potential of green bond implementation in China suited with Chinese air pollution situation. It researched the green bond origination, history, definination and categories and so on. The paper applied literature review, case study and internview methods to purpue a conclusion. Since the financial crisis, many countries are exploring how to re-engineer the financial s

Swedish office buildings of the 60’s present at least 27% higher heating demand than from the current standards foreseen. This underlines their need for energy renovation. Meanwhile, office buildings are occupied during daytime, thus internal and solar gains are in phase. Consequently, such buildings could experience overheating problems. A seasonal adaptable envelope, such as a ventilated double

In the light of economic and financial crises, social innovations have been looked at and analysed from new point of views. This thesis has run an analysis of two social entrepreneurial organizations (SEOs) to shed light on how actors from vulnerable communities, like Rosengård and Persborg from the city of Malmö perceive complexities embedded in social innovations and institutional change. The an

In the present study, the relationship of multidimensional perfectionism (self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism) and depressive symptoms related to disordered eating behaviours were investigated in a university context. Results from 112 participants showed that both perfectionism and depressive symptoms have a positive relationship with disordered eating behaviours,

Nowadays, one of the most challenging problems in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is to make robots able to understand humans to successfully accomplish tasks in human environments. HRI has a very different role in all the robotics fields. While autonomous robots do not require a complex HRI system, it is of vital importance for service robots. The goal of this thesis is to study if behavioural pa