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This thesis looks at climate change adaptation strategies in the Inner Forth region in Scotland. The region is expected to suffer from climate change induced stresses such as flooding, sea level rise and storm surges. To cope with these changes, a new coastal adaptation strategy has been suggested, based on soft solutions such as wetland creation and managed realignment. This has caused a dispute,

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The primary goal of this thesis is to determine whether leveraged buyouts perceptibly affect the stock prices of core competitors of the LBO target. Through the use of an original, meticulously constructed data set, the study aims to augment the scarce and discordant extant literature on the subject. A follow-up cross-sectional test is conducted to provide further insights into the dynamics that m

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Sammanfattning Titel De Förklädda Följarna - En studie om hur förändringsmotstånd utvecklas över tid Slutseminariedatum 2016-05-25 Ämne/kurs Magisteruppsats på Civilekonomprogrammet, Organisation, 30 hp Författare Amanda Larsson, Lovisa Larsson & Helena Uggla Handledare Nadja Sörgärde Nyckelord Förändringsmotstånd, motstånd, relation, tid, anställda Syfte Syftet med studien är att bidrAbstract Title Followers in Disguise - A study about how resistance to change evolves with time Seminar date 25th of June, 2016. Lund University, Sweden Course Master thesis in Business Administration, Organization & Change Management, 30 University Credit Points (30 ECTS) Authors Amanda Larsson, Lovisa Larsson & Helena Uggla Advisor Nadja Sörgärde Keywords Resistance to change, res

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Denna magisteruppsats är baserad på översättningen av ett utdrag från boken Spirited Away(2008) som är skriven av den brittiska journalisten Andrew Osmond och handlar om den japanska animerade filmen med samma namn. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som tar avstamp i den analysmodell som presenteras av Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledin i Vägar genom texten – Handbok i brukstextanalys (1997). Te

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Den mobila teknologin har frigjort kravet på fysisk närvaro i många kontor, arbete och ar-betsuppgifter ser därför annorlunda ut idag än det tidigare gjort. En fråga är hur de anställda påverkas av detta och inte minst hur de upplever mobilt samarbete. Är övergången till mobilt och flexibelt arbete något som alla föredrar eller finns det andra åsikter i frågan? Vi valde därför att undersöka hur de

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Nowadays companies need to consider sustainability issues if they wish to operate in harmony with society and the environment and to leverage their resources efficiently in the long run. Sustainability issues often become the drivers for organizational change due to external pressures and demands. As it takes time for sustainability efforts to bear fruit, companies need to remain committed to the

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Denna kvalitativa studies syfte var att undersöka och dokumentera hur coaching som förhållningssätt ter sig inom ramen av studiens sångundervisning. Studien är inspirerad av aktionsforskning och genomfördes i en triangulering av metoderna videodokumentation, handledning och dagboksskrivande. Datainsamlandet skedde under tre veckors lång praktik på en folkhögskola med 18 sångelever. Resultatet lyft

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This essay investigates inflation and inflation uncertainty in Sweden from 1970:Q1 to 2014:Q4. GARCH models are used to generate a measure of inflation uncertainty estimated under the distributional assumption of Student's t-distribution and GED. The preferable model found for Swedish inflation was a EGARCH(1,1) estimated with Student's t-distribution. The coefficient of the asymmetry in t

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Equality of opportunity is a notion rooted in many societies as a conception of importance. The idea that one’s life chances ought to be unrelated to the aspects of one’s background upon which one has no say, such as the material wealth of one’s parents, is generally one that is widely held. The term ‘Intergenerational income mobility’, describing, as it does, the interrelatedness of the incomes o

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The skin is the outermost barrier that protects our body by performing several functions that is crucial for our survival. It prevents hazardous microorganisms in the outer environment from entering the body as well as preserving the inside by regulating heat and water loss from the body. Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic products which contains active ingredients that induces drug-like effects. For t

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The Swedish school has a democratic mandate to prepare students for life in a society where many important decisions need to be made which require an ability to critically examine and evaluate different arguments. This applies particularly to climate change that will bring changes at all levels of society. Textbooks are important for the education provided in schools as they often define the topic

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Nice girls use snuff? (Fina flickor snusar?) is an inductive study about how young feminists in the academy are negotiating and constructing their identity through the use of snuff. The thematic content analysis proceeds from nine semi-structured life world interviews. This study is based on a poststructuralist understanding of meaning as constructed in the language, as theorized by Scott, Derrida

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Rektorer har idag en stor ansvarsroll. Det finns ett regelverk med diverse skollagar, direktiv och läroplaner. Dock finns det ett brett spektrum av handlingsutrymme och handlingsmöjligheter att handla inom ramen av lagar. Problemhantering av vardagsvåld och vidtagande av disciplinära åtgärder är ett återkommande inslag i en rektors dagliga arbete. ”Rektorers handlingsutrymme: Antingen hittar vi en

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The thesis proceeds from Sweden’s first gender equality sub-goal; Equal Division of Power and Influence, in order to investigate how the political power is divided between the sexes within local committees in Skåne and in Lund. Political commitments at local level should be carried out alongside labour or other occupation; and thus the overall aim of the thesis is to investigate if labour market m

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This thesis presents the prototype of a search for new phenomena that decay in two jets, in presence of an associated jet (three-jet or trijet final state). Mass combination studies are carried out to reconstruct dijet resonances in different mass regions. The two models of interest are the composite quark, which contains a composite quark resonance Q, and the simplified dark matter mediator mod

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År 2014 drabbades Västmanland län i Sverige av en allvarlig skogsbrand som växte till att täcka drygt 13 000 ha. På grund av vädersituationen klarade räddningstjänsten inte av att hantera branden, vilken resulterade i att bli den största branden i Sverige sedan mitten av 1900-talet. Året efter branden rapporterade Myndigheten för Sam- hällskydd och Beredskap ett behov av ökad beredskap för allvarlIn 2014, the Västmanland County in Sweden suffered from a severe forest fire that grew to a size of roughly 13000ha. Recent and prevailing weather conditions made the fire overpower the extinguishing ability of the Swedish emergency services, and it ran out of control to become the largest forest fire in Sweden since the middle of the 20th century. The year after the fire, a need to increase the e

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Den här studien undersöker etiska uppfattningar hos behandlingsassistenter på HVB för ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Det görs med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra respondenter på två olika boenden. Materialet kategoriseras utifrån de tre normativa etiska teorierna dygdetik, omsorgsetik och dialogetik samt placeras inom en yrkesetisk kontext. Studien ger en inblick i yrkesgruppens villkor och