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The Solar energy is playing a fundamental role in the transition to a low carbon electricity production system. Driven by rapidly decreasing prices for solar installations in the last years, the solar energy market in Europe is currently undergoing a transformation. Subsidies such as feed-in tariffs are being phased out and replaced with the possibility to self-consume solar energy, earning a prof
Carbon taxation can be a crucial policy to transform towards a greener economy, which was identified as a key strategy to achieve sustainable development at the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in 2012. As more countries consider the introduction of carbon taxation and other carbon pricing mechanisms, it’s relevant to learn from the experiences in Nordic countries, whi
Jihadism has become a major topic in Western as well as non-western public debate. Many military groups have sprung up in late 20th and early 21st century, claiming legitimacy using jihad for a wide variety of causes ranging from Kashmir, Somalia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. This leads to the question whether Islamist fundamentalism has been successful in project
Uppsatsen bygger på intervjuer genomförda med tio personer som har god man. Fem av intervjuerna inbegrep ytterligare deltagare, med uppgift att bistå under intervjun. Två av dessa personer var gode män som deltog i deras egenskap av att dels bistå, och dels (delvis) företräda under intervjun. Alla deltagare var medlemmar av intresseföreningar (tre olika) för personer med funktionshinder. Uppsatsen
Veterinary pharmaceuticals used in areas with intense agriculture and livestock/horse yard facilities may leach into the soil and be further transported as runoff into surface waters used as drinking water supplies. The focus of this thesis is to clarify how the existing legal framework on monitoring and regulating these residues, help Sweden to comply with two of the national environmental qualit
Cities face a host of challenges including urbanisation and climate change and must quickly adapt and integrate sustainability solutions to deal with these challenges. One platform seen as a mechanism to support innovation for sustainability in cities is the concept of the living lab. A living lab is a user-centred, open innovation ecosystem that seeks to engage academia, industry and municipaliti
Background: An extensive literature review pointed out the limited knowledge on the value of sustainability transparency in road freight distribution. This is researched in the context of non-compliance to current sustainability issues in Sweden. Additionally, the value of sustainability transparency for the procurement activity of a transport buyer was not explored. Purpose: The purpose of this s
The sharing economy, which facilitates technology-enabled sharing of underused assets, is an umbrella for a variety of segments and platforms. The concept includes peer-to-peer, business-to-business and business-to-consumer platforms which are celebrated for their potential to facilitate a transformative change towards a sustainable society grounded in access over ownership, empowerment, inclusive
This master thesis study is a preliminary investigation of the Säveån River as part of the Swedish Geotechnical Institute’s (SGI) landslide risk assessment project. The main objectives include building a hydrodynamic model for the river, estimating sediment transport along the river, assessing the implications for erosion and bank stability and evaluating climate change effects on sediment transpo
In times of worldwide increasing overfishing, marine reserves are a vital tool of marine conservation and fisheries management. Benefits of marine reserves can extend beyond reserve boundaries to adjacent fishing grounds through spillover of fish. Anticipating higher catch rates, fishers try to capitalize on spillover by increasingly fishing along reserve boundaries, a behavior known as fishing th
This thesis is constructed on an examination of the global principles and operational methods of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and their linkage to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). These phenomena have implications for the sustainable banking business, which aims to deliver banking products and services aligned with a triple-bottom-line corporate approach contributing to sustainable
The principal aims of the present study were to examine the latent heat stress relieving capacity of drinking buttermilk and to observe the human gut microbiota in hot occupational condition. A human crossover intervention study with 12 volunteers was studied, each of them performed 3 hours of physical work in a heat chamber. During the working period, the volunteers were given buttermilk, water o
This report describes a framework for evaluating social benefit of safety in road tunnels and above all in terms of describing society's aversion to disasters in socio-economic terms. The framework presents a method for quantifying the benefit sacrifice as rational decision-makers are prepared to do to prevent disasters.
Diamond is a cubic carbon mineral that possess many unique characteristics like extreme hardness and thermal conductivity. There are many types of diamonds like monocrystalline, polycrystalline and coated/ fibrous and in this bachelor thesis the focus was on polycrystalline diamonds; carbonado and diamondites (are divided in three different types of diamonds: eclogitic, perioditic -and websteritic
The problem to be solved in this project is to distinguish two signatures from each other, with help of machine learning techniques. The main technique used is the comparison between two signatures and classifying if they are written by the same person (match) or not (no-match). The binary classication problem is then tackled with a few alternatives to better understand it. First by a simple engin
The world is facing future climate changes. Theses climate changes gives expression in increased average temperature, stronger gusts, more extreme rainfall and rising sea levels. What happens to low-lying communities as the sea level rises? On this question at issue, SWECO Environment worked with an action plan for the vicinity of Falsterbonäset. Falsterbo, Höllviken and Skanör are low-lying commu
Luke 1:28-38 is read in Church of Sweden every year during “Feast of the Annunciation”. During the sermons focus often lies on Mary as a role model for the people. A role model because Mary chose to accept the mission from God to carry Jesus in her womb. The question the essay answers is; Did Mary have a choice, could she say no to the angel Gabriel when he told her she would get pregnant and carr
When solving optimization problems associated with non-linear model predictive control, a linear equation system of a specific structure frequently arises. Two different software, CVXGEN and FORCES, developed to generate tailored solvers to specific optimization problems use two different methods when solving this equation system. In this paper, two different sets of software is presented which ge
Perception of temperature in mammals is critical for their survival, it enables them to perceive the world around them and act with an appropriate physiological or behavioural response. However, the full understanding of the thermosensory system in mammals has thus far been clouded. TRP channels are thermally sensitive and are known to associate with heat sensitive nerve fibers and keratinocytes i
