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This thesis is about Y4CA, a youth organization in Korea for climate action. It discusses how non-teenagers support teenage activists for the sustained climate action by considering three factors for social movement: political opportunities, mobilizing structure and framing process by adding collective identity. By using mixed methodology, a survey about behavioral factors of teenagers, in-depth i

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to enhance the existing scope of emotional labor(EL) literature and broaden its reach to discussing the role of emotional labor in the workplace from a social sustainability perspective, exemplified within the context of hotel service work. It tries to identify how EL is experienced by hotel service employees and to understand how service employees percei

The thesis aims to explore the customers' attitude and perception about trust between customers and hotels through the expression of trust of customers. Hotels nowadays interact and build relationships with customers frequently where there are many possible terms evoking expression of trust customers. In order to study the dynamic feature of trust, a qualitative approach is used. A netnographi

This master’s thesis focuses on consumer engagement in the circular tourism economy. It is doing so by exploring the underlying ‘whys’ of consumer engagement in the circular tourism activities and the ways in which tourist situation can affect consumer engagement. The study supplies the liminality theory as an analytical tool through analyzing of 16 semi-structured interviews. The findings introdu

Background: Aftermarket logistics is important for a manufacturing company to maintain customer satisfaction in the long run. However, the supply chain set for aftermarket parts is equally crucial as the original equipment. Modification or optimization of the logistics systems for slow-moving aftermarket items is inevitable. Sandvik, an engineering company in the mining industry is now interested

I uppsatsen undersöker jag hur begrepp och teori från visuell kultur kan användas för att analysera arkitektur och i synnerhet hem genom att utforma ett analysverktyg för bilder. Syftet är att undersöka hur föreställningar, värderingar och idéer hos betraktare kan påverkas av det som bilderna förmedlar, och vilken makt bildproducenter av bilder på arkitektur har som individer och grupper. Jag är s

Klimatkompensation genom skogsplantering i Globala Syd har blivit ett allt mer vanligt sätt för företag att åtgärda sina växthusgasutsläpp, och därigenom sälja produkter och tjänster med netto noll utsläpp. I Sverige går snabbmatsrestaurangen MAX Burgers AB ett steg längre. De kompenserar 10 % mer än vad de släpper ut genom carbon dioxide removal (CDR), och hävdar därför att de har en "klimatCarbon offsetting through forest sequestration in the Global South has become an increasingly common way for companies to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions and thereby sell products and services with net zero emissions. In Sweden, fast food company MAX Burgers AB goes even further. They offset 10 % more than what they emit through carbon dioxide removal (CDR), thus claiming to have a “climat

Under de senaste decennierna har produktionen av plast ökat exponentiellt. Mellan 1950 - 2015 har 8 300 miljoner ton plast producerats globalt, varav 6 300 miljoner ton beräknas ha blivit avfall. Av avfallet beräknas nio procent ha materialåtervunnits, 12 procent förbränts och 79 procent lämnats till deponi. Med samma avfallshantering och produktionstakt som idag skulle det innebära att ca 12 000 The majority of plastic packaging is not being recycled today, but burned for energy recovery or sent to landfill. This leads to vast losses of recyclable material, as well as elevated emissions of greenhouse gases from the extraction of fossil oil needed to sustain the production of new plastics. To be able take effective measures to increase recycling, causes of the low recycling levels first ha

Studiens syfte undersöker hur kommunikationen, mellan medarbetare och chef inom restaurang- och cafébranschen, kan bidra till ett hälsofrämjande arbetsklimat. Detta görs genom en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer och två strukturerade elektroniska intervjuer på två olika arbetsplatser, för att undersöka deltagarnas upplevelser om kommunikationen som rör ämnet orgaThe aim of this study explores how communication, between coworkers and managers in the restaurant and café business, can contribute to a health-promoting work climate. This is done by a qualitative method including four semi-structured interviews and two structured electronic interviews, on two different workplaces, to examine the participants’ experiences about the communication on the topic org

The recent virus COVID-19 has forced companies around the world to change the way they work. Teams who usually work together in the same physical space are now experiencing working virtually from home. Previous studies demonstrate the importance of psychological safety and trust in the aim of building high-performing and effective teams. A virtual setting implies new challenges and opportunities f

Knowledge inequalities persist between the Global North and the Global South, but also within countries between privileged and underprivileged segments of society. The purpose of this study is to understand the motives of researchers from basic science and technology to investigate on socially demanded issues as well as the obstacles they encounter. The study is based on the experiences from eleve

Market and policy pressures increasingly demand a shift towards sustainable means of production; thereby, the inconclusive and long-standing debate between the impact of environmental efforts and economic performance at the firm level has never been so relevant. However, companies who seek to prioritize sustainability on their processes and outputs still need to focus on their financial returns.

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur lärande för hållbar utveckling (LHU) kan implementeras på arbetsplatsen. Detta med bakgrund i att vi idag genomgår en klimatkris och att det krävs en total omställning av samhällets alla sektorer för att hålla den globala temperaturökningen under 1.5 grader. Uppsatsen syftar till att synliggöra vikten av att LHU blir ett systematisk inslag på arbetsplatse

Studien är en kvalitativ undersökning av de incitament som ligger bakom människors beslut om att delta i vuxenutbildning. Vid genomförandet av studien har det utgåtts ifrån en hermeneutisk metodologi. Fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer utgör uppsatsens empiriska material. Urvalet av intervjupersoner sammanstod av två män och två kvinnor som har utexaminerats med högskolekompetens från Háskólabrú Ke

Introduction: This study attempts to optimize the choice of stationary phase for the separation of lignosulfonate lignin compounds using supercritical fluid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Background: Lignin is a potential renewable source of phenolic compounds. Lignosulfonate lignins are produced during pulping processes producing very complex mixtures, which are challenging to anal

This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. Deploying a black feminist lens on empirical material from a Swedish-Somali mothers’ group engaged in community activism, the thesis argues that

Cykeln har blivit ett allt vanligare transportmedel i Sverige. Som en följd av detta kommer nya lösningar och metoder krävas för att cykeln ska kunna ersätta bilen, exempelvis som vid till transport av husdjur. I samarbete med Thule Group utfördes detta examensarbete för att undersöka möjligheten att utveckla en produkt för transportering av hund. Under projektet har behov och kravspecifikationen

Sustainable transitions are essential to ensure climate and land systems do not go beyond their tipping points; however, these transitions are complex, and barriers to their success are difficult to conceptualise. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) is the dominant framework for conceptualising how industries transition to using green innovations. Despite the effectiveness of the MLP, it has weaknes

This study uses a specifically constructed sub-national dataset on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak cases, deaths, and CFR in order to look at the question of how important various socio-economic factors were in determining the intensity and severity of the 2013-2016 EVD outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The results of the OLS model shows that the socio-economic conditions in differ

Income inequality is one of the main topics that worried economists in recent decades. It became more popular, especially starting with the integration process of East Asian economies’ to the global market as a result of the globalization process. And there are lots of approaches on economic growth’s positive and negative effects on income distribution. Its impact on income distribution has been t