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As climate change impacts unfold across the globe, growing attention is paid toward producing climate services that support adaptation decision-making. Academia, funding agencies, and decision-makers generally agree that stakeholder engagement in co-producing knowledge is key to ensure effective decision support. However, co-production processes remain challenging to evaluate, given their many int
Children's participation - the way to the future. A qualitative study about children's participation in child care investigations The purpose of our study was to investigate how social workers work with children's participation in child care investigations within the social services. We also wanted to find out if there has been any changes that have taken place as a result of the “Co
This masters' thesis, "Digital Structure and Communicative Politics" (SÖX202, 41- 80, 30 ECTS), authored by Martin Berg, under supervision of Jan-Olof Nilsson, will be presented on seminar 2002-10-07 at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. One of the main concerns in this study is the perception that individuals are able to exceed the subjective reality by means of communica
With the shift from collective to individual, people started to increasingly reflect on their position in the society and potential for individual growth. Previously inaccessible services and initiatives promoting self-development emerged. However, women were found to have rather limited access to those opportunities, due to boundaries of social and cultural nature. In tourism and risk studies, th
The purpose of this thesis is to understand the contributions of dairy cooperative to the livelihoods of small hold farmers in the multi-ethnic rural areas of Nepal. In a case study from Lalitpur District, the thesis investigated the members of a cooperative from different social ranks, with the research question ‘To what extent is dairy cooperative contributing to the livelihoods of small hold fa
Many children are being investigated every year within the Swedish social services and criticism has been directed at the investigations' lack of quality and legal certainty in recent years. The criticism is also about how different Swedish municipalities assess and investigate. How can these differences be explained? What are the grounds for the assessments? This is the background to this qua
In later years, discourse on meat consumption has gained increased focus within the political sphere. In Sweden, despite the increase in attention, it is yet to result in any implementation of significant initiatives targeted at reducing meat consumption. In this paper, we have used critical discourse analysis to analyse the discourse on meat consumption in Sweden, searching for aspects and issues
The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of social workers working with unaccompanied refugee minors during the autumn of 2015, commonly referred to as the “refugee crisis”. During this period, Sweden received approximately 156 400 refugees, putting Sweden’s social infrastructure under enormous pressure. As a result of the stressful working conditions, a large amount of social workers
I Sverige bor ca 85% av befolkningen i stan, vilket har genererat stora mängder trafik i städerna. För att klara av den ökade trafiken, minska olägenheterna trafiken skapar och uppnå effektiv mobilitet erbjuder ITS, intelligenta transportsystem, och IoT, internet of things, applikationer olika digitala hjälpmedel för att lösa de begynnande problemen. Syftet för detta arbete har varit att ta redaAbout 85% of Sweden’s population live in a city, which have resulted in great amounts of traffic in the cities. To deal with the increasing traffic, decrease the disadvantages that the traffic creates and achieve effective mobility ITS, Intelligent transport system, and IoT, internet of things applications offer digital tools to solve the rising issues. The purpose of the study has been to find
Newly qualified social workers (NQSW) in Sweden are often thrust into statutory social work. In the context of statutory social work, social workers need to navigate a professional rationale, on which the social work profession rests, with an organizational rationale, on which the welfare organization – the social services – rests. This is due to the fact that social workers often are reliant on w
SAMMANFATTNING Uppsatsens titel: Hållbarhetsredovisning – kanon eller kalkon? En studie av fondanalytikers användning av hållbarhetsredovisningar Seminariedatum: 31 maj 2012 Ämne/kurs: Magisteruppsats, Företagsekonomi - redovisning, 30 HP Författare: Sofie Lindgren och Daniel Lindström Handledare: Johan Dergård och Niklas Sandell Fem nyckelord: Hållbarhetsredovisning, fondbolag, analytikeABSTRACT Title: Sustainability reporting –a curate’s egg? A study of fund analysts usage of sustainability reporting Seminar date: 31st of May 2012 Course: Master thesis in business administration, 30 University Credit Points (30 ECTS). Authors: Sofie Lindgren and Daniel Lindström Advisor/s: Johan Dergård and Niklas Sandell Five key words: Sustainability report, fund companies, analysts, UN
Digital tools are part of the everyday lives of social workers. In the political discourse surrounding the digitalization of social services, this development tends to be described as a naturally occurring force of change. What seems less prominent is how digitalization also carries values and ideas designed within the framework of a social and political context, digital tools are consequently not
This thesis studies organizational change in the peacebuilding organization the School for Peace. It asks the question: What shapes organizational change in the School for Peace? Being located in Israel’s only peace bubble, the School for Peace presents as an unusual case of peacebuilding in unique conditions. To understand reasons for change and evolvement of the organization’s practice – as well
I takt med den tekniska utvecklingen blir det allt lättare för individen att yttra sig inför en mängd människor. Yttranden som tidigare haft en liten spridning kan idag via en snabb knapptryckning nå ut till en stor publik. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vad en arbetstagare inom offentlig respektive privat sektor får uttrycka via sociala medier i förhållande till yttrandefriheten och lojaliIn todays technological society it is becoming easier and easier for an individual to voice their opinion to a big crowd. Opinions, which previously had a small spread, can today through the click of a button reach a large audiance. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the freedom of expression and duty of loyalty influence the possibilities of an employee within private and public sec
Global marine ecosystems are increasingly understood as complex social-ecological systems (SESs), and indicate that anthropogenic impacts are a main driver of global environmental change. Fisheries exemplify this, as well as demonstrate that the human use of marine resources increasingly stresses marine ecosystems and presents social-institutional challenges for managing fisheries sustainably. The
