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Amidst a climate and biodiversity crisis, transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources has become imperative. On the Åland Islands, planned large-scale offshore wind farms offer potential economic growth but entail environmental and social impacts. This study investigates the discourses of renewable energy transitions on Åland using a political ecology framework for energy transitio

With climate change unfolding, there is a need for adaptation policies that support the most vulnerable. Knowledge of the interconnection between adaptation policies and inequality is however limited, especially regarding power relations and institutional factors. Using data gathered in interviews with public officials and NGO representatives, this thesis explored the interaction of climate change

The following bachelor's thesis investigates the sustainability-related tensions present within the single-use paper products and packaging industry. The addressed research question was structured in consideration of relevant theories, such as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), Dyllick & Hockerts (2002) sustainability model, stakeholder theory, and paradox management strategy within corporate s

This study aims to examine the challenges and practices of staff working at accommodations regulated by the Swedish Act concerning support and service for persons with certain functional impairments (LSS) when working with women with disabilities who have suffered from violence. Previous research shows that women with disabilities are at a greater risk of being victims of violence. Despite this kn

This study aimed to understand how "the best interest of the child" appears in court judgments and how it is motivated. More specifically, the aim is to study in what ways district courts take the child's best interest into account and how it is reflected in their judgments. Also what aspects are considered when assessing the child's best interest and if the child's individua

The underrepresentation of women in national legislatures is a major setback to consolidating democracy in most countries across the world. Yet, only a handful of countries have vigorously implemented Affirmative Action measures to address the problem. Although most countries, including Ghana, have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and

The purpose of this study has been to examine how different countries around the globe represent the ‘problem’ of men's violence against women in policy documents and handbooks. The study has been done from an intersectional perspective with inspiration from Carol Bacchi's WPR method, from which we chose three questions that were used for our analysis. Two countries were selected because o

This thesis examines the impact on national employment levels in Sweden of reducing the standard workweek from 40 to 35 hours, using 2015 as the analytical baseline. Through rigorous analysis of employment data, productivity metrics, wage effects, unionization rates, and capital substitution patterns, the research employs sectoral comparisons to identify differential effects across the Swedish eco

In the contemporary global economy, capitalist resource extraction is an increasingly dominant feature. In this context, demands on mineral resources have driven mining industries to expand into untapped rural frontiers in the global South. This research explores life on such a frontier, and focuses on local political resistance to mining and the capitalist driven processes of agrarian differentia

Violence is a central part of criminality with young men overrepresented in assault relates violence, both as perpetrator and victim. Our aim of this study was to get a picture of what attitudes ordinary young men have toward masculinity and manliness as well of violence and how these attitudes relate to their picture of the young man as a victim. The empirical material was qualitatively collected

Sverige är idag ett sekulärt och individualistiskt samhälle. Detta ställer höga krav på hur religiösa organisationer kommunicerar. Med ett socialkonstruktionistiskt synsätt undersöker vi hur Svenska kyrkans anställda anser att organisationen bör kommunicera för att legitimera sin roll i samhället. Vi undersöker även hur detta yttrar sig i Svenska kyrkans kommunikationskanaler. Detta har vi gjort mToday, Sweden is a secular and individualistic society. Communication is therefore a great challenge for religious organizations. With a social constructionist approach, we examine how employees of the Swedish church believe that the organization should communicate to legitimize their role in the Swedish society. We also examine different communication channels to see how the Swedish church commun

Authors: Ferida Kaffoshy & Nasrin Shahmohammadi Title: “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor” – a qualitative study on pregnant women that abuse drugs. [translated title] Supervisor: Anett Schenk The aim of the essay is to explore what kinds of attitudes, support, and biases drug abusing pregnant women might face in society to understand whether these women are treated similarly as non-

The focus of this thesis is to explore how young, female, self- identified feminists perceive and talk about their sexuality and in which way they express the possibilities and restraints it includes. Moreover, it examines if and how the female, self-identified feminists resist the restraints regarding their sexuality, and how they negotiate the problems that arise between ideology and practice. T

Is it possible to integrate contradictionary goals like economic growth, social development and at the same time protect the environment? This essay’s aim is to contribute to the field of environmental policy integration. Due to the author’s Lenshow and Jordan, Sweden is a country that has been integrating environmental policy for a long time and is not as sensitive as many other countries to dif

Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva om personbedömningar av värmegenskaper (vänlighet, social kompetens), kompetensegenskaper (intelligens, noggrannhet) samt anställningslämplighet varierar beroende på om personen som bedöms är fysiskt attraktiv eller fysiskt oattraktiv och om bedömaren varnas eller inte om attraktivitets implicita påverkan på personbedömningar genom haloeffekten. En fiktiv pThe purpose of this study was to describe if judgments of individuals characteristics of warmth (kindness, social skills), characteristics of competence (intelligence, carefulness) and hiring suitability vary depending on if the person being judged is physically attractive or physically unattractive and if the judge is warned or not about the implicit effect of attractiveness on judgment of indivi

Behavioural effects of human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease Exp Brain Res (1986) 65:235-240 Experimental Brain Research 9 Springer-Verlag 1986 Research Note Behavioural effects of human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease* P. Brundin 1, O.G. Nilsson 1, R.E. Strecker 1, O. Lindvall 1'2, B. Astedt 3, and A. Bj6rklund 1 Department

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Despite the many use cases for machine learning, it sees minimal usage in Sweden’s public sector today. It is important that the public sector in particular utilizes the most efficient tools available. For this reason, the Department of Employment and Social Services in Malmö has started a project to explore the viability of introducing machine learning to their work. This thesis corresponds to ro

Public spaces are central in most forms of urban planning and design since they play an important role in people’s wellbeing and social life. This study, however, explores public spaces in an often-neglected context: the rural. The research highlights and processes three public spaces in the Swedish village Kivik, a popular tourist destination on the east coast of Scania. Henri Lefebvre’s theory o

This thesis explores the job-seeking experiences of Korean young adults to see how the choices of future careers have been made. Its knowledge was gained by a qualitative research method which interprets the meanings of the participants' experiences. 12 interviews were conducted in total and in-depth narratives were presented to them. The theoretical approaches have made that two sociological