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The 2030 Agenda which was established in 2015 by the United Nation contains 17 goals for a sustainable future. The implementation of the 2030 Agenda reaches out to all levels of society, both nationally, regionally and locally. For a successful implementation, the directive and control of the 2030 Agenda must be clearly communicated and well understood by the implementer. Moreover, recent studies

This paper examines the use of history on the website This is the Real Spain run by the Spanish nation branding project España Global. With the use of narrative analysis, articles about the history of the country are studied in order to bring clarity to how history is used to legitimize Spain and strengthen its economy. The paper investigates what positive image the country wants to promote about

In a time when environmental changes increase dramatically and get more and more devastating, the question about what creates support for environmental policies which can mitigate these is highly relevant. Can education be a part of the solution? Some studies show that statistically, the support for environmental policies increase significantly with education in social sciences at a higher level.

Överdäckningar – En analys av dagens riskhanteringsproblematik inom denna allt vanligare stadsbyggnadsstrategi I takt med en ökande befolkningsmängd och urbanisering har överdäckningar på senare tid blivit en allt vanligare strategi inom fysisk planering. En överdäckning definieras i regel av en konstruktion som tunnlar in ett nytt eller befintligt väg- och/eller järnvägsstråk och på så sätt skThe concept of road- and railway overbuilding is an increasingly popular method to use in spatial planning to get rid of physical barriers and create exploitable areas for residential, commercial, and recreational development. Despite the many benefits the method entails, it also brings a lot of problems and challenges regarding risk management with the main issue being how to evaluate and manage

This thesis attempts to study the linkages between the energy consumption, digitalization and internet expansion. Due to the ongoing global pandemic that served as a natural experiment, studying the potential impacts of telework and digital entertainment on energy consumption has become much easier and more urgent than ever, since both are growing rapidly, and no definitive answers on their impact

This study shines new light on how the carolean soldiers collective identity may have been affected by the Great northern war. With the use of social identity theory and by analyzing how the caroleans differentiate themselves from the cosacks and russians it is possible to see if there is a potential shift in their collective identity. Established is that the caroleans had a national identity root

This paper examines the “back-testability” of Expected Shortfall and if different backtesting methods produce similar results, with the aim of illuminating whether various markets have any effect on the methods’ ability to perform. In order to answer this question, the three backtesting methods – Test 1 and Test 2 by Acerbi & Szekely, and the Approximative Quantile Test by Emmer et al. – are i

Purpose: To explore the positioning of tobacco-free snus as a new category in the disruption of the market. Theory: Positioning, Disruption, Blue Ocean Strategy, New Category Creation Methodology: This paper uses a qualitative and exploratory research method. Primary data on the positioning of tobacco-free snus as a disruptive new category in the market was gathered through two semi-structured int

The Purpose of this study was to examine how family law secretaries describe children's participation in custody, housing and contact investigations before and after the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The results are analyzed by two theories, the room for maneuver for the bureaucrat at street level by Michael Lipsky and the participation model by Roger Hart. The e

Avtalslagens 36 § anses vara en av de mest betydelsefulla bestämmelserna i avtalslagen. Denna generalklausul öppnar upp möjligheten att jämka eller lämna ett avtal helt utan avseende. Ett avtal kan jämkas om en omständighet, som t.ex. ett senare inträffat förhållande, bedöms vara oskäligt. Syftet med uppsatsen är att närmare utreda hur oskälighetsbedömningen enligt 36 § AvtL görs, med fokus på än

The aim of this study is to find out how “the best interest of the child” is considered in courtroom proceedings where any placement according to LVU exists, or where it is deliberated that care according to LVU shall cease. The purpose is further to analyze the arguments made about “the best interest of the child” and to study how children´s feelings and experiences are expressed in LVU judgments

The aim of this study was to examine mental health among students at Lunds university and investigate the possible correlation between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health in students. Web survey was the method used to gather data, the survey was sent out to a random selection of 880 students at Lund university.The final total sample size was 171 students. The web survey used Aaron Antonovsk