Collective action can be challenging in the governance of common pool resource. While social learning has the potential to facilitate negotiations and communications, power imbalance can still challenge the common pool resource (CPR) governance. In an attempt to study collective action in that context, I undertook a qualitative case study at the Cañete basin, Peru. The primary data was manly colle

This study explores how members of Myanmar’s largest political parties perceive inclusion of its citizen in the democratic process. Through a threefold aim the study has looked at how party members’ understanding of inclusion is externalised within the parties; whether these perceptions implies hindrances to Myanmar’s democratic development; and how the analytical findings can contribute to the th

The Nutritional status of a child reflects their overall health situation. Care behavior during the first five years of children’s life, and actions and decisions that caregivers make for them, define how they grow and how a country progresses. Parents are children’s first gatekeepers and caregivers in regard to their health and nutritional status; therefore, the nutritional growth and development

This study explores the links between good governance and e-readiness within a case study of Kenya’s Laptop Project – a nationwide ICT-in-Education implementation which aims to give one laptop to every Kenyan child entering primary education. Focus is held through two key questions, (1) How e-ready are Kenyan schools for the Laptop Project? and (2) What role has governance played in this? Research

All kinds of disputes arising from a commercial contract do not necessarily have to be brought before a court or an arbitral panel; market practice exhibits a great diversity of alternative ways of dispute resolution. This includes the inspection clause and the valuation clause, which are the dispute resolution methods scrutinized in this essay. Inspection clauses could for instance be found in co

Enligt artikel 267 FEUF har nationella domstolar mot vars avgöranden det inte finns något rättsmedel enligt nationell rätt en skyldighet att begära förhandsavgörande från Europadomstolen, förutsatt att det i det förevarande målet uppkommer fråga om tolkning av fördragen eller tolkning samt giltighet av rättsakt från någon av unionens institutioner, organ eller agenter. Frågans besvarande måste var

Denna uppsats sorterar under konsumenträttens område. Den behandlar övergången mellan distans- och hemförsäljningslagen och lagen om distansavtal och avtal utanför affärslokaler. Det är bestämmelserna om tillämpningsområde, informationskrav och ångerrätt som är i fokus. Regleringens såväl nationella som EU-rättsliga syfte belyses inledningsvis och utgör utgångspunkt för uppsatsen. Bestämmelserna iIn Swedish and European law, the consumer have the right to withdraw during certain conditions and the business have the responsibility to give correct and detailed information. Due to the EU Consumer Rights Directive from 2011 changes are to come for the Swedish market and for the European market as a whole. The changes that will effect the Swedish consumer and business are studied in this thesis

När man talar om bilism i städer idag stannar ofta diskussionen vid att minska trafiken i vissa områden eller göra bilen mer miljövänlig. För att bredda diskussionen undersöker uppsatsen om det ur ett svenskt perspektiv finns möjlighet att planera utan bilism. Frågeställningarna som besvaras lyder: Vad finns det för möjligheter och svårigheter med att implementera Crawfords teori om bilfrihet i en

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the underlying tendencies of the Hungarian nationalism in relation to women's rights. Thus, the study aims to analyse which actual effects these nationalist tendencies have on women's rights. This is done using feminist critical ideology analysis. The thesis focuses on women's right to protection from discrimination in relation to family, work a

Denna studie har som syfte att undersöka ungdomars användning av det offentliga rummet i ett av Malmös delområden. Särskilt fokus läggs också på att undersöka problematiska grupper för att utröna om det är gäng och hur de påverkar andra unga i det offentliga rummet. För att ta reda på detta används teorier kring territorialitet, gäng samt ekologiskt missgynnsamma förhållanden. Det är en kvalitativ

In recent times, Sweden has experienced a boom in the construction of new arenas, which constitutes a good example of modern day planning in the country. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what these arenas symbolise and what sets of values influence and possibly alter the decision-making processes surrounding the construction of the arenas. The analyses are based on the theories of neoli

Our understanding of the society and the world around us is partly communicated to us through the newsmedia. The language used, both written, oral and images, affects the way that we talk about, understand and act upon certain events. In a newsbroadcast there are several interpretations and representations, all communicated in various forms of language, and this language will in turn be the basis

This essays focus is to unravel the discourses concerning women by doing a historic-comparative qualitative content analysis on Malleus Maleficarum, written in 1486, and modern papal writings in order to compare the similar or different ways in which the ideal woman is understood. The reason for why these materials have been chosen is based on the influential spread these writing had or have, and

Mass Rapes in Bosnia-Herzegovina illustrated the structural sexual violence in war and made it hypervisible. Despite the fact that 111 cases involving sexual violence during the war are being heard in the court of Bosnia and Herzegovina only thirty-six cases have been completed. Sara Sharratt’s theory argues that all institutions in society including the courts are affected by the stereotypes and

Feminism is a concept that can be considered extremely topical in Sweden in both the social and political context. Therefore, it is interesting to examine women’s position towards the concept and if they want to be identified as a feminist. This study is based on how women’s position towards feminism and feminists can be challenged by stereotypes and ideal types in the discourse of the concepts. T

The purpose of this paper was to show how politicians choose to use the history and the national discourse to mobilize for their ideological purposes. The Yugoslavia war is a clear example of that history can be used as a dangerous weapon during national and ethnical conflicts. To illuminate this a discourse analysis of nationalism and the ideological use of history will be done on three ex-Yugosl

Uppsatsen belyser jämställdhets- och genusarbete på några svenska förskolor. I studiens centrum står tre fokusområden, vilka även format huvudfrågeställningen: Hur ser verk-samhetsansvariga på tre olika förskolor i Skåne på könsneutralitet, normkritik och genuspedagogik i den egna verksamheten? Val av fokusområden beror på deras aktuella ställning i jämställdhetsfrågor inom förskolan. För att besv

Titel: Ett ramverk för portföljhantering ­‐ En fallstudie på Alfa Laval Författare: Jacob Gustafsson Per Nilsson Robin Thiberg Handledare: Stein Kleppestø, universitetslektor. Företagsekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan, Lunds Universitet Dag Näslund, universitetslektor. Avdelningen för Teknisk Logistik, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lunds Universitet. Hans Karlsson-­‐Höiden, doktor. Project O

Rapporten är ett examinerande moment i kursen Brandteknisk riskvärdering. Syftet med rapporten är att utvärdera personsäkerheten vid brand för besökarna på Halmstadtravet och ge förslag på eventuella förbättringar. Syftet är även att studenterna ska tränas i sin ingenjörsmässiga förmåga. I byggnaden som utvärderas finns bland annat restaurang, kök, sittplatsläktare och caféverksamhet. Det redogörThe report is an examination element of the course Brandteknisk riskvärdering. The purpose of the report is to evaluate human safety of visitors in case of fire at the racetrack Halmstadtravet and suggest possible solutions if the human safety is deemed insufficient. The purpose is also to train the students in their engineering capability. The method is to choose several fire scenarios that chal