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Energy communities are on the rise in the EU. Viewed as a potential driver to a socio-technical transition towards renewable energy, they are given substantial room for growth within EU policy. In some EU member states, they are flourishing, while in others they barely exist. This thesis analyses how the density of energy communities affects the shares of renewable energy in a state’s energy mix.

The political climate in the Arctic is changing in tandem with the world’s climate. As the ice thaws and leaves a previously frozen sea open, it likewise opens up for new opportunities as estimated abundances of resources become reachable for the first time. The diminishing ice also opens up new water ways for shipping routes and tourism, providing new economic opportunities. This has piqued the i

The aim of this paper is to describe the self-perception of the European Commission in terms of ideas portrayed in text of Political Guidelines formulated by three different Presidencies. The thesis analyses the Political Guidelines as formulated by three different European Commission Presidents; José Manuel Barrosso, Jean-Claude Juncker and Ursula von der Leyen. It uses a qualitative idea-analysi

This study explores two forms of oppressions facing Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: the Israeli Occupation and the Patriarchal Structure in their society. The purpose of the study is to examine how these oppressions intersect and impact Palestinian women’s daily life and their struggle for gender equality. Two question, in accordance with the study’s purpose were of part

This Master Thesis treats the problems involved with a dust explosion inside a filter unit. The project is a cooperation between AB Ph. Nederman in Helsingborg and the Mechanical Design Department of Design Sciences LTH, Lund. The Master thesis was carried out from December 2009 to April 2010. The initial phase of the project involves studies of the phenomena dust explosions, standards and regulat

This thesis applies a methodology based on the Novy (2013) ratio of trade barriers to identify variations in barriers to cross-provincial trade in the People’s Republic of China, econometrically tests for determinants of such variations, and together with the results of a field study determines the state of the current trade environment. Results of this study show the presence of such barriers to

The aim of this essay is to contribute to the field of research for language teachers in order to raise the awareness of the Education Act concerning the fundamental values which enforce an equal education for every student. Research made by the National Agency for Education presents results were the fundamental values are not incorporated satisfactorily into the daily teaching but rather dealt wi

This thesis is a documentation of the security discourse of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. It utilizes the Copenhagen School’s securitization theory to identify speech acts of securitization and desecuritization in the speaking and writing of political actors within the Swedish Social Democratic Party, focusing on the securitization of Muslims. This is done through a qualitative context anal

This thesis has attempted to show the process of transformation from the developmental state in South Korea and Taiwan since the 1990s on the perspective of the four main elements of the developmental state in strong capacity of state, coherent bureaucracy, government-business coalition and industrial policy. Based on these four dimensions, the thesis investigated the evolved process from the deve

This study aims to shed light on how the works of homosexual artists, and the homosexual artists themselves, are subject to sexualisation or fetishization through the theories and analyses posed by museums and their curators. This is demonstrated by the example of the retrospective exhibition on Marsden Hartley by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This study uses texts about the work from the ex

Collective memory is a psychological and sociological concept. This theory provides a reference for defining the characteristics of a community from the perspective of memory. Further research also shows that its internal connection to culture and community. This has many similarities with user research in product design. By focusing on typical or iconic products, objects, or the interacting proce

This thesis investigates how the relationship between the said and the meant in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass exposes the paradoxical condition of language. First, the theoretical framework accounts for the theory of language put forth by Jacques Derrida. Here it is concluded that discrepancies between the said and the meant are properties of language. This is due to the parado

Voyage charterparties, as one of the most common carriage contracts, has its own specific provisions which govern the legal relationship of the engaged parties. One of those specifications relates to the concept of laytime which is defined as the time during which the charterer can load or discharge the cargo. In this work the author tries to discuss the requirements that should be fulfilled to co

Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to better understand the early stage investment process, and with this deeper understanding provide Ideon Innovation with recommendations of how to improve the interactions between investors and entrepreneurs. Methodology: The thesis has been conducted with a mixture between a systems approach and an actors approach. An abductive research method has been chose

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Det Rinkiska bältet är den nordliga delen av en bergskedjebildning som kallas Nagssugtoqidisk-Rinkiska orogenesen (NRO), på centrala och norra Västgrönland. NRO är en gammal, djupt eroderad, 1000 km bred bergskedja som bildades vid kontinent-kontinent kollision för 1,85-1,87 Ga sedan och som korreleras med det angränsande nordöstra Kanada. Det Rinkiska bältet beThe Palaeoproterozoic Rinkian fold belt forms the northern segment of the Nagssugtoqidian-Rinkian orogenic (NRO) system of central and northern West Greenland. The NRO is an ancient, deeply-eroded, 1000 km wide orogen formed during a continent-continent collision c. 1.85-1.87 Ga ago correlated to the adjacent north-eastern Canada. The Rinkian fold belt consists of Archaean basement and the unconfo