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Skogsekosystemet är ett av de viktigaste ekosystemen på jorden. Skogen förser oss med mycket som vi har nytta av, vilket numera ofta kallas ekosystemtjänster. Skogen reglerar och förser oss med många viktiga ekosystemtjänster, till exempel biodiversitet, skydd av mark och vatten, tillförsel av fiber, bränsle och andra skogsprodukter, klimatreglering samt sociokulturella värden och tjänster. ArealeThe forest ecosystem provides and regulates many important ecosystem services, such as soil and water protection, timber production, and climate regulation. It has been influenced by changes induced by humans, for example, our increasing demand for timber and bioenergy, the increase in nitrogen (N) deposition and CO2 concentrations due to industrialization, and climate change which has caused an i

The global extraction of minerals is commonly located in areas populated by indigenous people; and while conflicts between multinational corporations and local activists and indigenous people are widespread today, the understanding of their dynamics are lacking. The Swedish government’s encouragement to an expanding mining industry has caused resistance due to environmental and social implications

To mitigate dangerous climate change, a transition to a new and sustainable energy system is needed. In this system, solar energy will need to be a key player. Prices of electricity made from solar cells have declined rapidly over the recent decades, making solar energy competitive in more markets. However, further price reductions and new innovations are needed for solar cell technology to fulfil

In this publication we have assembled eight case studies and a ”national report” on Sweden that we wrote during 2005 as part of work commissioned by the European Foundation in Dublin. The Foundation had in the 1990’s and in the first years of the 21st  century as one of its objectives to investigate the situation for older and ageing workers in Europe, and to develop policy initiatives on the leve

Major water infrastructure projects like dams can provide substantial benefits such as food and drinking water security, hydropower generation, and flood control. But these benefits may come at a (too) high cost of large scale ecological alterations or adverse social impacts such as involuntary resettlements. If these costs are neglected, an investment decision will hardly be efficient. In this ch

Title: Branding Behind the Scenes: How Brand Managers Shape and Manage Brand Identity in Internet Brands Course: BUSN39 Degree Project in Global Marketing - Master Level Authors: Amelie Lewenhaupt & Vasiliki Pispas Supervisor: Veronika Tarnovskaya Purpose: This explorative study aims to investigate how brand managers of internet brands shape and manage brand identity through specific, situ

Internal social media (ISM) platforms have transformed internal communication by enabling dialogue, participation, and shared meaning-making across organizational hierarchies and locations. While previous research has highlighted ISM’s role in knowledge sharing and employee engagement, less attention has been paid to its function in shaping organizational identity from a managerial perspective. Th

The Swedish website Lexbase was launched the year of 2014, by the publisher Jonas Häger. They market themselves as a database with public documents from Swedish courts for the general public. Through their search engine, Lexbase offer private persons to find private and legal persons who have been facing legal proceedings since 2008. The aim of this study is to examine how Lexbase, as a private bo

This master thesis is carried out in collaboration with the company Scania which is a provider of transport solutions. The thesis is carried out at Scania’s production unit Engine Assembly where engines are assembled, tested and painted. All engines proceed through a standard test procedure while some of the engines also proceed through special test procedures carried out in the ”Audit Area”. The

Purpose: According to literature there is a set of six key competencies that distinguish sustainability professionals, including researchers, from professionals and researchers in other fields, making them “systemic problem solvers, change agents, and transition managers”. However, there is lack of empirical evidence, first, that these skills are necessary and sufficient for sustainability problem

The paper argues that contexts of interaction are structured in a way that coordinates part actions into normatively guided joint action without agents having common knowledge or mutual beliefs about intentions, beliefs, or commitments to part actions. The argument shows earlier analyses of joint action to be fundamentally flawed because they have not taken contextual influences on joint action pr

The Balanced Participation - The Meaning of Children’s Participation in Custody Evaluations [translated title] Children’s participation in terms of matters that truly concerns them has been highlighted in social work and the social services. When it comes to family law, researchers have found the custody and access proceedings being negligent regarding children’s participation and in considering

Denna studie ämnar att öka förståelsen för hur den alternativa mediesajten Avpixlat strategiskt kommunicerar sin bild av det svenska samhället, hur denna uppfattas av sajtens läsare och vilka implikationer det kan få för demokratin. I ett dialek- tiskt förhållningssätt undersöks kommunikationen utifrån såväl sändar- som läsarperspektiv, med hjälp av retoriska- och receptionsanalytiska metoder. StuThe aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how the alternative media site Avpixlat strategically communicates its image of Swedish society, how this image is perceived by its readers and what implications it might have for democracy. With a dialectic approach, the communication has been examined from both sender and reader perspectives, using rhetoric- and reception analyses. The em

My allotment got me thinking about what wonders nature does to man and our current stressful world we live in. How does the work environment look today and how can we arrange the office to find inspiration and an appetite for knowledge? This led me into the project ”The Working Scene”, the study of the working environments and how we can approve on the office. We are all in some way part of a glo

Due to insufficient knowledge on preschool teacher reporting obligations, studies show that fewer reports are made regarding children that might need help. The aim of the study was to illustrate how preschool teachers interpret and apply the law on reporting obligations in preschool activities and to illustrate the collaboration between preschool and social services. What does preschool teachers t

Parallel import in the European Union is the perfectly legal activity under Art. 28-30 EC of buying goods in a low-price country in order to ship and sell them in a high-price country. The pharmaceutical market in Europe is subject to the subsidiartiy principle of Art. 5 EC and heavily characterised by national regulations that lead to significant price differentials between – generally speaking –

The purpose of this study was to examine how a staffing- and recruitment company uses social media as a communication channel to attract employees. This was a qualitative study in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why the phenomenon is used. Another way to immerse, one company was selected, thus became a case study. A convenience sample resulted in five interviews with employees. The

Background BIM, Building Information Modelling, is a relatively new approach to work with building design and information management within the building industry. As higher demands are placed on product information and information management, manufacturers of building materials have to meet the need for BIM objects and 3D modeling. Ecophon is a supplier of sound absorbing ceilings and wall absorbe