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Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management EUROPEAN JOINT MASTER’S PROGRAMMES • Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) • 2 years, full-time, 120 ECTS credits • European joint Master’s programme • Vienna, Mytilene, Lund, Manchester • Application deadline: See https://mespom.eu • Programme start: See https://mespom.e

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The company Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings in Sege, have certificates for environment and quality management systems according to ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. During spring 2003 they launched a new product, Tinova VX, which became a success. By studying the product development process, knowledge about the systems and the usage of them could be gained. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyse the s

Our purpose is to increase the understanding of how and why charitable foundations communicate and what challenges they face in their communication efforts. We aim to develop two communication models that takes into account the special circumstances that surrounds communication of charitable foundations. Our ambition is that the models will contribute to both the managerial and the academic unders

Framväxten och övergången till en alltmer kunskapsbaserad ekonomi har de senaste decennierna omformat grunderna för arbete, möjligheter och politiska attityder i de flesta avancerade ekonomier. Mycket av den offentliga och akademiska debatten har i detta sammanhang betonat ökande regionala klyftor, växande ojämlikheter, ökad osäkerhet, minskad social rörlighet och i kölvattnet av detta också ett v

The coast of Scania is vulnerable to disasters due to rising sea levels in combination with multiple communities along the coast. In the future, such disasters may become more frequent due to climate change and that may lead to predicted damages that are not covered by insurances. This increased risk of costs may lead to negative effects on the individual property owner and thereby also on the mun

Residential segregation is seen as a growing problem within many urban areas today. Segregation is assumed to hamper social integration and the life-chances of disadvantaged as well as creating instability in society. One policy measure to deal with residential segregation is to increase the variation in the housing structure. This is assumed to create a social mix, that in turn will generate posi

The rapid urbanization of sub-Saharan countries such as Kenya and Tanzania poses new challenges for policy makers. Increasing rates of urban food insecurity are one of these challenges. This thesis investigates how the governments of Kenya and Tanzania address food security in relation to urban areas. It especially scrutinizes the role of a rural bias at the expense of urban policies that address

Commercialising low-carbon innovations implies complex issues to be managed but is a necessity to attain a transition of industries for a sustainable future. This thesis investigates how an innovator can facilitate the adoption of their low-carbon innovation among stakeholders within the food industry. The case of Volta Greentech’s commercialisation of methane-reducing feed supplement for cattle i

The aim of this thesis has been to study the fulfilment of traffic related sustainability goals for newly planned areas in the Stockholm region and to reach a broader understanding about why some goals are achieved and why some are not. Traffic planning is a tool that can be used to influence the society towards a sustainable development and to affect the conditions of our environment for future g

Today, digital services and digitization are natural parts of the library operations in Sweden, with the leading player, the National Library of Sweden, as a driving force. However, it is unclear which presumptions about digitalization support these activities. In this master’s thesis I therefore examine the underlying assumptions, and the way they influence how the concept of digitalization is un

År 2011 släppte World Health Organization sin Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV/AIDS 2011-2015, en global uppmaning att under den angivna tidsperioden återigen försöka få den internationella HIV/AIDS- epidemin under kontroll. Syftet med denna uppsats är att tolka detta dokument ur mänskliga rättighetsteoretikern Susan James perspektiv kring rights as enforceable claims. Med hjälp av en kvalitat

During the recent decades, concerns about the environment and climate change have progressively gained importance in political, social and economic arenas. Amid environmental conferences and international political negotiations, on the business side corporations have scrambled to find ways to secure themselves and even prosper on an environmentally aware consumer base. This thesis examines how Ik

This thesis explores the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s reestablishment of disciplinary organs from the central to township/commune levels in the early post-Mao era (1979-1981). It set out to show why such organs came into being and how, with their help, the party attempted to strengthen its infrastructure and adopt specific measures to prevent the abuses of power at the grassroots level. The res

Social sustainability is of growing concern for global businesses as EU legislation CSRD, entered into force January 2024. The legislation requires businesses and enterprises to report on their social sustainability impacts. United Nations Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs) is the framework where human rights due diligence is explicitly described as an important tool for ide

Prison library operation is an area which rarely gets attention from the public nor in research and is a niche within library operation which historically has fallen behind other types of library operations. In this master’s thesis we aim to shed light upon the operation of prison libraries in Sweden by investigating the access of the incarcerated to libraries and what reading promotion activities

This thesis examines the influence of the EU exerted in the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia with focus on foreign policy instruments. Normalizations of relations between Kosovo and Serbia were considered to be hard case for any diplomacy knowing their past enmities, disputes and a tradition of not talking to each-other, yet EU was able to successfully conclude three-landmark agreement that have

Achieving constitutional amendment has been a goal for the Japanese conservatives for a long time, especially after the Cold War, because Japan’s peace identity has been perceived increasingly “abnormal” by the conservative elites in Japan. It thus engendered the heated debates surrounding whether Japan should change its peace identity via controversial constitutional amendment, which conflicts ag

Rätten att söka och åtnjuta asyl har fastställts genom FN:s allmänna förklaring om de mänskliga rättigheterna. Bedömningen av vem som anses vara flykting ska utföras i enlighet med kriterier och normer som återfinns inom internationell såväl som regional och nationell lagstiftning. I asylmål är det inte ovanligt med svårigheter att hitta bevis som styrker den sökandes utsaga. Istället läggs stor vThe right to seek refuge has been established by the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rules and criteria which regulates the assessment of refugee claims can be found on an international, regional and national level. Lack of evidence is not an uncommon problem in refugee cases. Instead, credibility assessments becomes crucial. Well-functioning methods and criteria needs to be applied