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Indigenous tourism destination development The case of Sami peoples in Sweden

Indigenous tourism is a vehicle of sustainable development for indigenous people. However, as the increase in the exposure to a westernized rationale along with tourism development, indigenous tourism development may result in the degradation of indigenous culture. The purpose of the thesis was to identify significant aspects of indigenous tourism especially focused upon cultural sustainability.

A study of early Holocene climate changes in Småland, Sweden, with focus on the '8.2 kyr event'

Tre borrkärnor bestående av sjösediment, vardera 1.5 meter långa, från Byestadsjön i Småland, Sverige studerades med hjälp av mineralmagnetiska- kol- pollen- och röntgenflourosens (XRF)- analyser. Målet med studien var att rekonstruera tidig Holocen miljö, med fokus på tiden mellan 9000-7000 år sedan och därmed avgöra om det kalla klimatåterslaget cirka 8200 före nutid påverkade regionen eller ej.

Modelling water intrusion impacts on pollutant transport from a municipal solid waste landfill in Sweden

The landfills located at the sea shore or below the ground water table are a severe cause of concern due to their close proximity to sensitive coastal ecosystems and pristine ground waters. Therefore, it is important to assess the long term environmental risks of coastal landfills before their final closure. In this context, the reactive transport models, by allowing us to study the complex interp

EC Procedural Protection: The Principles of Effectiveness and Equivalence - With Particular Focus on Swedish Tax Procedural Law

The notion of a procedural autonomy reserved to the Member States has its roots in the Rewe and Comet judgments delivered in 1976. In those cases the European Court of Justice held that it is for the domestic systems of each Member States to designate the courts having jurisdiction and the procedural conditions governing actions at law intended to ensure the protection of the rights which subjects

An Estimate of Parallel Trade’s Impact on Swedish Pharmaceutical Prices

The global pharmaceutical market has been the subject of considerable controversy in both the public and academic debate. Much of the controversy has centred around European price controls and the right of pharmaceutical manufacturers to independently set prices. This subject of this paper in one of the tools used by the EU governments control prices; namely parallel trade. The empirical research

Effective Implementation of the Core ILO Standards at the National Level (Comparative Study between Sweden and Lithuania)

By ratifying ILO Conventions, ILO Member States undertake to bring national legislation and practice into full compliance with these international labour instruments. However, the question remains whether the countries actually implement their international commitments. The assessment of national compliance with the ratified ILO Standards may help to find out the good practices to be followed by

Pulp Fiction - effects of climate control policies on the Swedish pulp and

Authors: Andersson, Carl-Johan and Löfstrand, Pontus Supervisors: Nilsson, Lars J. Department of Technology and Society, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University. Yard, Stefan, Department of Business Administration, Lund University. Kling, Åsa, Vattenfall Utveckling AB. Issues: One reasonable effect of emissions trading is arising incentives for cutting fossil fuel usage. One effe

Sustainable Leisure Lifestyles: Destination Gotland (Sweden)

Tourism is one of the world’s biggest industries; it accounts for 11% of the global GDP, and is responsible for between 5 to 14% of the world’s global warming caused by human activities. Due to the large economic, social and environmental impacts that this activity has, attempts have been made to make it more sustainable. Nevertheless, the focus has traditionally been on the supply side. Tourism’

Unwanted and Unprotected: the right to join trade unions for irregular workers in Sweden

The notion of human rights is built on the fact that they are universal rights and thus applies to everyone without exceptions. Despite this irregular workers are denied their labour rights and their human rights due to the fact that they are living in a country unlawfully. The states use methods as regularizing irregular migrants or enabling tougher sanctions against irregular migration in order

Biogas for a Distributed Development: Lessons learnt from Italian and Swedish cases

This thesis has two values. On one side, it aims at being a contribution to a betterunderstanding of the original concept of distributed economies. On the other side, it aspires atproviding useful decision criteria to those stakeholders that plan to locally develop a biogassystem.This thesis is developed from the Distributed Economies concept, which envisionsdecentralized, self-reliant and synergi