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Despite the growing importance of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a key tool to assess the environmental impact of products and services, many companies struggle with its implementation, lacking internal structures and capabilities to incorporate it into their operations. This thesis aims to understand the factors influencing companies' implementation of LCA, examining both drivers and barriers
The growing demand for sustainable packaging has driven the transition from fossil-based materials to renewable alternatives, such as paper-based packaging combined with water-based coatings and adhesive. In such systems, coating performance is strongly governed by the transition from a liquid to a solid-state during application. Understanding this immobilization process is therefore essential for
This thesis examines how India’s rise as a major economic actor shapes EU-India trade relations and the EU’s economic security in strategic sectors, technology and energy. The thesis asks how developments of increasing global trade fragmentation and geopolitical competition shape the EU's economic security and how the EU responds to this through trade policy, regulatory instruments, and the 20
This thesis examines how Chinese tourists construct geographical imaginations of the Gulf region and understand China–Gulf relations through travel experiences. The study integrates Critical geopolitics and Feminist geopolitics as its theoretical framework, viewing tourism as an everyday practice through which geopolitical meanings are produced and negotiated. Methodologically, the research uses t
This study examines how the European Union is represented in Viktor Orbán’s political speeches. It is based on a qualitative analysis of sixteen speeches and interviews delivered between 2022 and 2025. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the study investigates how the EU is constructed across societal, political, economic, and military dimensions, guided by insights from populism and securitization
This thesis examines the transformation of Finnish international identity between Finland’s accession to the EU in 1995 and its membership in NATO in 2023. The study is significant as Finland’s NATO accession has frequently been portrayed as a sudden and unprecedented rupture in Finnish foreign and security policy following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Challenging this interpre
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced one of the largest displacement movements in contemporary Europe, with millions of Ukrainians seeking protection across the European Union. While migration from Ukraine has often been understood through the lenses of safety, protection, and humanitarian need, wartime mobility can also become morally charged. Decisions to leave, stay
This thesis examines how the environmental, regulatory, and social problems arising from U.S.– Malaysia plastic waste trade were represented following China’s 2018 National Sword policy and Malaysia’s eventual 2025 restrictions on plastic waste imports. Rather than treating plastic waste trade as only a material flow, this study seeks to analyze how different actors constructed meaning through com
After independence in 1963, Kenya emerged as one of the largest economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. While manufacturing has been a stated priority of economic transformation across successive regimes, Kenya’s economy remained dependent on agriculture and service sectors. Manufacturing has been largely driven by micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) manufacturers. Meanwhile, there is limited aca
This thesis analyzes how Denmark and Sweden frame and respond to men’s violence against women in national action plans from 2020–2025. The study is significant because Denmark and Sweden are internationally recognized as highly gender-equal societies while simultaneously experiencing persistent levels of gender-based violence, a phenomenon known as the Nordic Paradox. Using Feminist Security Studi
This thesis, informed by feminist security studies, decolonial theory, and governmentality, critically examines how women’s security is discursively conceptualized, governed, and operationalized within the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). It argues that UNMISS protection regimes do not merely respond to pre-existing insecurity, but actively construct women’s security through gendere
Background Supply Chain Management is becoming increasingly more important to organizations in the post Covid-19 era. Managing Supply Chains is also moving towards finding data-oriented ways of working, and companies are making substantial investments in getting digital information systems to integrate with their ways of working. Simultaneously, Artificial Intelligence has become a well-discussed
This thesis initially highlights the broader context of tech elites and far-right movements emerging within outer space as political space. The issue that this thesis addresses is how tech elites’ imaginaries tied to outer space not only extend Earth politics but also could challenge society on Earth. The aims are to critically examine how tech elites over time construct the need for outer space t
As Trump's pursuit of Greenland escalated throughout 2025 and into 2026, the Danish government has faced mounting pressure to justify its authority over the territory, both on the international stage and within its domestic sphere. This thesis examines how Danish officials discursively construct and legitimize that authority in response to repeated threats from Trump. Drawing on Fairclough'
The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought an immense destruction to the latter. Hence, the issue of post-war reconstruction is placed in the development agenda. At the same time, the Government of Sweden has stated its commitment to support the post-war efforts in Ukraine, and its interest to involve the private sector in the process. Thus, the justification of the Swedish state r
Abstract This thesis examines how Swedish civil society organizations (CSOs) construct and communicate their role in crisis preparedness through online communication, and what perceived gaps between civil society and the state emerge through this discourse. Drawing on a qualitative digital ethnographic approach, the study analyzes Facebook posts and selected organizational reports from the Swedish
This thesis analyses how the Austrian humanitarian and developmental organisation Hilfswerk International discursively legitimates its involvement in border externalisation and containment practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans. Whilst previous scholarship has thematised the confluence of humanitarian principles, borderwork, and “migration management”, insufficient attention h
This study examines how customary and statutory land governance systems intersect in shaping land governance outcomes in post-conflict Liberia, with specific focus on Gbarnga City, Bong County. Despite the Land Rights Act of 2018 formally recognizing customary land ownership, significant gaps persist between legal provision and experienced tenure security, particularly for women and customary comm
I detta examensarbete, numeriska simuleringsverktyg- CFD och FEM- användes för att beräkna flödet, temperaturfältet och de termiska deformationerna inuti en maskin för försegling av den vertikala kanten av en kartongförpackning. Arket- förpackningsmaterialet har en U-form- matas in i maskinen- side sealer- där varm luft blåses mot båda kanterna av arket. Syftet är att smälta polymer lagret på kanIn this master’s thesis work, numerical simulation tools- computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element method (FEM)- are used to predict the flow, the temperature field and the deformations within a machine for sealing the vertical seam of a carton package. The blank- the packaging material folded as a U-shape- is fed into the machine- the side sealer- where hot air is blown toward both e
This thesis explores the narrative of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo and seeks to expose the underlying nationalist ideology of the Egyptian state. Through observations of the museums curated content, the thesis employes the tools of narrative analysis to uncover the specific conception of the nation that the state seeks to promote. Understanding the museum as an ideolo
