During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians of technology and economics, and management experts to identify and examine the rules and motives that govern the environmental behaviour of indiv

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Socioeconomic related health inequality as measured by a bivariate rank dependent index, of which the concentration index is a leading example, is well documented across a wide number of countries and measures. To decompose an inequality index is to ascertain the potential causes of this measured inequality. Current available regression based decomposition methods applicable to bivariate rank depe

The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created t

Idag finns goda kunskaper om hur den byggda miljön bör utformas för att möjliggöra tillgänglighet för personer med funktionsnedsättning. Trots detta tillämpas kunskaperna inte i tillräcklig omfattning, varken i nybyggnad, ombyggnad eller förvaltning. Nya PBL ställer kravet att tillgänglighet skall vara tillgodosedd för att bygglov skall beviljas. Ut-formning för tillgänglighet måste vara en integr

Sweden and Denmark-Norway experienced a degree of freedom of the press at the beginning aof the 1770s that was quite unusual compared with much of continental Europe. The liberty of the press quickly changed the system of communication and the artickle explores how a new culture of communication was established in Denmark and who appropriated the written word and how and why.

Popular Abstract in Swedish I denna studie undersöks femtonhundratalets reformatoriska mässa i Sverige och hur den utformades i sockenkyrkorna. Bruk och texter som de reformatoriska källorna vittnar om eller enbart antyder, relateras till de senmedeltida förutsättningar som rådde på sockennivå vid tiden för de första reformatoriska förändringarna av liturgin. Detta tillvägagångssätt lyfter fram deThis study investigates the 16th century Mass of the Reformation in Sweden, with emphasis on how it was celebrated in parish churches. Practices and texts which the sources of the Reformation give evidence of (or merely suggest) are related to the late medieval practices and texts which were in use in the parishes when the reforms began. This method emphasizes continuity and plurality, but also al

Popular Abstract in Swedish Bruket av slåtterängar som fodermarker har mycket gamla anor i Sverige. Slåtterängar karaktäriseras av att huvuddelen av de arter som växer här har inhemskt ursprung. De uppkom när människorna blev bofasta och klimatet så kallt att kreaturen behövde stallas under vintern (tidig Järnålder) och man därmed behövde vinterfoder till djuren. Idag är ängen en hotad biotop efteThe objectives of this thesis were to: 1) survey the vegetation in semi-natural meadows in south-central Sweden, 2) discern meadow vegetation changes in eight semi-permanent plots between studies performed in the 1960s and in 1990, 3) experimentally investigate the effects of variations in management intensity in one dry and one mesic meadow, 4) experimentally investigate the effects of different