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Extreme heat is one of the deadliest consequences of climate change, with urban areas particularly exposed. Vulnerability to urban heat differs among members of society and is shaped by socio-structural disadvantages. This thesis adopts an intersectional understanding of vulnerability to qualitatively explore how people with a migration background experience and adapt to heat in Vienna, Austria. T

Consumers are key players in mitigating climate change. Vietnam experienced Southeast Asia’s fastest economic growth, leading to modern lifestyles, while interest in organic products is growing, especially in urban areas. This study explores the motivations driving this interest among Gen Z by applying the concept of inner transformation, which links personal values and beliefs to sustainable chan

Extreme heat is not neutral. In Athens, the dense urban environment and harsh summer climate disproportionately impact the socio-economically marginalized. This research bridges the gap between climate data and human experience by uniting geospatial and qualitative survey data regarding heatwaves in Athens Municipality, with urban heat island research, vulnerability theory and climate justice. Sat

20-25% of semi-natural habitat per square-kilometre is required for the provision of local Nature’s Contributions to People. Farmers are key actors in reversing the severe habitat deficits in agricultural regions. Conceptually anchored in the Safe and Just Earth System Boundary Framework and the Tripartite Framework for Mitigation Pathways, this thesis combines a systematic literature review on ho

Debt-for-nature swaps have been designed to address the polycrisis of high debt, climate change and biodiversity loss in developing countries by restructuring sovereign debt and directing resultant savings towards conservation. However, they are marred by multiple drawbacks including the violation of debtor nation sovereignty by international financial actors. This thesis attempts the first academ

Denna studie bidrar till forskningen om integrering av styrningsverktyg för hållbarhet i utvecklingen av produkter och tjänster. Jag undersöker hur ett hållbarhetsverktyg, Costed Carbonised Bill of Materials (CCBOM), materialiseras i en studentledd, kvasiaffärsmässig organisation. Med utgångspunkt i sensemaking och institutionell teori genomförde och analyserade jag 12 intervjuer med ledningen förThis study contributes to research on integrating sustainability governance tools for the development of products and services. I examine how a sustainability tool (Costed Carbonised Bill Of Materials) materialises in a student-led, quasi-business organisation. Drawing on sensemaking and institutional theory, I conducted and analysed 12 interviews with the management of Lund Formula Student. Altho

This study examines how tourism affects and reshapes residents’ identities and sense of place in the Sanno-chiku of Takayama City in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. This study focuses on residents’ lived experiences and discusses tourism through the ideas and concepts of place, sense of place, identity, mobility, and commodification. This study asks two research questions: 1) How does tourism shape local

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are promising tools to protect and restore marine ecosystems among a global biodiversity loss crisis, yet their socio-ecological effectiveness can be limited by a lack of stakeholder participation in their governance. This thesis examines the case of participatory governance in Germany’s three exclusive economic zone (EEZ) MPAs in the North Sea. Drawing on participato

The EU Deforestation Regulation marks a major shift in European forest and commoditygovernance by moving from legality-based timber control toward mandatory deforestationfree due diligence. While the regulation is designed to address global deforestation linkedto consumption and trade, its implementation also affects low-deforestation contexts suchas Sweden. This thesis examines how Swedish forest

Malta’s construction boom has resulted an increase in urban density and a decrease in green spaces over recent years. To combat this, in 2025 the social movement Post Għalina launched a campaign to transform Manoel Island, a largely undeveloped island near Valletta, into a national park. This thesis employs a qualitative case study utilizing social movement theory to examine Post Għalina’s creatio

Sweden’s housing policies from the post-Second World War to the 1970s were grounded in the idea of sanering, slum-clearing and reconstruction, and essentially aimed at reforming regional planning. Through the sanering approaches, some regions changed their characteristics in a shrinking way. Nevertheless, previous studies rarely focused on either sanering or its impacts on regional development. Mo

The UK achieved the ambitious goal of becoming the first G7 country to phase out coal-firedelectricity, with its last power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar closing in 2024. Ensuring thisgeneration of transitioning communities does not follow in the footsteps of ‘left behind’ UKex-mining villages for example, is imperative. This study investigates and compares theimaginaries of place leaders and locals

The IPCC’s Illustrative Mitigation Pathways achieving below 2°C of global warming increasingly rely on Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACCS). Research has largely concentrated on techno-economic aspects, while community perspectives have been almost exclusively focused on in the Global North. This thesis presents the first empirical case study of a commercial DACCS facility in Africa. Drawing on

Materialvariation i gråjärn diskuteras vanligtvis utifrån metallurgi eller bearbetbarhet, medan dess konsekvenser för produktionsflödet och styckkostnaden är mindre systematiskt karaktäriserade. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur sammansättningsvariation i gråjärn propagerar genom bearbetningsrespons till produktionssystemets beteende, och kvantifierar de resulterande ekonomiska konsekvenserna perMaterial variability in grey cast iron is usually discussed in terms of metallurgy or machinability, while its consequences for production-flow behaviour and per-part economics are less systematically characterised. This thesis investigates how compositional variability in grey cast iron propagates through machining response into production-system behaviour, and quantifies the resulting per-part e

The increasing demand for electric vehicle charging stations creates new challenges for electric grid planning. This thesis proposes a framework for forecasting realistic 24-hour peak load profiles for new direct current fast-charging stations without historical observations. The method combines $K$-means clustering of existing stations’ hourly load patterns and random forest models that predict b

In prediction markets actors trade contracts whose payout is linked to the occurrence of real-world events. Markets based on questions of the type "Will event A occur before time T?" are particularly interesting in geopolitical contexts, but are understudied in comparison to standard election-style contracts. I present, to the best of my knowledge, the first pricing model for this type o

Sveriges elsystem genomgår en förändring i takt med att andelen väderberoende kraftproduktion ökar. Kraftvärmeverk, som traditionellt haft en tydlig roll som planerbar kraft, möter ett allt hårdare ekonomiskt tryck när marginalerna på spotmarknaden pressas. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur ett kraftvärmeverk i elområde SE3 kan förbättra sin lönsamhet genom deltagande på mFRR D-1 kapacitetsmarknaSweden’s electricity system is undergoing change as the share of weather-dependent power production increases. Combined heat and power (CHP) plants, traditionally valued for their dispatchability, face growing economic pressure as spot market margins tighten. This thesis investigates how a CHP plant in Swedish electricity area SE3 can improve its profitability by participating in the manual freque

This master’s thesis explores the ethnic self-identification of young Russian speakers from Estonia, as well as their sense of belonging to Estonia and the Estonian society. The research focuses on an understudied group of younger people who did not experience the life under the Soviet Union, which leads to them not sharing the identification of a “Soviet citizen” that was common for the older gen

Att leva med klusterhuvudvärk innebär att hantera återkommande smärtanfall och samtidigt leva med osäkerheten kring när nästa anfall kan inträffa. Denna uppsats analyserar klusterhuvudvärk som ett temporalt livsvillkor snarare än enbart som ett neurologiskt smärttillstånd. Med utgångspunkt i tio kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som har diagnostiserad klusterhuvudvärk undersöks hur återkommande

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. A common feature of these disorders is the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) and amyloid-β (Aβ) proteins into amyloid structures, which disrupt cellular homoeostasis and drive disease progression. While Aβ typically forms extrace