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Two Degrees Climate Target: Hell or Hallelujah

In 1996 the European Union and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the 2°C climate target to prevent dangerous climate change and to limit the rise in global mean temperature to 2°C above the preindustrial level. If this is possible to accomplish, with increasing emission of greenhouse gases, is hard to tell. There are today many uncertainties within the conn

Achieving pre-defined service

Abstract IKEA’s business idea is to offer a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To be able to do this the costs must be kept as low as possible. Achieving desired customer service levels is although the key objective while cost reductions are a secondary focus. To be able to retain desired cu

Exit vs. Voice

This thesis examines the relationship between fund performance and the choice of strategy when an invested asset is reclassified to a fund’s exclusion’s list. The two choices of strategy are divesting the asset or using active ownership methodology by communicating with the asset. To examine the performance of the funds, Jensen’s alpha, Sharpe ratio, Information ratio and Treynor ratio is calculat

A Transformation in Education? A comparative analysis of SDG4 implementation in domestic contexts.

Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG4) has been insufficient and knowledge of how it is implemented into domestic contexts remains limited. Using norm diffusion theory as a framework, this thesis is a comparative study of SDG4 implementation in five countries around the world. By analysing both the discursive and practical impact of SDG4, this thesis has studied if an

Evaluating reliability and limitations of disaster loss accounting databases

Disaster loss accounting is an essential tool for assessing the effects of disasters and creating policies for disaster risk reduction that are supported by data. This study compares disaster data for two of the most used disaster loss accounting databases, EM-DAT and DesInventar in the context of six Latin American countries, namely, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Venezuela.

Living Forms

This project is about imagining new ways we live at home, and new objects to take place. The project is based on personal interests, short case studies, and observation on current human conditions. The major concept was developed with constant attention on the mobility of domestic furniture, and how this general concept shape shifts to manifest different ideologies of different backgrounds. In

A methodology to achieve sustainability within the food & beverage industry

With the world heading towards a global increase of temperature of more than 1.5°C, societies are trying to limit the dependence on fossil fuel by adopting renewable energy sources in order to limit the emission of greenhouse-gases. This master thesis strove to find a methodology to integrate renewable energy and optimisation measures in the industries of food and beverage to make them more sustai

Från kolonialism till handelsavtal

This essay is a theory-consuming case study, the purpose of which is to investigate how Western norms and colonial power relations have influenced the design of the EU's trade agreement Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The essay's theoretical framework is based on norm diffusion and postcolonial theory. First, empirical evidence about the theories and the EPA agreement is presented, t

Ambitions for sustainable nutrition in the private sector unpacking incentives, limitations and potentials

The food system accounts for a significant portion of environmental degradation, while it is at the same time to a large extent producing food that is deteriorating to human health. The private sector plays an essential role in contributing to the sustainability of the system. Based on a systematic literature review, we conceptualise the notion of sustainable nutrition (SN), which highlights the i

Decolonial Resistance in Agriculture: The Role of Spirituality in the Work of Food Sovereignty Organizations in Mexico

Recent decades have exposed the crisis inherent in the globalized agriculture system characterized by nature commodification, trade liberalization, corporatization and environmental destruction. The crisis is driven by a colonial and neoliberal-capitalist ideology grounded in the supposed universality of western knowledge. Smallholders are particularly affected, with the dominant system threatenin

Microcredit and Empowerment of Rural Women Experience from Mbeya Region Tanzania

A concern for the status of women particularly in the developing country‘s context has created global and national level initiatives with a goal to empower them. Compared to men, women lack economic opportunities, have limited access to productive and financial resources; moreover they also have minimal participation in the decision-making process. In recent years many developing countries have in

On nuclear weapons : Denuclearization, demilitarization and disarmament: Selected writings of Richard Falk

We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhetoric surrounding threats of war is creating new fears and heightening current tensions. Richard Falk has for decades been an outspoken authority calling for nuclear disarmament and the enforcement of non-proliferation treaties. In this collection of es

Vbe tandvard webb

VETENSKAP OCH BEPRÖVAD ERFARENHET TANDVÅRD VETENSKAP OCH BEPRÖVAD ERFARENHET VID SBU | 1 2 | STEN ANTTILA & SUSANNA AXELSSON VETENSKAP OCH BEPRÖVAD ERFARENHET TANDVÅRD ISBN 978-91-983575-8-5 © VBE-programmet och författarna Grafisk form Johan Laserna Tryckt av Media-Tryck, Lunds universitet, Lund 2019 Förord 9 NILS-ERIC SAHLIN Vad är vetenskap och vad är beprövad erfarenhet? Och vad betyder eviden

https://www.vbe.lu.se/sites/vbe.lu.se/files/vbe_tandvard_webb.pdf - 2025-12-28

LUM 6 2024 0

Vägleder till framtiden För dyrt med Varvsstaden Makalös manick eller skämt? Vågade klivet LUNDS UNIVERSITETS MAGASIN | NR 6 | 2024 RISKFORSKAREN VALDE BORT TRYGGHETEN 2 LUM NR 6 | 2024 LUM NR 6 | 2024 3 För biologen Roberto García-Roa är forskning och fotograferande två sammanflätade aktiviteter som berikar varandra. Nu har han ännu en gång vunnit priser i en interna- tionell tävling för naturfot

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/sites/medarbetarwebben.lu.se/files/2024-12/LUM%206%202024_0.pdf - 2025-12-28

Studie- och karriärvägledare

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https://www.student.lth.se/kontakt/studie-och-karriaervaegledare/ - 2025-12-28

Teknologkåren

Teknologkåren | Studentwebben LTH Hoppa till huvudinnehåll Den här webbplatsen använder cookies för att förbättra användarupplevelsen. Genom att fortsätta använda webbplatsen samtycker du till att cookies används enligt vår cookie-policy (på LTH:s webbplats) . Absolut nödvändiga cookies Dessa cookies är nödvändiga för att webbplatsen ska fungera och kan inte stängas av i våra system. Dessa cookies

https://www.student.lth.se/lth-campus/teknologkaaren/ - 2025-12-28