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

The objective of this paper is to examine the long-run relationship between CO2 emissions, economic output (GDP), and energy consumption in the US during the period 1960-2015. Energy consumption is investigated in its aggregated and disaggregated form i.e. Fossil Fuel, Nuclear, and Renewable energy to elicit a more precise diagnosis of the emission-energy-GDP nexus. The paper contributes to existi

This paper examines the visual representations about Mexico's socio-political transitions displayed in two photo-essays of Life Magazine in 1938 and 1939 respectively. It attempts to focus on the analysis of the photographs in light of their historical context to examine how the American society has represented Mexico and constructed a mediated reality through Life magazine's photo-essays.

An investigation of how female and male consultants perceive Female Leadership Development within a male-dominated environment and how the organizational conditions of (1) stereotypes and stigma, (2) work-life balance, and (3) lack of role models can influence gender diversity and equality in the top positions and explicitly affect women’s career advancement.

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of Media Framing of corporate accounting scandals over time.The purpose is fulfilled by adopting a case of how a corporate accounting scandal has been framed. This study uses a qualitative inductive research method. The data analysis was done by using the Gioia methodology as an approach for open coding, which is widely used in qualitative

Growing digitalisation of the global economy is brining irreversible changes in business models and structure of economic relationships. External factors, such as pandemiс, only facilitate the process of remote participation in economic life and performing economic functions. International system of allocation of taxing rights between resident and source states faces new challenges because of ment

Under Covid-19-pandemin har körlivet drabbats hårt och körer runtom i världen har fått ställa in och ställa om sin verksamhet. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilka åtgärder körer tagit, vilka repetitionsmetoder de använt sig av och hur körledare och körsångare har utvecklats under Covid-19-pandemin. Datainsamlingen har skett genom en enkät riktad till både körledare och körsångare samt en intDuring the Covid-19-pandemic choirs have suffered a lot, and around the world choirs have had to cancel and reorganize their activities. The purpose of this study is to investigate what measures have been taken by choirs, what rehearsal methods have been used and how choir conductors and singers have developed during the Covid-19-pandemic. The study has been performed through a survey to both choi

Short-term tourists visiting formerly residential areas are a potential source of conflict as the short-term tourists change the place they are visiting and represent an inconvenience to residents. This research uses a mixed methods approach with the short-term rent gap framework introduced by Wachsmuth and Weisler (2018) as the quantitative and an additional online expert interview as the qualita

Denna rapport är utförd i kursen Brandteknisk Riskvärdering (VBRN70) som ges under fjärde läsperioden på Lunds Tekniska Högskola. Denna rapport har granskat den handkirurgiska avdelningen på Sahlgrenska sjukhuset i Mölndal ur ett personsäkerhetsperspektiv vid brand. I kombination utav MSBs databas och de 67 bilder tagna utav handledaren Robert McNamee, samt dokument utgivna av kontaktperson Robin This report is a fire safety risk analysis about the hand surgery department of Sahlgrenska hospital in Mölndal. It is a new department since March 2021 in the top four floors of building K. Since the Covid-19 restrictions are still in effect a visit to the hospital was not an option. Therefore, it was harder to gain understanding of fire hazards, layout and materials in the building. Instead, a s

Under det gångna decenniet sedan 2010 steg den genomsnittliga statsskulden bland 35 av medlemsländerna i Organisationen för ekonomiskt samarbete och utveckling (OECD) från 65,5 till 68,2 procent av BNP. Utgifterna för dessa länders auktoriserade förvaltningar överskrider deras inkomster i ökande utsträckning. Finanspolitiska ramverk är regelsystem för auktoriserade förvaltningars finanser vilka inDuring the past decade since 2010 the average general government debt among 35 of the members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) increased from 65,5 to 68,2 percent of GDP. The expenditures of the governments of these countries are increasingly exceeding their revenues. Fiscal frameworks are systems of rules for the finances of governments which are institutionali

Organizations have gone through difficult times during the pandemic trying to adapt to new working conditions that restrict face-to-face encounters for their employees. The development of day-to-day tasks have been modified to cope with the virtual conditions of teleworking. Furthermore, the interactions between coworkers have been limited to virtual encounters, which has had a great impact on the

Business Intelligence-system är ett verktyg för att samla in och presentera data för att underlätta beslutsfattning och öka förståelsen för ens verksamhet. Dessa verktyg används framförallt av företag för att maximera vinst, men underlättar även arbetet i offentlig miljö. Därav undersöker författarna hur BI-system skiljer sig när de används inom offentlig sjukvård. Specifikt undersöks om etablerad

Purpose: The fundamental aim of this thesis is to investigate how strongly the Personalized Marketing (PM) factors identified in previous literature correlate with millennials’, aged 24 to 40, intention to act upon personalized advertisements on Facebook. Thereafter, the goal was to compare the extent to which the outcomes varied depending on millennials' age group and gender. Methodology: The

In Swedish media, there has been a heated debate regarding the school system. Since 1992, free schools, which are similar to voucher schools, have been permitted as a competitor to municipal schools. This was combined with a new grading system where knowledge based criteria were implemented as opposed to the previous normally distributed grading system. Due to Sweden’s lack of standardised and cen

De senaste årens teknologiska utveckling, med sociala medier i spetsen, har stöpt om samtidens medielandskap. En effekt av denna utveckling är att en ny direkthet skapats mellan offentlig person och gemene man. Detta nya förhållande innebär att offentliga personer numera både kan granskas och när skäl föreligger, bojkottas, av allmänheten. Fenomenet har kommit att benämnas som “cancel culture”. Fö

First, the thesis establishes that non-refoulement obligation is jus cogens norms. Before establishing the peremptoriness of the given legal norm, the account of the concept of jus cogens is proposed within which such elevation occurs. The argument suggests that jus cogens non-refoulement obligation complemented with the various conceptual and normative objections undermine the conceptual viabilit

Emotions play an important role in social work, including child welfare. Child welfare workers interact daily with clients in difficult life situations, in which strong, negative emotions are common. As a professional, a child welfare worker cannot express too many emotions, but is expected to show a calm and objective expression. This makes child welfare workers at risk to experience emotional st