The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a tool for measuring the wellbeing of an economy. The question of how to include the use of renewable energy sources is important when estimating the GPI for an economy highly dependent on renewable energy like Iceland. An analysis of GPI estimations showed that the use of renewable energy sources is reflected by the subtraction of the use of non-renewable o

Användning av sociala medier har ökat explosionsartat bland privata internetanvändare de senaste åren. Allt fler företag bestämmer sig för att ansluta till de olika sociala nätverken, med eller utan en tydlig strategi. Studien belyser flera faktorer som etablerade företag har uppmärksammat vid införande och hanteringen av sitt användande i sociala medier, och som kan fungera som en vägledning för

This paper was written in an attempt to study a less researched area of Swedish development aid and its effort to help build institutions in developing countries. Our purpose is to examine to which extent the practice of “twinning” - exchange projects between equivalent or similar government agencies in different countries - can lead to institutional development. We have interviewed five Swedish a

The purpose of this paper was to examine how risks of cannabis use may be understood in the context of a discussion forum on the internet. The study was based on a sample of 33 forum discussions about the risks of cannabis use, selected with the search in the Flashback webpage. Four approaches to risk were identified to be central in the discussions about cannabis: downplaying the risk, paying at

The purpose of this study has been to analyze the social services' information texts to see what pattern emerge from these texts, and how this relates to power. Users of social services in Sweden receive a wide array of information texts from the social welfare offices. Despite several efforts from the Swedish government to make the language in these text more simple they still come across as

Är det möjligt att påverka människors moral genom att be dem uppmärksamma en situation i sin helhet eller i detalj? Med utgångspunkt i Construal Level Theory och GLOMOsys utfördes en undersökning på 113 studenter vid Lunds universitet och Malmö Högskola. Efter en abstraktionsmanipulation, en så kallad Navon task, ombads deltagarna skatta scenarier där personer begår moraliskt tvivelaktiga handling

The purpose of this study was to examine the subjective experience of schizophrenia. Four people, two of them diagnosed with schizophrenia and two relatives, were interviewed. The themes selected were development of the disease, recovery, belief in the future, the role of families and siblings, stigmatization and the relationship between violent crimes and mental illness. The development and exper

Förbud mot karteller är likartade i de flesta länder. Om förbuden överträds är dock skillnaderna i de påföljder som kan utdömas, respektive i den eftergift som kan sökas och beviljas, värda att notera. Denna uppsats presenterar de påföljder för överträdelser av kartellförbud samt de eftergifter som erbjuds i EU, Storbritannien, Sverige och USA. Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera vilka överväganWhile the cartel prohibition of most countries is quite similar, the differences in the sanctions imposed on cartel participants and the leniency available to such participants under national leniency programs are noteworthy. This thesis presents the sanctions for competition law infringements and the applicable leniency programs of the EU, the UK, Sweden and the U.S. The purpose of the thesis is

Abstract Authors: Maria Silversand och Maria Svensson Title: Praktiken ger liv åt teorin - skoltrötta ungdomar Supervisor: Johan Cronehed The purpose of this assignment has been to investigate how the definition of “school fed” has been construed in newspaper articles and if, and how, it has changed over time. From our question formulations which were; how the concept ”school fed” is defined, mea

The recycling sector and the solid waste management systems (SWMS) in developing countries greatly rely on scavengers, a vulnerable and marginal urban population that recover items or materials to be reused or recycled. As a new mindset towards waste emerges, considering it a resource instead of something useless and undesirable; governments, NGOs, private companies and other stakeholders slowly r

Author: Annika Lund Lagerberg, Ylva Blom Title: Conflict and conflict managment in elderly care settings - From a unit managers point of view [Translated title] Supervisor: Anders Östnäs Assessor: Susanna Johansson The aim of this study was to determine the factors that contributes to conflict and how the unit managers manage and prevent these conflicts. We have chosen to examine conflicts from t

The emergence of the academic field explicitly concerned with sustainability has seen the establishment of many university degree programmes in sustainability. This study examines what the curricula of 54 of these programmes, 27 master's programmes and 27 bachelor's programmes. entailed in terms of mandatory and optional courses and detailed topical content. It then looks, more specificall

Denna uppsats undersöker hur personer från olika klasser och samhällsgrupper under tidigt 1900-tal förhöll sig till manligt klädbruk. Syftet är att ta reda på hur kläder fungerade som en arena för gemenskap och identitetsskapande, men också som en arena för åtskillnad mellan människor. Detta görs genom att diskutera klassmotsättningar i termer av normer och ideal. Materialet består av uppteckning