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Scotland is a founding member of the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) partnership and has publicly committed to building an economy that prioritises people and the planet over Gross Domestic Product growth. Yet, growth logic remains embedded in the financial, regulatory and cultural systems that shape business practice. This thesis examines the gap between Scotland’s ambitions for a wellbeing
Women play a crucial role in the agricultural sector worldwide, yet their contributions remain largely informal and unrecognised. They face persistent structural barriers and invisible labour burdens, receiving only around 5% of agricultural extension services (knowledge, training, and advisory services offered to farmers by governments, NGOs, and other institutions) globally. This study investiga
Photovoltaic (PV) technology stands at the core of the EU’s energy transition, yet its rapid expansion points to an inevitable surge in future waste streams. Currently, decommissioned modules are managed under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. This framework was originally tailored for short-lived consumer electronics, creating a profound structural mismatch with PV m
Firms operate in an increasingly uncertain world characterized by armed conflict, unstable trade regimes, and shifting environmental regulations. The Swedish manufacturing industry is exposed to these uncertainties through its reliance on export markets, global supply chains, energy-intensive production, and EU sustainability reporting regulation. This thesis explores how perceived uncertainty amo
Biodiversity loss is becoming increasingly recognised as a critical sustainability challenge for the food and beverage sector, and currently knowledge is limited about how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manage biodiversity in upstream supply chains. This thesis therefore investigates how Swedish food and beverage SMEs manage biodiversity, how power dynamics shape their choices, and whic
Urban food systems are increasingly recognised as critical arenas for addressing sustainability challenges related to climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and social inequality. In response, cities are adopting collaborative governance approaches that engage public authorities, civil society organisations, academia, and private actors in collective efforts to transform food systems.
Motivated by the democratic and environmental shortcomings of traditional energy governance models, this research investigates how democratic governance within an energy community (EC) influences members orientations and practices towards energy sufficiency. This study conducted an in-depth case study of the island-based cooperative Energía Bonita in La Palma, Canary Islands. Responding to critiqu
Denna uppsats undersöker hur svensk identitet kan uttryckas genom en byggnad och dess arkitektur. Den utforskar uppförandet av Svenska Victoriaförsamlingens i Berlin byggnader mellan 1951 och 1959, med ett särskilt fokus på den kreativa processen och de sätt på vilka identitet skapas, förhandlas och reproduceras i brevväxlingen. Primärmaterialet består av korrespondens mellan kyrkoherde Heribert J
This thesis examines what happens to a city’s maritime heritage when it transitions from being lived in shipyards, to being managed in office buildings. Set in the post-industrial harbor district of Västra Hamnen in Malmö, Sweden, the study investigates how the gentrification of a former shipyard created the spatial and symbolic conditions for the World Maritime University (WMU), a United Nations
In the current era of worsening climate impacts on a global scale the drive for sustainable solutions to address the climate crisis has increased across all levels of governance. Globally cities house most of the population leading to significant impacts on the environment with urban mobility representing one of the major sources of GHG emissions. As cities start to implement solutions to address
This thesis examines the electrification of district heating in Greater Copenhagen, focusing on how key actors perceive the system’s future and which constraints hinder the scaling of electrified district heating. It adopts a qualitative single-case study design, drawing on interviews, recordings, and reports. The analysis is informed by Large Technical Systems theory, particularly the concept of
This thesis examines how biodiversity policy ambitions and scientific biodiversity knowledge can be translated into practical site-level actions within an industrial context. The research was conducted in collaboration with Volvo Group, specifically Volvo Trucks Tuve, focusing on biodiversity measurement methods, organisational readiness, and the development of operational biodiversity strategies.
Only a small fraction of municipal waste is currently prepared for reuse (PfR), despite it being the prioritized waste‑treatment option in the EU Waste Hierarchy and a key contribution to slowing resource loops within the Circular Economy. Although many discarded products retain both functional and economic value, the absence of appropriate infrastructure and processes within municipal waste manag
Early-stage sustainable fashion enterprises face a structural paradox: they are increasingly expected by funders, investors, and programme partners to demonstrate measurable environmental performance, yet the ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that rigorous measurement demands is largely inaccessible to ventures operating with small teams, limited data infrastructure, and constrained budget
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) generation resulting from rapid digitization and increasing electronic device use poses significant environmental and public health risks, particularly in developing countries. In response, Nigeria established an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme for WEEE, which is currently being implemented. However, its effectiveness in achieving i
This thesis investigates how modifying the initial angular momentum (AM) condition of a Milky Way-like dark matter halo affects the orbital and structural properties of its satellite subhalos. This work uses a suite of five dark-matter-only (DMO) cosmological zoom-in simulations, the VINTERGATAN-GM-AM, in which the initial AM of the Lagrangian patch is modified using the genetIC code to obtain the
The gaseous halo around galaxies, known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM), has been inferred from observations and simulations to transition from cold chaos to hot stability (virialisation), but the road it takes is uncertain. One of the possible routes is via the ejections of energy and matter from stars, called stellar feedback, within the galaxy, providing the necessary thermal support to stab
β Pictoris is a nearby, young planetary system hosting an edge-on oriented dust disk. It is not only the system where the first exocomets were discovered, but also the most studied exocomet system. Decades of observations since the first exocomet discovery in the 1980’s have shown spectroscopic transits of evaporating exocomets at close orbital distances to the host star. Although many observation
