Sökning: "Farms"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 276 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Farms.

  1. 1. Hus och gård i förändring : Uppländska herrgårdar, boställen och bondgårdar under 1700- och 1800-talens agrara revolution

    Författare :Göran Ulväng; Mats Morell; Dan Bäcklund; Christer Persson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; buildings; countryside; 18th-19th centuries; agrarian revolution; agriculture; household; work organisation; economics; manors; vicarages; farms; Ekonomisk historia; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is about what the buildings at manor estates, vicarages and farms looked like and how they changed during the agrarian revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Through new clearings, mechanisation, land partition, and increased work distribution and specialisation, production increased vigorously during the period, which generally caused an increase in prosperity and lay the foundation for the subsequent industrial revolution. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Worms, Farms and Schools : Three Essays on Investment Choices in Uganda

    Författare :Benedetta Lerva; Konrad Burchardi; Jakob Svensson; Jonathan de Quidt; Karen Macours; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; field experiments; randomized evaluations; agriculture; education; externalities; technology adoption; financial aid; cash transfers; school inputs; moral hazard; sharecropping; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Quantifying Externalities in Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan FarmersI investigate how positive externalities contribute to underadoption of agricultural technology among sub-Saharan African farmers. I focus on the adoption of pest-control technologies. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Phosphorus Emissions from Fish Farms : Observed and Predicted Effects

    Författare :Torbjörn Johansson; Kurt Pettersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Earth sciences; Fish farm; phosphorus; eutrophication; model; Geovetenskap; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Sedimentology; sedimentologi;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decades, fish farming has been a rapidly increasing industry in many European and North American countries. Sweden has a large potential for aquaculture, but there is also a strong concern about the effects on the environment that an increased aquaculture production may cause. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Gård, gräns, giftermål : Familjestrategiers betydelse för markens och landskapets utformning i Norra Åsarps socken, Västergötland ca 1640-1880

    Författare :Madeleine A Bonow; Ulf Sporrong; Ulf Jansson; Marie Stenseke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Farms; marriage strategies; field-systems; boundaries; territoriality; kinship; social class; Bourdieu; Sweden; 17th-; 18th - and 19th century; Västergötland; Norra Åsarp; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with property rights and the implications of these for people, landscape and settlement in Norra Åsarp Parish in the province of Västergötland.The overarching aim of the thesis is to investigate systems of social rules and how these influence the structure of settlement and land use/ownership. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Bebyggelsens mångfald. En studie av södra Hallands järnåldersgårdar baserad på arkeologiska och historiska källor

    Författare :Lennart Carlie; Arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; local variation.; agrarian economy; settlement structure; byres; houses; farms; graves; Halland; Iron age; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to elucidate Iron Age settlement in southern Halland from two angles: (1) the evidence of antiquities (graves), ground finds of metal and rock, and place-names; (2) the information conveyed by investigations in settlement archaeology. The combined study of graves, ground finds, and place-names shows that the image of southern Halland in the Iron Age differs depending on which category is analysed. LÄS MER