Sökning: "Global change"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 1212 avhandlingar innehållade orden Global change.

  1. 11. Study on the Earth’s Surface Mass Variations using Satellite Gravimetry Observations

    Författare :Hadi Amin; Mohammad Bagherbandi; Lars Sjöberg; Faramarz Nilfouroushan; Martin Horwath; Högskolan i Gävle; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; geodetic reference system; geoid potential; global vertical datum; climate change; global warming; mass change; ice melting; sea-level change; remote sensing; satellite gravimetry; geodetiska referenssystem; geopotential; globala vertikala datum; klimatförändring; global uppvärmning; massförändring; issmältning; havsnivåförändring; fjärranalys; satellitgravimetri;

    Sammanfattning : Our complex planet is continuously undergoing temporal and spatial changes. In this context, ongoing processes in the Earth subsystems (geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere) cause changes in the gravity field of the Earth across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Mirrors of Change : A Study of Industry Associations in Chile and Uruguay

    Författare :Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano; Ulf Jonsson; Jaime Behar; John Meyer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutions; World-culture; remix; industry associations; global; legitimacy; region; Chile; Uruguay; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : Mirrors of Change is a cross-sectional study of micro and macro institutional environments that envisages to analyse shifts in the sources of institutional legitimacy since the 1960s. The main aim is to understand whether homogenising macro institutions are adopted at the micro institutional levels. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Continuity or Change? : Improved Understanding of Attitudes Towards Female Genital Cutting after Migration from Somalia to Sweden

    Författare :Anna Wahlberg; Birgitta Essén; Sara Johnsdotter; Katarina Ekholm Selling; Bettina Shell-Duncan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; female genital cutting; circumcision; pricking; migration; gender; sexual and reproductive health and rights; Somalia; Sweden; Medicinsk vetenskap; Medical Science;

    Sammanfattning : Do people’s attitudes towards female genital cutting (FGC) change after they migrate from a country where the practice is common, to one where it is not? Alongside increased levels of migration, this question is increasingly being raised. This thesis aimed to expand the understanding about attitudes towards FGC held by Somali men and women in Sweden, and thereby to identify potential factors that impede or facilitate the cessation of FGC. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Hälsofrämjande frakturprevention vid osteoporos : Kraft till förändring

    Författare :Viktoria Helene Hjalmarson; Margaretha Strandmark K; Margareta Möller; Lillemor Lundin-Olsson; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; frakturprevention; osteoporos; motivation; empowerment; salutogenesis implementering; hälsopromotion; Grounded theory; fallstudie samt hierarkisk klusteranalys; Public Health Science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 15. Global rörelse : Den globala rättviserörelsen och modernitetens omvandlingar

    Författare :Magnus Wennerhag; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lorenz von Stein; social change; individualization; social movements; democracy; civil society; globalization; sociology; Gustave Le Bon; modernity; Alain Touraine; Peter Wagner; global justice movement; creativity; collective action; world social forum; mediation; politics; Lorenz von Stein; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : A basic premise of this dissertation is that social movements are political and social actors expressing the centrality of autonomy in modernity. To grasp the nature of the relation between politics and social movements, the latter has to be related to the profound transformation in the forms of politics implied by the breakthrough of modernity, and the subsequent transformations within modernity. LÄS MER