Sökning: "Home ownership"

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  1. 1. My house is my husband - A Kenyan Study of Women´s Access to Land and Housing

    Författare :Diana Lee-Smith; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Urban areas; Surveys; Social structure; Rural housing; Rural areas; Research; Legal aspects; Land use; Land ownership; Land acquisition; Kenya; Income distribution; Housing; Home ownership; Food; Firewood; Family; Domestic labour; Community organization; Data collecting; Urban housing; Urban powerty; Use of dwelling; Water; Women; Architecture; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores women’s access to property in Kenya. It consists of three parts. The first gives the Kenyan background, the theoretical and methodological approach. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Energy efficiency, district heating and waste management : essays on environmental economics

    Författare :Alejandro Egüez; Runar Brännlund; Thomas Broberg; Patrik Söderholm; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; energy efficiency gap; principal-agent; split incentives; ownership; energy performance certificates; quasi-natural experiment; policy evaluation; district heating prices; natural monopoly; waste management; EU waste hierarchy; policy stringency; policy enforcement; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Paper [I] investigates the energy efficiency of multi-dwelling buildings in Sweden to find out whether the ownership type matters. More specifically, we investigate whether rental apartment buildings are less energy efficient than cooperative apartment buildings and whether public ownership has a negative impact on energy efficiency. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den ekonomiska staden : Stadsplanering i Stockholm under senare hälften av 1800-talet

    Författare :Hossein Sheiban; Martin Åberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; modern urban planning; economic discourse; public intervention; capitalism; civil society; municipality; social constructionism; working class housing question; self-help housing; home ownership; housing and property owners; economic sphere; politics; social question; urban history; Stockholm; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the emergence and development of modern urban planning in Stockholm during the second half of the nineteenth century. Three structures are focused on. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Business Models for Sustainable Consumption : Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Rental and Reuse of Home Furnishings

    Författare :Heather Schoonover; Internationella miljöinstitutet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sustainable consumption; sustainable business model; Product-Service System PSS ; rental; reuse; home furnishings;

    Sammanfattning : It is widely recognised that society is consuming at levels and in ways that are unsustainable. Sustainable business models, broadly defined as those that consider economic, ecological and social value, hold promise for shifting consumption patterns. LÄS MER

  7. 5. German second home owners in the Swedish countryside : on the internationalization of the leisure space

    Författare :Dieter K. Müller; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism; second homes; countryside; Sweden; Germany; tourist motivation; innovation diffusion; integration; gentryfication; GIS;

    Sammanfattning : Between 1991 and 1996 the number of German second home owners in Sweden increased from about 1,500 to more than 5,500. The purpose of this thesis is to give a comprehensive description and analysis of the German cottage purchases in Sweden, 1991-96. LÄS MER