Sökning: "participatory initiatives"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden participatory initiatives.
1. Covering distance : essays on representation and political communication
Sammanfattning : Political representatives’ democratic legitimacy rests on their ability to cover the distance between themselves and citizens. Representatives must avoid being perceived as distant and aloof from the needs and wishes of those they represent. LÄS MER
2. Boosting young citizens’ deontic status : Interactional allocation of rights-to-decide in participatory democracy meetings
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the social organization of rights-to-decide in participatory democracy meetings where adolescents are invited. In such meetings, young citizens are given the opportunity to influence decision-makers and participate in determining future political action. LÄS MER
3. Health promotional interventions informed by community-based participatory research in a socially disadvantaged neighbourhood : development, exploration and evaluation
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to understand the impact of community-based participatory research-informed health promotional initiatives on the health of communities living in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Southern Sweden. The thesis was part of a larger program, Health promotion, Innovation in Collaboration which was a community-based participatory research program aiming to create novel ways to improve health through participatory and collaborative strategies. LÄS MER
4. Lokalområdet som strategi för en hållbar stadsutveckling: fallstudier av tre danska exempel
Sammanfattning : During the 1990s the role of the city in a sustainability perspective has received increasing attention. Within the framework of the research field, sustainable urban development, this dissertation discusses issues concerning how environmental initiatives at the urban district level may be planned, designed and organised. LÄS MER
5. Shaping sustainable food systems : Local participation in addressing global challenges
Sammanfattning : The current unsustainable trajectory of food systems puts the social and ecological processes and functions on which human flourishing depends at risk. This last decade has seen, on one hand, continued insistence on transformative action and on the other, uncertainty and instability with respect to traditional, established institutions, such as the state. LÄS MER