Sökning: "qualitative social science inquiry"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden qualitative social science inquiry.
1. Reconstruction planning in post-conflict zones : Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community
Sammanfattning : The history of mankind has been plagued by an almost continuous chain of various armed conflicts - local, regional, national and global - that have caused horrendous damage to the social and physical fabric of cities. The tragedy of millions deprived by war still continues. LÄS MER
2. The unseen in between: Unpacking, designing, and evaluating sustainability-oriented labs in real-world contexts
Sammanfattning : We live in a time of compounding ecological and social change. Given its uncertain and urgent nature, contemporary forms of governance are experiencing tension between controlling the present and nurturing collective capacities to enact transformative change. LÄS MER
3. Eat, Meet, Fly, Repeat : the contextuality of business travellers’ meals
Sammanfattning : Meals are an important part of everyday life, both for the persons who engage in them and for the industry that makes them. For business travellers, meals are engaged in differently when they are travelling compared when they are home. Tens of millions of meals are engaged in each year by persons who are conducting business trips. LÄS MER
4. Time to farm : A qualitative inquiry into the dynamics of the gender regime of land and labour rights in subsistence farming: an example of the Chiweshe communal area, Zimbabwe
Sammanfattning : In the context of multiple stressors such as land shortage and food insecurity, the thesis deals with gendered land and labour rights as a social aspect of food production in subsistence agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Using the Chiweshe communal area in Zimbabwe as an example, it identifies, investigates and draws conclusions on higher order social processes of gender, power and incremental institutional change in a local context. LÄS MER
5. Forest water governance : challenges in cross-sectoral and multi-level collaboration
Sammanfattning : Forests and water are highly interconnected with forestry practices negatively affecting forest water. In the last five decades, the Swedish state has enacted multiple policy changes and allocated significant resources towards the implementation of soft policy instruments to alleviate the effects on forest water. LÄS MER
