Sökning: "vetenskap och politik"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden vetenskap och politik.
21. Greening Earth? : Science, Politics and Land Use in the Kyoto Negotiations
Sammanfattning : Can a deliberate enhancement of the natural uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide in forests and agricultural lands contribute to global efforts to mitigate anthropogenic climate change? This is a question that has generated a great deal of debate and controversy since the inception of the multilateral climate negotiations in the early 1990s. This thesis offers an analysis of how this debate has played out in the negotiations on the land-use change and forestry activities in the Kyoto Protocol. LÄS MER
22. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER
23. Medborgardygd : Den europeiska staden och det offentliga rummets etos
Sammanfattning : What does it mean to be a good citizen? Starting with Aristotle’s ethics and philosophy of friendship formulated between the private and the public in politics' and with the timeless question of what makes a society possible as a backdrop, the author outlines a possible answer. A good citizen is a virtuous citizen, and a virtuous citizen is prudent, courageous, moderate and just. LÄS MER
24. Climate Science for Policy? The knowledge politics of the IPCC after Copenhagen
Sammanfattning : The rise of climate change as an issue of global concern has rested on scientific representation and understanding of the causes and impacts of, and responses to climatic change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in particular, has been central to how climate change has become known as a global political problem. LÄS MER
25. China's science and technology policy : 1949-1989
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