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11. E-epidemiology : adapting epidemiological methods for the 21st century
Sammanfattning : The traditional methods in epidemiological data collection are both costly and time consuming and less convenient for longitudinal large-scale studies. During the last decades, epidemiological studies suffer from low response rates, indicating a need to revise methods used in epidemiological data collection. LÄS MER
12. Agriculture for Development in the 21st Century : Evidence from Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : The 21st century has seen a rise of optimism about the prospects for African economic development, and Ethiopia, with its rapideconomic growth in the last two decades, is at the forefront of this current wave of optimism. The rapid growth has been achievedunder a policy focus on the agricultural sector – another aspect of development that has seen a renewed wave of optimism in the21st century. LÄS MER
13. El retorno del rostro : Narrativas postnacionales y escrituras precarias en tiempos de la globalización
Sammanfattning : Globalization in the past decades has been considered a new phase of integrated global economy, with increased cultural interactions and loss of nation-state sovereignty. In recent years, critics and citizens have raised concern towards a neoliberal system that sustains inequality and growing uncertainty. LÄS MER
14. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. LÄS MER
15. Global Phosphorus supply chain dynamics: Sustainability implications for the 21st century
Sammanfattning : Phosphorus is an essential yet irreplaceable macronutrient for agriculture and thus plays a key role in global food security. Most of the phosphate fertilizers are produced from phosphate rock, a finite mineral resource that is mined and processed at great environmental and social costs. LÄS MER
