Sökning: "Disasters"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 101 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Disasters.

  1. 1. The Social and Political Impact of Natural Disasters : Investigating Attitudes and Media Coverage in the Wake of Disasters

    Författare :Frederike Albrecht; Charles Parker; Katrin Uba; Susanne Wallman-Lundåsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Natural disasters in Europe; social capital; social trust; sociology of disasters; politics of disasters; political trust; satisfaction with the government; government accountability; media coverage of disasters; media framing; claims-making; political claims; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Natural disasters are social and political phenomena. Social structures create vulnerability to natural hazards and governments are often seen as responsible for the effects of disasters. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Natural Disasters and National Election : On the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the 2005 Storm Gudrun and the 2006 Historic Regime Shift

    Författare :Lina M. Eriksson; Kåre Vernby; Charles Parker; Henning Finseraas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; retrospective voting; party support; regime shift; natural disasters; crisis response; international crisis response; international law; effective representation; multiparty systems;

    Sammanfattning : The 2006 Swedish parliamentary election was a historic election with the largest bloc transfer of voters in Swedish history. The 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party (S) received its lowest voter support since 1914 as roughly 150,000, or 8%, of the 2002 S voters went to the main opposition, the conservative Moderate Party (M). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Wind Power and Natural Disasters

    Författare :Jon Olauson; Mikael Bergkvist; Stefan Ivanell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Wind power; Natural disasters; Hybrid energy system; Meteorological model; Statistical model; Variability; Wind power integration;

    Sammanfattning : Wind power can be related to natural disasters in several ways. This licentiate thesis gives some background and introduces four papers devoted to two aspects of this relation. The first section looks into how small-scale wind energy converters (WECs) could be used to generate power after a natural disaster. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Landslide Archaeology : Past hazards and disasters in the Göta River Valley and beyond

    Författare :Anton Larsson; Mats Burström; Lars-Ove Westerberg; Christina Rosén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Landslides; Disasters; Disasterscape; Natural Hazards; Historical Archaeology; Iron Age; Vendel Period; Viking Period; Medieval; Middle Ages; Early Modern; Cultural Heritage; Geoculturality; Climate Change; Anthropocene; arkeologi med inriktning mot allmän arkeologi; Archaeology with General Specialisation;

    Sammanfattning : Exploring the impact of landslides on past human communities, their landscapes, and their material remains, this thesis focuses on the most landslide-prone region of Sweden: the Göta River Valley (Sw. Göta älvdalen). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Katastrofens öga : en studie av journalisters arbete på olycksplats

    Författare :Liselotte Englund; Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation (JMG) Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :journalism; journalists; trauma; disasters; coping; stress; competence; media ethics; news coverage; journalist roles;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is an occupation study that combines perspective and theory from mainly journalism and crisis psychology. It covers journalists (reporters and photographers) - a work group with a professional mission in an extreme situation, as eyewitnesses to disaster, and their editors. LÄS MER