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Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 146 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Futures.

1. 26. Change agency in (old) industrial regions : Shaping new futures

   Författare :Linda Stihl; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic Geography; Change Agency; Reproductive agency; Old industrial regions; Regional development; Ekonomisk geografi; Förändringsagens; Reproduktiv agens; Gamla industriregioner; Regional utveckling;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to develop a better understanding of the role of local agency in the transformation of old industrial regions. Theoretically the dissertation builds on concepts which are important in the debate on regional development in old industrial regions such as path dependency, negative lock-ins, the role of institutions, and new path development, while exploring and unpacking the role of agency. LÄS MER

3. 27. Essays on Financial Market Interdependence

   Författare :Lu Liu; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stock markets; commodity futures; extreme downside risk; regime-switching; correlations; diversification; market linkages; heterogeneity; EMU stock markets; dynamic panel data;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims at investigating the risk spillover and correlations among national stock markets, and the structure of dependence between stocks and commodity futures. It consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the literature background of financial market interdependence and summarizes the contribution of the thesis. LÄS MER

4. 28. Two strategies for dealing with uncertainty in social-ecological systems

   Författare :Åsa Svenfelt; Göran Finnveden; Karl-Henrik Dreborg; Rebecka Milestad; Philip J. Vergragt; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Futures studies; social-ecological systems; feedback loops; environmental policy; environmental quality objectives; participation; scenarios; Environmental engineering; Miljöteknik;

   Sammanfattning : The scale of environmental problems is increasing. Globalisation and trade haveweakened the links between the ecosystems in which goods are produced and thecommunities in which they are consumed. LÄS MER

5. 29. Essays on Financial Markets

   Författare :Hans Byström; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Electricity Futures; Option Pricing; Compass Rose; Covariance Matrix; Chaos; Stochastic Volatility; Financial Markets; GARCH; Financial science; Finansiering;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five empirical essays dealing with different issues related to financial markets. Chapter 2 studies a new multivariate technique, Orthogonal GARCH, of forecasting large covariance matrices based on GARCH models. LÄS MER

7. 30. Shaping sustainable food systems : Local participation in addressing global challenges

   Författare :Aniek Hebinck; Line Gordon; Joost M. Vervoort; Stephan Barthel; Moya Kneafsey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; food systems; sustainability; food governance; transformative change; participatory processes; participation; civil society; niche level; food policy; urban food; urban agriculture; food poverty; imagined futures; foresight; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   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