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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 33 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Gardening.

  1. 6. More than flowers! : On the transformative practice of commoning urban gardens

    Författare :Nathalie Bergame; Rebecka Milestad; Sara Borgström; Flaminia Paddeu; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; City of Stockholm; transformative practices; emancipatory mechanisms; commoning; structureagency dialectic; urban gardening.; Strategier för hållbar utveckling; Strategies for sustainable development;

    Sammanfattning : Urban gardening is a burgeoning practice that increasingly takes place in urban centres of the world. In this thesis, I define urban gardens as socially mediated yet materially rooted phenomenon through which social and material relations are elaborated in common through time and space. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens

    Författare :Joakim Seiler; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Management regimes; historical gardening; craft; eighteenth-century gardens; lawns; hedges;

    Sammanfattning : Management regimes for lawns and hedges in historic gardens This research investigates and compares eighteenth-century and contemporary garden management methods with a focus on the structural elements of lawns and hedges at Gunnebo House, which is used as a craft laboratory. The concept of management regime is utilized for a discourse analysis of the garden through the norms embedded in the management. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Cancer risks in Swedish pesticide applicators in agriculture, forestry and gardening : a toxicological and epidemiological approach

    Författare :Jan Dich; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :pesticide applicators; cancer incidence; Hodgkin s disease; non-Hodgkin s lymphoma; soft tissue sarcoma; prostate cancer; pesticides; phenoxy acid herbicides; organochlorine insecticides; occupational exposure; protective equipment; smoking habits;

    Sammanfattning : The aims of this thesis were (1) to study the cancer risks in Swedish pesticide applicators, which is one of the occupational groups that is most exposed to pesticides in Sweden. This could be done by utilizing a complete register kept by the Swedish Board of Agriculture which include 20,245 subjects with licenses issued between 1965 and 1976, for epidemiological studies. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Thick Nature : Morality and Practice in Swedish Urban Gardens

    Författare :María Florencia Langa; Tora Holmberg; Stefan Bargheer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; urban gardening and agriculture; morality; valuations; practice; urban nature; environmentalism;

    Sammanfattning : Recent studies have shown the way assumptions about nature have blinded us to the classed and racialized morality of environmental activism and the deeply moral nature of our debates about the environment. Moral values and imaginaries that trust in the transformative capacity of nature to improve people, cities and society are ubiquitous in the urban context. LÄS MER

  7. 10. On Textile Farming : Seeds as Material for Textile Design

    Författare :Svenja Keune; Delia Dumitrescu; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Textiles and Fashion Design ; Textil och mode konstnärlig ;

    Sammanfattning : Presently, designing with living systems such as insects, fungi and bacteria has become an area of extended interest, proposing collaborative processes of designing and manufacturing - as a solution for symbiotic ways of living. On the scale of the interior, modern systems for interior gardening, combining both functional, e.g. LÄS MER