Sökning: "Global modes"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 143 avhandlingar innehållade orden Global modes.
21. Sharing the Good - Modes of Managing Water Resources in the Lower Mekong River Basin
Sammanfattning : The general purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirically based study of International River Basin management in order to contribute to the global policy debate on water resources management and the role of water in the development process. The thesis reviews the recent ‘water management’ debate and a number of theoretical positions on the topic. LÄS MER
22. The changing geography of innovation : Chinese and Indian regions and the global flows of innovation
Sammanfattning : Despite the recent theoretical and empirical advancements in the geography of innovation literature regarding the role that global sources of knowledge may have for regional growth and development, research in this field remains focused on successful regions and clusters in developed countries. Hitherto there has been limited research on the role of regions located in developing countries and the different types of global flows of innovation that link firms located in those regions with the rest of the world. LÄS MER
23. Three or Four Ir/relevant Stories : Art and Hyper-Politics
Sammanfattning : This book documents and reflects on three artistic projects and their processes. As a “marginalia” to the projects I also presents arguments, stories and ir/ relevant discourses. What I call marginalia extends to aspects of a historical backdrop of these three projects and the stories behind them. LÄS MER
24. OPEN DATA AND INNOVATION ADOPTION: Lessons From Sweden
Sammanfattning : The Internet has significantly reduced the cost of producing, accessing, and using data, with governments, companies, open data advocates, and researchers observing open data’s potential for promoting democratic and innovative solutions and with open data’s global market size estimated at billions of dollars in the European Union alone (Carrara, Chan, Fischer, & Steenbergen, 2015). This thesis explores the concept of open data, describing and analyzing how open data adoption occurs to better identify and understand key challenges in this process and thus contribute to better use of the available data resources and valuable services for citizens. LÄS MER
25. Navigating Troubled Waters : An analysis of how urban water regimes in the global South reproduce inequality
Sammanfattning : This research is an attempt to conceptualize the underlying forces behind persistent and ubiquitous problems of inequality in access to water in cities of the global south. Inequality in water access is hypothesized to result from urban water regimes that tend to prioritize the right to water access or to provide preferential terms of access for some groups in society, while marginalizing others. LÄS MER
