Sökning: "Human Factor"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 2025 avhandlingar innehållade orden Human Factor.

  1. 11. Islescapes : Estonian small islands and islanders through three centuries

    Författare :Tiina Peil; Michael Jones; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Estonian history; island community; island landscape as accumulation; life space; and image; change; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis applies a modification of the concept of landscape to embody physical settings, social behaviour and affixed meanings. The argument focuses on both how a specific environment was created as well as perceived on four Estonian islands from the late seventeenth century until the present. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Primary Production in African Drylands : Quantifying Supply and Demand Using Earth Observation and Socio-ecological Data

    Författare :Abdulhakim Abdi; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Net primary production; Africa; Drylands; Coupled human and natural systems; Human-Environment Relations; Food security; Earth observation; Remote Sensing;

    Sammanfattning : The human-environment connection in the mostly rural drylands of sub-Saharan Africa forms a complex, interlinked system that provides ecosystem services. This system is susceptible to climatic variability that impacts the supply of its products, and high population growth, which impacts the demand for these products. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Internetbranschen i Stockholms innerstad : En studie av agglomerationsfördelar, sociala nätverksrelationer och informationsflöden

    Författare :Johan Jansson; Anders Malmberg; Mats Lundmark; Arne Isaksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Internet industry; economic geography; agglomeration economies; social network relations; information flows; Stockholm; Sweden; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with questions concerning spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The object of study is the Internet industry in central Stockholm. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Planerat, alltför planerat : En perspektivistisk studie i stadsplaneringens paradoxer

    Författare :Sara Westin; Irene Molina; Gunnar Olsson; Mattias Kärrholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; planning; architecture; urbanity; contra-finality; expert knowledge; power; paradox; perspectivism; psychoanalysis; space syntax; flâneur; alienation; reasoning rules; form process; Apollo Dionysus; logic dialectics; philobatia ocnophilia; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Why is it that modern architects and planners ? these benevolent and socially visionary ?experts? ? have created environments that can make one feel so uneasy? Such is the question that eventually grew into this thesis, where the aim is to enter into and understand the gap between ideals and realities in planning and architecture, with particular focus on projects that try to create an ?urban atmosphere?. As a starting point the author returns to the feelings she felt when she first visited one of these expertly planned areas; what the architects had described as an attractive, urban environment was to her a ghost town without life. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Integration på egen hand : En studie av invandrade kvinnoföretagare i Sverige

    Författare :Saeid Abbasian; Ali Najib; Wuokko Knocke; Sven Nordlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Integration; Ethnicity; Gender; Self-Entrepreneurship; Immigrant women s self-entrepreneurship; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Female entrepreneurship; Working life; Immigration; Labour market; Satisfaction; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this thesis is to discover and analyse the motives that make immigrant women start their own businesses in Sweden and to investigate whether this is a way to achieve integration in working life. The empirical material consists of two types of interviews. LÄS MER