Sökning: "Rural change"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 245 avhandlingar innehållade orden Rural change.

1. 21. Women in rural communities : Peasants, patriarchy and the local economy in Northeast France, 1650-1789

   Författare :Elise Dermineur; James Farr; USA Indiana West Lafayette Purdue University; []
   Nyckelord :Women; gender; peasants; early modern France; historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates gender relationships and the role of women in French rural society in the seventeenth and eighteenth century from two different perspectives—economic and socio-legal. I not only show female peasants’ social importance as I demonstrate that they had a prominent role not only within their respective households but also within their communities, but I also demonstrate that women were not as passive and submissive as the traditional historiography and common assumptions have asserted. LÄS MER

3. 22. Climate Change Policy of Bio-Energy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

   Författare :Rahimaisa Abdula; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bio-energy; climate change policy; land-use change; and computable general equilibrium;

   Sammanfattning : This paper explores the intersectoral and land-use dynamics behind bio-energy�??s development as a climate change policy. Bio-energy from agriculture and forestry can potentially mitigate the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from energy use and land-use changes (LUC) by its substitution to fossil fuels and its diversion of land-use to biomass plantation. LÄS MER

4. 23. Time Warps : Refugees and the Experience of Waiting in Rural Sweden

   Författare :Rikard Engblom; Oscar Pripp; Don Kulick; Mahmoud Keshavarz; Kristine Synnøve Nepstad Bendixsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugees; migration studies; rural studies; waiting; temporality; humanitarianism; securitization; ethnology; ethnography; integration; immigration control; hospitality; vulnerability; Etnologi; Ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ways in which refugees’ experience of time is warped when they come to Sweden. It is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Avesta, a small municipality in rural Sweden. LÄS MER

5. 24. Between tradition and modernity : The occupational choices of young people in rural Crete

   Författare :Nikoleta Ratsika; Lennart Nygren; Theano Kallinikaki; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural youth; occupational choice; tradition; modernity;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate the occupational orientations and choices of young people in rural Crete, a society, which is in constant change as it finds itself caught between tradition and modernity. To achieve this, the study looks into two cases: the case of Anogia, a small mountainous cattle-raising village, and the case of Archanes, which is a farming village on a plain. LÄS MER

7. 25. Socio-economic dynamics in sparse regional structures

   Författare :Örjan Pettersson; Ulf Wiberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Northern Sweden; Norrland; Sparsely populated areas; Countryside; Rural change; Regional development; Forestry; Population; Welfare; Glesbygd-- Sverige -- Norrland; Regional utveckling-- Sverige -- Norrland; Norrland-- sociala förhållanden; Norrland-- ekonomiska förhållanden;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse socio-economic changes in northern Sweden. Focus is on the period 1985-2000. LÄS MER