Sökning: "Rural housing"

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  1. 1. My house is my husband - A Kenyan Study of Women´s Access to Land and Housing

    Författare :Diana Lee-Smith; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Urban areas; Surveys; Social structure; Rural housing; Rural areas; Research; Legal aspects; Land use; Land ownership; Land acquisition; Kenya; Income distribution; Housing; Home ownership; Food; Firewood; Family; Domestic labour; Community organization; Data collecting; Urban housing; Urban powerty; Use of dwelling; Water; Women; Architecture; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores women’s access to property in Kenya. It consists of three parts. The first gives the Kenyan background, the theoretical and methodological approach. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Omsorgsfylld landsbygd : Rumsliga perspektiv på åldrande och omsorg på den svenska landsbygden

    Författare :Cecilia Bygdell; Ildikó Asztalos Morell; Susanne Stenbacka; Irene Flygare; Erik Westholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural ageing; rural care; care landscapes; rural housing; rural geography; gerontological geography; Heby; åldrande på landsbygd; omsorg på landsbygd; omsorgslandskap; bostäder på landsbygden; landsbygdsgeografi; gerontologisk geografi; Heby; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study the intersection of rural areas, ageing and care. It is  based on interviews with elderly and caregivers carried out in the municipality of Heby in the middle of Sweden. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Housing the Nation? : Post-Apartheid Public Housing Provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

    Författare :Erika Lind; Roger Andersson; Anssi Paasi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; post-apartheid; state space production; public housing provision; local government; democratisation; nation-building; citizenship; Eastern Cape; South Africa; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The main objective of the thesis is to critically analyse local modes of post-apartheid public housing provision in the context of nation-building and democratisation in South Africa. The focus in the study is set on the new housing policy in South Africa, launched in 1994, and its implementation on local government level during the time period 1994-2003. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Essays on welfare and debt : From impact evaluation in Kenya to Canadian housing markets

    Författare :Jean-Philippe Deschamps-Laporte; Lars Hultkrantz; Jörgen Levin; Gunnar Isacsson; Elin Vimefall; Dick Durevall; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Impact evaluation; rural development; agricultural extension; technology adoption; wealth effect; housing; household debt;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is comprised of two independent essays on the topics of impact evaluation, and one essay on the housing wealth-effect. The essays address key questions on welfare and spending decisions made by households when subject to government assistance programs and increases in housing prices. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Samtida bosättning på svensk landsbygd

    Författare :Jan Amcoff; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Landsbygd; Rural; Kontraurbanisering; Bosättning; Mälardalen; Sverige; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Sammanfattning : This study has two main aims. First, to describe population change and the growth of housingstock in the Swedish countryside. Secondly, to find possible explanations for these changes. The countryside is understood as the livingmilieu outside the builtup cities and localities (urban places). LÄS MER