Sökning: "Societal consequence"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden Societal consequence.

  1. 1. Technical infrastructure networks as socio-technical systems : Addressing infrastructure resilience and societal outage consequences

    Författare :Finn Landegren; Industriell elektroteknik och automation; []
    Nyckelord :Critical infrastructure; Socio-technical system; Resilience; Restoration; Simulation; Quality of supply regulation; Societal consequence;

    Sammanfattning : Research area: Modern society is increasingly dependent on a range of technical infrastructure networks including e.g. power, transport and IT networks. This dependence is illustrated by large disturbances which from time to time affect these systems, often to an extent which few did consider possible. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Energy Use as a Consequence of Everyday Life

    Författare :Mattias Hellgren; Kajsa Ellegård; Tommy Svensson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Time use; time-geography; energy use; everyday life; sequence analysis; clustering; Tidsanvändning; tidsgeografi; energianvändning; vardagsliv; sekvensanalys; klusteranalys;

    Sammanfattning : Energy use is a part of everyday life and the use of energy is a part of the global climate change. Policy makers urge individuals to change their daily behaviour in order to mitigate climate change and care for our common environment.The dissertation regards daily behaviour as activities performed by individuals. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A systemic stigmatization of fat people

    Författare :Susanne Brandheim; Clary Krekula; Arja Tyrkkö; Lars-Gunnar Engström; Martin Börjeson; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; obesity; fatness; systemic; stigmatization; medicalization; transformative; second-order reality; Socialt arbete; Social Work;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this work was to develop knowledge about and awareness of fatness stigmatization from a systemic perspective. The stigmatization of fat people was located as a social problem in a second-order reality in which human fatness is observed and responded to, in turn providing it with negative meaning. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Stockholm med modernismen i centrum : Cityomdaningen ur ett aktörs- och ett mediaperspektiv

    Författare :Emelie Eriksson; Bo Lenntorp; Kerstin Bodström; Kajsa Ellegård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stockholm city; Sergels Torg; modernism; urban planning; architecture; time-geography; biography; Torsten Westman; media; Dagens Nyheter; The Swedish Review of Architecture Arkitektur ; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Urban planning is intertwined with societal developments in general, especially aspects pertaining to technology, economy, and politics. Of similar fundamental importance are the values, ideals and visions that inform urban planning praxis in any particular era. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Defeating Disease : Lasting Effects of Public Health and Medical Breakthroughs between 1880 and 1945 on Health and Income in Sweden

    Författare :Volha Lazuka; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public health; antibiotics; inflammation; early life; health; income; end of the 19th–20th century;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis has the general aim of exploring the role of public health and medical interventions between 1880 and 1945, targeting infectious diseases, in health and income improvements in Sweden throughout the twentieth century. It applies methods of causal inference to longitudinal individual-level data from both local and national datasets combined with multisource archival data on the implementation of reforms. LÄS MER