Sökning: "Technology and Environment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 3410 avhandlingar innehållade orden Technology and Environment.
1. Media and the refugee camp : The historical making of space, time, and politics in the modern refugee regime
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores media practices in and of refugee camps. In the wake of forced migration becoming ever more digitized both in its experiences and its governance, this thesis historicizes media practices in refugee camps as a space of the refugee regime. LÄS MER
2. Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global Energy : Understanding Supply and Extraction Patterns and their Importance for Future Production
Sammanfattning : The formation of modern society has been dominated by coal and oil, and together these two fossil fuels account for nearly two thirds of all primary energy used by mankind. This makes future production a key question for future social development and this thesis attempts to answer whether it is possible to rely on an assumption of ever increasing production of coal and oil. LÄS MER
3. Industrialization of Services : Technology and Routinization in the 21st Century
Sammanfattning : Sweden has a long tradition of process improvements, productivity increments, waste reduction in manufacturing, continuing a mode of industrialization that helped achieve prosperity. With growing urban centers, mechanization of agriculture, outsourcings by manufacturing and the public sector with subsequent acquisitions, large service firms have appeared in an ever-growing service sector. LÄS MER
4. Towards optical diagnostics and control in aerotaxy semiconductor nanowire growth
Sammanfattning : Aerosol growth of semiconductor nanowires has the potential to dramatically lower the cost of for solar cell production. The objective of the work was to study the growth of aerosol nanoparticles and nanowires, in order to understand the chemical and physical processes involved. LÄS MER
5. Photophysics of Perovskite Nano- and Microcrystals
Sammanfattning : The demand and consumption of energy is increasing dramatically all around the world. Broad adoption of fossil fuels has triggered an enormous threat to the environment. To ensure sustainability of our species and habitat, new solutions to fulfill the energy demand have to be found. LÄS MER
