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1. Producing, branding and managing multifaceted tourist destinations: Cartagena, Colombia, as a study case
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation intends to unveil some of the dynamics and processes found in multifaceted destinations. Two broad conceptual areas are considered in order to conceptualize and analyse the issues found in such places: destination making and destination management. LÄS MER
2. Petroleum Production and Exploration : Approaching the End of Cheap Oil with Bottom-Up Modeling
Sammanfattning : The theme of this thesis is the depletion of petroleum (crude oil and natural gas). Are there reasons to be concerned about an ‘end of cheap oil’ in the near future? There is a lively debate regarding this issue. The debate is sometimes described as a clash of ‘concerned’ natural scientists and ‘unconcerned’ economists. LÄS MER
3. Anthropogenic impact on predator guilds and ecosystem processes : Apex predator extinctions, land use and climate change
Sammanfattning : Humans affect ecosystems by changing species compositions, landscape and climate. This thesis aims to increase our understanding of anthropogenic effects on mesopredator abundance due to changes in apex predator status, landscape and climate. LÄS MER
4. Complexity and Change in a Simple Food Web : Studies in the Baltic Sea (FAO Area 27.IIId)
Sammanfattning : An influence at one trophic level can result in dynamic impacts also on other components of a food web. These dynamics are known as trophic cascades, and can be both top-down and bottom-up. After a near-collapse of the Baltic cod Gadus morhua stock in the 1980s, its main prey sprat Sprattus sprattus increased dramatically. LÄS MER
5. Creating organisational capacity for priority setting in health care : using a bottom-up approach to implement a top-down policy decision
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, priority setting to the form of the Swedish parliamental decision on priority setting, 1997, is considered an innovation for implementation in health care. The features of this innovation are investigated. LÄS MER