Sökning: "competing interests"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 42 avhandlingar innehållade orden competing interests.
1. Understanding European Arms Export Controls : Material Interests and Competing Norms
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to better understand the formation and implementation of the restrictions that the EU and EU member states have imposed on exports of military and security equipment. Specifically, the thesis develops two norms-based theoretical frameworks for understanding how and why particular restrictions become integrated in states’ national and collective export controls, why others are rejected, and the different ways this integration occurs. LÄS MER
2. En plats i planeringen : En studie av områden av riksintresse för det rörliga friluftslivet : [a study of areas of national importance for outdoor recreation]
Sammanfattning : The subject of this study is physical planning for outdoor recreation - and the way outdoor recreation interplays and competes with other businesses. This thesis is a case-study of four areas of national importance in Sweden: Ljusnan, Indalsälven, Vindelälven och Kalixälven. LÄS MER
3. Political Economics of Special Interests and Gender
Sammanfattning : Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania. Can political donations buy influence? This paper studies whether firms trade political contributions for public procurement contracts. To answer this question, I focus on the Lithuanian political economy. LÄS MER
4. The Quest for Edge Awareness, Lessons not yet learned : PhD Thesis on practical and situated usefulness of advanced technological systems among inescapable uncertainties and competing interests in a world of dynamic changes
Sammanfattning : This thesis problematizes the concept of usefulness, in part by taking questions to the extreme. The starting point is the contemporary view of usefulness, a view that remains within a traditional paradigm of technical rationality in which important aspects are disregarded or not perceived because they are not part of the equation. LÄS MER
5. Geosystem services to support decisions on subsurface use
Sammanfattning : Awareness of the subsurface is in general low and is not a daily concern for decision-makers. This often results in that decisions on access to subsurface resources instead are guided by a ‘first come, first served principle’. LÄS MER