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16. Vinnande bilder! : Teckningstävlingar för barn 1938-2000
Sammanfattning : Denna avhandling granskar barnteckningstävlingar som ett historiskt och föränderligt fenomen. Barn har engagerats i tävlingar i såväl skolan som hemmen och på initiativ av en rad skilda aktörer. LÄS MER
17. In Search of Scientific Methods for Conservation of Historic Silk Costumes
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this dissertation is to lay ground for the evaluation of conservation methods for historic costumes. The Royal Armoury, Stockholm has a large number of 17th century men’s garments, many of them made of silk and in need of conservation. LÄS MER
18. Excessive Seas : Waste Ecologies of Eutrophication
Sammanfattning : This dissertation researches how perspectives in western industrial societies communicate about and give meaning to environmental degradation through case studies on the causes and effects of cultural eutrophication—namely nutrient pollution, algal blooms, and dead zones—in the Baltic Sea. Utilizing this approach, this dissertation addresses the ecological problems of cultural eutrophication in marine ecosystems by exposing normative claims humans make about the Baltic Sea and its contents as well as detailing how seas that exceed human expectations may offer insights into negotiating differing perspectives, discrepancies in power, and ways of being among humans and non-humans in marine environments. LÄS MER
19. Environmental management systems : policy implementation and environmental effects
Sammanfattning : Corporate environmental management is becoming less driven by regulatory compliance and more driven by corporate strategy. In order to gain competitive advantage, systematically assure regulatory compliance and develop more efficient operations an increasing number of organisation adopt the environmental management system (EMS) tool. LÄS MER
20. Bridging Gaps: Sustainable Development and Local Democracy Processes
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the relation between the notion of sustainable development and broad public participation in local decision-making local democracy processes. The empirical part of the thesis is comprised of a field investigation with the purpose of exploring the potential of the interviewed local professionals to work as transformers of the notion of sustainable development at the local level. LÄS MER