Sökning: "global social problems"
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36. Reconnecting with nature through concepts : On the construction of values in the ecosystem services paradigm
Sammanfattning : The alarming rates of extinction and degrading ecosystems call for new means of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature. Ecosystem services (ES) is a contested but widely applied concept aiming to connect ecosystem functions to human wellbeing and to assess and account for how nature matters in decision-making. LÄS MER
37. Territories of Environmental Concern
Sammanfattning : During recent decades, the "environment" has become established in many countries both as an important item on the political agenda, and as an area of concern for large sections of the public. However, "environmental concern" is often treated as homogeneous, with little regard being taken to the influence of actual physical conditions - such as degradation of the biosphere - individual's and group's differing belief systems, and the territorial aspects of environmental perceptions. LÄS MER
38. Becoming Biofuels. The messy assembling of resources, sustainability, poverty, land use, and nation-states
Sammanfattning : Biofuels have come to represent the will to mitigate climate change by replacing fossil fuels with so-called climate-friendly and renewable plant sources, and to improve rural and poor conditions in the South through biofuel crop production, farm job creation, and smallholder cash cropping. The expansion of biofuels in countries in the South largely pivoted upon ‘the will to develop’, specifically through the oil shrub Jatropha curcas L. LÄS MER
39. Sharing the Good - Modes of Managing Water Resources in the Lower Mekong River Basin
Sammanfattning : The general purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirically based study of International River Basin management in order to contribute to the global policy debate on water resources management and the role of water in the development process. The thesis reviews the recent ‘water management’ debate and a number of theoretical positions on the topic. LÄS MER
40. Integrating a Strategic Sustainability Perspective into Eco-Labelling, Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Sammanfattning : Maintaining the current course of the global society is threatening the human civilization. The urgency of the situation, understood from empirical research, has caused many researchers to call for more prescriptive research as a necessary supplement, to better support decision making for sustainability. LÄS MER
