Sökning: "rural planning"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 117 avhandlingar innehållade orden rural planning.

  1. 16. Landscape Ecological Analysis and Assessment in an Urbanising Environment - forest birds as biodiversity indicators

    Författare :Ulla Mörtberg; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :Landscape ecology; planning; strategic environmental assessment; biodiversity;

    Sammanfattning : To achieve a sustainable development, impacts onbiodiversity of urbanisation, infrastructure, land use changesand other developments must be considered on a landscape andregional scale. Landscape ecology can provide a conceptualframework for the assessment of consequences of long-termdevelopment processes like urbanisation on biodiversity on alandscape scale, and for evaluating the impacts of alternativeplanning scenarios. LÄS MER

  2. 17. Landsbygdsboende i inflyttarnas perspektiv. Intention och handling i lokalsamhället

    Författare :Susanne Stenbacka; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; countryside; counterurbanisation; living milieu; rural; local community; insiders wiev; practice; values; Sweden; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with counterurbanisation in Sweden. 'Action in context' is an important concept; the background, characteristics and intentions of the newcomers, and the physical and social milieu in which they settle, constitute the context of their actions in a new environment. LÄS MER

  3. 18. Environmental Assessments of Landscape Changes : Interdisciplinary studies in rural Tanzania

    Författare :Louise Simonsson; Lennart Strömquist; Annika Dahlberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Geography; Environmental assessment; interdisciplinary methodology; landscape; perceptions; preferences; land; forest; miombo woodlands; resources; biodiversity; Tanzania; Geografi; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to show how biogeophysical and social processes are interlinked in landscape change, and to propose approaches for interdisciplinary environmental assessments (such as EIAs), concentrating on developing countries’ situations, and representation of findings from such studies. Landscape in its holistic sense is a very good concept and basis for intellectual and practical use in environmental dialogues. LÄS MER

  4. 19. Dreams and dilemmas : women and family planning in rural Vietnam

    Författare :Annika Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :women s reproductive health; IUDs; abortion; male involvement; demographic targets; population policies; Vietnam;

    Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis is to investigate women's experiences in family planning. It is seen in the broad context of their reproductive lives and in view of their 'reproductive dilemma', that is having to satisfy the family's need for sons on the one hand, and the requirements from the state to limit child bearing to two children only, on the other. LÄS MER

  5. 20. Recovery following hip fracture surgery - The perspectives of older people, close relatives, and nurses working in an orthopedic ward

    Författare :Cecilia Segevall; Siv Söderberg; Kerstin Björkman Randström; Ulf Isaksson; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; close relatives; discharge planning; experiences; fall-related hip fracture; hospital care; nurses; older people; own home; participation; phenomenological hermeneutics; recovery; rural area; transition; qualitative content analysis;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis falls within the field of nursing and focuses on older people’s recovery after hip fracture surgery in a rural context. A fall-related hipfracture is a common and severe health issue that affects older people, leaving them vulnerable and in need of support from close relatives and healthcare personnel during recovery. LÄS MER