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  1. 16. Where have all the forests gone? Quantifying pantropical deforestation drivers

    Författare :Florence Pendrill; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Carbon footprints; International trade; Deforestation; Consumption-based accounting; Forest transitions; Telecoupling; Agriculture; Land use change; Carbon emissions; Land system science;

    Sammanfattning : Deforestation across the tropics continues to be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest threat to biodiversity on land. With strengthened commitments to reduce deforestation from countries and companies alike, it is crucial that renewed investments for reducing deforestation be guided by a sound understanding of what drives deforestation. LÄS MER

  3. 17. A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone

    Författare :Stefania Galli; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Stratification; Institutions; Ideals; Colonialism; Africa; Sierra Leone; West Africa; Slave trade; Egalitarianism; Settler colony; Inequality; Wealth; Marriage; Socio-economic status;

    Sammanfattning : In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra Leone is valuable for it allows to examine social stratification in an alleged egalitarian context. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Measuring Efficiency in the Swedish Health Care Sector – Levels, Trade-offs and Determinants

    Författare :Nils Janlöv; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Quality; Efficiency measurement; Data Envelopment Analysis DEA ; Stochastic Frontier Analysis SFA ; Health Care; Health districts; Elderly Care;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis measures cost efficiency in the production of health care and social services in Sweden. The object of analysis is not provider efficiency, but instead the relative efficiency of political organizations or different contractual arrangements. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Trade Policy and Development: Income distributional effects in the Less Developed Countries of the US and EEC policies for agricultural commodities

    Författare :Per Lundborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural policies; general equilibrium; trade policies; income distribution; less developed countries; rural-urban m;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 20. Linkages: economic analysis of agriculture in the wider economy : input-output models and qualitative evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy

    Författare :Gunnar Lindberg; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five papers, each contributing to an understanding of the role of agriculture in the wider economy, with particular emphasis on evaluation of the common agricultural policy (CAP). The first of these papers investigates the economic linkages between agriculture and the wider economy in Sweden. LÄS MER