Sökning: "world maps"

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  1. 1. Education through Maps : The Challenges of Knowing and Understanding the World

    Författare :Pontus Hennerdal; Ulf Jansson; Bo Malmberg; Ann Grubbström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cartography; geography education; map projections; maps; place location knowledge; world maps; Sweden; kartografi; geografiundervisning; kartor; kartprojektioner; namngeografi; världskartor; Sverige; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis is to study, in relation to geography education and with a historical perspective, the challenges of knowing and understanding the world. The cases are all from Sweden. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic

    Författare :Helena Gonzales Lindberg; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Maps; Power; Politics; Representation; Visual politics; Critical cartography; the Arctic; Google Maps; NSIDC; USGS; kartor; makt; politik; representationer; visuell politik; kritisk kartografi; Arktis; Google Maps; NSIDC; USGS;

    Sammanfattning : As maps are widely used, circulated, and recognised, they have consequences for how people view and understand the world. They mediate political meaning-making and frame the conditions for political alternatives to emerge or to be silenced. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Urk World : Hibernating Infrastructures and the Quest for Urban Mining

    Författare :Björn Wallsten; Joakim Krook; Stefan Anderberg; Vasilis Galis; Simon Marvin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; urban mining; infrastructure; material flow analysis; hibernating stocks; copper;

    Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis concerns urban mining, an umbrella term for different recycling strategies aimed to recover materials from the built environment. More specifically, it focuses on hibernating urban infrastructures, that is: cables and pipes that have been left behind in their subsurface location after they were disconnected. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Konst och kartläggning kring 1970 : Modell, diagram och karta i konstens landskap

    Författare :Karolina Uggla; Jeff Werner; Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf; Annika Öhrner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual art; maps; mapping; art and cartography; art and mapping; visual culture; art and science; scientific images; art and cybernetics; alienation; the linguistic turn; Agnes Denes; Sten Eklund; Hans Haacke; Öyvind Fahlström; Richard Long; Yoko Ono; Robert Smithson; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : The years around 1970 saw the emergence of an artistic fascination with maps and mapping. In the present thesis this fascination is conceptualised as a mapping impulse, acknowledging how the discourses of art and mapping, respectively, intertwine and merge. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Enhancing geometric maps through environmental interactions

    Författare :Sergio Caccamo; Danica Kragic; Petter Ögren; Robin Murphy; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :Gaussian Processes Robotics UGV Active perception geometric maps; Computer Science; Datalogi;

    Sammanfattning : The deployment of rescue robots in real operations is becoming increasingly commonthanks to recent advances in AI technologies and high performance hardware. Rescue robots can now operate for extended period of time, cover wider areas andprocess larger amounts of sensory information making them considerably more usefulduring real life threatening situations, including both natural or man-made disasters. LÄS MER