This paper examines the structure of livestock farming and of the meat industry in Sweden, focusing on possibilities for small-scale farmers to develop, whether individually or in a group, self-sufficient systems of high quality meat production. The four areas identified as presenting structural difficulties (and in some cases opportunities) to small-scale producers are: i) the centralized structu

The purpose of my thesis is to understand in what ways economic and productive transnationalisation affects political and social participation in the local level. Particularly, what I wish to explore are the effects of integration into the global economy over labour movements in peripheral regions. I study the ways in which workers of salmon firms in the areas of Puerto Montt and Chiloé organise a

This essay examines the leisure habits of the English upper classes portrayed in three 19th century novels, to determine whether gender, wealth, and the urban versus rural distinction, influence patterns of leisure participation within the leisured classes. The novels are Pride and Prejudice (1813), by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre (1847), by Charlotte Brontë, and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), by Os

Uppsatsen undersöker hur samhällsentreprenörskap kan analyseras och värderas i nationalekonomiska termer. Efter en introduktion till fenomenet och en kritisk genomgång av dess kontext, redogör jag för en handfull olika analytiska ansatser. För att fånga upp både nationalekonomins bredd och samhällsentreprenörskapets komplexitet är uppsatsen indelad i en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ del. Den kvali

Allmänt känt hos många jurister – om inte alla – är att allmän domstol använder sig av vissa utarbetade modeller eller metoder då den har att utföra en tolkningsoperation på ett avtal. Dessa metoder underlättar för tolkaren att uppvisa enhetlighet i bedömningen så att lika avtal tolkas lika. Detta är även önskvärt då det leder till ett visst mått av förutsägbarhet. Allmänna reklamationsnämnden är Common knowledge among Swedish lawyers is that the Swedish Court – in cases regarding the interpretation of a contract – uses certain established methods for determining the proper content of that contract. These methods help the interpreter (in most cases a judge or an arbitrator) to uphold uniformity so that all cases that are alike are treated the same. These methods also help in withholding a

Denna uppsats undersöker hur de svenska vägarna kommer att påverkas om klimatscenariona slår in och hur klimatförändringarna påverkar vägarnas sårbarhet. Uppsatsen svarar på frågorna om vilka klimatfaktorer som påverkar vägarna, hur vägbyggen ska anpassas till klimatförändringarna samt hur man kan förebygga skador på de befintliga vägarna som orsakas av klimatförändringarna.This essay investigates how the Swedish roads will be affected if the climate scenarios will come true and how the climate changes influences the vulnerability of the roads. The essay answers the questions of which climate factors it is that influences the roads, how to adjust the road building to the climate changes and how to prevent damage on existing roads due to the climate changes.

This thesis is concerned with optimal life-cycle investing. More precisely, the subject of the thesis is the optimal portfolio choice of an investor with risky labor income and long investment horizon. The objective is to investigate effects of uninsurable labor income and retirement on the optimal portfolio choice of the investor in question. Difference in optimal allocation of wealth to risky an

Karst är landskap och karakteristika som är viktiga både ur hydrologisk och geologisk synpunkt och som är utvecklade genom vattnets vittring av oftast karbonathaltiga stenar. Denna uppsats kartlägger världens karstområden, beskriver egenskaper av karst och karsthydrologi och strävar efter att definiera problem och möjligheter med vattenhantering i karstlandskap. Akvifärer i karst skiljer sig i månSummary: Water is, and will in the near future be even more, a key issue for the global development, and for issues concerning equal rigts for all mankind. Water is a necessity and a scarce resource in great parts of the world and it therefore exists a great need for development and management of the world’s waters. With fresh waters being increasingly accentuated for their importance in global de

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Naturens tandemcykel – på väg att spåra ur. På senare år har det talats allt mer om klimatet och allt som ses som ett hot mot det. För växter och djur spelar de säsongsmässiga variationerna i miljöförutsättningar roll för när på året olika steg i deras utveckling sker, hur deras fenologi påverkas. I denna uppsats studeras några av de resultat av förändrad fenoloPhenology, the yearly development cycles of plants and animals, driven by seasonal changes in temperature and other environmental prerequisets, have been studied for hundreds of years. During recent years, with the ongoing changes in climate scientists have seen on earth, the interest for the research results from phenology studies has increased from several angles. It is no longer just ecologists

Vindkraft är en förnyelsebar energikälla som ligger i tiden och är den energikälla som idag växer snabbast i världen. Eftersom Sverige har stor utbredning och långa kustpartier finns det goda möjligheter att utnyttja vind som energikälla. Sveriges riksdag har därför satt ett mål att ungefär tiodubbla energiutvinningen från vindkraft till år 2015. Den generella uppfattningen om vindkraft i Sverige Wind-power is the fastest growing energy source in the world today. In 2002 the Swedish Parliament established a goal for an annual energy production of 10TWh from wind-power in 2015. This is an increase of 9.1TWh from the current production of 0,9TWh. In order to achieve this objective a well-functioning decision-making process is needed for the siting and construction of new wind power plants. T

Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Malmö ur ett mandelblomsperspektiv. Tänk dig att du är en mandelblom på en äng någonstans i trakterna kring Malmö. I början av Maj år 1802 kryper du upp ur jorden och känner solens strålar mot dina blad. Du sätter blommor, du får frön som av en vindpust förs iväg och landar i en hage inte så långt bort. Nu låtsas vi att ditt frö inte gror, utan det ligger kvar iBiodiversity preservation has a high priority in nature conservation on a global, regional and local scale. The rate at which species are extinct today is very high and this is to a large extent a consequence of human influence on the earth’s ecosystems. The decreasing biodiversity in Sweden is mainly an effect of the landscape becoming more fragmented. GIS is generally considered as an effective

In this essay I have gone through the discussions of the Swedish parliament from 1840 to 1878 regarding the Swedish colony S:t Barthélemy. The Swedish slave colony, acquired from France in 1784, was a major source of income as a transit harbor during the Napoleonic Wars, but was otherwise an expense for the Swedish state. Using Immanuel Wallersteins World System theory, Etienne Balibars model for

This paper examines whether economic sanctions, or threats of sanctions, destabilize regime leaders. As a measure for the events of sanctions the study uses a dataset known as the Threat or Imposition of Sanctions (TIES) including 888 individual cases. The applied econometric method is the conditional logistic regression with panel data on the period between 1971 and 2000. The findings suggest tha

In the carriage of goods by sea most of the times there are three parties involved - the carrier, the shipper and the consignee. Due to the fact that more often than not they are unrelated to each other, such a relationship presupposes the use of fraudulently issued bills of lading. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the existing legal regimes governing the use of bills of lading and the way

This study examines the effects of automotive fuel taxes on technoloical innovation in the field of motor vehicle fuel efficiency. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of OECD countries over the period 1978-2007. A complementary analysis is also conducted using the average level of CO2 emissions from newly registered passenger cars in EU countries over the period 2001-2007, so as

Modern technical infrastructures are an essential part of today's modern society. In this report a case study is made where the vulnerability of two interdependent infrastructures, namely a water distribution system and an electricity distribution system, is analyzed using a model based on network theory. The aim of this is to 1) determine what dependencies are present between these two infras