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This paper examines the problems of nature conservation in the Third World. A Pakistani community-based conservation project, the Palas Conservation and Development Project (PCDP), acts as a reference point. A field study was conducted to elicit the preferences of the benefactors and of the beneficiaries, i e the PCDP staff and the locals of the Palas Valley in which the project operates. Four pre

• Title-page Livestock and Rangeland Management in Shangri-La Gorge, Shangri-La County, Northwest Yunnan, China By: Chan, Yu Nam Submitted on 19th November, 2002 Supervisor: Thomas Malm Lund University International Master’s Programme in Environmental Science LUMES 2001/2002 Herders driving cattle back to a camp on alpine rangeland in late afternoon. Photo taken in Dayian Rangeland, summer alpine

https://www.lumes.lu.se/sites/lumes.lu.se/files/chan_yunam.pdf - 2026-07-05

Anticipating and mitigating impacts of future agricultural policy reform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in mixed farming-forestry landscapes Farming plays an essential role for society in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in European agricultural landscapes, which is a major rationale for continued subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU. Recent politic

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/farm2forest/farm2forest-research - 2026-07-03

Lund : 24-28 June 2024  Lund Observatory invites scientists to join the MW-Gaia Doctoral Network 2024 meeting:Register for the MWGaiaDN 2024 meetingThis project is a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network funded under grant agreement no. 101072454.The workshop is primarily aimed at PhD students to help them gain experience in using Gaia data for simulations of our Galaxy. E

https://www.astro.lu.se/GaiaNIR/Computation - 2026-07-03

The limits and prospects of nerd politics in IndonesiaJohn Postill, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, MelbourneIn this paper I draw from recent anthropological fieldwork to track the rise of a new class of political actor in Indonesia in the post-Suharto era: politicised nerds. These are ICT or media specialists of various kinds (e.g. geeks, hackers, tech journalists, in

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/lu350/digital-asia-visions-transformations-and-engagements/abstracts - 2026-07-03

Densification can cause air pollution and noise and lead to negative health effects. Densification can also conflict with the availability to green environments and ecosystem services that contribute to temperature regulation, water uptake and recreation. About the project  Today most swedes live in cities. Densification of cities is necessary to reduce the housing shortage. To densify a city has

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/densifying-cities-without-increased-environmental-health-burden-it-attainable - 2026-07-03

Local governments in Sweden live in a reality where the European Union has an increased impact on them, via legislation, policy making, EU-funding programs etc. This thesis focuses on local governments’ responses towards European integration. It does so by using elements of the theory of fusion – the fusing of institutional levels creates a world where the EU is the policy initiator, national gove

Sweden is in a period of change in its establishment of a new welfare system. One of the main reasons is the political power shift from social democratic welfare regime to liberal welfare regime. This change involves, among others, a restructuring of the relationship regarding responsibility in the social welfare, between the public, private and non-government sectors. This is due to how different

The aim of this study was to research the assessment of a reasonable standard of living in relation to a holistic view regarding the right of care in a nursing home. Our selection of empirical material was 6 judgements from Swedish courts and 16 social inquiry from local authorities of social work. The material was limited to dismissal of the right of care in a nursing home, within the years of 20

A systematic review of radiation therapy trials in several tumour types was performed by The Swedish Council of Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU). The procedures for evaluation of the scientific literature are described separately (Acta Oncol 2003; 42: 357-365). This synthesis of the literature on radiation therapy for soft tissue sarcomas (STS) is based on data from five randomized trial

This thesis processes the Swedish local authorities’ work regarding winter maintenance and its organization. This thesis is also about accessibility for those with functional disabilities and the local authorities’ efforts to provide an acceptable level of the accessibility during winter. The report aims to clarify how the local authorities carry out their work with regard to winter maintenance an

Policing in Sweden today is something that is up for an important discussion. Many people have some kind of opinion about the police, both as individuals and as an organisation. My study is about the external policing in the society. The main purpose of my study has been to see what expectations people in the society has on external policing today, and how these expectations match with what the

WETLAND USE IN THE LUKANGA SWAMPS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY AND INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE LUKANGA SWAMPS STAKEHOLDER INTERACTIONS IN WETLANDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY A CASE OF LUKANGA SWAMPS, ZAMBIA Bags of charcoal along the Ndola- Kapiri Road: Picture courtesy of Bwalya 2007 Master of Science Thesis By RHODA NTHENA KACHALI LUND UNIVERSITY MASTERS

https://www.lumes.lu.se/sites/lumes.lu.se/files/rhoda_kachali.pdf - 2026-07-05

One million three hundred thousand people left Sweden for America between 1860 and 1930. In the same period, approximately two hundred thousand people returned to Sweden. "Coming Full Circle?" is an analysis of the fate and local impact of the local returnees on the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. This thesis examines anew both the sources used by previous Swedish research and previously negle

Water-related issues such as drought and water scarcity are problems that many countries around the world are facing. To solve this, multiple efforts have been made to combat these problems such as adopting Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as a management approach. IWRM is a holistic approach that links different water systems and has therefore been popularized and conceptualized by man

This thesis investigates the concept of market-based development through the DANIDA Market Development Partnerships programme (DMDP), a challenge fund by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). Market-based development is an emerging development approach that introduces the market in development work in order to achieve business goals and development objectives simultaneously, which