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Between 1980 and 2000, total employment in the Canadian mining sector halved. While the literature on resource economy is thriving in Canada, little is known about how local labor markets experienced such a decline. This article presents a novel strategy to measure the effects of mine closures on local direct, indirect, and induced employment. This ripple effect is estimated using impulse response
Parasite prevalence is thought to be positively related to host population density owing to enhanced contagion. However, the relationship between prevalence and local abundance of multiple host species is underexplored. We surveyed birds and their haemosporidian parasites (genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus) at multiple sites across eastern North America to test whether the prevalence of these par
Climate change is an important new challenge for local authorities. This study analyses the potential for using the Swedish mandatory process for risk and vulnerability analysis (RVA) as a vehicle to improve local climate adaptation work. An advantage with RVA is its comprehensive approach in dealing with all relevant threats and all vital functions of society. In order to test the applicability o
Manifold learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction addresses the problem of detecting possibly nonlinear structure in highdimensional data and constructing lower-dimensional configurations representative of this structure. A popular example is the Isomap algorithm which uses local information to approximate geodesic distances and adopts multidimensional scaling to produce lowerdimensional re
This article analyses the enabling and restraining conditions of local peace organisations in Israel and Palestine. It utilises the analytical notion of peace gaps to accentuate the interplay between local and elite levels. It also highlights the discrepancies when it comes to expectations of peace, the ability to communicate peace discourses, and the power to influence and build wider domestic pe
he behaviour of a continuous-time stochastic process in the neighbourhood of zero-crossings and local maxima is compared with the behaviour of a discrete sampled version of the same process.For regular processes, with finite crossing-rate or finite rate of local extremes, the behaviour of the sampled version approaches that of the continuous one as the sampling interval tends to zero. Especially t
The “acidic mantle” of the skin surface has been related to several essential functions of the skin, although the origin of the acidity is still obscure. In this paper, we investigate how different transport processes can influence the local proton concentration inside a membrane consisting of oriented lipid bilayers. This system is chosen as a simple model of the extracellular lipids in the upper
The relationships between dispersal and local transmission rate of parasites are essential to understanding host-parasite coevolution and the emergence and spread of novel disease threats. Here we show that year-round transmission, as opposed to summer transmission, has repeatedly evolved in malarial parasites (genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus) of a migratory bird. Year-round transmission allows
Did economic and political inequality hamper the spread of mass schooling in the 19th century? This paper analyzes the link between investments in primary schooling and the spread of voting rights in 19th-century Sweden using newly collected data on educational expenditure and the distribution of voting rights in local governments. We find that municipalities governed by local elites spent substan
Commercial fishing makes the coastal inlet in Hornafjörður to an important navigational link for the port of Höfn in southeast Iceland. Low water depth caused through sediment accumulation along the ebb shoal generates navigational problems and the phenomenon of glacial rebound seems to intensify this problem. Economic losses caused by the inability of fishing boats to navigate through the coastal
Disasters such as the storms that affected Sweden in 2005 and 2007 showed that citizens initially conducted a large part of the disaster response, such as clearing roads, giving psychosocial support to affected neighbours and repairing power lines in collaboration with power companies. As a result of these storms, an Emergent Citizen Group (ECG) was established in a village which continued to work
Recent work in multiple view geometry has focused on obtaining globally optimal solutions at the price of computational time efficiency. On the other hand, traditional bundle adjustment algorithms have been found to provide good solutions even though there may be multiple local minima. In this paper we justify this observation by giving a simple sufficient condition for global optimality that can
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered to be one of the main generators of so called spillover effects, where not only direct employment is a positive outcome but the whole economy can benefit in various ways. The recognition of spillovers has resulted in a more active role of host country governments to attract FDI. This thesis analyzes the FDI inflows in Slovenia and the role of pu
Microsoft Word - Christian Schmidt - Thesis - May 2009 PASTURE BASED FARMING AND REGIME CHANGE IN A TRANSITION MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE Author CHRISTIAN ANDREW SCHMIDT For the degree of: MASTER OF SCIENCE Thesis Supervisor Barry Ness, PhD Barry.Ness@lucsus.lu.se Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS Geocentrum 1, Solvegatan 10 P.O. Box 170, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden A thesis submitt
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LUCSUS Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies “This will not be a problem in the future, when we all have electric cars” A sustainability perspective on planning practice of external commercial areas. A case study of three municipalities in Stockholm, Sweden. Evelina Strandfeldt Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, No 2012:020 A thesis submitted in p
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Outputs&and&Proceedings&from&the&MULTAGRI&Research& Project& January&2014&–&December&2015& ! Contents' Page' Wie!können!Artenvielfalt!und!Landwirtschaft!besser!in!Einklang! gebracht!werden?!(DE)!! Report'to'Stakeholders'from'Lower'Saxony'Workshop' 1! Wie!können!Artenvielfalt!und!Landwirtschaft!besser!in!Einklang! gebracht!werden?!(DE)!! Report'to'Stakeholders'from'Saxony'and'Sweden'Workshops' 4! P
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Migrating Towards Sustainability International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Migrating Towards Sustainability Four stories about possible change The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University P.O. Box 196 · SE-221 00 Lund · Sweden Tel: +46 46-222 02 00 www.iiiee.lu.se iiiee@iiiee.lu.se This publication should be cited as: International Inst
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In this thesis the subject has been to investigate if there is any connection between government agency presence and tax revenue in the municipality. Previous studies in Sweden have more focused at the intergovernmental relation between state and local level and especially they have focused on government grants and the effects. But this thesis recognizes that the government can also shift the dist
