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Following recent developments in multilateral cooperation, literature on global climate governance has paid increasing attention to non-state actors. Contributing to this debate, this study focuses on a new group of businesses that aim to combat climate change, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). Within the context of sustainable development, the OGCI must balance profit-making with protect
Economic reality constitutes a fundamental criterion for the application of the common VAT system. Although its reference by the CJEU has increased over the past decades, significant legal uncertainty does still exist regarding its origin, legal status, functioning and terminology. Van Doesum and Nellen have identified two functions of economic reality. In this regard, its benchmark of VAT reality
This thesis examines the everyday financial lives of transnational migrants through the case of Singaporean migrants in Sweden. Drawing upon the scholarship on the financialisation of everyday life and transnational migration across economic and sociocultural geography, this thesis develops a conceptual framework that explores the everyday financial practices, networks and subjectivities that shap
The current conventional food system is ecologically and socially damaging, as unsustainable production patterns change people’s relationship to food. Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been proposed as a potential solution to the problem. This study investigates the relationship between AFNs and social sustainability in Skåne in order to provide policy suggestions on how to develop this interp
How can openness, intuition and external creative tools be valuable assets to the creative process? In this thesis, I explore that question as it relates to three distinct perspectives: my reflections on my own approach, other artists’ thoughts on the subject and the composition of my orchestral piece "let me cry" (2022). My findings are that by integrating openness, intuition, and exte
This paper analyzes the impact of reproductive outcomes on women's participation in their family's decision-making and on the share of the household's resources allocated to them. It also examines the effects on labor, time use, and health-related outcomes. Two main sources of variation in reproductive outcomes are used: an increase in the number of children, instrumented by the event
This thesis examines the nascent sector of cultivated meat in Europe, analysing its potential market penetration against the backdrop of evolving consumer attitudes, complex regulatory frameworks, and innovative business models. Given the pressing environmental concerns associated with traditional meat production, cultivated meat presents a sustainable alternative that promises to reshape the meat
Data extracted from Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV measured with the ALICE detector is used for analyzing the azimuthal anisotropic expansion in momentum space at different collision centralities for identified particles. The results are obtained with the event-plane method and an invariant mass analysis. The elliptic flow parameter, v2, is presented as a function of transverse momentum pT for
The purpose of this paper was to uncover the underlying meanings of coffee consumption and the roles these meanings play in people’s everyday lives, thus contributing to the literature of consumer behaviour. A qualitative study method has been carried out, using an hermeneutic approach in order to uncover the study subjects’ perceptions of reality. Through an abductive approach experts within the
This study explores the access of refugee immigrants to employment in Swedish labour market. It explores the trend in immigration in Sweden and the transition from labour immigration to refugee immigration. It shows that Sweden adopts a generous immigration and refugee policy and grants protection to a huge number of refugees but it has had difficulties in improving access to employment for these
Title: Point of Purchase TV-screens - An analysis of Gender and Generations in the In-store-Retail-Environment Date of Seminar: May 29th 2007 Course: BUS 809, Master Thesis in International Marketing and Brand Management. Authors: Søren Berg Jørgensen, Daniel McCartney and Ben Wallenborn. Supervisors: Karin Alm and Ulf Johansson Keywords: In-store Marketing, Point-of-Purchase, In-store TV, Gender,
The purpose of this paper is to see if companies in a market that is not considered segmented can create value through the strategies of importing foreign outsider board members or cross-listing on other non-segmented markets.
Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human characteristics and attributes to nonhuman objects, is evidenced in the design world, especially in product lines by companies such as Alessi and Koziol. As case studies, this thesis investigates Fred Flare’s Inanimates and Jenny Lundgren’s Plasticks, both of which are sheets of stickers that feature cartoonish facial features like eyes and mouths. The
The objective of this study is to explore the rationale behind livelihood diversification behavior of rural Guatemalan households involved in the weaving sector. Livelihood diversification behavior stems from the necessity for rural households to manage risk, accumulate assets, cope with sudden environmental crises or pursue diversification as a natural strategy stemming from a historically social
The demographic transition of declining of mortality and fertility, causes changes in age structure of the population, provide countries a generation that is proportionately bigger than the predecessors and their successors. A greater share of population that is in the working age, gives the opportunities of economic growth in a country is called demographic dividend. The bulk working age populati
This thesis disaggregates the ‘Swedish paradox’ with respect to Swedish manufacturing from 1987 to 2007. This is done by analyzing the impact of R&D expenditure in industry on industry growth of the manufacturing industry in Sweden from 1987 to 2007. A quantitative approach using panel-data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and OECD is used to investigate the effect of R&D expenditure on econom
The Bush administration expanded the executive’s powers in the “war on terror”. This gave the president, according to the administration, authority to detain “en-emy combatants” indefinitely at the US naval base in Guantánamo. The official purpose of the detention centre at Guantánamo was that the suspected terrorists were to be tried in military commissions. The administration bypassed the crimin
This thesis is written within a master´s program in Gender studies, with media studies as a major. It offers a view of feminism, postfeminist media culture and gendered politics. In recent years and decades increasing pressure has been applied to looks and appearance in the media. The print media constantly publish images of celebrities and there is a certain preference for thin and beautiful bodi
In China, the past 30 years have been characterized by economic growth and rapid development that has transformed the nation into an important player on the international market. This phenomenal progress probably would have been impossible without the cheap labor force provided by the Chinese countryside in the form of migrant workers. Millions of rural people circulate the nation today in order t
This study challenges existing dogma of economists and environmentalists with a finding that sustainable consumption in industrial societies is impossible within standard models of growth because the approaches that are being taken to investments (in new technologies) are linked with and dependent on increased consumption as a requirement of innovation and as part of ideology in societies. Though
