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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 87 uppsatser innehållade orden food for progress.

1. 21. The Costs of Modernity : How a historical steampunk fantasy such as The Kingston Cycle can successfully portray the intersectional origins of the Capitalocene

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Lisa Persson Örtman; [2021]
   Nyckelord :the Capitalocene; the Anthropocene; historical fantasy; steampunk; speculative fiction; genre;

   Sammanfattning : There is a growing recognition of the interconnectedness of the crises of food, water, democracy and climate change as stemming from the capitalist hunt for modernity and progress. As climate change is thus not only so complex, but urgent, the question of a successful portrayal of it for an enhanced understanding and subsequent action becomes vital. LÄS MER

3. 22. The Nuclear Option : A Global Sustainability Appraisal of Civil Nuclear Energy

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för byggnadsteknik, energisystem och miljövetenskap

   Författare :Sebastian Arnström; [2020]
   Nyckelord :nuclear power; solar power; wind power; sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable energy development; sustainability of nuclear power; nuclear accidents; nuclear weapons proliferation; nuclear fuel depletion;

   Sammanfattning : Energy production systems are essential for human progress. They fuel the technologies that underpin economic growth and are prerequisite for efficient food production, education and healthcare. On the flip side, they also incur substantial eco-social costs. LÄS MER

4. 23. Towards Identification of Effective Parameters in Heterogeneous Media

   Master-uppsats,

   Författare :David Johansson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :parameter identification; multiscale modelling; homogenization theory; partial differential equations; inverse modelling;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis we study a parameter identification problem for a stationary diffusion equation posed in heterogeneous media. This problem is closely related to the Calderón problem with anisotropic conductivities. The anisotropic case is particularly difficult and is ill-posed both in regards to uniqueness of solution and stability on the data. LÄS MER

5. 24. Everyone off the treadmill : mitigating soil greenhouse gases from Dutch agriculture

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Författare :Anna Gomes; [2020]
   Nyckelord :agricultural production; soil management; climate change; farmer adoption; the Netherlands; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Working to increase the sustainability of agriculture is a complex challenge of balancing food production and economic profitability with environmental and climatic impact. As the second largest exporter of agricultural products worldwide, the Netherlands is a global production hub, a leading example of high yields per hectare. LÄS MER

7. 25. Not a Brand but a Voice : The Advertising and Activism of Oatly in Germany

   Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Luisa Falkenstein; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Advertising; Commodity Activism; Social Semiotics; Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Oatly;

   Sammanfattning : When describing the company’s ethos and brand, the creative director of Swedish oat drink producer Oatly, John Schoolcraft, routinely declares the company’s intention to be not a brand, but a voice. As popular activist causes become utilized by companies and commodified for advertising use, identifying the ways in which communication is used to create meaning becomes a relevant skill. LÄS MER