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  1. 1. Risk & Policy: The relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in the safety discourse.

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Författare :Hans Nagtegaal; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Wildavsky; Resilience; Anticipation; Cultural Theory; Global Safety; Political Science; Safety Discourse; Social Power; Economy of Safety; Net Benefit; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : The main finding of this thesis is that the relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in today’s safety discourse is limited although Wildavsky may be considered to be the linking pin between RE, HRO and NAT. The safety discourse may benefit from Wildavsky’s work in political science: I.e. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Students' support an perception of their confidence in schoolwork during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya using the response to educational disruption survey (red) 2021.

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Författare :Aaron Kwadjo Agyei; [2023-10-31]
    Nyckelord :student support; student confidence; home-based support; teachers´ support;

    Sammanfattning : Aim: This study aims to examine students' support and confidence in schoolwork during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. In doing so the study contributes to a smaller research gap concerning student support Theory: Bourdieus's theory of social reproduction (cultural and social capital) served as the theoretical foundation for the selection of variables in this study. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Videos, Games, or Videogames? The Interaction in Videogame Playing Experiences

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Författare :Lin Lin; [2023]
    Nyckelord :videogames; interaction; aesthetic experiences;

    Sammanfattning : This paper defends the claim that videogame playing interaction (VGI) is a distinctive kind of interaction compared with other interactive practices. This claim is not grounded in the fact that videogame playing is a digital experience, nor the claim that videogame playing is a video example of gameplay, but rather in two unique characteristics of videogame playing experiences: the controlled identity of players and the temporal continuity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus in the Inkomati-Usuthu Water Management Area, South Africa: A Systematic Review.

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Författare :Aaron Bryce Chawiya; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Cross-sector collaboration; Policy; Sustainable Development; Resource Management; Transboundary Resources; WEFE Nexus;

    Sammanfattning : The growing importance to finding workable solutions to the problem of unsustainable and inefficient resource use cannot be overstated.  In the world facing one of its critical sustainability periods, efficient resource utilization to ensure sustainable development is a problem policymakers should grapple with at a loc, regional and local levels. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A Defense of Helene Landemore’s Argument for the Epistemic Superiority of Democratic Deliberation

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Författare :Ivar Larsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Democracy; epistemic democracy;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay I investigate whether political deliberation in an assembly of 300 people that is randomly selected from the entire population (democratic deliberation) is epistemically superior to political deliberation in an assembly of the same size where individuals have been selected based on certain criteria (non-democratic deliberation). I present Helene Landemore’s argument in favor of the epistemic superiority of democratic deliberation and consider Aaron Ancell’s critique of this argument. LÄS MER