Sökning: "Socio-ecological model"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 39 uppsatser innehållade orden Socio-ecological model.
6. Risky Business: The Intersection of Sustainability and Credit Risk Assessment – a Strategic Perspective
Magister-uppsats, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utvecklingSammanfattning : The imminent consequences of the deteriorating state of the socio-ecological systems pose significant challenges to the well-being of society and societal functioning. The financial sector, specifically banks, plays a crucial role in the transition toward sustainable development because they hold the financial resources and the power to allocate these resources. LÄS MER
7. Urban green spaces: Limits to growth?
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällslivSammanfattning : This research analyses attitudes to urban green spaces within the framework of compact city development models, using Uppsala as a case study and investigating the tension between growth and preservation. Compact city literature strongly promotes the importance of green space within urban environments for both social and ecological wellbeing and highlights what becomes an increasing requirement for this as populations within urban areas are densified, which is a concomitant goal of compact city models. LÄS MER
8. Conviviality and Conscience: How Degrowth and Abolition Theory Critique and Re-envision Welfare States
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanSammanfattning : Abolition theory and degrowth theory address important issues in the social-political world. An emergent discipline (in academia), abolition theory carefully dissects the ideological and historical underpinnings of the current system of police and prisons in the United States. It offers a systematic critique of their impact. LÄS MER
9. Impeding What It Aims to Improve? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Swedish National Strategy for Regional Development
Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : In a world of systemic environmental destruction and growing social inequality, it is important to explore how decision-making institutions communicate about development and how they attempt to achieve social and environmental sustainability. The institutions define the problems, suggest the strategies, make the policies and set the targets in order to address the present socio-ecological crisis. LÄS MER
10. Changing the Stories We Live By: Revolutionizing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Through Transformative Conservation
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperSammanfattning : As biodiversity continues to diminish worldwide, an interrogation of long-standing conservation discourse is needed to reformulate a new conservation rhetoric that confronts the socio-ecological complexities of the world and reorients the relationship between humans and nature. Using ecologically sensitive critical discourse analysis, this research investigates the dominant ideologies perpetuated within an iteration of mainstream American wildlife discourse and explores opportunities for transformative conservation alternatives. LÄS MER
