Sökning: "Tree planting projects"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 uppsatser innehållade orden Tree planting projects.

1. 1. Assessing transformative learning impacts on 1st year university students using large-scale conservation projects on students’ environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession

   Författare :Dylan Stiegemeier; [2023-06-26]
   Nyckelord :Transformative Education; Environment; Environmental Attitudes; Pro-Environmental Behaviors; Conservation Education;

   Sammanfattning : Aim: The world today is facing many environmental and sustainability problems.The aim of this research project is to examine the effects of large scale conservation projects on participants' environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Price of a Green Conscience : Social impacts of carbon forestry projects

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Författare :Jasmine Brown; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Climate compensation; Sustainable development; Tree planting; Uganda; Mozambique;

   Sammanfattning : Scholars and civil society organizations have over the last decade referred to large-scale carbon sequestration TPPs as "carbon colonialism" (Carmody and Taylor, 2016) as well as a "development by dispossession" dressed in new clothing behind words such as climate change mitigation and development (Kröger, 2012). Concerns have been raised that the trade-offs from the implementation of industrial tree plantations (ITPs) may result in conflicting effects on countries' overall development (The Oakland Institute, 2019; Osborne, 2015; Nel & Hill, 2013). LÄS MER

4. 3. Carbon Offsetting, a new form of CO2lonialism? : Local implications of tree-planting projects in East Africa

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Utveckling och internationellt samarbete

   Författare :Cecilia Larsson; Moa Orvehed; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Decoloniality; Political Ecology; Carbon offsetting; Tree planting projects; Social impacts; Power Structures; East Africa;

   Sammanfattning : Carbon offsetting has a growing presence on the global climate action agenda where it is promoted as a triple-win for the environment, business and development. However, the opinions on carbon offsetting are divided. LÄS MER

5. 4. “Planting Trees is Always Good” : a WPR-analysis of Swedish carbon offsetting initiatives through tree planting projects in the Global South

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Författare :Emil Planting Mollaoglu; [2020]
   Nyckelord :carbon offsetting; climate change; sustainable development; Global South; Sweden; WPR; policy analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how two Swedish companies and a sample of Swedish consumers describe the role of private actors in climate change mitigation. Carbon offsetting by planting trees in the Global South has become a common approach for Swedish food and beverage companies (among other companies) that seek to reduce their climate impact. LÄS MER

7. 5. A cost benefit analysis of climate compensation through different types of forestry in Uganda

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Författare :Ulrika Aschan; Emma Pettersson; [2019]
   Nyckelord :carbon sequestration; climate compensation; agroforestry; cost benefit analysis;

   Sammanfattning : Global warming is becoming an increasing issue on the agenda for the world’s policy makers. One way of solving the issues is to reduce the emissions; another is to compensate for them through equally climate positive projects, such as planting trees to sequester carbon. LÄS MER