Sökning: "crop failures"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden crop failures.

  1. 1. Human-Drone Interaction Failures

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Författare :Noah Rahimzadagan; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Human-drone interactions; Failures; User study; Trust; Risk-taking; Survey; Människodrönarinteraktioner; Misslyckanden; Användarstudie; Tillit; Risktagning; Enkät;

    Sammanfattning : Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in recent years. They are essential in many areas, such as crop monitoring and delivering critical medicine to hard-to-reach areas. This thesis delves into the often-overlooked aspect of failures within the multidisciplinary Human Drone Interactions (HDI) field. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Effect of Natural Resource Shocks on Violence, Crime, and Drug Cartels Presence in Mexico

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Miriam Cavazos Hernandez; Balasurya Sivakumar; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Natural Resources; Conflict; Mexico; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : We examine the effect of natural resource shocks on violence by drug cartels at the municipality level in rural Mexico from 2003 to 2017. For this, we use an Instrumental Variable setup by instrumenting our main explanatory variable vegetation density with rainfall. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Portrait of a Homeland : An Analysis of the Image of Sweden and Swedish Poverty in the Swedish American Post, Year 1887

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

    Författare :Elin Williams; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Swedish American press; qualitative research; news journalism; communication for development; social change theory; representation theory;

    Sammanfattning : In the late 1800’s, Sweden was undergoing a population growth and had experienced several crop failures. With the majority of the population being farmers, the migration to North America gave Swedish emigrants an economic opportunity that wasn’t available in the homeland. This resulted in a mass exodus. LÄS MER

  5. 4. De folkförödande städerna. Dödlighetskriser under 1700-talet i svenska städer och landsbygd

    Master-uppsats,

    Författare :Lars Wilke; [2021-10-26]
    Nyckelord :Sweden; mortality crises; crop failures; urban population; the urban graveyard; diseases; smallpox; dysentery;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate how a towns respective rural population in Sweden were influenced by bad harvests and epidemics during the 18 th century. The investigation is based on the demographic conditions during the period 1720 – 1800 in the city of Borås and three nearby rural parishes. LÄS MER

  7. 5. I skuggan av stormaktens sista krig : Inre förhållanden i den svenska militärstatens Jämtland under stora nordiska kriget

    Magister-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Markus Sundberg; [2019]
    Nyckelord :early-modern; great northern war; Sweden; Jämtland; taxes; abandoned farms; crop failures; everyday forms of resistance; agrarian lower classes.;

    Sammanfattning : This paper is focused on the consequences of the drawn-out conflict, known as ”the great northern war”, which lasted from the start of the 18th century up to 1721. More precisely the focus is at the economic situation facing the agrarian lower classes during these years, as well the nature in which their discontent presented itself. LÄS MER