Sökning: "urban social movements"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 72 uppsatser innehållade orden urban social movements.
1. Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : Title: Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice - Investigating the Motivations and Methods of Urban Foragers Course: BUSN39 Business Administration: Degree Project in Global Marketing - Master level Authors: Adam Christensson and Vendela Melin Supervisor: Annette Cerne Keywords: Dumpster diving, Social movement, Consumer resistance, Theory of planned behavior (TPB). Purpose: The study investigates dumpster diving motivations, methods, and its role as a resistance against conventional consumption patterns. LÄS MER
2. Upscaling agroecology in Sweden : a participatory-backcasting approach to investigate top-down measures for promoting an agroecological transition of the Swedish agricultural system
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of People and SocietySammanfattning : Alongside its important contribution to the increase of yields, industrial agriculture has also generated environmental, social and economical negative side effects. Moreover, the forecasted growth of the world’s population puts more pressure for solutions on how to increase food supply while reducing the negative effects of the current agricultural system. LÄS MER
3. Situationellt brottspreventivt arbete i Karlslund : En fallstudie om samspelet mellan fysisk miljö och brottslighet
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Sammanfattning : Studien ämnar att undersöka sambandet mellan den fysiska miljön och kriminalitet. I uppsatsen undersöks stadsdelen Karlslund i Landskrona som år 2017 blev utnämnt som ett särskilt utsatt område av Polisen. LÄS MER
4. Local Patriotism and the Emergence of UrbanSocial Movements : A case study of referendums from below in a postmaterialist society
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Referendums are enigmatic in their sense as consolidating— or erosive tools of representative democracy; nonetheless, an upswing in the referenda from below was recently highlighted in the literature. Thus, how local referendums from below are mobilized and whether they affect trust in local government is a significant question to be answered, which mandates bridging social movements to tools of deliberative democracy. LÄS MER
5. Regenerative agriculture : a contested open moment
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : Agriculture is both heavily impacted by climate change and responsible for greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Transitioning towards more sustainable agricultural practices is therefore imperative and requires new ways of thinking about agricultural knowledge and technologies. LÄS MER