Essays about: "Animal Husbandry and Environmental thesis"

Found 4 essays containing the words Animal Husbandry and Environmental thesis.

  1. 1. A wealth of soil : Social-ecological traps, economy and agency on Finnish farms

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Hanna Nikkanen; [2021]
    Keywords : Transformation; farm transitions; financial circumstances; food systems; animal husbandry; regenerative agriculture; sustainability;

    Abstract : Food systems are facing increasing pressure to adapt to the local, regional and global implications of the climate crisis while reducing the environmental impacts of food production and retaining their competitiveness on increasingly connected agri-food markets. Many suggested aspects of a more resilient, sustainable model of food production are directly linked to decisions made on individual farms. READ MORE

  3. 2. Osteological Markers of Nutritional Stress on the Swedish Island of Öland: Physiological Effects of Environmental Fluctuations during the Scandinavian Iron Age

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Claire Maeve Callahan; [2020]
    Keywords : Old World Drought Atlas; Dendroclimatology; Nutrition; Osteology; Multiple Correspondence Analysis; Skeletal Pathology; Dietary Isotopes; Environmental Reconstructions; Historic Climate; Iron Age; Sweden; Baltic Region; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : The shift to agriculture as the main form of subsistence practice allowed past peoples the freedom and potential to exploit their natural and man-made environment for personal and societal gain. Decades of archaeological excavations conducted on the Swedish island of Öland have amassed a wealth of information regarding the subsistence and settlement patterns of Iron Age societies. READ MORE

  4. 3. Urban Agriculture: A case study of Quito, Ecuador

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Sai Siddhartha Nandamuri; [2017]
    Keywords : urban agriculture; Quito; South America; Ecuador; sustainability; nature-based solutions; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Urban agriculture can be one of the many solutions that a city employs as a part of its larger sustainability strategy. It can have many advantages: food security, employment, better utilisation of public spaces, safer and better food production and economic empowerment of disadvantaged groups. READ MORE

  5. 4. Inventory and evaluation of Nairobi Animal Orphanage : focusing on spotted hyena, serval, Sykes' monkey, vervet monkey and on educational elements

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Ellen Hedman; [2009]
    Keywords : animal orphanage; tropical zoo; zoo education; zoo cooperation; captive wild animals;

    Abstract : The present BSc thesis is part of a newly established collaboration between the Swedish zoo Skansen and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and constitutes of an inventory of the Nairobi Animal Orphanage (AO). As a refuge for wild animals found orphaned, abandoned or injured throughout Kenya, the AO has grown over the years and reached an unsustainable point where external help is needed for solutions and improvements. READ MORE