Essays about: "depopulation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 31 essays containing the word depopulation.

  1. 21. Swedish rural depopulation : how do rural municipalities counteract depopulation and stagnation?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Emma Söderberg; [2015]
    Keywords : municipality; adaptive strategies; place marketing; demographic decline; depopulation; rural development;

    Abstract : About half of the municipalities in Sweden are experiencing a demographic decline and most of these are rural. With continuous urbanization, they are losing both social and economic capital. Social capital is lost if few of the inhabitants can, or want to, stay. READ MORE

  3. 22. Do Trichoptera in running water fly upstream?

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi

    Author : Malin Larsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Trichoptera; drift; colonisation cycle; upstream flight;

    Abstract : Drift moves aquatic insects downstream, risking depopulation of upstream reaches. However, the necessity and exist-ence of an upstream flight to compensate for drift has not been undisputed. I analysed a sample of approximately 70 000 Trichoptera from a stream in northern Sweden collected during one season in 1974. READ MORE

  4. 23. Rural depopulation policies in Sweden: What can rural municipalities do to reverse a population decline?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Per Larsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Sweden; rural municipalities; rural depopulation; municipal policies; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : There is an urbanization process going on all over the world and even if the process has a slower pace in Sweden now than during the industrialization period, the rural areas has experienced a general population decline the last two decades, despite a population growth nationally. This population decline has negative consequences for the Swedish rural municipalities and most of them uses, beside their mandatory welfare duties, various policies aimed towards having a positive population development. READ MORE

  5. 24. Utvecklingsbolag för en levande landsbygd : en studie om nya vägar att gå för landsbygdsutveckling på Gotlands landsbygd

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Sofia Riedmüller; [2012]
    Keywords : Utvecklingsbolag; landsbygdsutveckling; nätverk; organisation; samhällsentreprenörskap;

    Abstract : Den här kandidatuppsatsen inom ämnet landsbygdsutveckling syftar till att beskriva arbetet och organisationen kring tre utvecklingsbolag på Gotland. Utvecklingsbolagen har uppstått som en motrörelse mot avbefolkning och nedläggning av företag på landsbygden. READ MORE

  6. 25. Depopulation and local development? : A comparative study of small rural oriented municipalities on the west coast of Sweden

    University essay from Avd för juridik, politik och ekonomi

    Author : Papula Kani; Ariana Shaghayegh Safari.K; [2012]
    Keywords : Governance; Push and pull factors; Local development; Depopulation; Municipal visionary documents;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate municipal development activities of rural oriented areas of the west coast of Sweden. The chosen municipalities for this study are Tanum, Munkedal, Sotenäs and Orust where the aim is to give an understanding to the different municipalities work towards achieving local development and opposing depopulation. READ MORE