Essays about: "environmental load displacement"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the words environmental load displacement.

  1. 11. The Violence We Consume - Embodied Violence in Nicaraguan Coffee Production

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Inga Prämassing; [2017]
    Keywords : Violence; Ecologically unequal exchange; World-system; Coloniality of power; Coffee; Nicaragua; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Based on ethnographic fieldwork with corteros in northern Nicaragua, this grounded theory study introduces two new concepts, the main concept embodied violence and related to it violence displacement. These concepts link the worker on the coffee plantation in the periphery with the final consumer in the core, arguing that the latter consumes embodied violence that the former had to suffer during the production process. READ MORE

  3. 12. Canadian mega-mining in Central Mexico: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Violence and Organized resistance 1992-2016

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Ingrid Altamirano Vazquez; [2017]
    Keywords : Ecologically unequal exchange; coloniality; colonial domination; environmental load displacement; geostrategic mineral reserves; political ecology; colonial elite; national interest; sovereignty; accumulation by dispossession; militarization; armed neoliberalism; environmental degradation; environmental racism; poverty; violence; systemic violence; state violence; war on drugs; repression; extractivism; sustainability; culture; power structures; economic dependency.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the historical dynamics of ecologically unequal exchange, coloniality of power, and systemic violence embedded in mining activities. With the use of a combined Marxist and De-colonial critical approach, it accomplishes a political ecology analysis of Canadian mega-mining in central Mexico and the socioenvironmental conflicts related to it, particularly in Cerro de San Pedro and the sacred territory of Wirikuta, between 1992-2016. READ MORE

  4. 13. Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with Side Near Surface Mounted FRP : A parametric study based on finite element analysis

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser

    Author : Rewan Eredini; [2016]
    Keywords : Side near surface mounted reinforcement; Bottom near surface mounted reinforcement; Parametric study; FEM-analysis; Atena; Carbon fiber reinforced polymer;

    Abstract : Most of the today’s concrete structures are older than tenyears, and the need to strengthening existing structures is growing steadily. This is due to various reasons such as degradation due to ageing, environmentally induced degradation, poor initial design or construction and lack of maintenance, to name a few. READ MORE

  5. 14. Litostratigrafiska studier av en platåformad sand- och grusavlagring i Skuremåla, Blekinge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Stenfeldt; [2006]
    Keywords : Skuremåla; litostratigrafi; deglaciation; randfält; strandförskjutning; Baltiska Issjön; Blekinge; lithostratigraphy; subaqueous fan; shoreline displacement; Baltic Ice Lake; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : I Skuremåla, Blekinge har litostratigrafiska studier utförts av en platåformad grus- och sandavlagring. Skuremåla-avlagringen har tidigare beskrivits som ett delta med en överyta på 55 m ö h. Syftet med arbetet är att tolka vad för sorts ”delta” Skuremåla-avlagringen utgör samt depositionsmiljön för sedimenten i fråga. READ MORE