Essays about: "environmental load displacement"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words environmental load displacement.
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6. Health for Export? A WPR and World-Systems Analysis of the OECD’s Construction of Pharmaceutical Pollution
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The issue of pharmaceutical pollution has recently gained attention on the international political agenda as several actors have raised concern for its negative impact on ecosystems, human health, and livelihoods in emerging economies where an increasing share of the pharmaceutical production is located due to the cheaper labor and less stringent environmental regulations. In 2019, the OECD published a report with policy recommendations on how to manage pharmaceutical residues in freshwaters, being one of the first international actors to address pharmaceutical pollution from manufacturing as a problem. READ MORE
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7. Food in the face of net-zero emissions: a call for repoliticization : a juxtaposition of Sweden’s National Food Strategy and Climate Policy Framework
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Food is a fundamental human need – a physical requirement for survival. At the current historical juncture, the global food system is entangled in a web of neoliberal capitalist exchange relations and suffers from heavy dependence on fossil energy inputs. READ MORE
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8. Countries Divided, Shared Pollution: Whose Mess is it? A Case Study on the issue of Transnational Border Sewage in the Tijuana River Valley Watershed
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : This thesis critically examines the issue of shared border sewage between San Diego and Tijuana. In light of the recent sewage spill in February of 2017, dumping 143 million gallons of raw sewage into the Tijuana River, the phenomena of border sewage in the transnational environment of the Tijuana River Watershed has been a topic of interest in local and international contexts; raising questions of how this issue came about, what is causing it, and why it’s still happening. READ MORE
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9. Comparison of electricity production between semi-submersible and spar-buoy floating offshore wind turbines
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : The paper compares electricity production between the semi-submersible and the spar-buoy floating wind turbine systems under normal, stochastic and extreme wind conditions at Utsira Nord site located on the Norwegian continental shelf in the North Sea. The analysis of complex behavior of the floating wind turbine system and the fluid-structure interaction is performed in aero-servo-hydro-elastic code ASHES. READ MORE
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10. Numerical and experimental analysis of adhesively bonded T-joints : Using a bi-material interface and cohesive zone modelling
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskapAbstract : With increasing climate change the automotive industry is facing increasing demands regarding emissions and environmental impact. To lower emissions and environmental impact the automotive industry strives to increase the efficiency of vehicles by for example reducing the weight. READ MORE
