Essays about: "human intervention in natural resources"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words human intervention in natural resources.

  1. 1. A HUG OF LIGHT

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Markus Hölbling; [2021]
    Keywords : bedroom activities; circadian rhythm; contrast; human needs; lighting qualities; luminaire design; perception;

    Abstract : This project is an elaboration of how luminaire design can provide for fundamental human needs. Visual needs in terms of task performance, orientability and visual comfort; emotional needs in terms of soothing feelings of safeness and cosiness; and biological needs in terms of circadian rhythm and resetting of our biological clock in the morning. READ MORE

  3. 2. Productive landscapes and the cultural historical environment : Prototyping a small-scale productive system utilizing the immediate landscape

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Joar Mattsson; [2019]
    Keywords : exploitation artifact natural resources industry production;

    Abstract : The thesis is an investigation of global exploitation of nature, use of productive landscapes and itsremaining structures as the cultural historical environment. The further aim has been to seek analternative approach against a large-scale utilization of the environment through an elaborativeprocess of an architectural intervention, combining public space and local production. READ MORE

  4. 3. Investigating the decrease ofgroundwater levels and the effect of fracture zone on recovery time: A case study of decrease in groundwater levels in a tunnel construction site in Vinsta, Stockholm

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Evgenia Kassiou; [2017]
    Keywords : Groundwater; spatial analysis; Modified Double Mass Statistical Analysis; 3D model; COMSOL Multiphysics; fracture zone; recovery time; soil layer;

    Abstract : Groundwater is one of the main natural resources worldwide. Groundwater exists in aquifers below the earth surface and provides quantities of water for various purposes such as supply to households and businesses, public supply, drinking water supply, irrigation and agriculture. Sweden is also highly dependent on groundwater. READ MORE

  5. 4. Conservation assessments of Văcărești urban wetland in Bucharest (Romania) : land cover and climate changes from 2000 to 2015

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Luana Andreea Simion; [2016]
    Keywords : land cover types; climate change; Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis; urban wetland; biodiversity; protection and preservation; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Văcărești Urban Wetland, a recently instituted nature park, is situated in Bucharest (Romania). It has been established over the last 27 years within an abandoned retention polder, built during the communist era. READ MORE

  6. 5. Development of the Chilean mining industry – its dependence of natural resources

    University essay from KTH/Entreprenörskap och Innovation

    Author : Diego Alonso Romero Guastavino; [2016]
    Keywords : Resource Curse; Economic development; Environmental regulation; Technological change; Mining industry;

    Abstract : The resource curse, also known as the “paradox of plenty”, basically states that countries that have natural resources in abundance, particularly in terms of non-renewable resources such as oil and gas and minerals, in the long run tend to have less economic growth and prosperity, than countries with relatively lesser endowments of natural resources. This research investigates the case of the Chilean economy; its erstwhile saltpeter mining industry and current copper mining industry. READ MORE