Essays about: "local produce"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 328 essays containing the words local produce.

  1. 1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Melissa Lennartsson; [2024-01-26]
    Keywords : Vulnerable areas; urban policy; place-making; advanced urban marginality; safety security nexus; neoliberalism; Gothenburg;

    Abstract : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. READ MORE

  3. 2. A computational model of metapopulation dynamics and organism-mediated nutrient flow

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Amanda Hansson; [2023-08-07]
    Keywords : computational model; population dynamics; metapopulation dynamics; nutrient flow; simulation; spatially explicit; individual-based;

    Abstract : The aim of this project was to assess, using in-silico experiments, how different life history char-acteristics, such as age at maturity and dispersal ability of individuals, influence the dynamics of a metapopulation. To achieve this, a novel model of a spatially explicit metapopulation, with organ-ism-mediated nutrient flow between fragmented habitat patches, was implemented by means of computer simulations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Explainable Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Behavioural Credit Scoring

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap

    Author : Robert Iain Salter; [2023]
    Keywords : Behavioural Credit Scoring; Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Long Short-Term Memory; Default Prediction;

    Abstract : Credit scoring is critical for banks to evaluate new loan applications and monitor existing customers. Machine learning has been extensively researched for this case; however, the adoption of machine learning methods is minimal in financial risk management. READ MORE

  5. 4. Integrated Solar Cooking : Materials and Manufacturing of Conical Solar Cookers

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Kristy San; Ida Lindström; [2023]
    Keywords : Asulma Centre; Conical Solar Cooker; Integrated Solar Cooking; Kenya; Solar Cooking; Asulma centre; konisk solugn; integrerad solmatlagning; Kenya; solmatlagning;

    Abstract : This bachelor thesis is written as a Minor Field Studies (MFS) project and funded by SIDA, Sweden’s International Development Cooperation Agency. The project was made in cooperation with Engineers Without Borders Sweden and the local organization Asulma Centre in Nairobi. READ MORE

  6. 5. Reading the City: Architectural sites as the interlocutors of past, present and future identity in Dubai

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Freya Yasmin Mainprize Dastoor; [2023]
    Keywords : locality; placemaking; Dubai; architecture; global city; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the ways in which architectural sites establish and maintain Dubai’s claim to global city status. In a globalized world, localities must succeed in translocal networks in order to ensure their survival and prosperity, and global recognition of local uniqueness is thus integral to the establishment of global cities. READ MORE