Essays about: "policy reform and development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 81 essays containing the words policy reform and development.

1. 1. Carbon credit schemes & landownership in Scotland : an analysis of policy discourses

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

   Author : Imogen Cadwaladr-Rimmer; [2024]
   Keywords : carbon credit schemes; discourse policy analysis; environmental governance; landownership; land reform; neoliberalisation; rural Scotland; sustainable development.;

   Abstract : Carbon Credit Schemes have become an important feature of governance approaches to climate change in recent years and have been gaining prominence in the Global North. Scotland in particular has seen a rise in the development of carbon projects, with developers looking to sell carbon credits. READ MORE

3. 2. Potential and challenges of Battery Energy Storage(BESS) : The case of Poland

   University essay from KTH/Kraft- och värmeteknologi

   Author : Marcin Ziółkowski; [2023]
   Keywords : BESS; energy storage; electricity markets; ancillary services; techno-economic analysis; energy policy; EU direetives;

   Abstract : According to the “Draft development plan for meeting the current and future electricity demandfor 2023-2032” developed by the Polish Transmission System Operator PSE, the most appropriate solution is to significantly expand the possibilities of energy storage, due to its role as a factor improving the power balancing with the increase of wind farms and photovoltaic (PV) sources. Poland has changed the rules governing the energy industry to encourage energy storage. READ MORE

4. 3. Climate Resilient Development and Disasters : Trend analysis of policy change after milestone events in the period 2000 - 2020

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hannes Grünfeld; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate resilient development; disaster-reform hypothesis; milestone events; effect lag; trend analysis;

   Abstract : There is a debate within the field of policy studies whether disasters are drivers of policy reforms, as encapsulated by the disaster-reform hypothesis. Since the disaster rate for extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change, it is of high relevance to study if these disasters have any effect on climate polices. READ MORE

5. 4. Building Resilience in the Age of Disasters

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)

   Author : Linda Kivi; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate finance; MDBs; climate disasters; resilience; stakeholder theory; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The consequences of climate change and increasing disasters jeopardise the livelihoods and resilience of some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. Strengthened international efforts to mobilise and allocate additional climate and disaster resilience financing are required to address the needs of the countries that have least contributed to climate change and who currently are at the forefront of its implications. READ MORE

6. 5. T HE GENDER EQUALITY CHARADE A Critical Perspective on the Adoption and Implementation of 40/60 Gender Quota in Malawi

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Tawonga Tiwonerepo Nyirongo; [2022-11-02]
   Keywords : Gender Quota; Gender Equality Policy; Donor Aid;

   Abstract : While gender quotas have been widely adopted by countries around the world as an affirmative action to enhance women’s participation and representation in politics and other public spheres, the impact of the phenomenon continue to vary across national borders. Notably, substantive research suggests that gender quotas promote representational equality and improve women's participation in politics and other spheres of public life. READ MORE