Essays about: "thesis in culture behaviour"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 98 essays containing the words thesis in culture behaviour.

  1. 1. The role of motivations and perceived ability to cycle as a mode of transport in an emerging cycling culture - the case study of Cork Metropolitan Area, Ireland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Nieve Greene; [2023]
    Keywords : travel behaviour; mobility; utilitarian cycling; human infrastructure; built environment; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Politics of Mobility.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Cycling as mode of transport can be seen as a sustainable and active mode of travel that can be part of the solution for climate change and urban congestion. Many cities in Europe are now investing in cycling to reduce their carbon emissions and make their spaces more liveable and accessible. READ MORE

  3. 2. Negotiating Political Power on Bornholm : The Anonymous Philander Letter and the Response of the Danish Absolutist State, 1737–1739

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Matthías Aron Ólafsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Social history; early modern state; absolutism; Denmark; Bornholm; commissions; interaction; negotiation; political power; political culture;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the negotiation of political power between the Danish absolutist state, the local government on Bornholm, and its subjects there during the winter of 1738–1739. The aim is to better understand how political power was negotiated in a peripheral region of an early modern state, but also to explore what caused this interaction to begin with and why its eventual outcome was a compromise by the state. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hambach Forest Occupation : Relationships of Care between Plants and Humans

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Tereza Lehečková; [2023]
    Keywords : interspecies ethics of care; more-than-human ethics; more-than-human sociality; Chthulucén; violent-care; activism; mental health; multispecies ethnography; plant ethnography;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the interspecies relationships of care in the Hambach Forest, Germany. It covers the caring relations between the human activists protecting the Forest by occupying it and the trees growing there. READ MORE

  5. 4. Let Us Put Our Brains in the Spotlight – Literally!

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i molekylärbiologi

    Author : Elsa Karjalainen; [2023]
    Keywords : Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : Neurons are the working force in each vertebrate’s nervous system. These small cells have the important task of transferring information in the form of electrical charges called action potentials. Neurons make it possible for us to sense touch, process our environment, and store memory. READ MORE

  6. 5. The pursuit of a sustainable energy culture at Taplow Court : A space of faith where British heritage and Japanese Buddhism coincide

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Karolina Ek; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Energy Cultures; Spaces of Faith; Sufficiency; Spirituality; Soka Gakkai; Soft Systems; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As efforts to decarbonise energy systems have failed, attention turns to addressing disproportionate energy consumption through behavioural adjustments. Given the influence of religion on worldviews and behaviour, this thesis inductively and intimately examines the energy-related practises of the UK headquarters of the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International. READ MORE