Essays about: "Biosphere Reserve"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 essays containing the words Biosphere Reserve.

  1. 1. Social Relationships within Ecotourism Cooperation : Case of the ARK56 Network

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS)

    Author : Caroline Hammerfeldt; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Capital; Cooperation; Ecotourism; Blekinge Archipelago; Biosphere Reserves;

    Abstract : The inclusion of ecotourism into biosphere reserves to enhance sustainable development has increased the importance of tourism stakeholders’ relationships. Therefore, this research aims to explore how the quality of social relationships among tourism stakeholders affects ecotourism cooperation in the Blekinge Archipelago biosphere reserve. READ MORE

  3. 2. BUILDING RELATIONS WITH NATURE BY DESIGN METHODS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Matt Christoph; [2022-06-03]
    Keywords : Kinship; More-than-human; Posthumanism; Anthropocene; Design Camp; Design Workshop; Design toolkit; Participatory Design; Embedded design; Sustainability;

    Abstract : Culture, art, and design can help us as a society and for each earthling to reflect on the ambivalent relationship between nature and humans in the Anthropocene by raising the critical question of how we can build more sustainable relations with nature through design. Respectively, this project documentation informs about my graduation project within the MFA embedded design program at HDK-Valand, focusing on design, organization, and sustainability. READ MORE

  4. 3. Water sources' key role in the Vomb basin biosphere reserve. An analysis of ecosystem services.

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

    Author : Ousayma Bakir; [2022]
    Keywords : Ecosystem services analysis; biosphere reserve; water sources; classification; Vomb; Skåne; south of Sweden.; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : This study was done to gain an understanding of the importance of 12 water sources that are in the Vomb biosphere reserve. To do so, an ecosystem services analysis that included the four following types of ecosystem services: provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural services, was conducted. READ MORE

  5. 4. FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS FOR THE DECARBONISATION OF A DECENTRALISED GRID SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY FOR THE ISLAND OF FUERTEVENTURA, SPAIN

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Pablo Melian Batista; [2022]
    Keywords : Hybrid renewable energy systems; HOMER Software; Wind energy; PV; Battery storage; Distributed generation; Decarbonisation;

    Abstract : Decarbonisation of different energy sectors of society is becoming a pressing issue globally withnumerous legislations and objectives being set to decarbonise electrical grids worldwide. Somehave already been met; however, islanded grids still heavily rely on fossil fuels to meet their electrical demand due to the weakness of their grid and limited available space forcing them to use space-efficient technologies such as diesel generators. READ MORE

  6. 5. IN SEARCH OF POWER : The Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve in Sweden under the microscope of the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Viktoria Kamenova Georgieva; Chara Fotopoulou; [2022]
    Keywords : Foucault; truth discourse; power; technologies of the self; identities; resistance; liberal and neoliberal art of government; F.D.A.; sustainable development; Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve; MAB; UNESCO.;

    Abstract : The present study focuses on the Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve (BR) in Northern Sweden, which serves as an implementation site of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. In response to a series of environmental and social problems identified in the specific locale, the area inhabited by both “Swedish” and “Sami” people, is designed to serve henceforth as a learning site for sustainable development. READ MORE