Essays about: "Borderland"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the word Borderland.
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1. Headfirst into shallow water - Wetland restoration and its contribution to the Habitats Directive
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Växtekologi och evolution; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildningAbstract : Located in the borderland between aquatic and terrestrial environments, the wetlands cover a wide spectrum of habitats and enable living standards for a great variety of organisms. Although important habitats, a great extent of the original wetlands have disappeared in Europe and Sweden due to anthropogenic disturbances. READ MORE
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2. Borderland Peripheries. from dead end - to new beginning
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : It’s been 34 years ago now since the iron curtain has parted the European continent and its inhabitants in an East and a West. The analysed area for the following thesis on the border between northern Austria and southern Czechia gives a case example of a region, that is still suffering from an era, where one sky-direction has been erased from people’s everyday living and thinking – leaving the border areas as a dead end for either country. READ MORE
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3. Övergångar : att göra gränser till möten i det urbana landskapet
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : I det urbana landskapet finns många övergångar mellan fysiska objekt som kan skapa gränser. Exempel på dessa skulle kunna vara att vattnet i en kanal är skilt från promenadstråket som ligger flera meter högre upp, den vackra planteringen får beskådas från gatan men erbjuder ingen plats eller möjlighet att vistas i, en park avgränsas tvärt från en trafikerad bilväg med ett stort staket eller en klippt häck. READ MORE
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4. Peace Through Tourism : Visiting the Korean Borderland
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : According to South Korea, there is no North Korea. In fact, the government considers itself the only legitimate state on the peninsula, much alike North Korea’s view. Officially, the two countries on the Korean peninsula are at war, having been in a ceasefire for 70 years. READ MORE
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5. "I saw something else than an old hovel" : Mapping approaches to derelict rural house restoration in the Facebook group ”I rescued a derelict house!”
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The practice of restoring and reinhabiting derelict rural houses is a growing, but relatively unexplored, phenomenon in contemporary Sweden. Frequently highlighted as a movement in public media, the practice is framed as the expression of more sustainable, heritage-sensitive and societally beneficial lifestyles, and has spurred interest from several municipalities. READ MORE
