Essays about: "Buenos Aires"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 essays containing the words Buenos Aires.

  1. 21. Renewable Energy and the Urban Challenge: Distributed Generation and Urban Sustainability in Buenos Aires

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Anna Quarnström; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

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  3. 22. Understanding Resilience and Risks : A Qualitative Case Study of International Disaster Policy and Informal Settlements in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : John Hero; [2015]
    Keywords : Resilience; Disaster; Risk; UN; Community; Self-organization; Resiliencia; Desastre; Riesgo; ONU; Comunidad; Auto-organización;

    Abstract : This study is the result of a two-year long minor field study project of informal settlements in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The aim was to analyse the concept of disaster resilience by describing possible contemporary complications in both theory and practice related to resilience and risks of informal settlements in Buenos Aires. READ MORE

  4. 23. Female social workers perspectives on interventions in sexual and reproductive health in Argentina

    University essay from Ersta Sköndal högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskap

    Author : Micaela García; [2015]
    Keywords : Social work; Sexual and reproductive health and rights; Critical theory; Argentina;

    Abstract : In this field study, female social workers perspectives have been collected, on interventions regarding sexual and reproductive health in the public sector in Argentina. The purpose was primary empirical and secondary to analyze empirical data using critical theory. READ MORE

  5. 24. Transforming delta terrains : research and design for a site in a telecoupled river system

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Johanna Hedlund; [2015]
    Keywords : delta; telecoupling; river system; Paraná Delta; land systems; transformation; delta design; indirect impacts; flooding SLU; Swedish University;

    Abstract : In this study, telecoupled and local impacts on flooding in the Paraná River Delta in Argentina are analysed and described. A sustainable design strategy is then proposed for a newly developed site in the delta. Land systems are not only affected by their direct surroundings, but also by interconnections with distant areas. READ MORE

  6. 25. Good Times in Buenos Aires : Being an "Expat" in the City of Foreigners

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Hana Navratilova; [2014]
    Keywords : expats; immigrants; the “other”; expat-scape; Buenos Aires; Argentina;

    Abstract : The following discussion concerns the emergence of and interrelations between the concepts of expatriation, migration, and “othering” in present Buenos Aires. The arguments rest on my fieldwork in Argentina, as well as other studies from around the world. READ MORE