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1. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction - Assessing barriers and opportunities to integrate risk information into communal development planning in Burundi
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Natural hazards cannot be avoided, but their damage to what human beings value, such as life, health, and property, can be limited. Climate change will increase extreme weather events and overall disaster risk, which will particularly affect Least Developed Countries. READ MORE
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2. Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land and Natural Resources When Companies Act In Their Traditional Territory: An Enquire of International Human Rights Systems with a Focus on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Regional System of Human Rights
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This thesis approaches how International Human Rights Law is addressing the protection of indigenous peoples’ right to land when States give concessions for companies to act inside indigenous traditional territory. Cases of harmful conducts committed by companies in indigenous territory are continuously happening around the world. READ MORE
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3. Occupied Peripheries: Rethinking Landscape in the Anthropocene Visuality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : Although landscape representations in the US-European culture have traditionally been acknowledged as a peaceful ordering of the world or the tool of imperialism, nationalism and private property (sometimes all simultaneously), a new shift in the landscape scopic regime seems to be happening. Produced by the current rise of concerns around climate change and environmental crisis, this shift seems to be related to a specific attention to land use and land value. READ MORE
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4. Sol i Stenhagen : projektering av en solcellsanläggning på Stenhagens bildnings- och kulturcentrum
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Energy and TechnologyAbstract : This is a thesis report written as a bachelor’s exam for Uppsala University, Sweden. In this paper, the possibilities of installing a photovoltaic system on a communal property in Uppsala is evaluated. Different systems were designed and simulated. READ MORE
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5. Privatizing the Ejido System: The Tradeoff of Land Tenure, Governance and Transaction Costs
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the ejido system in Mexico in order to understand the dynamics of land tenure, governance and transaction costs through the lens of Elinor Ostrom’s theory of good governance. This case of the ejido system was chosen as their constitution that enabled a communal access land tenure regime in the agricultural sector, was amended to allow for privatization. READ MORE
