Essays about: "Environmental alliance"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 essays containing the words Environmental alliance.

  1. 6. Motivations for engagement in environmental inter-firm alliances in the Swedish fashion and textile industry

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Pauliina Perkiö; Sophie Frieauff; [2020]
    Keywords : Environmental alliance; Environmental collaboration; Networks; Inter-firm collaboration; Fashion industry;

    Abstract : The fashion and textile industry is publicly seen as one of the most environmentally unsustainable industries in the world. Due to its complex and highly dispersed value chain, a collaborative effort is needed in order to lower the industry's environmental pollution. READ MORE

  3. 7. Towards the Pluriverse - How to connect Degrowth and Ubuntu

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Thies Hoeft; [2018]
    Keywords : Degrowth; Ubuntu; Transition; Post-Development; Decoloniality; Situated Knowledge; Pluriverse; Environmental Sustainability; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis scrutinizes the possibilities for a connection of Degrowth and Ubuntu within a transition discourse, thereby promoting the validity of pluriversal knowledges. It presents and compares the two philosophies, brings arguments for a connection and discusses possible benefits. READ MORE

  4. 8. SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF DECENTRALISED SOLAR PROJECTS: INTRODUCING A MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH

    University essay from KTH/Energiteknik

    Author : Ninad Mukul Mutatkar; [2017]
    Keywords : solar energy; rural energy; electrification; sustainability; indicators; multi-criteria;

    Abstract : Lack of energy access in developing countries remains a major barrier in the economic development of rural communities. Worldwide, about 1.3 billion people lack access to modern energy services, and there is a need to pursue ways other than grid extension due to the remoteness of most of these communities from national grids. READ MORE

  5. 9. The spatial growth pattern and directional properties of Dryas octopetala on Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Sophie Rudbäck; [2016]
    Keywords : wind direction; Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; vegetation pattern; Spitsbergen; ArcGIS; Dryas octopetala; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Exposed, well-drained and nutrient poor areas on Spitsbergen are mainly covered by a plant alliance typical for Svalbard, the Caricion nardinae. Caricion nardinae is a circum-polar alliance, which is dominated by the creeping, ever-green dwarf-shrub [i]Dryas octopetala[/i]. READ MORE

  6. 10. Shaping the role of water : an investigation of participation and stringency in third-party ecolabels for coffee

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Linn Snarset; [2016]
    Keywords : participation; standards; water resources; green coffee; stringency; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The global food system, population growth, increased wealth, shifting diets and an overall larger demand for processed food, meat and dairy, has led to increased pressure on land, water and energy. The environmental implications of this have taken part in the establishment of international institutions which aims to regulate agriculture production methods, and thereby reduce these adverse impacts. READ MORE