Essays about: "Gävle municipality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Gävle municipality.

  1. 1. Reconnecting Gävle’s Delta : a post-industrial urban transformation project for Sweden’s coastal landscape

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Rachel Murray; [2023]
    Keywords : resilience; blue-green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; flooding; brownfield development; post-industrial urban development; landscape architecture; urban planning; climate adaptation; water-sensitive urban design; urban ecology;

    Abstract : This speculative design-led research project addresses the challenges of transforming dilapidated post-industrial brownfield sites into thriving, sustainable, resilient urban neighbourhoods. Tasked with allocating urban growth, municipality planning departments increasingly look towards underused but centrally located industrial sites for future development. READ MORE

  3. 2. Forest Aboveground Biomass Monitoring in Southern Sweden Using Random Forest Modelwith Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and LiDAR Data

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Wan Ni Lin; [2023]
    Keywords : Aboveground biomass; Sentinel-1; Sentinel-2; LiDAR; random forest; GEE;

    Abstract : Monitoring carbon stock has emerged as a critical environmental problem among several worldwide organizations and collaborations in the context of global warming and climate change. This study seeks to provide a remote sensing solution based on three types of data, to explore the feasibility and reliability of estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) in order to improve the efficiency of monitoring carbon stock. READ MORE

  4. 3. Optimization and Bayesian Modeling of Road Distance for Inventory of Potholes in Gävle Municipality

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Timothy Rafael Lindblom; Oskar Tollin; [2022]
    Keywords : Traveling salesman problem; Bayesian inference; Simulated annealing; Nearest neighbour algorithm; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; MCMC; Potholes; Haversine formula; Metropolis-Hastings; Posterior predictive distribution; Handelsresande problemet; bayesiansk inferens; simulerad anlöpning; nearest neighbour algorithm; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; MCMC; potthål; storcirkelavstånd; Metropolis-Hastings; posterior predictive distribution;

    Abstract : Time management and distance evaluation have long been a difficult task for workers and companies. This thesis studies 6712 pothole coordinates in Gävle municipality, and evaluates the minimal total road distance needed to visit each pothole once, and return to an initial pothole. READ MORE

  5. 4. Assessing Mining-related risks in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality of Ghana

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Faustina Lina Yeboah; [2020]
    Keywords : Galamsey; MCA; GISwaps;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to assess the risks caused by illegal gold miningactivities (galamsey) in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality in Ghana with RemoteSensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. Satellite imagerytogether with vegetation indices and the Australian Water Observation from Space(WOFS) algorithm was used to identify 3577 cells of potential galamsey sites in thePrestea Huni-Valley municipality. READ MORE

  6. 5. Inclusivity in the English Classroom : A Study in Inclusivity, Focusing on Heteronormativity and Sexuality, in the English Courses 5-7 in Upper Secondary Schools

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Frida Winterkvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Inclusivity; LGBTQIA ; upper secondary school; English as a second language; queer theory; sexuality; representation; heteronormative; heteronormativity;

    Abstract : This student thesis project centers around two subjects, heteronormativity and LGBTQIA+ representation, and examines whether or not they are prominent in today’s schools in a smaller selected municipality in Sweden, if schools strive for inclusivity, and what is done to prevent any potential suffering for the LGBTQIA+ youth. Firstly, this student thesis project presents the theory, more specifically queer theory, that will be used as the basis for results analysis. READ MORE