Essays about: "Hägerstrand"

Found 5 essays containing the word Hägerstrand.

  1. 1. Creating the landscape, one stand at a time : the role of timber buyers in landscape-level planning in southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Keeli Jo Curtis; [2020]
    Keywords : landscape; forestry; biodiversity; cross-scale interactions; Hägerstrand; conservation; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : A central tension within forestry is balancing timber production and nature. This tradeoff is important when managing individual stands, but also has effects on biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gender, Mobilities and Public Transport: Exploring the daily mobilities of women in Rosengård since the arrival of the train

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kate Flowerday; [2019]
    Keywords : Public Transport; Gender; Feminist Geography; Accessibility; Social Sustainability; Critical GIS; Time-Space Geography; Mobility Justice;

    Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of gendered daily mobilities amongst local women in Rosengård since the inauguration of the new train station and railway service into the district. Implementing a feminist, qualitative and explorative approach to mobilities, the research poses three principal questions: how women are using public transport in their daily mobilities; what restrictions they are facing in these mobilities; and finally, the extent to which the new Rosengård train station is working towards social cohesion in Malmö. READ MORE

  4. 3. The power of hydrology in the Omo-Gibe River Basin : Gibe III and flood retreat agriculture on the river omo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Benjamin Merrick; [2018]
    Keywords : biosphere integrity; climate change; difference; hydrology; sustainability science; transicones; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : My work discusses how Gibe III is a Sustainable Development but is not sustainable. Along the river Omo are tribes and, unlike Gibe III which utilizes instrumental rationality to harness the flow of the River Omo for the production of hydroelectricity, they plant crops after the flow from the hydrological cycle floods the riverbanks with water and nutrients. READ MORE

  5. 4. Historical perspectives on landscape and contemporary planning challenges : how landscape dynamics and the landscape’s past can contribute to current landscape planning

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

    Author : Anna Brånhult; [2013]
    Keywords : historic landscape analysis; landscape change; landscape history; landscape dynamics; planning; driving forces; Hägerstrand; Antrop; Bjäre;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to explore how landscape dynamics and past landscape developments can contribute to current landscape planning. Through a literature review and a case study of the landscape’s historical development on the Bjäre peninsula, approaches for investigating and understanding past landscape developments and landscape dynamics are presented. READ MORE

  6. 5. Förloppslandskap : ett sätt att betrakta landskap

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Hanne Nilsson; [2010]
    Keywords : förloppslandskap; landskapsbegrepp; Torsten Hägerstrand; landskapsprocesser; landskapsdynamik; europeiska landskapskonventionen;

    Abstract : Begreppet landskap kan betyda både utsiktslandskap, så som det används på engelska , och område, region, som är grundbetydelsen i de germanska språken. Torsten Hägerstrand introducerade i början på 1990-talet begreppet förloppslandskap, som vänder sig mot ett statiskt betraktande av landskap och istället tar fasta på landskapets processer. READ MORE