Essays about: "Human Ecology"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 296 essays containing the words Human Ecology.

  1. 16. Identifying training needs for the implementation of Continuous Cover Forestry in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Lydia Kruse; [2023]
    Keywords : Marteloscope; Thinning type; Conitnuous Cover Forestry; Frame tree; Human behaviour;

    Abstract : In recent decades, continuous cover forestry (CCF) has been (re-)discovered as an important toolbox for promoting biodiversity, helping to deliver a range of ecosystem goods and services as well as to satisfy the needs of various stakeholders. CCF is based on ecological principles and one of its most important tenets is the abandonment of large-scale clearfelling. READ MORE

  3. 17. Utforskade dataanalys av bäckarna i Undersviks Tillväxtpark före BAG-försök

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Maja Sjöström; [2023]
    Keywords : BAG; skogsgödsling; markvatten; näringsläckage; bäckar; barrskog;

    Abstract : Förorening av vatten är ett stort problem både på lokal och global nivå. Övergödning från mänsklig aktivitet såsom jordbruk och industrier utgör ett markant hot mot våra vatten (Rheinheimer 1998), å andra sidan skulle skogsbruket kunna förbättra sin produktion med större nyttjande av gödsel. READ MORE

  4. 18. Transcending Power: Investigating the European Union as a Mouthpiece for Transhumanist Thought

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Amos Strömberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Foucauldian discourse analysis; transhumanism; the European Union; sociotechnical imaginaries; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study arises from an existential concern that there is an obliviousness in academia with regards to the recent eruption of the transhumanist movement–an ideological force imbued with potentially calamitous socioecological consequences. With the support from recent claims that the transhumanist ideology exerts powerful influence on Western politics, this study seeks to investigate how the transhumanist ideology has become diluted into parts of the European Union and why this should be a concern from a human ecology lens. READ MORE

  5. 19. Review of pH recommendations for soilless cultivation systems

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production Ecology

    Author : Elric Fabricius; [2023]
    Keywords : soilless cultivation; hydroponics; aeroponics; NFT; nutrient film technique; DWC; deep water culture; pH; nutrient solution; speciation; availability; biomass production;

    Abstract : Our human population is growing, and with that, so is our demand for food, food that today still is not a guarantee for all of us. To help increase global food security, the diversification of our food production through the implementation of soilless, hydroponic cultivation systems has been suggested. READ MORE

  6. 20. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care

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

    Author : Jack Richold; [2023]
    Keywords : cues to care; Joan Nassauer; Timothy Morton; strange stranger; sublime; scenic; broken windows; ecological function; aesthetics of care; design through maintenance;

    Abstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE