Essays about: "Humanekologi"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 281 essays containing the word Humanekologi.

  1. 16. Green Greed A Poststructural Policy Analysis of “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020”

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

    Author : Lisa Carlsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Capitalism; Circular Growth; Degrowth; Decoupling; Democratized fashion; Depoliticization; Ecomodernism; Green growth; Governmentality; Institutionalized knowledges; Neoliberalism; Poststructuralism; Power knowledge; Policy analysis; Social Constructivism; WPR approach; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how discursive formations of problem representations presented in the “H&M Group Sustainability Performance Report 2020” institutionalize and shape knowledge regarding strategies on combating climate change. The politics behind these formations are made visible by using Carol Bacchi’s Poststructural Policy Analysis What’s the problem represented to be?(WPR) as a methodological framework. READ MORE

  3. 17. Talk to the Sea: Deep-sea mining, the arts, and contesting narratives of extraction in the deep ocean.

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

    Author : Nicholas Frederick Olivier Lepage; [2023]
    Keywords : deep-sea mining; resource frontier; commodities; arts; extractivism; narratives; imaginaries.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The deep-sea may be on the verge of becoming the latest frontier for resource extraction of critical metals and minerals in order to build renewable energy technologies such as electric vehicles. This thesis examines the narratives used by the deep-sea mining company The Metals Company to justify the extraction of polymetallic nodules from the seabed in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. READ MORE

  4. 18. Climate, Coloniality and Financialization: A Decolonial Analysis of Global Climate Finance

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

    Author : Judith Rybol; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Providing adequate climate finance, meaning funding for mitigation, adaptation or loss and damage, has been very high on the global policy agenda recently. The political economy and ecology behind it are much more complex and morally multidimensional than the mainstream finance world likes to present it though, which results in grave colonial injustices, international debt crises, deepened global inequalities and heightened climate vulnerabilities. READ MORE

  5. 19. Exploring the Future in a What-if Mode - A Philosophical and Critical Investigation into the Use of Scenarios in Climate Science

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

    Author : Franciszek Wieslaw Korbanski; [2023]
    Keywords : scenario; future; the IPCC; Synthesis Report; Mark Fisher; hauntology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The figure of scenarios is frequently used in present-day climate science and plays a prominent role in the architecture of the IPCC Reports. In this work, I undertake a philosophical and critical investigation into the ontological, epistemological and temporal modalities of the figure of scenario. READ MORE

  6. 20. Resolution Without Revolution: Green Capitalism, Ecological Management, and the Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry in the United States

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

    Author : Jacob Daniel Ferrell; [2023]
    Keywords : carbon dioxide removal; negative emissions; United States; ecological Marxism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is quickly moving from mere imagination to material reality. As I write, billions of dollars are flowing into this nascent industry from government, philanthropy, and venture capital; this thesis thus attempts to grasp history as it flies. READ MORE