Essays about: "Institutional complexity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 107 essays containing the words Institutional complexity.

1. 16. Care and Confusion: A Speculative Ethnography of Youth Residential Care Homes in Sweden

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : James Barrett; [2022]
   Keywords : youth work; HVB; youth residential care; social work; speculative ethnography; institutional ethnography; fictionalised stories; composite narratives; critical reflexivity;

   Abstract : Through the small-scale and imaginative application of a Speculative Institutional Ethnographical study, fictionalised stories have been created based upon observations in the field at three different Youth Care Home Facilities in Sweden. The locations and characters in these stories are composite narratives comprised of actual details from multiple real life places and people, amalgamated to form fictionalised narratives so as to protect the anonymity of real life people. READ MORE

3. 17. Coliving - Transition towards sustainability : A comparable case study of coliving and single-living

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för industriell ekonomi

   Author : Jonathan Andersson; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Lifestyles; Coliving; Practice theory; Clan control theory; Institutional theory; Sharing economy;

   Abstract : Background Modern capitalist societies have consumption at the core of their social and economic activities. This is one of the underlying problems that sustainability is facing. READ MORE

4. 18. “We Were Called Low-Grades” : Current Archival Approaches to the Digitization and Dissemination of Eugenics Collections

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Georgia Gilbert Gladitz; [2022]
   Keywords : Digitization; Eugenics Collections; Access and Care; Digital Knowledge Dissemination; Difficult Histories; Archival Methodologies; Statens institut för rasbiologi; The Wellcome Library; The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement; The Canadian Eugenics Archive;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the current methodological approaches to digital access and dissemination of eugenics archives. It looks in-depth at four institutions from around the world which provide some means of digital access to a specific eugenics collection that they control: the Wellcome Collection within the Wellcome Library in London, the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement founded in part by the Cold Springs Laboratory in New York, the Canadian Eugenics Archive, and the State Institute for Race Biology at the Uppsala University Library Special Collections in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 19. Struggling to make a life in the Peruvian Amazon: A case study on the livelihood activities in the indigenous community Naranjal

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Célina Marie Scülfort; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; SDGs 2; 3; 15; agriculture and forestry; rural livelihoods; indigenous communities; Peruvian Amazon; forest landscapes; smallholder farming; access to food; local knowledge;

   Abstract : International climate mitigation agendas increasingly focus on the conservation of tropical forests such as the Amazon due to their high potential of sequestering large amounts of carbon. At the same time, Peru’s Amazonian frontier is increasingly subject to market pressures and other factors contributing to deforestation and the expansion of the agricultural frontier. READ MORE

6. 20. Examining Critical Dependencies - A Study of Swedish Municipalities’ Risk and Vulnerability Analyses

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Aline Regnell; [2022]
   Keywords : infrastructure interdependencies; critical dependencies; municipality; risk and vulnerability analysis; RVA; risk governance; risk management; vital societal functions; critical infrastructure; Technology and Engineering; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : To the ensure continuity and protection of critical infrastructures in society, it is necessary to study infrastructure dependencies. This thesis focuses on critical infrastructure dependencies in Sweden and aims to increase the knowledge of how municipalities in Sweden analyze critical dependencies in municipal risk and vulnerability analyses (RVAs). READ MORE