Essays about: "Local Agency"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 252 essays containing the words Local Agency.

1. 26. Cooperation and Friction: The Sustainable Development Goals as a system of belief within a United Nations specialized agency

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Emily Nuckolls; [2023]
   Keywords : SDGs; Ritual; Cooperation; United Nations; capacity building; institutional culture; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Across the world are small local agencies connected to the United Nations. Unlike the larger bureaucratic organs that make up the UN, these smaller specialized agencies do not work to frame the founding ideals of the UN which are decided on at the highest levels within the institution, but to interpret, carry out, and monitor different mandates or programs at the local level. READ MORE

3. 27. The Effects of Clear-Cutting a Hemiboreal Forest on Local CO2 Fluxes in Norunda, Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Mads Carlsen; [2023]
   Keywords : CO2 flux; Clear-cutting; Coniferous forest; Flux footprint; Sustainable forestry; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : As CO2 builds up in the atmosphere causing global climate change (IPCC, 2022) trees have become an international symbol of combatting this, and for good reason. Trees take up CO2 which as a result combats these changes, and when these trees are cut down fewer individuals remain to take up the CO2 that we humans emit (Chapin et al., 2011). READ MORE

4. 28. Market life and the city (of Vienna) - The social infrastructure of attachment to place

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

   Author : Ulrika Elina Stevens; [2023]
   Keywords : place attachment; public markets; Vienna; social infrastructure; production of space; emotional geography; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis, the relationship between people and places is investigated through examining how migrants in Vienna create place attachment to food markets in the city. A place attachment is understood as the emotional bond that forms between an individual and a specific space, the theoretical foundation of this thesis lies within emotional geography, a sub-field of human geography which examines the relationship between emotions and spatial practices. READ MORE

5. 29. Mapping out the problem of vacant houses in Japan : a case study of Kochi prefecture

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Julia Olsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Vacant houses; Akiya; Japan; Depopulation; Urban-rural relations; Rural imaginaries; Sense of place theory; Non-human agency; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how local residents in rural Japan navigate the phenomenon of vacant houses (akiya), to understand the impact it has on their sense of place. The study is based on fieldwork conducted in Kochi prefecture, and relies on data from interviews, documents, photographs, and participant observation. READ MORE

6. 30. Human-Mangrove Entanglements in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Gabriela Bernal Liller; [2023]
   Keywords : Multispecies Political Ecology; Resilience Narrative; Imagination; Care;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the intricate relationship between mangroves and humans in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh. Mangroves in Shyamnagar are found both in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest on earth, and in adaptation projects called nature based solutions (NbS), framed by the resilience narrative. READ MORE