Essays about: "Mariana"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 47 essays containing the word Mariana.
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16. Behavioral Insights into Personal Electronics Repair: Accelerating the Swedish Transition to a Circular Economy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Sweden is actively seeking to scale up repair activities as part of its strategy to reduce waste, transition to a circular economy, and achieve zero net emissions by 2045. In the last couple of years, several new policies to promote consumer repairs have been adopted or proposed in Sweden. READ MORE
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17. The Playground Project : This project is dividid in three main topics, working with the topic and the meaning of play, the form and the design of the ground, everything comes together in the final project.
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Playing is the dominant activity in children's daily life, but is the playground still the place where children have their first encounter with societal roles, norms and values of today’s society, through the act of playing? The playground functions as the place where children are forced to educate themselves, in learning to develop, to make decisions, to solve problems, and to regulate emotions. They look for risks in order to test and explore their physical limits. READ MORE
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18. Bracing for the inevitable: An exploratory multi-case study of local climate change adaptation plans
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Vulnerability to climate change and the capacity to adapt to it are the result of intersecting power structures, system dynamics, and social identity markers otherwise known as intersectionality; and thus, differ greatly between contexts. However, despite the stark contextual differences between small and metropolitan cities, and lower and higher income countries, the policy and study of climate change adaptive planning has often focused on capital cities and technocratic solutions as a default blueprint for adaptation processes. READ MORE
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19. Resilient Bento Rodrigues
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : The aim of the project is the reconstruction of the district Bento Rodrigues located in the state of Minas Gerais; Brazil destroyed by the collapse of a mining dam Fundão in November 2015. This disaster was one of the biggest tragedy in the country. READ MORE
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20. Deconstructing Backpackers' Identity Projects - The role of experiences for identity construction
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Thesis Purpose: The aim of this research project was to uncover the meaning of extraordinary experiences for consumers’ identity projects and to understand how extraordinary experiences, rather than brands and possessions, can be used for self-presentation and self-extension. Methodology: Following Van Manen’s method for hermeneutic phenomenological research combined with Derrida’s notion of deconstruction, we examined “lessons learned”-type blog posts of ten backpackers. READ MORE
