Essays about: "Mosse"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the word Mosse.

  1. 16. Push and pull for change : local experiences of the Push-Pull Technology in South Wollo, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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

    Author : Josefin Årevall; [2015]
    Keywords : Push-Pull Technology; Ethiopia; sorghum; maize; agroecology; rural development; change; decision-making;

    Abstract : Drawing from in-depth interviews with farmers who have implemented the Push-Pull Technology in South Wollo, Ethiopia, this thesis focuses on understanding both local driving forces for changing farming practices and patterns of decision-making. This thesis argues that farmers’ decisions are based on more than rational choice, and that there is a complex web of social and institutional patterns which affects their actions and attitudes towards changes of farming practices and use of new technologies. READ MORE

  3. 17. Jordbrukets och järnframställningens påverkan på skogsutvecklingen vid Eskilshult, en by med medeltida anor : en studie baserad på pollenanalys

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

    Author : Martin Karlsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Pollenanalys; järnhantering; skogsutveckling; blästerugnsbruk; agrar verksamhet; pollen analysis; bloomery furnace; iron works; agrarian activities; forest development;

    Abstract : Människans påverkan på den omgivande miljön har ökat genom historien med ökad bofasthet och samhällsbildning. Vid övergången järnålder-medeltid, när Sverige började ta form som rike skedde flera förändringar inom jordbruk, teknik och samhälle. READ MORE

  4. 18. Victor’s Body : Male Hysteria and Homoeroticism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ulla Kerren; [2014]
    Keywords : hysteria; homoeroticism; homosexuality; male body; masculinity; gender; Foucault; Sedgwick;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the male body in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, first published in 1818, and Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, released in 1994. So doing, the thesis focuses on the analysis of hysteria and homoeroticism in three male-male relationships: Victor and the monster, Victor and Walton, and Victor and Clerval. READ MORE

  5. 19. Is it possible to reconstruct local pre-sence of pine on bogs during the Ho-locene based on pollen data? : a study based on surface and stratigraphical samples from three bogs in southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Isabelle Timms Eliasson; [2014]
    Keywords : southern Sweden; vegetation cover; bog; Pinus; pollen; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Horizons rich in subfossil stumps and roots of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) are frequently found in stratigraphies of northern European peatlands, providing clear evidence of Holocene periods with favourable conditions for bog-pine growth. The pines could only grow when bog-surface wetness was sufficiently low, and the presence of their remains is therefore a good indicator of past climatic conditions, mainly precipitation. READ MORE

  6. 20. Peat stratigraphical study of hydrological conditions at Stass Mosse, southern Sweden, and the relation to Holocene bog-pine growth

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Linda Adamsson; [2013]
    Keywords : tall; mosse; klimatförändringar; palaeoecology; macrofossil analysis; pines; climate change; bog; makrofossilanalys; paleoekologi; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Sammanfattning: Torvhorisonter med stora mängder subfossila stubbar och rötter av tall (Pinus sylvestris) förekommer ofta i nordeuropeiska torvmossar. De visar att mossarna varit tallbevuxna under delar av Holocen. READ MORE