Essays about: "Natural resource management policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the words Natural resource management policy.
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1. Reflections on the economic strategies of private museums. A comparative study of the private museums in Meteora.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskapAbstract : The thesis examines the economic strategies which two private museums of Meteora, the Hellenic Culture Museum and the Natural History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum implement, so as to grasp the economic strategies that private museums in Greece adopt. Utilizing Varbanova’s (2013) framework which places specific emphasis not only on the open-system theory as an efficient way to comprehend the macro-level challenges (in particular the economic crisis and Covid-19, which had been plaguing the two museums for a long time) and opportunities (as the ones that can result from the implementation of a particular legal status in the context of a given cultural policy), but also on the stakeholder and resource-dependence theories, which acknowledge the pivotal role that various actors and resources inside and outside an organization play in museums’ prosperity, the thesis analyzes previous literature that demonstrates economic strategies that (public and private) museums adopt, so as to secure their continuation and thriving. READ MORE
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2. Oil and Dutch Disease : The case of Nigeria
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : This essay examines the impact of the phenomenon of Dutch Disease on the agriculture sector in Nigeria since the beginning of the 1980s. Dutch Disease is a misfortune that generally affects resource-rich countries due to exploiting and exporting their natural resources. READ MORE
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3. Comparative analysis of linear and circular manufacturing system paradigms for a steel-based product. : A case study of a mailbox manufacturing company
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för skog och träteknik (SOT)Abstract : The manufacturing industry has exerted a tremendous impact on the natural environment. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the consequences of shift from linear manufacturing system to circular manufacturing system in order to decouple the environmental burden of production and consumption process in relation to quantity of carbon footprint, cumulative energy demand, natural resource consumption, waste generated and recovered presently. READ MORE
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4. Phase Out the Old to Phase In the New: Managing the Heat Transition in Leiden, the Netherlands
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : By 2050, the Netherlands wants to reduce its use of natural gas for heating to zero. Currently, over 90%of houses are dependent on the fossil resource to warm their houses. As such, the phase-out of natural gas hasbecome an important policy project. READ MORE
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5. From dust to a must: Investigating the social barriers to farmers’ adoption of soil conservation practices in Hungary, with recommendations for an effective information-based soil governance
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Soil as a fundamental, conditionally renewable natural resource is increasingly under threat from unsustainable farming practices in a changing environment. In Hungary, expansive areas of land are susceptible to soil degradation, while only a small percentage of farmers currently applies soil conservation practices (SCPs). READ MORE
