Essays about: "Plant closure"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Plant closure.

  1. 1. Embracing Uncertainty

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Krystian Malada; [2023]
    Keywords : Job; Work; Uncertainty; Nowa Huta; Cracow;

    Abstract : The future of industrial sites and people who work there is increasingly uncertain due to rapidly changing economic conditions. Zygmunt Bauman's theory of "liquid modernity" emphasizes the need for flexibility in this context, since those who cannot adapt to quickly changing global structures risk being left behind and uncertain about their future. READ MORE

  3. 2. Spillover effects from parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes - Evidence from Germany

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Celina Tippmann; [2023]
    Keywords : Intergenerational spillover; Education; Plant closure; Entropy balancing; Socioeconomic Panel;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the intergenerational impact of parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes. To mitigate selection bias, the empirical strategy relies on plausibly exogenous job ends and applies entropy balancing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Closed ecological life support systems : cycling of carbon, nitrogen and water

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Hugo Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : closed ecological system; cycling; closure; life support; biosphere; CEEF; MELiSSA; Biosphere 2; bioregenerative; CELSS; environmental;

    Abstract : Materially closed life support systems containing biological components that provide atmosphere, food and water for a human crew has been investigated for use in space travel since the 1960s. The internal cycling of organic material is the essence of these systems and their design and function is the question at issue for this thesis, which has been conducted as a literature study. READ MORE

  5. 4. Climate change beliefs, environmental policies support and the fossil fuels industry

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tommaso Piseddu; [2020]
    Keywords : Environmental Policies; Climate Change Beliefs; Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Coal Plants;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to provide a contribution to the analysis of how relevant the presence of the fossil fuels industry is in shaping the attitudes toward climate change and environmental policies. This presence is studied in the form of coal plants at county-level and in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 in Louisiana, a state that largely relies on oil and gas extractive activities. READ MORE

  6. 5. Using leaf economics to find appropriate woody species for rain gardens

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Sanna Ignell; [2020]
    Keywords : leaf economics; woody vegetation; urban vegetation; rain garden; waterlogging; flooding; plasticity; specific leaf area; leaf traits; l;

    Abstract : Urban rainwater management faces great challenges in the future, caused by expected increase in precipitation and frequency of storms associated with climate change. Constructions such as rain gardens may be a mean for adaptation to, as well as mitigation of these effects. READ MORE