Essays about: "Project Governance Principles"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Project Governance Principles.
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1. Sharing is caring – the sharing economy, a tool to promote social sustainability in Sege Park?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This study examines how the sharing economy is utilized in an emerging area to promote social sustainability. Sege Park in Malmö provide this study's research area. This community served as a testbed for a Sharing Cities Sweden initiative, with support from Malmö municipality, to create a collaborative neighbourhood. READ MORE
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2. Towards a More Inclusive Development Communication: C4D and the Case of UNICEF
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Development communication campaigns are often carried out to look good and remain ascribed to what has been referred by some authors as communication about development, where communication actions tend to remain a one-way process to legitimize donors’ accountability and promote visible deliverables. Communication for development (C4D) is understood as a powerful tool that will give voice to the marginalised, opening up for a much wider participation of people to decision making processes and choices that could affect their lives, directly promoting good governance. READ MORE
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3. The creation of a democratic food certification : How the Slow Food Participatory Guarantee System attempts to defend local food systems and traditions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis explores if and how an alternative certification system for agricultural products, the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), could support small-scale farmers to preserve and promote biocultural and food heritage, linked to the landscape they inhabit, their identity as farmers and traditional knowledge. The PGS has been identified by Slow Food as an efficient low-cost and local 'bottom-up' quality assurance system, in order to develop their Presidia project and to re-embed agricultural productions within their traditional socio-ecological contexts. READ MORE
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4. Understanding new expectations for democratic environmental governance : a policy analysis of an activist movement in the South-East of France
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This paper is based at the nodal points of several phenomena, including political distrust in France, a European trend supporting public participation, a failed experiment of citizen assembly in France, and the organisation of a citizen collective to advocate for a replication of a similar citizen assembly, at the regional level, by environmental activists. In this context, I have conducted a policy analysis focusing particularly on the activist movement with the aim to provide insights into new expectations for democratic governance of environmental resources. READ MORE
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5. Adopting a resilience lens in managing decentralized water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems
University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknikAbstract : Climate change and increased pressure on water resources through urban and peri-urban population growth present some major uncertainties to the sustainable provision of good quality water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, particularly to small-scale decentralized systems which are considered more vulnerable compared to centralized systems. The concept of “resilience” could be useful when dealing with such uncertainties. READ MORE
