Essays about: "Regional development programmes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Regional development programmes.

1. 1. EU Development Cooperation in MENA : Mainstreaming Gender In Media Development. Case study: Tunisia

   University essay from

   Author : Nabila Zayati; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Following the increasing recognition of the media’s considerable potential to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, different media development interventions have been launched to fuel development cooperation efforts structured around a North-South binary. However, the dynamic interplay of forces behind these efforts puts the effectiveness and sustainability of their results into question. READ MORE

3. 2. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Mara Glas; [2022]
   Keywords : biodiversity economy; sustainable use; international conservation finance; community-based conservation; economic development; wildlife economics; South Africa; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE

4. 3. Tracking Climate Finance in the German Building Sector: A Landscape of finance flows for building decarbonisation in 2016

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Julie Emmrich; [2018]
   Keywords : Climate finance; Energy transition; Investment tracking; Climate finance Landscape; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Germany’s Energy Concept aims to reduce the building sector’s primary energy demand by 80% compared to 2008 levels, of which 20% are to be achieved by 2020. This requires significant investment in integrated renewables and thermal. Public funds cannot finance such transition alone. READ MORE

5. 4. Conditions and challenges for increased biking as a climate change mitigation strategy. A case study of Östersund, Sweden

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

   Author : Thomas Fritiofsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Climate change mitigation; biking; biking infrastructure; GIS; biking policies and programmes; Östersund;

   Abstract : Transfer to non-motorized transportation to the greatest extent possible is an important climate change mitigation strategy. Biking is a sustainable mean of transportation and increased biking is desirable on global, national, regional, local, and individual level. READ MORE

6. 5. Two Perspectives on EU's Regional Policy

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

   Author : Anna Gustafsson; [2016]
   Keywords : EU; spatial planning; regional development; regional policy; muddling through; rational planning;

   Abstract : This master thesis in European Spatial Planning and Regional Development will present two ideal types on regional development, and analyse Swedish regional policy for the EU programme period of 2014-2020. Through a historical background, the characteristics of the two types are distinguished, and used in the analysis of the Europe 2020 strategy, the Swedish national Partnership Agreement, and the regional operational programmes for the eight NUTS 2 regions in Sweden. READ MORE