Essays about: "Socialgeografi"

Found 3 essays containing the word Socialgeografi.

  1. 1. Environmental Perceptions in an Urban Environment : Report from a Minor Field Study in Nairobi, Kenya, January-March 2007

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Emelie Kärre; [2007]
    Keywords : Nairobi; Kenya; modernity; modernitet; environmental perception; naturuppfattning; miljöperception; urban; sociology; stadssociologi; rural areas; landsbygd; poverty; fattigdom; squatter settlements; kåkstäder; environment; miljö; cities and towns; städer; human ecology; humanekologi; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is an analysis of the modern phenomena and attributes of the city of Nairobi and its inhabitants. It has two purposes where the first is to account for the environmental perceptions of Nairobi citizens. READ MORE

  3. 2. Collaboration or Collision? Identity Formations and Resource Management : The Case of Kodagu, Karnataka

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Rasmus Bay Arnbjerg; [2005]
    Keywords : identity; identitet; collective identity; resource management; development studies; South Asia; Social structures; Sociala strukturer; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study's purpose was to focus on collective identity and its effect on approaches to natural resource management. Within development studies in general, and in studies on resource management in particular, there is a theoretical need for putting more emphasis on contextual variables. One such variable, it was argued, is "identity". READ MORE

  4. 3. Tibetan migration to India - Why, when, how and with what consequences?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Charlotte Pehrson; [2004]
    Keywords : Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Migration; Tibet; Kina; Indien; China; India; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When China occupied Tibet in 1950 in order to "liberate" Tibet from its "economic backwardness" of feudal and religious traditions, the effects were devastating. Tibetans were dispatched to labour camps, monks and nuns were executed or imprisoned, thousands of monasteries and temples were destroyed and communist propaganda was forced upon the Tibetan people. READ MORE