Essays about: "Stewardship thesis"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 54 essays containing the words Stewardship thesis.

  1. 21. Understanding women's stewardship in the Amazon : A decolonial-process-relational perspective

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Taís Gonzalez; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender; Landscapes Stewardship; Process-relational perspective; Decoloniality; Knowledge; Amazon;

    Abstract : The widespread and increasing forest degradation in the Amazon contrasts with a range of individual or collective practices developed by local agents, which have the potential to reconcile conservation and local understanding of the quality of life and economic development. The role of women among these initiatives has been overlooked or not well understood. READ MORE

  3. 22. Open for whose benefit? Exploring assumptions, power relations and development paradigms framing the GIZ Open Resources Incubator (ORI) pilot for open voice data in Rwanda

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Daniel Brumund; [2020]
    Keywords : Big data; Open development; Datafication; Crowdsourcing; Rwanda;

    Abstract : Since February 2019, the Kigali-based start-up Digital Umuganda has been coordinating the crowdsourcing of the first openly available voice dataset for Rwanda’s official language Kinyarwanda. This process originated from a pilot project of the Open Resources Incubator (ORI), an emergent service designed by GIZ staff and the author as consultant. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Function of Financial Reporting in Family Firms

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Veronika Gillberg; Matilda Rolfsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Financial reporting; family business; objectives financial reporting; socioemotional wealth; Externredovisning; familjeföretag; funktion externredovisning;

    Abstract : The objective of financial reporting has mainly been discussed in the accounting literature with reference to the stewardship/accountability and decision-usefulness perspective. The latter objective is emphasised by standard setters, but the accounting literature argues for a stronger emphasis on the stewardship/accountability perspective. READ MORE

  5. 24. FROZEN POLITICS ON A THAWING CONTINENT : A Political Ecology Approach to Understanding Science and its Relationship to Neocolonial and Capitalist Processes in Antarctica

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Manon Burbidge; [2019]
    Keywords : Antarctica; Political Ecology; Neocolonialism; Capital Accumulation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite possessing a unique relationship between humankind and the environment, and its occupation of a large proportion of the planet’s surface area, Antarctica is markedly absent from literature produced within the disciplines of human and political ecology. With no states or indigenous peoples, Antarctica is instead governed by a conglomeration of states as part of the Antarctic Treaty System, which places high values upon scientific research, peace and conservation. READ MORE

  6. 25. In search of sustainable urban green infrastructure through an ecological approach : an investigation of the urban green landscape of Danderyd

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Ida Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Green infrastructure; Ecological design; Landscape architecture; Sustainable urban green infrastructure;

    Abstract : One of the greatest challenges of today’s urban development is the formation of sustainable environments. Over the past several decades, there has been a shift in the global population from a more rural allocation to an urban one, resulting in the densification of cities and subsequent fragmentation of green areas. READ MORE