Essays about: "Tangled"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 essays containing the word Tangled.

  1. 6. The Tangled Web We Weave: Investigating the Barriers to Change in Plastic Recycling Policy Development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Holly Griffith; [2021]
    Keywords : Plastic Recycling; Policy Change Barriers; Strategy Change Barriers; Lock-In; Sunk Cost Fallacy; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : At the core of the sustainable solid waste management challenge lies increasing rates of consumption which contribute directly to problems of resource extraction and degradation. Recycling is a tool designed in part to address this problem of scarcity, however on its own it is not enough to solve the problem, particularly in relation to plastics, which are challenging to manage and often are not recycled well or at all. READ MORE

  3. 7. Rim-Jet - A Mechanical Design for a Shaft-less Propulsor

    University essay from KTH/Maskinkonstruktion (Avd.)

    Author : Pablo Sanchez Santiago; [2019]
    Keywords : Conceptual design; debris; propulsor; rescue operations; verify; Driftsäkerhet; framdrivning; propulsor; räddningsbåt; Sjöräddning;

    Abstract : During sea rescue operations it is common for the rescue vessels to operate in water with high number of debris that can get stuck in the propulsor. In particular plastic ropes that can get tangled around the shaft and melt causing a complete stop or damage the motor. READ MORE

  4. 8. The tangled roots of the sea : The complexities of mangrove conservation in Peninsular Malaysia

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

    Author : Kristina Arnaudova; [2018]
    Keywords : Mangroves; conservation; New Environmental Paradigm; emotional affinity towards nature; Corporate Social Responsibility; Malaysia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis studies what triggers people’s environmental attitude using theories of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) and emotional affinity towards nature. Having looked at the case of a nature park in Kuala Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia carrying out mangrove rehabilitation and conservation, I also aimed to investigate the institutional interrelations and how these combined with environmental attitudes to influence the management of the park. READ MORE

  5. 9. CONNECTING THE DOTS: Evil as an intertextual communicator in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Mariano Ribeiro; [2018]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous book 2666 is often considered his masterpiece. As it was a race against his own death, Bolaño won it while leaving a dominant statement behind, a supreme landmark of our new post-national world, where everything seems entwined (Lethem, 2008). In this five-part narrative, intertextuality plays a crucial role. READ MORE

  6. 10. lowercase t (parting with and for caps lock Moondialed No +***** *****8 [Orbituary]) : Mezzanine 2

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Christofer Degrér; [2018]
    Keywords : hobby-schizoanalysis; ambient literature; entanglement; love; outsourcing; accessible accessibilities; immediate immediacies; disappearance; redundancy; art and comedy; original inauthenticity; unoriginal authenticity; hand stuff with your sibling down by the river held hostage by the forest of the woods; metafiction; hybridisation;

    Abstract : When I write I, I also write we (say we also write that we’re momentarily in possession of the possibilities, and as for the possibilities: they have us), as in my hyperbolic twin brother and I, and from that point on (as well as before) in company with the gaps between us. The auto-corrections, the imposed circumstances, the complicities, and some conspirationalist copings within a system with no clearly identifiable nemesis. READ MORE