Essays about: "Technological Transitions"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 51 essays containing the words Technological Transitions.

  1. 31. Remote Solidarity and Remote Warfare: Street Art and Military Visualising Technologies in Palestinian Territories.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Panagiota Bitouni; [2018]
    Keywords : street art; spectacle; biometrics; drone surveillance; Palestine; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the ways of convergence of the spectacle with the surveillance, as suggested by Thomas Mitchell and Nicholas Mirzoeff. In order to ground their suggested theory in concrete visual empirical cases, I situate my analysis in the Palestinian territories. READ MORE

  3. 32. Got Milk? Sustainability transitions in culturally embedded institutions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson; [2017]
    Keywords : Transition Theory; Institutionalization; Oatly; Milk; LRF Mjölk; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How to sustainably feed the world amounts to one of our biggest contemporary challenges. In Sweden, the environmental footprint of the dairy industry has caused a lively debate which culminated in a law-suit between LRF Mjölk and Oatly over the use of marketing phrases such as “Wow No Cow” and “No Soy. No Milk. No Badness”. READ MORE

  4. 33. Knock on (Engineered) Wood: Pathways to Increased Deployment of Cross-Laminated Timber

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Jack Fraser; [2017]
    Keywords : Cross-laminated timber; Low-carbon building materials; Bio based building materials; Swedish building sector; Decarbonisation; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Significant negative environmental impacts are attributed to the building sector. To complement operational building efficiency, mitigation strategies could further decrease these environmental impacts. One mitigation strategy is increased use of low-carbon and bio based building materials. READ MORE

  5. 34. Do or Die: How large organizations can reach a higher level of digital maturity

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

    Author : Jesper Hägg; Sandy Sandhu; [2017]
    Keywords : Digital maturity; Maturity models; Digital transformation;

    Abstract : The business landscape as we know it is being disrupted by an increasing usage of emerging digital technologies, to reap the benefits of the new technological opportunities managers need to transform their organizations. To do so, research literature proposes striving towards digital maturity. READ MORE

  6. 35. On the road to sustainability : exploring transition and transport planning in Oslo, Norway

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Marius Sandvoll Weschke; [2016]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; transport planning; hypermobility; Oslo; multi level perspective; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Achieving climate change mitigation targets requires a drastic cut in emissions from the transport sector – a huge challenge for regions where a heavily road-based mobility is already established, and where emissions have steadily increased for the past 20 years. Expectations of highly efficient, fast and ever-increasing mobility adds to the challenge. READ MORE