Essays about: "Tenerife"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Tenerife.
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1. Fighting for Sustainability: A Case Study about Tenerife's Activism Movement
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : This research explores the perspectives of the opinion leaders of the activism movement in Tenerife on tourism on the island and the solutions proposed by these stakeholders to the current sustainability problems related to tourism. These issues include tourist's misbehavior in natural protected areas, waste, submarine emissions of residual water sewage, water shortage, gentrification, overtourism, overpopulation, 14,6% of unemployment in 2022, decline of agricultural land, high population density, etc. READ MORE
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2. Changes in cetacean presence and behavior in response to reduced marine traffic - the effects of a nationwide lockdown
University essay from Högskolan i HalmstadAbstract : Creating noise-pollution and other disturbances, marine traffic poses a great threat to marine mammals all over the world which may demonstrate through short- and long-term changes in behavior and distribution. The Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 provided a setting to study the effects of marine traffic on cetacean presence and interactive behavior. READ MORE
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3. The Significance of Giant Flank Collapses on Magma Ascent in the NE Rift Zone of Tenerife, Canary Islands: A Structural Modelling and Diffusion Approach
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : On the volcanic ocean island Tenerife in the Canary archipelago, several giant flank collapses haveoccurred over the last one million years. The link between the lateral collapses and the resultingvolcanism in the rift zones is not fully understood and was investigated within the framework of thisproject. READ MORE
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4. Seeing Stars - Intensity Interferometry in the Laboratory and on the Ground
University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisationAbstract : Context Since the time of Tycho Brahe astronomy has been an observing science defined by the quality of its instrumentation. The introduction of primitive telescopes by Galileo in 1609 began a period of development of ever-larger telescopes with greater measuring precision. READ MORE
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5. Studying magmatic systems through chemical analyses on clinopyroxene - a look into the history of the Teno ankaramites, Tenerife
University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionenAbstract : Clinopyroxenes have the ability to crystallize over and respond to a large range of temperatures, pressures and chemical compositions, and thus, they are ideal for studies regarding the history of magmatic systems. In this thesis, the chemistry and zoning of four clinopyroxene crystals from an ankaramite sample from the Teno massif, Tenerife, were analysed. READ MORE