Essays about: "adaptability to the situation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words adaptability to the situation.

  1. 21. Exploring Resilience of Water Management in Slovakia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Katarina Civanova; [2015]
    Keywords : water management; Slovakia; flood control and prevention; resilient thinking; adaptive co- management; sustainability; political ecology; human ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Water resource management in Slovakia is characterized by a ‘command-and-control’ paradigm. The main feature of this approach is in a view that is based on the predictability of the future water situation. People rarely think about water as an issue in Slovakia - the rivers flow, it rains, the taps run. READ MORE

  3. 22. Healthcare Reform: A Microcosm and Exploration of New Public Management in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Baoyue Zhang; [2015]
    Keywords : New public management NPM ; public-private partnership PPP ; new institutional economics NIE ; cost efficiency; resource allocation.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The NPM is considered as an efficacious way to improve effectiveness and efficiency in management control of public health for its market-driven and market-driving characteristics. Theoretically, it is a hybrid of economics and business management in public management. READ MORE

  4. 23. Development of an open-source mobile application for emergency data collection

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Mattias Spångmyr; [2014]
    Keywords : data collection; emergency; development; mobile application; physical geography and ecosystem analysis; geomatics; GIS; android; open-source; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : This Master degree project identified disasters and emergencies as a global humanitarian and technological challenge. Emergency management organizations' need for access to accurate and up-to-date information about the emergency situation, to help respond to, recover from and mitigate the effects of disasters and emergencies, presents a challenge to the field of Geomatics. READ MORE

  5. 24. Explaining the decline in Swedish Baltic Sea small-scale fisheries : A historical analysis of fishers in their  social and ecological context

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Emma Björkvik; [2013]
    Keywords : Swedish Baltic Sea small-scale fisheries; social-ecological contexts; fishers’ adaptability;

    Abstract : Swedish fisheries, as many other European fisheries are characterized by overcapacity. Efforts trying to reduce the overcapacity have led to fewer but bigger vessels. Hence, fish catches are aggregated among fewer and fewer fishers with bigger and bigger boats while problems with overcapacity remain. READ MORE

  6. 25. Trädplanen som ett styrdokument i kommunal trädförvaltning

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Lisa Nilsson ; [2013]
    Keywords : trädplan; urbana träd; stadsträd; grönstruktur; urban forestry; kommunal planering;

    Abstract : Urbana områden är komplexa strukturer som styrs av många olika viljor, intressen och behov. Dessutom blir de urbana områdena allt fler. Väldsbefolkningen växer och fler människor väljer att leva och bo i städer. READ MORE