Essays about: "cuban"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 59 essays containing the word cuban.

  1. 1. Wild cimarrones: Cuban maroon ecology in the first half of the 19th century and the corporeal rift

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : José Ernesto Urrusti Frenk; [2023]
    Keywords : Cuban marronage; maroons; wilderness; corporeal rift; metabolic rift; biogeocenosis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Analyses of enslaved labor and marronage in the Caribbean and beyond abound. As insightful and important as many of these works have been, they have often overlooked the ecological dimension of the maroons’ struggle for their liberation, the relationship between nature and the political struggle for emancipation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Institutional dynamics in Cuban agriculture : a case study from three Cuban farms

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

    Author : Calle Lindkvist; Lisa Hedborg; [2023]
    Keywords : institutions; institutional change; Cuba; agriculture; path-dependency; informal constraints; formal constraints;

    Abstract : Cuba is still subjected to the trade embargo imposed by the United States in 1962, restricting global trade and historically forcing Cuba into a dependency on the Soviet Union for energy, oil, and agricultural inputs. Today's agricultural system in Cuba bears the imprint of this historical reliance in the form of institutional constraints that shape Cuban farmers everyday activities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Pathways for the Cuban energy transition and its CLEWs interactions

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Malin Pehrs; Sascha Partanen; [2022]
    Keywords : Cuba; energy transition; renewable power production; CLEWs; OSeMOSYS; bagasse; Kuba; energiomställning; förnybar kraftproduktion; CLEWs; OSeMOSYS; bagass;

    Abstract : Transitioning from an energy system based on fossil fuels to an energy system based on renewables is necessary to limit global warming and comes with both opportunities and challenges. National policies in Cuba look toward the domestic sugar industry for synergies in this transition, and bagasse is projected to play a key role in the future electricity system. READ MORE

  5. 4. North Macedonia and the Prespa Agreement : An analysis of the name dispute between Greece and North Macedonia from a realist, a liberal and a constructivist perspective

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Adam Wallgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Greece; North Macedonia; Prespa agreement; Realism; Liberalism; Constructivism; Case Study;

    Abstract : The Prespa agreement is an international agreement that regulates the resolution of the Macedonian name conflict and which meant that FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) changed its name to North Macedonia and that Greece recognized the country by this name, among other things by lifting its veto against a North Macedonian membership in NATO. The agreement was concluded despite strong domestic political opposition in the two nations. READ MORE

  6. 5. Well-Being and Self-Compassion : A study on the relationship between well-being and self-compassion in a Cuban sample

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Petra Westberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Well-being; Self-compassion; Compassion; Hedonic well-being; Eudaimonic well-being; Cuba;

    Abstract : Well-being is a human goal globally and has been considered so since the early days of philosophical thought. As the science of well-being has grown the last decades, well-being has widely been agreed to consist of two core components: Hedonic well-being and Eudaimonic well-being. READ MORE