Essays about: "cultural erosion."

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  1. 1. Porjus Energy Village

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Jenny Heden Malm; [2021]
    Keywords : porjus; hydropower; speculative fiction; luleälven; lule river; renewable energy; dam; erosion; surrealism;

    Abstract : My project attempts to nuance the bodies of knowledge produced in relation to processes of natural resource extraction in Norrbotten, Sweden. Operating between fact and fiction, I have presented the project as a speculative video narrative. The protagonist is the Lule River, where the implications of its domestication and agency is explored. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Examination of Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Adaptation in Southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Elizabeth Fiertz; [2021]
    Keywords : Green Infrastructure; Resilience; Disaster Risk Reduction; Climate Change Adaptation; Coastal Flood Protection; Erosion Protection; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : While grey infrastructure, such as sea walls, have been the traditional method of mitigating coastal hazards there has been an increasing interest in adapting using natural processes, known as Nature-based Solutions (NbS). As with most places in the world, southern Sweden is facing an increase in coastal hazards due to climate change related sea level rise. READ MORE

  4. 3. Läplanteringars betydelse för jordbruket och biologisk mångfald : med fokus på uppbyggnad och artsammansättning

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

    Author : Rawan Allawi; Ida Ek Mitchell; [2021]
    Keywords : läplanteringar; biologisk mångfald; vindskydd; jordflykt; vegetation; artval; struktur; kvalitéer; uppbyggnad;

    Abstract : Ever since the Stone Age, nature and man have collaborated in the change in the cultural landscape with all its components. The basis for the function of this circulation is partly about how and to what extent man uses nature's resources, and partly how nature itself responds to the changes. READ MORE

  5. 4. How does othering in Abu Bakr Naji’s The Management of Savagery and Anders Breivik’s 2083 reveal what the two authors perceive as the main external threats to their own groups?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : James Graeme Miles Whitehead; [2020]
    Keywords : Othering; others; terrorism; takfiri; far right; Abu Bakr Naji; Anders Breivik; Al Qaeda; ISIS; Cultural Marxists; jihad;

    Abstract : Othering is central in the rhetoric of both Abu Bakr Naji and Anders Breivik throughout their works. Both authors use it as a device to drive a psychological wedge between the groups of ‘us’ and ‘them’. READ MORE

  6. 5. United We Stood, Divided We Fall: The 21st Century Paradigm of Inequality and Polarization in the United States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : William Church; [2020]
    Keywords : Polarization; Development; Economics; Inequality; Society; United States; Sociology; Political Science; Social Capital; Institutions; Survey; Division; Media; Unity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Polarization as defined by the Merriam-Webster (2020) dictionary is “a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.” In theory, polarization is a static condition which can impact a particular group. READ MORE