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  1. 11. Climate-smart cocoa in Ghana: Examining discourses, trade-offs and implications for cocoa smallholders

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Felix Nasser; [2019]
    Keywords : cocoa; Ghana; Climate-smart agriculture; Community Resource Management Area Mechanisms;

    Abstract : Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as a concept to address the multiple challenges and interdependencies of agriculture and climate change. Within CSA debates, equity and agroecology are especially contested. READ MORE

  3. 12. Organic Farming is Coming to Our Valley : The Development of Pumi Eco-Agriculture and the Indigenisation of Modernity in Sino-Myanmar Borderlands

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Ze Gao; [2019]
    Keywords : eco-agriculture; indigenisation of modernity; environmentality; traditional ecological knowledge; agricultural land use; technical practices; governance; Pumi ethnicity; rural development; highland livelihoods; borderland; post-development theory; political ecology; contemporary history; agricultural policy;

    Abstract : How do indigenous people perceive and practice eco-agriculture, especially when it was introduced as a development project? This thesis aims to delve into this question by focusing on a policy-induced agrarian transition for Pumi community in Sino-Myanmar borderlands. Using ethnographic methods, I intend to offer an intimate account of a provincial programme to facilitate eco-agriculture in this ethnic region. READ MORE

  4. 13. Hope and Hopelessness in Environmental Discourse - Planetary Boundaries contra Ecological Modernisation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Julia Schneider; [2018]
    Keywords : Climate anxiety; Hope; Planetary boundaries; Discourse analysis; Ecological modernisation; Social constructivism; Environmental discourse;

    Abstract : Med sin grund i klimatutmaningen och en utbredd klimatångest, försöker den här uppsatsen förstå hoppfullhet i miljödiskursen genom en socialkonstruktivistisk lins. En diskursanalys har genomförts av tre videokällor med talare som på olika sätt agerar som röster för miljörörelsen. READ MORE

  5. 14. Ecological Modernisation - Isolation and Masculinisation? The Decline of the Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement in Light of Ecomodernism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Angelica Wågström; [2017]
    Keywords : Anti-nuclear Movements; The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement; Ecological Modernisation; Ecomodernism; Masculinity; Professionalisation; Hegemony; Discourse; Nuclear Power; Political Opportunity Structure; Human Ecology; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : What happened to the Swedish anti-nuclear movement after the referendum on nuclear power in 1980? Scholars describe a period of ecological modernisation, affecting discourse and structures within environmental organisations and politics, entailing a professionalisation of NGOs. Drawing on accounts of a decline of the Swedish anti-nuclear movement since the 1980s, this thesis explores how ecomodernism has affected this movement since then. READ MORE

  6. 15. Greening Potentials and Limits of Eco-Labelling Schemes in the EU : A policy evaluation with a focus on small firms in the German coffee-processing sector

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Author : Anna Berkmann; [2015]
    Keywords : Eco-labelling schemes; German Coffee-Processing Sector; SME; Policy Evaluation; Program Theory Evaluation; Ecological Modernization Theory; Environmental Authority; EU; Environmental Policy; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : As SMEs transformation to sustainable practices in manufacturing, processing and services, is declared to be the key to a green growth model, the research in this thesis aims to understand in what way eco-labelling can be a part of that. In order to approach this complex issue, the thesis aims to identify the greening potential and the limits of contemporary eco-labelling schemes for SME product within the German coffee-processing sector. READ MORE