Essays about: "homogenous landscapes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words homogenous landscapes.

  1. 1. Creating the world's most sustainable and attractive travel destination. A content analysis of sustainable place brand identities in Southern Sweden

    University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : Douglas Berglund; Katherine Driscoll; [2023-11-22]
    Keywords : place brand identity; place branding; sustainability; content analysis;

    Abstract : This study examines how the place brand identities of seven Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) in southern Sweden guide their sustainable tourism communication. With the importance of sustainability becoming clear, interest in sustainable place branding is growing rapidly in scholarly and professional contexts. READ MORE

  3. 2. Welcome to Nowhere

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Tara Fartash-Naini; [2020]
    Keywords : Architecture; Globalization; Urbanization; Consumerism; Dubai; Fragmented city; Homogenous Landscapes; Iconic Architecture; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : We live in a world built on consumerist values and a spatial rationale of capital accumulation. This modern society has led to architecture thriving through super consumption and super production ultimately leading to the generic. Cities and spaces that were usually rich in variation and texture have now become an architectural melting pot. READ MORE

  4. 3. Prescribed burning in Sweden : an evaluation of structural outcomes from restoration oriented prescribed burns

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Virginia Hermanson; [2020]
    Keywords : prescribed burning; restoration; boreal forest; biodiversity burning; dead wood;

    Abstract : The application of prescribed burning as a conservation measure is a growing trend in Fennoscandia to restore forest landscapes that have been heavily impacted by humans. Both intensive management for forestry and wildfire suppression altered the disturbances shaping boreal forests over the past centuries, which seen today are more homogenous, lacking dead wood and deciduous trees, and are in the successional process towards darker Picea abies (Norway spruce) dominated stands. READ MORE

  5. 4. In search of sustainable urban green infrastructure through an ecological approach : an investigation of the urban green landscape of Danderyd

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

    Author : Ida Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Green infrastructure; Ecological design; Landscape architecture; Sustainable urban green infrastructure;

    Abstract : One of the greatest challenges of today’s urban development is the formation of sustainable environments. Over the past several decades, there has been a shift in the global population from a more rural allocation to an urban one, resulting in the densification of cities and subsequent fragmentation of green areas. READ MORE

  6. 5. Urban gardens found to have higher pollination success than rural gardens

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i biologi

    Author : Lisa Bredenberg; [2018]
    Keywords : Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent decline in wild pollinators have been reported and studies have found a connection to increasing urbanisation, larger homogenous landscapes and increased pesticide usage. The pollinators are important to preserve for various ecosystem services, such as plant reproduction, however the effects on pollination success has not been thoroughly studied in relation to urbanisation. READ MORE