Essays about: "human-wellbeing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 essays containing the word human-wellbeing.

  1. 1. The political ecology of wildfires, at the intersection of climate change and landscape - A case study of rural Tuscany, Italy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lauren Chastain; [2023]
    Keywords : wildfire; landscape mosaic; political ecology; Tuscany; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Wildfires are a climate change indicator whose increasing activity poses a threat to biodiversity and to ecosystem and human wellbeing. In the Mediterranean region, examination of the foundational drivers of intensifying wildfire regimes is necessary for the identification of sustainable wildfire mitigation measures. READ MORE

  3. 2. Malmö stad & Lunds kommuns arbete med biologisk mångfald i stadsmiljö

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

    Author : Clara Wahlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Malmö stad; Lunds kommun; biologisk mångfald; stadsmiljö;

    Abstract : I detta arbete undersöker jag hur Malmö stad och Lunds kommun arbetar med att bevara och främja biologisk mångfald i stadsmiljö. Den biologiska mångfalden är livsviktig för människor och den värld vi lever i. READ MORE

  4. 3. Climate Security Synergies? : Investigating the Policy Responses of the EU and NATO

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Elina Ankler; [2023]
    Keywords : climate change; climate security; international cooperation; integrated governance; NATO; EU;

    Abstract : Climate change is increasingly recognised as a threat to security by having implications on national defence and human wellbeing. Due to the transnational nature of climate change and its security implications, intergovernmental organisations (IGO:s) have become prominent actors in addressing such risks. READ MORE

  5. 4. Nature experiences for human wellbeing and Human-Nature Connection

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för byggnadsteknik, energisystem och miljövetenskap

    Author : Ikumi Maekawa; Kajsa Pålsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Human wellbeing; Human-Nature Connection; HNC; Nature experience; Characteristics of nature experience; Organisations;

    Abstract : Our contact with nature is decreasing in what has been referred to as the “extinction of experience”. Consequences of the loss of nature experiences are far-reaching and involve not only changes in health and wellbeing, but also changes emotions, attitudes, and behaviour towards nature. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Ecological and Anthropogenic Impacts of fishing gear in a tropical system : How the size of Spotted Rose Snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) and the ratio of target catch, is influenced by approved fishing gear within a marine area of responsible fishing in the South-Western Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)

    Author : Alfred Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Overfishing; overexploitation; Spotted Rose Snapper; Lutjanus guttatus; Gulf of Nicoya; Costa Rica; marine protected areas; artisinal fishermen; bycatch; Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture; incopesca; fishing gear; longlines;

    Abstract : The oceans are essential for humanity, yet these systems continue to be degraded and suffer from pollution, habitat destruction and overexploitation. The Costa Rican Gulf of Nicoya is a productive gulf that is fished by both large-scale industrial fisheries and small-scale artisanal fishermen. READ MORE