Essays about: "impermanence"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the word impermanence.

1. 6. Exploring Local Realities of Carbon Offsetting: Environmental Justice in a Ugandan Carbon Forestry Project

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

   Author : Julia Hedberg; [2016]
   Keywords : equity; efficiency; environmental justice; income stability; fuel security; food security; PES; Trees for Global Benefits; carbon offsets; carbon forestry; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the quest to find a ‘least cost solution’ for climate change mitigation that do not interfere with business-as-usual, carbon trading and PES schemes were introduced. PES schemes with carbon forestry projects are implemented in the Global South as a win-win-win tool for climate change mitigation and sustainable development. READ MORE

3. 7. Write or Perish : How Screenwriters Author their Careers

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

   Author : Johan Magnéli; [2015]
   Keywords : screenwriters; career authoring; authoring; authorship; career strategies; authorial leverage; contractual negotiations; swedish film industry; swedish television industry; cultural work; cinema studies; television studies; manusförfattare; filmvetenskap; karriärsstrategier; karriär; strategier; kontraktsförhandlingar; svensk filmindustri; svensk television;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study was to investigate how the impermanence of contract work affects working lives, self-perceptions and the career strategies of Swedish screenwriters of finding and keeping work. Furthermore, it also explored how screenwriters experience their abilities to exercise authorial leverage over media content. READ MORE

4. 8. Western and Indian theories of consciousness confronted A comparative overview of continental and analytic philosophy with Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamaka Buddhism

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Michele Cossellu; [2014-01-22]
   Keywords : consciousness; nonduality; phenomenology; Advaita Vedanta; Madhyamaka Buddhism; epistemology;

   Abstract : The burgeoning field of cognitive studies in the West is motivated by a renewed interest in conscious experience, which arose in the postmodern zeitgeist in response to the positivist, scientific ideal of objectivity. This work presents a historical overview of Western philosophy from its dawn, focusing on the evolution of key concepts in metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, to arrive at the examination of modern theories on consciousness. READ MORE

5. 9. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sten Mittermaier; [2008]
   Keywords : Herman Melville Albert Camus Moby Dick futility absurdism human condition;

   Abstract : In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. READ MORE