Essays about: "living conditions"

Showing result 41 - 45 of 750 essays containing the words living conditions.

  1. 41. A place in between places

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

    Author : Ana Gilmet Lejtreger; [2023]
    Keywords : Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Skellefteå is calibrating its position in multiple overlapping maps, sometimes located in the centre and sometimes in the periphery (if those are even relevant). It is a place in between places. A geographical periphery of Europe that becomes one of the centres of production of one of the fastest growing industries in the world. READ MORE

  3. 42. Regional Migrant Workers in Thailand: Precarity and Resistance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : My Stenquist; [2023]
    Keywords : Labour law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In recent decades, Thailand's economy has grown significantly and in one generation the country has gone from being classified as a low-income country to an upper-middle-income country. Combined with an ageing population, this has created labour shortages particularly in sectors with many low-skilled jobs, such as fishing, agriculture and manufacturing. READ MORE

  4. 43. Stockholm city mission’s pilot project to build socially sustainable housing : A study from a social and economic sustainability perspective

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)

    Author : Anton Falck; Olof Uggla; [2023]
    Keywords : Social housing; affordable housing; homelessness; social sustainability; economic sustainability; Social bostadssektor; åtkomliga bostäder; hemlöshet; social hållbarhet; ekonomisk hållbarhet;

    Abstract : The purpose of this case study is to describe and analyze the City Mission's project to construct and manage socially sustainable housing in Farsta Strand. This is done by analyzing the project and its intended model from a social and economic sustainability perspective. READ MORE

  5. 44. Fungal pigmentation responses to microclimatic variables in isolated forest patches in Northern Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Karl Soler Kinnerbäck; [2023]
    Keywords : fungal ecology; mycology; functional traits; communities; pigmentation; CIELAB; lightness; microclimate; polypores;

    Abstract : Investigating functional traits is an important tool for understanding fungal communities, yet ecological functions of fungal pigmentation remain poorly investigated. Recent studies support the thermal-melanism hypothesis for fungal color lightness in relation to macroclimate, but it remains unclear if microclimate also affects fungal pigmentation. READ MORE

  6. 45. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE