Essays about: "local waste management"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 147 essays containing the words local waste management.
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21. Salvaging Death Worlds : Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Biogas and Biofertilizer Production Systems on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : Utilizing an interdisciplinary, multi-level perspective analysis this thesis reviews niche- regime-landscape interactions (analogous to the clusters of actors working at the local level of Gotland representing niche; the regime being national governance goals; and the landscape incorporating global level affairs and institutions such as the European Union (EU)) and their (mis)alignments within the biogas/biofertilizer production system of Gotland, Sweden, a small-island case study for energy-food-transportation transition and sustainable destination development. The study analyzes the heterarchical and polycentric development of biogas on Gotland—a socio-technical niche, nested within a larger energy regime and global landscape for transition—developing an understanding of (mis)alignments of pressures interacting on, at, and between the niche-regime- landscape as they combine with the peculiar competencies, as Loorbach describes, “creative minds, strategists, and visionaries” of a cluster of actors working in the food- energy-transport nexus on the island (2010, p. READ MORE
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22. Woolgathering : Wool as a resource for rural regeneration
University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitetAbstract : Woolgathering aims to speculate around ways to reduce the wasteof wool and how wool can catalyze the regeneration of ruralvillages in the north of Sweden. In Sweden today, we producearound 1000 metric tons of wool per year, yet only about half of it isused. READ MORE
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23. CHANGING FASHION, LASTING WASTE - How local textile waste management is impacted by EU legislation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies how the division of responsibilities between local actors are impacted by the 2018 EU waste directive amendment. The amendment stipulates that specific separation and subsequent collection of textile waste should be undertaken by the Member states to combat the increased levels of textile waste, as one measure in the EU’s goal to promote a more circular economy. READ MORE
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24. Household Waste Segregation: Lessons from Poland
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : One of the problems facing the world in the twenty-first century is the management of municipal waste, a problem where the household plays a key role in the process through its interaction with the municipal waste management system. How this interaction works is dependant not only on the design of the municipal waste management system, but also on the individual households. READ MORE
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25. Guidelines for Integrated Flood Control Design in the Informal Settlements of Cape Town Municipality : A case study of Kosovo Informal Settlement in Philippi District
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Flooding over the last few years has become the most frequent and devastating of the natural disasters. This has accounted for approximately half of the death-rate and a third of economic losses as a result of weather-related events. READ MORE
