Essays about: "major disasters"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 essays containing the words major disasters.

  1. 1. Adaptability and Tourism : Changes In Tourism Consumption From Swedish Multi-Person Households

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS)

    Author : Kevin Aoun; [2023]
    Keywords : Inflation; Tourism; Sweden; Family Tourism; Adaptability; Psychology; Global Crises; European Energy Crisis;

    Abstract : This research project investigates the adaptability of travel consumption in Sweden to global crises, with a focus on families. Tourism is a major contributor to the global economy, but it is also highly sensitive to global crises such as natural disasters, political instability, economic recessions, and health pandemics. READ MORE

  3. 2. Assessment of oyster mushroom production employing urban-based materials in Stockholm Stad

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Mio Fagerström; [2023]
    Keywords : Industrial symbiosis; residual waste streams; Pleurotus ostreatus; Oyster mushroom cultivation; Circular economy; Industriell symbios; restavfallsströmmar; Pleurotus Ostreatus; Ostronskivlings odling; cirkulär ekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the opportunities and challenges regarding urban oyster mushroomproduction (Pleurotus Ostreatus) employing urban-based materials in Stockholm Stad as agrowing medium. Additionally, the availability of the five most suitable substrates has beenfurther explored with the indicator’s availability in Stockholm Stad, and the Biologicalefficiency (BE%) for a suitable growing medium and the quantity of the substrates have beenmapped out. READ MORE

  4. 3. Does Corruption affect Fatalities from Natural Disasters? The Case of Floods

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Felix Ling; Lalo Saleh; [2023]
    Keywords : Flood fatalities; Natural disasters; Corruption; Institutional arrangements;

    Abstract : Previous research has identified a positive effect of corruption on the fatalities of earthquakes and natural disasters in general. To test whether this relationship holds for other types of natural disasters, this paper aims to investigate the effect of corruption on flood fatalities using a panel dataset of 1 080 major flood events in 89 countries over a 33-year period. READ MORE

  5. 4. Grid-based Energy Aware Mobility Model for FANETs

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

    Author : Mohammad Messbah Uddin; [2022]
    Keywords : FANET; Clustering algorithm; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV ; Grid-based clustering; Mobility model; energy consumption; sustainability;

    Abstract : Drones flying in squad formation while interconnected in an ad-hoc fashion are called Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs). These FANETs are gathering special interests in the networking community in their deployment for different vital missions. READ MORE

  6. 5. Drawing conclusions from the pandemic: Changing work venues in relation to resilience as practice

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Wiktoria Wachowiak; [2022]
    Keywords : COVID-19; work venues; work environments; working from home; working from office; individual resilience; employee resilience; organizational resilience; resilience as practice; resilience capacity; psycho-social consequences of disasters;

    Abstract : The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic shook the global economy to its core, enforcing wide-ranging working from home (WFH) movements in addition to traditional working from office (WFO) structures. As the debates continue over how to permanently embed WFH into the work reality, to do so successfully, the components of changing work venues must be evaluated. READ MORE