Essays about: "my home land"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words my home land.

  1. 1. “They only talk about the trees” - An analysis of relations of power and justice in the (de)construction of Nepal’s Second International Airport

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Hanna Geschewski; [2021]
    Keywords : Land rights; Political Ecology; Justice; Nepal; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While calls to reduce air travel have emerged in many high-income countries, Nepal, with only one international airport, is still striving to improve its air connectivity. In 2015, the government resumed its 1995 plan to build a second international airport near Nijgadh, a town in the southern plains. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
    Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

    Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Home Among the Gumtrees - Reimagining suburban Sydney for a hotter future

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

    Author : Athena Newman-Andrews; [2021]
    Keywords : heat; Sydney; climate change; suburban; housing; Australia; urban sprawl; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis started with a desire to delve into the impact that natural disasters have on small communities in an Australian context, how climate change exacerbates their effect, and the role that design can play in mitigating the impact on people and the natural environment. Initial research into bushfires, drought, floods, and heat landed this project in Western Sydney, in an area not far from where I grew up. READ MORE

  5. 4. Integration på den mångkulturella landsbygden : om nyanlända i Ngoma, Uganda

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Denis Bisaso; [2018]
    Keywords : kultur; identitet; språk; integration; Uganda; nyanlända;

    Abstract : Uganda som världens nionde största flyktingmottagande land har många nyanlända. Många av dessa hamnar av olika anledningar på landsbygden, bl.a. för att det är där de flesta flyktingbosättningar är placerade men också för att en del nyanlända föredrar att etablera sig på landsbygden. READ MORE

  6. 5. Biosolar roofs i Skåne : gröna tak med solpaneler för en ökad biologisk mångfald

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

    Author : Joel Forsman Semb; [2018]
    Keywords : biosolar roofs; gröna tak; biologisk mångfald; solpaneler; solenergi; pollinatörer; landsbygd; Skåne;

    Abstract : Biosolar roofs är en ganska ny term från ett EU-projekt där solpaneler installeras på gröna tak med varierad växtlighet. Under varma dagar när solpanelerna värms upp försvinner en markant del av energiproduktionen från panelerna. READ MORE