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1. ‘Elephants must also fund their own upkeep…’ : a WPR-analysis of the tensions between the government and conservation NGOs on the management and mitigation of the elephant crisis in Zimbabwe
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the tensions between the government and conservation NGOs regarding the mitigation of the elephant crisis in Zimbabwe. The thesis aims to examine their contrasting representations of the problem and the discourses/knowledges that inspire their arguments. READ MORE
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2. Climate governance in a well-ordered world : an analysis of Rawlsian climate justice and the goal of climate action
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The aspiration of normative theory to conceptualise climate justice is a contested endeavour. At best there are certain agreements about what constitutes distributional justice on a surface level, while it remains challenged whether such conceptualisation is helpful in the realisation of climate justice. READ MORE
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3. Community interactions : how visitors co-create Greenpeace’s online presence
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The online presence of environmental NGOs (ENGOs) has opened the opportunity to gain independence from the limitation of the news media coverage they can get. However, multiple challenges, including dealing with interactions on social media, are among the complexities of using those channels. READ MORE
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4. Filling in the Blanks : framing and interpreting the environment in Swedish development cooperation
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This thesis explores how the understanding of such an ambiguous concept as “the environment” can be communicated in Swedish development cooperation by the Governments and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in a way that reconciles the need to deliver on policy goals while still allowing for an interpretative and participatory project design. The central research problem studied was thus how to communicate environmental understandings without explicitly doing so. READ MORE
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5. Cooperatives at a crossroads : trajectories of agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This exploratory comparative case study seeks to understand challenges and strategies for farmer collective action in post-Soviet settings. It does so by examining member relations, trust and commitment in two successful dairy cooperatives in western Ukraine: one NGOinitiated cooperative with a bottom-up organization, and one cooperative developed in liaison with a local large-scale agricultural enterprise (LSE). READ MORE
