Essays about: "niches"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 84 essays containing the word niches.

  1. 11. Farm T(hr)o(ugh) School - The Role of place-based education in Short Food Supply Chains

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Pia Jahn; [2022]
    Keywords : short food supply chains; local food supply; place-based education; sustainability transitions; multi-level perspective; hybrid actors; social practice theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Present master thesis investigates the role of 4 chosen place-based educational initiatives in Austria which are actively engaged in local short food supply chains (SFSCs). Those supply chains are defined by close geographical and social relations between supply chain actors and a limited number of intermediaries. READ MORE

  3. 12. Women-Oriented Communities as Grassroots Innovators Striving for Gender Equality in the Tech Industry

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Author : Caroline Martinsson; Filip Winter; [2022]
    Keywords : Grassroots innovation; sustainability transitions; gender equality; STEM; sustainable development; women-oriented communities; Gräsrotsinnovation; hållbarhetsövergång; jämställdhet; hållbar utveckling; kvinnoorienterade forum;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore and explain the role of women- oriented communities as grassroots innovators operating in niches and supporting gender equality in the STEM industry. Special attention is given to the noticeable dual function of the communities, as on one hand exclusive and protected spaces operating within market niches and, on the other hand, as arenas for gaining momentum to accommodate social change. READ MORE

  4. 13. Sustainability Transitions Antenarratives: Public Sector Organization Perspectives in Implementing Sustainability Oriented Projects in a Developing Country

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

    Author : Kamwasir Kamwasir; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability; Sustainability transition; public sector organizations; multi-level perspective; niches; micro-niches;

    Abstract : Sustainability has been considered a novel research field emerging from the desire to protect the environment, and equally emerging in transition discourses. This research explores the construction of sustainability transition processes and pathways in a public sector organization implementing a sustainability oriented program. READ MORE

  5. 14. Assessing the relationship between hypoxia and life on Earth, and implications for the search for habitable exoplanets

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Thomas Evan Smith; [2022]
    Keywords : hypoxia; hypoxia-inducible factors; atmospheric oxygen; multicellularity; embryogenesis; exoplanets; white dwarfs; oxygen fugacity; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Atmospheric oxygen at the level of present-day Earth (21%) is generally regarded as permissive for the development and survival of complex multicellular life, such as animals. The hypothesis that oxic conditions are conducive for multicellular life has subsequently been applied to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, with planets exhibiting atmospheric oxygen of a similar level to Earth being considered as candidates for habitability. READ MORE

  6. 15. Interactions between plant pathogens and their implications for crop protection

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

    Author : Ayano Tanaka; [2021]
    Keywords : disease complex; nteraction; antagonism; synergism; Fusarium spp;

    Abstract : One plant may often be infected by more than one pathogen species. It is assumed that species which exploit the same resource have the potential to affect each other. Plant diseases where more than one pathogen is involved in the development of infection are usually termed as ¨disease complex¨. READ MORE