Essays about: "operationalization"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 120 essays containing the word operationalization.

  1. 26. Conceptualizing the Role of the Financial Industry in Sustainability Transitions in Agriculture

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

    Author : Joel Petersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Multi-Level Perspective; Geography; Insurance; Lending; Banking; Agronomy; Business Models; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the way that the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) can be used to understand the role of financial business services in sustainable transitions in agriculture. In doing so this thesis answered the following questions: How could the Multi-Level Perspective be used to understand the role of financial business services in sustainability transitions in agriculture? What questions may this be useful in answering? Firstly, by taking a structured approach to testing a novel approach to the MLP that can potentially contend with prior critiques to the MLP. READ MORE

  3. 27. Climate Variability and Interstate Conflict : In the Arctic Region

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Anna Svedin; [2022]
    Keywords : climate variability; interstate conflict; militarized interstate incidents; Arctic;

    Abstract : This thesis draws on the climate-conflict research field to explore the question how does climate variability affect interstate conflict? This thesis contributes to various gaps in previous research by studying interstate conflict while most climate-conflict research investigates internal conflict, by using a new operationalization of climate variability as sea ice extent, and by studying an understudied case, the Arctic region. The theoretical argument consists of two parallel processes, a background mechanism focused on long-term climate change and a main mechanism focused on short-term climate variability. READ MORE

  4. 28. Corporations, Social Movements, and Social Media. Investigating Corporate Engagement with the Black Lives Matter Movement on Twitter.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Nils Lange; [2021-07-27]
    Keywords : Corporate Communication; Social Media; Social Movement; Black Lives Matter; Engagement; Twitter; Dialogue Theory; Public Relations; Strategic Communication;

    Abstract : The thesis investigates to what extent corporations engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on Twitter. The purpose is to facilitate a better understanding of corporate communication on social media in general, and around social movements in particular. READ MORE

  5. 29. Measuring Mental Health in Children with Disabilities : The use of the two continua model

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    Author : Estrella Torres; [2021]
    Keywords : Wellbeing; mental wellbeing; subjective mental health; mental health; mental health measure; children with disabilities; disability; two continua model; two continuum model; flourishing; languishing;

    Abstract : Mental health has traditionally been described as the absence of mental problems, being those second ones equated to impairments, overlapping disability with mental illness. This unfounded conviction is being replaced by a positive mental health approach that recognizes them as distinct constructs. READ MORE

  6. 30. Exploring Constraints to Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Baltics and the South Caucasus

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Markar Sangkogian; [2021]
    Keywords : constraints; Russia; foreign policy; Baltic; South Caucasus; neoclassical realism; foreign policy analysis;

    Abstract : The thesis is an explorative study of the notion of constraints to Russia’s foreign policy. The explorative attempt investigates Moscow’s external behaviour vis a vis the states of the Baltics and the South Caucasus from 2013 to 2020. READ MORE