Essays about: "policy space"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 264 essays containing the words policy space.
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21. Criminalisation and obstruction of civil SAR activities : The impact of Decree-Law No. 1 of January 2, 2023, and the distant port policy on civil SAR activities in the Central Mediterranean Sea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : In January 2023, the newly elected right-wing government led by Giorgio Meloni approved Decree-Law No. 1/2023 which restricts the work of civil Search and Rescue (SAR) organizations, with the aim to reduce the flow of people reaching the country's shores. READ MORE
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22. Investigating Cologistics Hubs: Business Models, Added Values, Flows, Perceptions and Scalability
University essay from KTH/Transport och systemanalysAbstract : Multi-service transport hubs provide a potential opportunity to achieve sustainability and emission goals and have been in contemporary research and policy discussions, however, mostly in the passenger transport sector. In Urban logistics, the delivery vehicles leaving a warehouse or a consolidation centre entering the city to deliver goods are usually filled to a certain capacity during their onward journey and when the goods are delivered, they return mostly empty during their return journey. READ MORE
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23. Beyond the Green: Exploring how municipalities consider the planning and implementation of nature-based solutions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining popularity as tools to address societal challenges while providing social, economic, and environmental benefits. Given that NbS is a relatively new concept, there is a lack of guidance on how NbS in urban areas can be adapted to fit their socio-spatial context and provide benefits. READ MORE
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24. Swedish Consumers' Perception of Virtual Power Plants : A mixed-method study of VPPs
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : The phenomenon of Virtual Power Plant (VPP) has gained increased attention in many parts of the world in recent years. In 2022 the European Union, in response to the rising energy prices as well as the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, set a goal of speeding up the process of creating a digital energy system (European Commission, 2022, p. 20). READ MORE
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25. Enforcement Against Exploitation, Working Hard or Hardly Working? : Exploring How Canadian Policy Discourse Problematizes the Labour Exploitation of Migrant Workers
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This thesis aims to outline how the labour exploitation of migrant workers is problematized in contemporary Canadian labour migration policy discourse; the consequences of this problematization(s), and possibilities for creating an alternative critical space for discourse. Using concepts of (social) harm, (un)freedom, and (hyper)precarity as departure points for analysis, this project endeavours to untangle problematizations of migrant worker exploitation from their representations in Canadian policy discourse through a post-structural policy analysis. READ MORE