Essays about: "poverty trends"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words poverty trends.

  1. 1. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : AnaCapri Mauro; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Vulnerability; Volcanic Hazards; Disaster Justice; Risk Governance; Temporal Analysis; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. READ MORE

  3. 2. Are bike lanes mainly for the urban privileged? : Developing a method for assessing cycling infrastructure from a transport justice perspective

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Emil Ljungemyr; [2022]
    Keywords : cycling infrastructure; distribution; transport poverty; equality; socioeconomics; demographics; cykelinfrastruktur; fördelning; transport poverty; jämlikhet; socioekonomi; demografi;

    Abstract : Cykling må vara ett smidigt och miljövänligt transportmedel, men den bakomliggandeplaneringen och de politiska besluten har en problematisk sida. Tidigare forskning visar attgrupper med större politiskt inflytande och högre social status tenderar att få högre prioritetpå bekostnad av andra grupper som riskerar att bli marginaliserade och förbisedda iplaneringen. READ MORE

  4. 3. Water Scarcity and Development A case study of the Euphrates water shortages and their implications on northern Syria.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yazan Najy; [2022]
    Keywords : Water Scarcity; Euphrates River; Sustainable Development Goals SDGs ; Northern Syria; Water; Energy and Food Nexus WEF .; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In yet another alarming development in Syria, the waters of the Euphrates River have declined to critically low levels in 2021. The unprecedented low water levels of the Euphrates put nearly 5.5 million Syrians at risk as they depend on the Euphrates basin for drinking water and agricultural production. READ MORE

  5. 4. Measuring Informal Institutions with Google Trends

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Bjoern Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Informal institutions; quality of institutions; R D; financial literacy; development; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Informal institutions are believed to be especially determinant in institutional change, as argued by both old and new institutional economic theory. However, due to the complexity of quantifying them, they are rarely measured. In this study, I examine how well one can capture informal institutions by using Google Trends. READ MORE

  6. 5. Blue biotechnology : its role in the future of food

    University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular Sciences

    Author : Andrea Lundh; [2020]
    Keywords : Aquaculture; blue biotechnology; aquatic resources; SDG; sustainable development goals; blue growth; zero hunger; food security; agenda 2030;

    Abstract : To provide healthy food and livelihoods to a growing population on Earth, while environmental issues becoming more adverse, as well as climate change becoming more critical, is one of today’s greatest challenges. By 2015 the United Nations come up with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) to tackle global challenges as poverty, global hunger, climate resilience, population growth control, achieving food security, and promotion of sustainable agriculture. READ MORE