Essays about: "regional authority"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 essays containing the words regional authority.

  1. 1. Using a GIS to enable an economic, land use and energy output comparison between small wind powered turbines and large-scale wind farms: the case of Oslo, Norway.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Colin Potter; [2023]
    Keywords : Geography; GIS; Wind power; Renewable energy sources; urban wind energy; urban areas; planning; vertical axis wind turbines; comparative studies; urban integrated energy systems; Oslo; Roan; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Responding to an identified knowledge gap, the study aims to determine if smaller wind turbines located on top of existing urban buildings are more resource efficient (land utilization and economically) than large scale wind farms. To answer this question, using a GIS, the resource efficiency of the Roan wind farm in Northern Norway was compared to a theoretical modeled installation of small-scale wind turbines on top of buildings within a 2km radius study zone in central Oslo. READ MORE

  3. 2. Quantity and quality of oaks (Quercus) as suitable habitats for the longhorn beetle species Plagionotus detritus : An inventory study in Stockholm and Uppsala County, Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Ida Widegren; [2023]
    Keywords : Plagionotus detritus; P. detritus; Cerambycidae; Cerambycinae; longhorn beetle; insects; habitat; oak; Quercus; conservation; ecology; endangered; threatened;

    Abstract : The longhorn beetle Plagionotus detritus is associated with newly dead oak wood and is declining throughout its distribution range. In Sweden, P.detritus has displayed one of the most dramatic reductions in distribution recorded for insect species and is near regional extinction. READ MORE

  4. 3. Behov och inställning till ett gränsöverskridande skyddsområde för fjällräv i Sverige, Norge och Finland

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Erik Näsmark; Erik Strand; [2022]
    Keywords : fjällräv; Vulpes lagopus; skyddsområden; gränsöverskridande; Treriksröset;

    Abstract : The arctic fox has been threatened by extinction in Fennoscandia since the beginning of 1900s. Even though it has been protected in Sweden, Norway and Finland for almost a century, it has not recovered and is still classified as threatened. READ MORE

  5. 4. The price and income elasticity of demand for small houses in Swedish municipalities.

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : David Hörnell; [2022]
    Keywords : Price elasticity of demand; Income elasticity of demand; Regional economics; Housing market; Sweden;

    Abstract : The housing market is one of the most important markets for many economic agents. Large differences in the local market across Sweden suggest regional heterogeneity, however. This study aims to answer if the price and income elasticities of demand for small houses vary between different types of Swedish municipalities. READ MORE

  6. 5. …Thanks, but I’ll bypass: How state gatekeeping impacts regional bypassing in the EU

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Evelina Hagberg; [2022]
    Keywords : gatekeeping; bypassing; multilevel governance; intergovernmentalism; paradiplomacy.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis centres around the question of how two theories – intergovernmentalism and multilevel governance – explain regional government mobilisation at an EU-level. The central debate is what actually remains of central state control in keeping regional governments out of Brussels. READ MORE