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1. EU Development Cooperation in MENA : Mainstreaming Gender In Media Development. Case study: Tunisia
University essay fromAbstract : Following the increasing recognition of the media’s considerable potential to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, different media development interventions have been launched to fuel development cooperation efforts structured around a North-South binary. However, the dynamic interplay of forces behind these efforts puts the effectiveness and sustainability of their results into question. READ MORE
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2. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE
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3. Tracking Climate Finance in the German Building Sector: A Landscape of finance flows for building decarbonisation in 2016
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Germany’s Energy Concept aims to reduce the building sector’s primary energy demand by 80% compared to 2008 levels, of which 20% are to be achieved by 2020. This requires significant investment in integrated renewables and thermal. Public funds cannot finance such transition alone. READ MORE
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4. Conditions and challenges for increased biking as a climate change mitigation strategy. A case study of Östersund, Sweden
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggandeAbstract : Transfer to non-motorized transportation to the greatest extent possible is an important climate change mitigation strategy. Biking is a sustainable mean of transportation and increased biking is desirable on global, national, regional, local, and individual level. READ MORE
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5. Two Perspectives on EU's Regional Policy
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planeringAbstract : This master thesis in European Spatial Planning and Regional Development will present two ideal types on regional development, and analyse Swedish regional policy for the EU programme period of 2014-2020. Through a historical background, the characteristics of the two types are distinguished, and used in the analysis of the Europe 2020 strategy, the Swedish national Partnership Agreement, and the regional operational programmes for the eight NUTS 2 regions in Sweden. READ MORE