Essays about: "small-scale society"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 109 essays containing the words small-scale society.
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11. Managing Knowledge in Energy Communities : The Importance of Knowledge Sharing for the Development and Upscaling of Energy Communities
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : The transition toward a robust, resource-effective, and renewable energy system faces many challenges. The demand for electricity is expected to rapidly increase over the coming years due to the electrification of society resulting in a need for more transmission capacity in the grid. READ MORE
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12. Aesthetics of Urban Culture: Corporeal Experience of Copenhagen
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis explores the visual culture of the streets; images and sensory experiences that shape our sense of space and ideas of identity and belonging. The atmospheres of cities, partly constructed by planners and partly lived by those who inhabit its spaces, produce audio-visual material that affect the atmosphere of the city, influencing dynamics of hierarchal structures in society. READ MORE
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13. Circular Design and its applications in the Electric Guitar Industry : Development of a Circular Business Model System
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälleAbstract : Our society is all the more shifting towards focusing on the impact that we have on the world’s climate and reducing our environmental impact is getting increasingly popular. Amongst efforts to reduce the impact of the products that we use, the field of Circular Design has emerged as a solution that tackles the problem at its roots in a holistic way, aiming to not only reduce the climate impact of products, but to transition our entire society into a sustainable one through the implementation of a Circular Economy. READ MORE
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14. Painting, Play, and Politics : A Technical Examination of the Painting Polyxena is Sacrificed by Jacob de Wet I (ca 1610-1675) and its Cultural Contex
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : The study departs from a technical examination of the panel painting Polyxena is Sacrificed in the Stockholm University Collection of Art, establishing the artistic process, level of ambition, and material choices by means of multispectral imaging techniques and elemental analysis. The artist, Jacob de Wet I, was both a well-reputed Haarlem-painter who specialized in small scale history paintings and headed a mass-producing workshop which supplied the low-end art markets of Haarlem and Amsterdam. READ MORE
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15. DIRECT AIR CAPTURE CONTRIBUTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : To meet ambitious climate goals, of keeping global warming below 2°C, past emissions need to be removed from the atmosphere with the help of negative emissions technologies (NETs). The transition of energy systems, however, needs to follow the requirements of sustainable development to benefit all three pillars of sustainability, those are the environment, society, and economy. READ MORE
