Essays about: "social nature of travel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words social nature of travel.

  1. 1. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  3. 2. Urban Planning for Better Air Quality : A case study of the Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods in London

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Greta Gustafsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods; London; Green Infrastructure; Urban Planning; Air Pollution;

    Abstract : Air pollution affects the environment negatively, boosts climate change, and is the cause of millions of deaths per year, first and foremost affecting the people living in urban areas. Since the early 20th century, many cities have been planned around cars, which are the main contributors to the bad air quality. READ MORE

  4. 3. Improving accessibility to the bus service : Building an accessibility measurement tool in QGIS

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Philip Lindén; [2021]
    Keywords : public transportation; public transit; fixed route transit systems; buses; bus stops; accessibility; measuring accessibility; measuring performance; social exclusion; vulnerable groups; GIS; QGIS; Graphical Modeler;

    Abstract : Satisfactory public transportation (PT) should enable people to reach attractive destinations and desired activities fast, comfortably, safely, and affordably. When PT fails to do so it will have negative effects on the overall accessibility in a society. READ MORE

  5. 4. Virtual Travel Experience: COVID-19 crisis as a disruptive force to the nature of travel in the tourism industry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

    Author : Isabelle Tabitha Wasike; [2021]
    Keywords : COVID-19; pandemic; crisis; disruptive innovation theory; Clayton Christensen; consumer value; Holbrook; virtual travel; qualitative; tourism industry; Social Sciences;

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  6. 5. “They only talk about the trees” - An analysis of relations of power and justice in the (de)construction of Nepal’s Second International Airport

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Hanna Geschewski; [2021]
    Keywords : Land rights; Political Ecology; Justice; Nepal; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : While calls to reduce air travel have emerged in many high-income countries, Nepal, with only one international airport, is still striving to improve its air connectivity. In 2015, the government resumed its 1995 plan to build a second international airport near Nijgadh, a town in the southern plains. READ MORE