Essays about: "social regional planning"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 essays containing the words social regional planning.

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. A new era for water governance? An analysis on water and climate discourse after the 2018 drought in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Mollie Sager; [2023]
   Keywords : water governance; drought; Sweden; political ecology; sustainability science; discourse; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Access to water is taken for granted in water abundant countries like Sweden, but safe water supply is increasingly threatened by droughts. This thesis analyses how the Swedish water sector responded to the unprecedented drought in 2018, by analysing water security discourse through the framework “What’s the problem represented to be?”. READ MORE

4. 3. Municipal urban transformation through children’s participation : A comparative study of eight municipalities in Skåne

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema teknik och social förändring

   Author : Johanna Sandelowsky; [2023]
   Keywords : Children’s participation; urban transformation; social sustainability; collaborative planning; networks; Skåne;

   Abstract : The Convention of the Rights of the Child has become law in Sweden, entailing municipalities to adapt to the pillars of the convention, one of them being children’s right to participate. Due to the Swedish planning process, the convention is overruled by other planning- and building laws, meaning that municipal practitioners are free to adapt the convention on their own terms. READ MORE

5. 4. Integration of public transport planning and spatial planning in Norrköping : Collaboration for achieving the same vision but with different strategies

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema teknik och social förändring

   Author : Simon Georgson; [2023]
   Keywords : Integration planning; Public transport planning; Spatial planning; Transit-Oriented Development; Collaboration;

   Abstract : The integration of public transport planning and spatial planning has become an internationally well-known phenomenon and is seen by planners as a fundamental prerequisite for getting more people to travel sustainably, and thus reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the transport sector. The aim is to design the built environment in such a way that sustainable travel is promoted. READ MORE

6. 5. The Shokuiku Act and its implementation in Kyoto : A study of the Shokuiku promotion plans on national, prefectural and municipal leve

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

   Author : Jenny Nordlund; [2022]
   Keywords : food education; urban farming; policy making; sustainability;

   Abstract : More and more cities are facing depopulation, and Japan’s answer to that is the Shokuiku Act to educate the citizens on food and nutrition. However, the law faced criticism for being too controlling. READ MORE