Essays about: "time-geography"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 21 essays containing the word time-geography.
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11. Accessible space? Urban youths’ needs and barriers in everyday life
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleAbstract : In the light of new sustainability challenges in cities brought forward by increasing urban populations, the realm of urban transportation research has gradually digressed from planning for accessibility by mobility to instead emphasise the benefits of accessibility by proximity. This shift brings with it a possibility to elucidate and expand knowledge on population groups that previously have been neglected in earlier planning processes. READ MORE
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12. Do we need the car? A qualitative study on the disposal of bulky waste in carless households in Gothenburg
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleAbstract : Carlessness today can be seen to come with restrictions in mobility as the car has long played a vital role in transport, and consequently affected urban form. Of course, there are many who do live without a car, but certain activities can be proven difficult when in many cases it is predicted that one has a car. READ MORE
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13. A Room of One's Own Delivery - A Study of Rural Identity in Sweden, and the Emancipatory Potential of Vulnerability in Resistance
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This study examines the political and popular discourse that constructs the identity of the rural citizen in Sweden, and what consequences this discourse has on expectations on, and expectations of rural citizens in Sweden. The study focuses on the closing of the birthing clinic in Sollefteå hospital, Västernorrland county, in January 2017 and the occupation of the ward that followed thereafter. READ MORE
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14. Solving the Rubik's Cube of European Security Strategy - Strategic Culture in the European External Action Service
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : A rapidly changing, increasingly complex and contentious global security environment has led to the European Union re-assessing its role as a strategic actor through the drafting of 2016’s new security strategy: the European Global Strategy. The new strategy has furthermore been followed by a number of initiatives to strengthen the military dimension of the EU. READ MORE
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15. Accessibility strategies beyond private, motorized automobility – informing sustainability? A study of carless families with young children in Gothenburg
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleAbstract : In the face of major sustainability challenges posed by social exclusion and ecologic degradation there is a pressing need to change mobility practices as well as the physical structures that condition mobility. The overarching aim of this study is to expand knowledge about everyday accessibility strategies beyond private automobility, to inform social as well as ecological sustainability in community and transport planning. READ MORE
