Essays about: "towns"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 203 essays containing the word towns.

1. 1. Where there is road, there is fire (influence): An exploratory study on the influence of roads in the spatial patterns of Swedish wildfires of 2018

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Gabriel Romeo Ferriols Pavico; [2023]
   Keywords : Geography; GIS; Wildfire; Fire Spatial Patterns; Road; Conformity; FWI; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : This study focuses on the Swedish wildfire season of 2018, when the country incurred ten times more than the average burnt area that occurred in previous years. The study aims to address a broad research question: Do roads influence the size of the burned area? This study fills the gap in research on the effects of roads in the spatial patterns of wildfires. READ MORE

3. 2. Decolonizing Aid: A Comparative Analysis of USAID and Sida's gender equality strategies in Guatemala

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Alejandra Perez Towns; [2023]
   Keywords : Decolonizing aid; discourse; colonial markers; USAID; Sida; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The development aid field has been subject to increased questioning regarding power relations between donors and recipients; some studies shed light on the fact that development aid is an extension of colonial practices. Currently, there have been efforts to ‘decolonize aid’. READ MORE

4. 3. In the presence of the general public : The popular use of local courts in 17th century Swedish towns

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Hannes Ytterberg; [2023]
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5. 4. Poggio Aquilone - Survey and Repurposing in a Medieval Italian Village

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Philip Reimers; [2023]
   Keywords : Italy; Repurposing; Transformation; Refurbishment; Renovation; Survey; Umbria; Ruin; Rural Tourism; Lidar; drone; scanning; photogrammetry;

   Abstract : The site of this diploma project is the small hilltop village of Poggio Aquilone. The village, situated in the region of Umbria in central Italy, lies roughly halfway between Rome and Florence. READ MORE

6. 5. Organized Crime and Government Trust under the Covid-19 pandemic. The case study of Sicily.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Andrea Cavallo; [2023]
   Keywords : Sicilian Mafia; organized crime; government trust; Covid-19; vaccination campaign.; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Do municipalities in which organized crime is strongly established present lower Covid-19 vaccination rates, as a proxy for government trust? This paper aims to answer this question in the specific case of the Italian region of Sicily. Specifically, the analysis exploits a panel dataset of 390 Sicilian municipalities over 107 weeks (between the 27th of December 2020 and the 1st of January 2023) to study if areas with a higher presence of the Mafia, measured through historical sources and more recent data, negatively correlate with the cumulative weekly percentage of Covid-19 vaccinations per municipality. READ MORE