Essays about: "wastelands"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word wastelands.

  1. 1. Den industriella RE-kreationen : att läsa, förstå och förstärka vär(l)den genom platsspecifik analys och gestaltning av Malmö industrihamn

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Kerstin Lindberg; Emma Nygren; [2023]
    Keywords : industrimiljö; rekreation; ekologi; natur; landskapsfenomenologi; natur-människa-relationen; antropocen;

    Abstract : Dualistiska västerländska tankesättet som separerar det mänskliga från det icke-mänskliga kan ses som roten till den pågående miljökrisen. Inom stadsplanering är förtätning och funktionsblandning de dominerande sätten för att hantera stadsutbredningens negativa effekter. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gråbo : biologi och kontroll

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production Ecology

    Author : Cecilia Ward; [2021]
    Keywords : allergi; Artemisa vulgaris L; bekämpning; gråbo; flerårigt ogräs; kontroll; pollen; reducerad jordbearbetning; spridning;

    Abstract : Gråbo (Artemisa vulgaris L.) är ett flerårigt örtogräs. Arten finns spridd över hela världen och trivs framför allt på torrare, lättare jordar men har börjat öka på jordar med annan textur och fuktförhållanden. Ofta stöter man på gråbo i dikeskanter, på ruderatmarker och på åkern. READ MORE

  5. 4. Ecosystem Goal Alignment and Institutional Change : Increasing Resilience and Competitiveness in Värmland

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Author : Eric Kjellberg; Daniel Oldenmark; [2021]
    Keywords : Service ecosystem; Service dominant logic; value co-creation; goal alignment; institutional change; resilience; rural regions;

    Abstract : Economy professor Kjell Nordström argued at the Nordic Business forum Sweden, that regions such as Värmland would turn into wastelands in the aftermath of digitalization and urbanization. Digitalization has rapidly changed service provision effecting the provider-user interaction and service options available. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Playground Project : This project is dividid in three main topics, working with the topic and the meaning of play, the form and the design of the ground, everything comes together in the final project.

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Floris Bastian Bouma; [2020]
    Keywords : child development; risky play; equipment; isolation; playground safety; urbanism space;

    Abstract : Playing is the dominant activity in children's daily life, but is the playground still the place where children have their first encounter with societal roles, norms and values of today’s society, through the act of playing? The playground functions as the place where children are forced to educate themselves, in learning to develop, to make decisions, to solve problems, and to regulate emotions. They look for risks in order to test and explore their physical limits. READ MORE