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This thesis integrates Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Tim Ingold's concepts of "dwelling" and "making" based on my cultural analysis conducted at the Museum of Memory on Hands in Guiyang, China, during both the summer and winter, for one month each season. The study primarily explores the museum’s vision of "All things in symbiosis, life can perpetuate" is manifes
Cash holding strategy is an important financial decision for firms. It is highly related to firms’ operation and development because cash is an important guarantee to meet the business payment and investment opportunity. However, some scholars believe that due to agency problems, too much cash holdings are likely to produce negative impact on enterprise value. Compared to listed firms on Chinese A
Making Europe climate neutral by 2050 is the primary goal of the European Green Deal. This goal has given rise to sustainable finance and action plans for financing sustainable growth. Such commitment is ensured by the legal initiatives put forward by the Commission. The Non-Financial Reporting Directive introduced the requirements for some firms to produce a sustainability report based on disclos
Only recently has a geographical viewpoint on sustainability transitions opened up the containerized view on transition trajectories. Next to the important step of institutionalising niche logics transforming them into regime rationalities, the multi-scalar perspective reveals that niches, as well as regimes, can also upscale. This means that the socio-technical configuration of the niche or r
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?”. It explores implications of the drought on water policy and h
Abstract This thesis addresses the effects of parking accessibility on work commuting and the potential to use parking policies as a tool to support mobility management and enhance sustainable commuting in Lund. The structure rests on two folds: first, it provides a theoretical background on different parking policies and factors influencing work commuting; second, it provides an analysis of Lund
This paper analyzes the impact of variables suggested by the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory, on publicly listed Swedish firms in a sample period of 8 years, ranging from 2003-2010. Also the relationship between leverage and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is studied for the same set of firms and time periods. The model used is based on panel regression with fixed and random
We explore whether an investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR) is value creating for a firm’s shareholders. We start by establishing a relationship between CSR, corporate reputation and shareholder value. Assuming that membership in a recognized sustainability index signals a commitment to CSR to shareholders and potential investors, we explore both the short-term and intermediary impac
Background: Historically, the use of packaging has often been regarded as a necessary evil, associated with unnecessary costs, but needed to enable distribution of goods. Today many companies have begun to realise that the packaging can have a major impact on the supply chain. For Tetra Pak, it is of great importance to be able to offer deeper insights to the costs incurred by their packages, thus
Food insecurity is increasing globally again after declining for decades, and in Nigeria alone 13 million people are experiencing food insecurity. Particularly in North-East Nigeria food insecurity has reached emergency levels. Because of intrastate conflict between the Nigerian state and Boko Haram it has been difficult to mitigate food insecurity, even though Nigeria ranks in the top ten in worl
World population is increasing rapidly and cities are growing constantly outwards, in most cases taking over the agricultural lands. Besides Sweden imports 65% of agricultural products and if some situation like pandemic happens and neighbouring countries close the border completely the fresh vegetables will only last for 14 days! Responsible authority for this is the municipalities who have almos
Högsta domstolen har i ett antal mål om avtalstolkning uttalat att ledning kan sökas i avtalets systematik och övriga villkor, något som kommit att kallas systematisk avtalstolkning. Enbart begreppet systematisk avtalstolkning avslöjar dock inte mycket om vad det egentligen är domstolen kan tillmäta betydelse vid tolkningen. I denna uppsats undersöks därför vad systematisk avtalstolkning är genom
This study explores the usage of Instagram by queer women and non-binary people within the context of divulging intimate details of one’s mental illnesses on the platform. Situated within a framework of Foucauldian ‘confession culture’and the radical feminist concept of ‘the personal is political’ amongst others, this research uses interviews and autoethnography to understand and contextualise que
A Finnish national climate research programme, SILMU, has funded three projects in the field of ozone and UV radiation research during 1990-1995. The results of these projects are summarised here. The study of temperature sounding records made in Finland 1958-94 has revealed a warming trend in the lower and middle troposphere (up to 0.3 K/decade) and a cooling of similar order of magnitude in the
