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People's energy needs are constantly increasing, and with rising electricity prices, environmental degradation and reduced fossil fuel reserves of oil in particular, the need for new thinking is necessary. In Sweden, the construction sector stands for 40% of energy consumption and 60% of it is for heating and hot water. With those figures one realize the importance of finding alternative ways
People's energy needs are constantly increasing, and with rising electricity prices, environmental degradation and reduced fossil fuel reserves of oil in particular, the need for new thinking is necessary. In Sweden, the construction sector stands for 40% of energy consumption and 60% of it is for heating and hot water. With those figures one realize the importance of finding alternative ways
The professionals in a psychiatric outpatient reception who meet the parents and sometimes their children get a chance to gain an insight into the family´s life situation. This study contains interviewes with seven social workers, working as counselors in five psychiatric outpatient receptions in three cities in the south of Sweden. The aim of this study was to examine counselor’s consideration of
China is an extraordinary country; in the last 30 years the economic development has moved forward in an almost impossibly high and even speed. The GDP has grown with an annual average of ten percent and placed the Chinese economy among the top three largest economies in the world. But while the economic development keep racing ahead, the democratic development has slowed down and is now standing
Enterprise system and business are aligned when enterprise system supports business strategy, goals and requirements. Enterprise systems help the organizations to increase their efficiency, to raise the productivity, quality and competition level. Organizations implementing enterprise systems usually don’t have the required internal resources and knowledge to implement an enterprise system themsel
The growing focus on customer relationship forces enterprises to tailor their processes in a more customer oriented way. The concept of customer relations is a topic of marketing studies, but it has strong implications on organization studies because of its role in the formation of employee understanding. “Customer orientation” is said to be at the very heart of the IKEA way, especially in Returns
Reducing and eradicating poverty is one of humanities pressing challenges, one that the UN Commission of Legal Empowerment of the Poor has taken on. This thesis describes the prevailing poverty of South African farm workers and dwellers and explores why the empowerment efforts that have been made have not lifted them out of poverty. The results of this study are contrasted with the results of the
This thesis examines how ‘family’ is portrayed in the Swedish political debate, in parliament and in articles written by politicians. The aim is to discern dominating discourses in how the term ‘family’ is defined, by studying the politicians' use of language. This essay also studies how different families are portrayed as either good or bad and how family is depicted as an important part of p
This study investigates the implementation of the EU cohesion policy in a Swedish context. The EU cohesion policy aims to, through the Structural funds, diminish the economic and social differences between less-favoured and affluent regions in the EU. However, there has been a paradigm shift in Swedish politics; from income equalization and redistribution to the poorest regions, towards a greater
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) from 1989 is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this paper we want to see how Save the Children Sweden relates to the CRC in their work. The material that has been used to compare and investigate Save the Children Sweden's project the Compass (2008) is their annual reports between 2008 and 2011. Reynaerts (et al.) C
This thesis work is a study and parameter optimization of a Raman system designed for explosives detection. The system, HLIN1, is a state-of-the-art prototype developed at the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI). To achieve the highest possible detection efficiency of different amounts of explosives placed upon different background materials, it is investigated how various system parameters affe
This thesis concerns the impact of instrumental benefits and norms on state behaviour in international relations. This is studied on the case of the EU’s and Japan’s initiation of enforcement against North Korea in the UN Human Rights Council, which has garnered increased attention since 2013 when a commission of inquiry successfully put the issue on the international community’s agenda. I ask w
Ideella föreningar som bedriver second hand-försäljning i större omfattning är idag skattskyldiga för både inkomst- och mervärdesskatt. Rättsutvecklingen har debatterats livligt men inte fått särskilt stort utrymme i den juridiska debatten. Syftet med uppsatsen är att göra en internrättslig kritiskt behandling av beskattningen av dessa verksamheter utifrån skatterättsliga principer. Principerna byIn Sweden it’s common that public benefit non-profit associations are partly financed by selling donated goods second hand. These organisations are in principle tax-exempted but their economic activity has in recent years been subjected to income- and value-added tax. This has been widely debated and the associations have campaigned for a change in the regulation. The purpose of this essay is to d
The United Nations Security Council is the only body that can make a decision to conduct a humanitarian intervention, still we have witnessed genocide in both Rwanda and recently Syria. These two cases highlight a fundamental problem as regards the structure of the Security Council. The five veto countries, have the power to prevent a humanitarian intervention. Because of this inefficiency, the in
In this study the concept of transboundary protected areas formally called peace parks have been analysed. Peace parks are created for the purpose to foster peace and cooperation between contesting states through conservation efforts in the form of international natural protection areas. The aim of the study is to find factors that can help explain why and how peace parks can be created. The peace
The world of microfinance is changing. More and more people are turning to microfinance as neoliberal reforms shape the world, diminishing welfare across the globe. Microfinance has in turn been debased by the same process driving people to seek microfinance. Through privatization, state redistribution, and financialization, (three of the processes of accumulation by dispossession) microfinance, i
