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Impervious surfaces, such as large parts of the urban area, reduce infiltration and increase above ground runoff (Chen et al. 2009) with risk of flooding as a result. Urban flooding has the potential to affect a large amount of people, and can cause great harm to economic interests. Therefore it is important to locate potential areas prone to flooding, and have storm water regimes in mind when pla
Örups almskog has been described several times over the past 300 years. The forest has been a protected area since 1928, and when the aggressive strain of Dutch elm disease struck the region in 1979, it affected the forest in Örup for decades to come. Elms was the dominant tree species in the forest, and Dutch elm disease resulted in a high mortality for the elms. In Sweden Dutch elm disease was f
Exploring problem representations in the policy discourses on the parental leave insurance and cash-for-childcare (CFC) allowance in Swedish parliamentary debates, this study aims to look into different meanings and problematizations attached to the concept of gender equality in Swedish family policy. Comparing the framing of problematizations in these policies, the objective is to uncover underly
This paper explores how effective the Danish Greencard opt-out is in impeding the process of Europeanization. It investigates the cases of the Danish Greencard scheme and the German EU Blue Card directive in order to determine if national Danish sovereignty has been preserved through this opt-out. Opt-outs and high-skill migration are some of the most under evaluated topics within the field of Eur
The radiological footprint of a Be-based neutron source embedded within the Aquarium of the Source-Testing Facility (STF) at the Division of Nuclear Physics at Lund University will soon be carefully mapped. As a precursor to this measurement program, neutron and gamma-ray energy spectra at beamport apertures have been measured using 3He and LaBr3(Ce) (cerium-activated lanthanum bromide) detectors.
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 opened up the public space for Egyptian women from very different backgrounds. However, although women played a decisive role in revolutionary events, this did not result in the abolishment of the patriarchal bargain between Egyptian secular-oriented female feminists and the state in post-Mubarak Egypt. Even though certain conditions caused the suspension of the pat
The bioeconomy at the watershed scale project is a project initiated by the International Institute of Sustainable Development situated in Manitoba Canada. This project aims to create a bioeconomy using the Common Cattail as the feedstock, while also creating ecosystem services in the watershed through the maintenance of cattail cover. These services include decreasing nutrient loading into Lake W
Häckeberga Nature Reserve, in the eastern part of the municipality of Lund, Sweden, was established in April 1976, in order to preserve the area’s varying and rich nature, and to facilitate human recreation. The aim of this master thesis is to explore how well the goals with the nature reserve protection have been met, how the management of the reserve has been carried out and to suggest improveme
In this master's thesis a user interface for a security application was investigated. The thesis work was done at a security company in Sweden. The goal was to find current problems with the user interface and to develop a new prototype with improvements. A user-centered design approach was employed to achieve this. Another goal was to look at how this method works for security-critical system
This paper tries to find connections between countries food retail sector and their respective GDP per capita. Measurements in focus are supermarkets (or larger) market share and the countries rate of urbanization. The paper finds that countries with high BNP per capita generally have an high supermarket market share. There are howerver a few interesting outliers to discuss, including Japan and Ho
In this bachelor thesis we highlight problems within the jurisdiction of remand hearings in Swedish district courts. We discuss if there might be a risk that remand hearings befall arbitrary in the matter of how they occur routinely for judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. The purpose of the study is to, from a perspective of legal security, attend the balance between the demands of transpar
The purpose of this study was to investigate how social caseworkers perceive job burnout (or work exhaustion). Three questions were addressed in this study: - How do social caseworkers’ perceptions of work exhaustion relate to all the efforts they invest in helping clients and the perceived response/lack of response these investments generate? - How do social caseworkers perceive work exhaustion
The increasing complexity of software applications and architectures in Internet services challenge the reasoning of operators tasked with diagnosing and resolving outages and degradations as they arise. Although a growing body of literature focuses on how failures can be prevented through more robust and fault-tolerant design of these systems, a dearth of research explores the cognitive challenge
Syria is going through a full-fledged conflict with unfathomable educational crisis. With the tremendous challenges in the educational sector in conflict situations, opportunities arise simultaneously for positive educational change. The purpose of this study was twofold: to contribute to informed changes in the educational system for Syrians through better understanding of education in the past,
This thesis investigates the perceptions of people within the education sector in Lund Municipality regarding sustainability implications of the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schools. It demonstrates how local perceptions are largely affected by powerful global neoliberal forces. The study is based on a critical discourse analysis of policy documents and interviews with
The main aim of this thesis is to clarify the requirements for environmental impact assessments for onshore wind projects, and to investigate if these requirements differ between county administrative boards in Sweden. As a part of this challenges that the wind power companies and county administrative boards has too face are investigated, such as processing time and frequent complementaries. The
Blekinge Offshore AB is a company with intentions of building an offshore wind farm in the bay of Hanö, in southern Sweden. If the full-scale park is constructed a total of 7-8 TWh of electricity will be produced annually. From the land connection in Stärnö, municipality of Karlshamn, current power lines stretch 21 kilometers up to a junction in Hemsjö, municipality of Olofström. If the full-scale
The aim of this study was to collect new knowledge about the importance of signal crayfish predation on zebra mussels in Lake Erken. Possibly with implications on biological control of the invasive species in Swedish lakes. I performed a field experiment with enclosures (including signal crayfish) and exclosures (without signal crayfish) during 11 summer weeks in Lake Erken. My results showed that
About the various roles of the animals featured in Marlen Haushofer's 1963 "The Wall" ("Die Wand").
Detta examensarbete har som syfte att undersöka möjligheterna för införandet av en kvotplikt på den svenska jetbränslemarknaden, något som inte tidigare gjorts i en sammanfattande studie. Målet är att utvärdera detta styrmedel från flera olika perspektiv. Fokus läggs på det legala, ekonomin I förnybara bränslen, utformingen av ett kvotsystem och effekten ett sådant system kan ha på den svenska fly
