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Climate change has become a societal issue that has gained increasing attention in recent years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, presented in year 2007 its Fourth Assessment Report, pointing out different scenarios about the future climate, including the anticipated sea level rises during this century. More recent climate research has shown that sea levels are most likely to r
A society's greenhouse gas emissions are closely related to its volumes of consumption. Efficiency gains and changes in the consumption mix are important, but will not be enough to reach sustainable levels of consumption-based emission. This thesis examines the literature on degrowth and sufficient consumption levels to find out what the current knowledge and proposed policy strategies are. Un
Climate change is predicted to lead to an increase in the frequency and severity of climate extremes and variability (IPCC 2007). The result is an increase in climate-related disasters in a world where, even without climate change, the number of disasters is already on the rise (UNISDR 2010). Also Sweden will be severely affected by climate change as temperatures are expected to rise more in North
The establishment of green areas in urban environment for ecological sustainability is a strategy recognized in academics as well as in politics and governance. This thesis investigates how and to what extent various measures and interventions of increased urban green areas and their ecological benefits may contribute to ecological sustainability and improve urban life quality. In addition to a l
Öresundsregionen är en djupt integrerad region som utgörs av södra delen av Sverige och östra delen av Danmark. Länderna sammanbinds av Öresundsbron som går mellan städerna Malmö och Köpenhamn och dagligen pendlar över 20 000 människor över sundet. Länderna har idag olika valutor och därmed olik valutapolitik, något som kan upplevas som ett hinder för vidare integration i regionen. Syftet med de
Problem background: In the beginning of 2011 the working capital levels rose drastically for companies operating in the polymer industry, as a result of macroeconomic factors and changes of supply market conditions. Suppliers were allocating capacity and uncertainty spread among buyers, which resulted in that large volumes were purchased in order to secure supply. Moreover, the suppliers were dict
Bakgrund: Det är möjligt för företag att minska sin miljöpåverkan och reducera sina kostnader genom att ta hänsyn till returlogistik i alla delar av sin verksamhet. När det handlar om den fysiska distributionen i försörjningskedjan, så handlar returlogistik främst om att återanvända lastbärare som används för transport av gods. Dynapac Compaction Equipment AB är ett företag som använder sig av retBackground: Companies can lower their environmental impact and reduce their costs by considering reverse logistics in their operations. In the area of physical distribution, reverse logistics is concerned with the reusage of load carriers used for the transportation of goods. Dynapac Compaction Equipment AB, is a company which uses returnable load carriers (racks), for the transport of large and h
På grund av e-postens möjlighet bortom tids- och rumsgränserna, och dess enkla användning, förekommer e-post kommunikation inom alla typer av företag. Detta trots påvisat problem som spam, informationsöverflöde, att e-post tas för givet samt bristande kunskaper om hur e-post kan användas. Trots att en helt ny generation av samarbetsverktyg existerar idag, förlitar sig användare fortfarande huvudsa
ABSTRACT Title: The concept of brand heritage from a consumer’s perspective applied to the fast fashion industry, for fast fashion brands and luxury fashion brands Seminar date: 2013-01-17 Course: FEKH29, Business Administration, Degree Project Undergraduate Level, 15 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System points (ECTS) Authors: Shamira Jonsson, Aurora Lundberg och Elisabet Troein A
This paper is an intertextual study of the biblical allusions in Carlo Collodis 19th century childrens book "Pinocchio", where the issue is to find out whether the biblical allusions are being used in an educative purpose or not. I.e. if the allusions increase the young audiences' appal for the immoral protagonist Pinocchio, or if they rather heighten his heroical air.
In this paper we investigate if the German implied volatility index, VDAX, could be used as a good sentiment indicator for a contrarian strategy. For such a strategy to be legitimate there must exist price inefficiencies in the market, which requires that the efficient market hypothesis does not hold. We compare broader index-based contrarian strategies with a buy and hold strategy in the German s
With an increasingly population and urbanization, the solid waste management have become a major challenge for local authorities in developing countries all over the world. The local authorities must improve their waste management in order to minimize the negative effects of solid waste and to avoid future land use conflicts. At the same time the economical resources are limited and solid waste ma
Svensk herrfotboll anses ibland vara en ovanligt god arena för integration. På fotbollsplanen spelar ju bakgrunden ingen roll, kan det heta. Tidigare forskning i bland annat USA har emellertid visat att minoriteter ofta varit kraftigt underrepresenterade i de mest inflytelserika positionerna inom olika lagidrotter. Detta fenomen har kallats för stacking. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersö
Syftet med denna uppsats är att kontrollera om Technology Acceptance Model 3 är en bra modell för att undersöka användande och acceptans av delvis tvingande system. Delvis tvingande system är de som är obligatoriska att använda i en viss grad men att större delen av användandet förväntas vara frivilligt. Som grund för uppsatsen används Live@Lund, ett delvis tvingande system, som studieobjekt. Live
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to estimate our own bankruptcy prediction model using logit binary data. Our choice of variables is based on Altman’s Z-score model 1968. A comparison is then done between results in Altman and our findings. We perform our estimates on 114 listed Nordic companies, where 37 of them went bankrupt during 2002-2012. We find that our estimated model can categoriz
