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This Master’s thesis explores ethics and sustainability in the design of consumer electronics. It begins with a theoretical review of sustainable design methods and ethical principles relevant to globalised value chains. Through an explorative design process, it culminates in proposed strategies for the design of sustainable electronics. Designers’ evolving roles, sustainability- oriented inno
Trends show a decline in democracy in the CEE region which has mostly been analyzed through the democratic backsliding paradigm. However, recent scholars have proposed another perspective for this trend, the careening paradigm. This paper examines the contemporary democratic development from 2018 to 2023 in the Visegrád Four to explain which theoretical perspective is the most suitable to describe
Syftet med reglerna om offentlig upphandling är att se till att offentliga kontrakt tilldelas på ett öppet, likvärdigt och konkurrensneutralt sätt genom att låta leverantörer konkurrera om kontrakten. Ingen leverantör får särbehandlas och all upphandling ska ske affärsmässigt och i konkurrens. All offentlig upphandling finansieras med hjälp av skattemedel, och därför är det viktigt att förfarandet
Sedan Internationella brottmålsdomstolen uppfördes och började utöva sin dömande verksamhet 2002 har domstolen haft jurisdiktion över krigsförbrytelser, brott mot mänskligheten och folkmord. I Romstadgan fanns redan från start även aggressionsbrottet upptaget, alltså brottet att inleda otillåtligt krig. Parterna lyckades dock inte enas om en definition av aggression och därför begränsades domstole
This study explores the implications of an encampment policy - criminalising refugees’ mobility beyond the borders of a camp - for the potential of Cash Based Transfer assistance in protracted refugee situations. As the success of Cash Based Transfer assistance implies market availability and access to commodities, and certain interaction between the host community and refugee population, it is ar
Climate refugees are becoming increasingly common due to increased global warming as a result of excess emissions, the vast majority of which come from the Global North. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the climate refugee issue is described in Swedish media against a backdrop of a potential conflict between a Swedish self-image as progressive in humanitarian matters, and the recent strict
Aims: The use of illegal drugs is well documented in some alternative, underground music scenes, like the Goa trance scene. The aim of this article is to explore harm reduction practices employed by attendees of the Goa trance scene in order to identify potential pathways for targeted interventions in (underground) music scenes, such as Goa trance.Methods: Following pilot observations at Goa parti
This dissertation is a collection of three studies in which the main focus is on the role of Swedish L1 speakers’ background languages for the comprehension of written Italian at a lexical level. Italian is one of the foreign languages that Swedish pupils in upper secondary school can choose to study. Previous research on third language acquisition and the role of the background languages in the S
Normal science is a characterization of science in our epoch and a demarcation of what “scientific” means. It divides science in disciplined/normed paradigms. Mathematical epidemiology is the paradigm that regulates the activity of mathematicians with respect to the study of epidemics. It also represents the interest (multiple meanings implied) of the community that guards it. In contrast, a real
The study of Precambrian dyke swarms, sill provinces and large igneous provinces on the Kalahari craton in southern Africa has expanded greatly since the pioneering work initiated almost four decades ago. The main contributors to this progress have been a large number of precise U–Pb crystallization ages of mafic rocks, published in a number of recent papers. This information is compiled here into
This thesis examines how urban refugee economic survival is governed within Nairobi, Kenya, through the perceptions of humanitarian-development practitioners. Despite Kenya's Refugee Act 2021 representing one of the region's more progressive frameworks for refugee economic inclusion, the distance between its formal provisions and operational reality remains vast. Fourteen semi-structured i
Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att få en bättre kunskap om hur en kundvärdesorienterad affärsidé och strategi realiseras inom en multinationell verkstadskoncern, hur olika personer inom koncernen tolkar begreppet kundvärde och vilka de primära drivkrafter antas vara som lett valet av en kundvärdesorienterad strategi. Det är också att undersöka vilken roll IS/IT, enligt våra informanter, har haft
In the past decade the European Union has established itself as an actor in Civilian Crisis Management. This process has been accompanied by a set-up and development of various institutions and concepts that guide the work in this field. As well as in other areas of European foreign policy, in Civilian Crisis Management a gap between policy-making and outcome can be identified. Taking this as a st
This thesis explores the phenomenon of employee ambassadorship in the public sector within the framework of internal branding. The aim is to identify the factors that facilitate or hinder employee ambassadorship, particularly on an individual and organizational level. The study challenged the dominant managerial perspective on internal branding by establishing an employee-centered approach which r
This study investigates the effects of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) shocks on metal spot prices from 1990 to 2025 using impulse response analysis within a Vector Auto-Regressive (VAR) framework. The results indicate that price responses are time-varying and heterogeneous across metals. Overall, CPU shocks are found to have contemporaneous negative effects with short-term persistence. Although
