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Can states by introducing taxes, change the way their citizens consume? Can states tax away the sins of their population? In this following paper, I have examined varies excise taxes in Denmark. More specificly I have analyzed Denmark’s tobacco- and alcoholtax and their failed sugar tax. How effective are they and what made the sugar tax fail? What are the correlation between the taxes and what ar
Hyperlocal news appears often in discussion about the future of the news media and potential alternative models. There is a strong need to analyse development of hyper-local news initiatives to better understand the needs of this sector, possibilities and challenges of collaboration between the community and media initiatives. It is important to study the phenomena in various cultural and social cHyper-local news appears often in discussion about the future of the news media and potential alternative models. There is a strong need to analyse development of hyper-local news initiatives to better understand the needs of this sector, possibilities and challenges of collaboration between the community and media initiatives. It is important to study the phenomena in various cultural and social
Since the 1979 Revolution, the clerical regime in Iran has been limiting the legal profession’s autonomy by preventing members of the Iranian Bar Association (IBA) from freely electing their Board of Directors and by establishing a new body of lawyers—legal advisors of the judiciary—to contest the IBA’s professional monopoly. Clerics have even attempted to bring the legal profession under the contSince the 1979 Revolution, the clerical regime in Iran has been limiting the legal profession’s autonomy by preventing members of the Iranian Bar Association (IBA) from freely electing their Board of Directors and by establishing a new body of lawyers—legal advisors of the judiciary—to contest the IBA’s professional monopoly. Clerics have even attempted to bring the legal profession under the cont
Humanekologiska avdelningen Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiMikhail Martynovich"Technology shifts, Labour Mobility and Transformation of Industry Spaces: Evidence from Swedish regions"Presentation: The Swedish economy has undergone substantial structural change over last three decades. Overwhelming forces of ‘creative destruction’, technological progress and tertiarisation o
https://www.keg.lu.se/forskning/forskningsprojekt/avslutade-avhandlingsprojekt/2017-avslutade-avhandlingsprojekt - 2026-04-27
Popular Abstract in English Consumption of multimedia content is one of the main tasks we perform in our day-to- day lives, such as listening to music on an iPod or watching the news from an online steaming service. As technology has evolved and enabled easier access to different content (basically access anything anywhere), our consumption has grown. In only the last decades we have evolved from Multimedia has become one of the cornerstones of our 21st century society and, when combined with mobility, has enabled a tremendous evolution of our society. However, joining these two concepts introduces many technical challenges. These range from having sufficient performance for handling multimedia content to having the battery stamina for acceptable mobile usage. When taking a projection of w
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES EMILIE STROH The talk will guide you through sound and noise's different impact on physiological and psychological health and wellbeing.How, where and to what kind of noise are we exposed? How will this affect our current, and future, health? What are the noise effects for the society, population and individual?Why do we experience noise and sounds differen
https://www.lmc.lu.se/aktiviteter/aktiviteter-2020/physiological-and-psychological-impact-sound-and-noise - 2026-04-27
17th European Research Conference on HomelessnessLeuven, September 14th and 15th, 2023Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen & Cecilia HeuleRECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare TransformationHomelessness is an extensive societal problem in Sweden which poses major challenges for the social services in developing sustainable and effective methods that can meet the service user’s needs
The basic relevance of this thesis is the need to always examine the democratic society and its evolvement. In the year 2008 a new law was enacted. It changed the so called ´FRA-law` which regard the institution ´Swedish Defence Radio Authority` and enabled it to wiretap all telephone and Internet traffic that crosses Sweden's borders. With these two central factors for a ´good` democratic com
3 november 2025 15:15 till 17:00 | Föreläsning Open lecture with Rudra Sil, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and SAS Director of the dual-degree Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business AbstractIn a previous volume, Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford University Press, 2018), my colleagues and I l
16 april 2026 08:00 till 18:00 | Workshop Curious about what microplastics and nanoplastic look like? Come and explore, count, and talk with us about this tiny, fascinating, yet alarming, world. We will look through microscopes and produce and manipulate art. Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, with micro- and nanoplastics emerging as a significa
https://www.lu.se/evenemang/beyond-plastic-bottle-what-are-we-actually-doing - 2026-04-28
Existing literature on entrepreneurial learning and venture development within accelerators is limited to the perspective of the organisers of such programs. ost studies have been conducted on developed for high-tech ventures in commercial sectors. This paper aims to new insights into the start-up’s perception on skill development an accelerator for social entrepreneurship. Whil the need for socia
9 juni 2026 13:15 till 15:15 | Workshop Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is associated with interdisciplinary research - and with good reason. But we don't only provide support to our own research groups, we want to inspire more LU researchers to interdisciplinary endeavours. One logical step towards this goal? Finding funding... Finding funding for cross and interdisciplinary research pro
https://www.pi.lu.se/evenemang/funding-interdisciplinary-research-how-where-when-whom-0 - 2026-04-27
9 juni 2026 13:15 till 15:15 | Workshop Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is associated with interdisciplinary research - and with good reason. But we don't only provide support to our own research groups, we want to inspire more LU researchers to interdisciplinary endeavours. One logical step towards this goal? Finding funding... Finding funding for cross and interdisciplinary research pro
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/evenemang/funding-interdisciplinary-research-how-where-when-whom-0 - 2026-04-28
Payment Services Directive (PSD) was designed with the objective of constituting a new legal framework in the field of payments in the European Union. The Directive not only introduces several new solutions, but also transforms those already existing – reshaping the legal background to a large extent. It is clearly visible that the area of payments is a vastly complex part of the EU law. One shou
