The Swedish Model Conflict or Consensus ? HÅKAN

The Role of Biotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture: Views and Perceptions among Key Actors in the Swedish Food Supply Chain

Researchers have put forward agricultural biotechnology as one possible tool for increasing food production and making agriculture more sustainable. In this paper, it is investigated how key actors in the Swedish food supply chain perceive the concept of agricultural sustainability and the role of biotechnology in creating more sustainable agricultural production systems. Based on policy docume...

Economic valuation for sustainable development in the Swedish coastal zone.

The Swedish coastal zone is a scene of conflicting interests about various goods and services provided by nature. Open-access conditions and the public nature of many services increase the difficulty in resolving these conflicts. "Sustainability" is a vague but widely accepted guideline for finding reasonable trade-offs between different interests. The UN view of sustainable development suggest...

Climate change frames and frame formation: An analysis of climate change communication in the Swedish agricultural sector

While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions and mainstream media representations, this thesis offers an audience-specific departure point by analysing climate change frames and frame formation in Swedish agriculture. The empirical material consists of Swedish farm magazines’ reporting on climate change, as well as eight focus gro...

Aerial photo interpretation for change detection of treeline ecotones in the Swedish mountains

Comparing Conflict Related Terms in Swedish and Malay

In this paper I we will compare the semantic fields of conflict and non-conflict (conflict handling) in Swedish and Malay. For an introduction to concept of “semantic fields”, cf Trier (1931), Weisgerber (1953-54), Lehrer (1974), Lyons (1977). The study covers words which may be used to refer to or describe conflict and non-conflict (conflict handling), rather than words by which conflict could...