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- Mensah, Justice Tei, et al.
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Effects of Carnivore Presence on Hunting Lease Pricing in South Sweden
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Carnivore conservation is considered essential because the species offer significant benefits to biodiversity. However, their predation on ungulates reduces ungulate populations with subsequent effects on hunters’ harvests and welfare. In this paper, we use the hedonic price method to estimate the effects of large carnivores on hunting lease prices. We divide the impact of carnivores into two effects: one effect affects game harvests, and the other effect affects the hunters’ direct preferences for the presence of carnivores on hunting land. Results reveal that lynx impose a significant economic cost to owners of hunting rights due to the predation of game. On average, the implicit cost of an additional lynx family is SEK 1.51 million (EUR 0.162 million) per year, and with 95% certainty, the cost per lynx family is at least SEK 340 thousand (EUR 36.6 thousand) per year.
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Mental Maps : Geographical and Historical Perspectives
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- ‘Mental map’ is a term referring to the way people orientate themselves in their spatial surroundings and how they perceive the world. Alongside ‘cognitive map’, its approximate synonym, the concept of a mental map is established in geography, the behavioral sciences, and psychology. Over the past two decades the idea of mental maps has been adopted by historians in analyzing the construction and dissolution of historical regions, the world views of political elites, and patterns of dominance and subalternity. Despite the resonance the concept of mental maps has had in several disciplines, an international multi-disciplinary conversation on mental maps with an emphasis on cultural patterns is still in its earliest stages. The present special journal issue addresses this situation by bringing together scholars from the fields of history, geography, economics, anthropology, and linguistics, and by using a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The idea of this themed issue emerged at a workshop entitled “Mental Mapping – Historical and Social Science Perspectives”, held 12–13 November 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, and the Italian Cultural Institute “C.M. Lerici” in Stockholm. The workshop was arranged by the research project Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region, a joint venture between Södertörn University and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
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- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, et al.
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Le problème de la parole: cours au Collège de France: notes 1953-1954
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Prononcé entre décembre 1953 et avril 1954, «Le problème de la parole» s’inscrit dans le prolongement du «Monde sensible et le monde de l’expression» et des «Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage», leçons professées l’année précédente au Collège de France. Merleau-Ponty explore dans ce cours le sens d’une parole qui émerge du sensible: interrogeant les processus d’acquisition du langage ainsi que les pathologies qui l’affectent, il propose une interprétation originale de la linguistique de Saussure et offre un commentaire d’envergure de l’œuvre de Proust. Chez l’un et l’autre, comme dans l’étude de l’aphasie et de l’apprentissage de la langue chez Jakobson et Goldstein, Merleau-Ponty analyse les pouvoirs créateurs et instituants de la parole, pouvoirs que la littérature porte à son excellence. «Le problème de la parole» ébauche ainsi une philosophie de l’institution et une ontologie qui interrogent l’avènement du sens dans l’entrelacement du sensible et de l’expression. C’est dire toute l’importance de ce cours inédit: présentant l’une des premières lectures philosophiques de Saussure et de Proust, il constitue également une étape essentielle de l’évolution de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty, qui peut éclairer d’un jour nouveau le sens de son ontologie ultime.
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- Merouani, Youssouf, et al.
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Surviving on the island: linking firm survival and contextual factors in a peripheral region
- 2023
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Ingår i: Contextual Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship : Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship series - Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship series. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781035320677 - 9781035320684 ; , s. 12-31
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- The lion’s share of entrepreneurship research highlights conditions in core regions, while entrepreneurship in peripheral areas has been less studied. This longitudinal study aims at exploring the interplay between the peripheral contexts of island and archipelago communities and firm outcomes - paying special attention to spatial variations and non-linear temporal dimensions. We focus on the survival of all firms active on 17 islands in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden during a 20-year period (2000-2019). Using longitudinal multilevel modelling, we find that - despite being a seemingly ‘homogeneous’ place - spatial and temporal variations, however small, would have substantial effects on the conditions for everyday entrepreneurship in these communities. Our results show that firms located on islands with higher population density and seasonal dependability face increased probabilities of exit, while access to digital ecosystems, local services in the form of kindergartens, and year-round grocery stores decrease the probabilities of exit. Islands with thicker institutional context, indicating trust and community support, lead to higher survival rates.
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- Merouani, Youssouf, et al.
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What does it take to survive on an island? : The relationship between firm survival and contextual factors in a peripheral region
- 2021
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Ingår i: On conference web site.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lion's share of entrepreneurship research highlights conditions on core-regions, while entrepreneurship in peripheral areas has been less studied. This study aims at exploring the interplay between the context of island and archipelago communities and firm outcomes – paying special attention to spatial variations and non-linear temporal dimensions. Our focus lies in firms founded in 17 islands of Stockholm Archipelago, from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2019. Using longitudinal multilevel modelling, we find that — despite a seemingly ’homogeneous’ place — spatial and temporal variations, however small, would have substantial effects on the conditions for entrepreneurship in these communities. Our results show that firms located in islands with higher population density and seasonal dependability face increased probabilities of exit while those in islands with access to digital ecosystems, local services in the form of kindergartens and year-round grocery stores have decreased probabilities of exit. Islands with thicker institutional context, indicating trust and community support, are related to increasing survival rates. Distance to market was found to be insignificant in terms of survival.
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- Mertens, Kenneth, et al.
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Process length variation of the cyst of thedinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the NorthPacific and Baltic-Skagerrak region: calibration as anannual density proxy and first evidence ofpseudo-cryptic speciation
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Ingår i: Journal of Quaternary Science. - : Wiley. - 0267-8179 .- 1099-1417. ; 27:7, s. 734-744
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Process length variation of cysts of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum (Claparede et Lachmann) Butschli in surface sediments from the North Pacific was investigated. The average process length showeda significant inverse relation to annual seawater density: t annual= -0.8674 x average process length +1029.3(R2=0.84), with a standard error of 0.78 kgm-3. A sediment trap study from Effingham Inlet in British Columbiarevealed the same relationship between average process length and local seawater density variations. In the Baltic–Skagerrak region, the average process length variation was related significantly to annual seawater density: t annual =3.5457 x average process length -993.28 (R2=0.86), with a standard error of 3.09 kgm3. These calibrations cannot be reconciled, which accentuates the regional character of the calibrations. This can be related to variations in molecular data (small subunit, long subunit and internal transcribed spacer sequences), whichshow the presence of several genotypes and the occurrence of pseudo-cryptic speciation within this species.
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