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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
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Crossing dichotomies and breaking mental patterns: Green business development when all else fails?
- 2017
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Ingår i: 8th International Scientific Conference “Rural Development 2017: Bioeconomy Challenges”, 23–24 November, 2017 Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Obtaining sustainable and inclusive societal organization is not merely a simple matter of ‘doing it’ by subscribing to some winning formula. Given that conceptual frameworks always guide our thoughts, judgments and actions (Latour, 2013; Harvey, 1996; Dennett, 1993), the ways in which we relate to concepts chosen to serve as guiding forces for future development will eventually determine its outcome. As scholarly evidence continuously suggests the concepts ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ are increasingly recognized as artificial barriers for conducting sound and integrated development endeavors in a globalized reality of interconnectedness. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eradicate poverty, shield the planet and safeguard prosperity for all, commitment to universal access to healthy food year round has become an important agenda point. This, however, has been exacerbated by binary thinking and separate ways of doing policy. This paper aims to share experiences from a unique project launched in the northern parts of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. While the area offers ample resources and immense opportunities for areal economies, it at the same time remains one of Gothenburg’s most segregated, with high levels of unemployment, ill health and crime. The uniqueness of the project lies not only in its way of abridging the rural-urban divide, but also by consciously deferring from the debilitating rhetoric of previous ‘immigrant policies’, and instead focusing on agricultural productivity, small-scale food producers and sustainable food strategies. Such exhortations to bridge between philosophical and material polarities, however, have not come without conceptual and practical challenges, something this paper aims to subsume and open up to debate.
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- Ask, Anna, et al.
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Studenters uppmärksamhet under föreläsningar
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings utvecklingskonferens 09 Lunds Universitet. - 9789197797429 ; , s. 112-120
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Föreläsningar är vanlig undervisningsform på Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH). Deras stora fördel är att information överförs ekonomiskt och effektivt till många studenter samtidigt men de har även sina begränsningar. Kritiker menar att information överförs till passivt mottagande studenter och att bristande uppmärksamhet och engagemang hos studenterna begränsar mängden kunskap som faktiskt tas emot. En intervju- och litteraturstudie har genomförts för att dels inventera vilka metoder som finns för att hålla studenternas uppmärksamhet uppe och dels vilka som tillämpas av föreläsare vid LTH. Variation och olika former av aktivering framstår såväl i litteraturen som i intervjuerna som viktiga metoder. I artikeln presenteras även inspiration kring hur man kan använda variation, och andra aktiviteter för att engagera och aktivera studenterna samt hur man kan strukturera en föreläsning. De flesta av de intervjuade föreläsarna uppger att de utvecklat sina strategier genom erfarenhet medan knappt hälften nämner pedagogiska kurser.
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- Hagbert, Pernilla, 1986, et al.
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Reducing water consumption
- 2012
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Ingår i: 1st RESPONDER Knowledge Brokerage Event on Sustainable Housing, 28-30 March, 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Mangold, Mikael, 1982, et al.
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Who benefits? Effects and perceptions of residential volumetric water billing
- 2012
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Ingår i: 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, 29 May-1 June, 2012, Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- What are the effects and perceptions of increased installation of water metering and volumetric billing in residential areas in Sweden? An interview study was undertaken in a low-income suburb of Göteborg to explore residents’ experiences and opinions. Additionally, the interests of water and energy companies, social affairs committee, real estate owner and maintainer were investigated to contrast the added value of reduced water consumption. Stakeholders either benefit or are disadvantaged by the introduced system. Furthermore, the applied tariff structure fails to motivate all segments of the population to reduce water consumption, yet still inequitably burdens the most financially exposed groups.
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- Garmabaki, Amir H. Soleimani, et al.
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A Survey on Underground Pipelines and Railway Infrastructure at Cross-Sections
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019). - Singapore : Research Publishing Services. ; , s. 1094-1101
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Underground pipelines are an essential part of the transportation infrastructure. The structural deterioration of pipelines crossing railways and their subsequent failures are critical for society and industry resulting in direct and indirect costs for all the related stakeholders. Pipeline failures are complex processes, which are affected by many factors, both static (e.g., pipe material, size, age, and soil type) and dynamic (e.g., traffic load, pressure zone changes, and environmental impacts). These failures have serious impacts on public due to safety, disruption of traffic, inconvenience to society, environmental impacts and shortage of resources. Therefore, continuous and accurate condition assessment is critical for the effective management and maintenance of pipeline networks within transportation infrastructure. The aim of this study is to identify failure modes and consequences related to the crossing of pipelines in railway corridors. Expert opinion have been collected through two set of questionnaires which have been distributed to the 291 municipalities in the whole Sweden. The failure analysis revealed that pipe deformation has higher impact followed by pipe rupture at cross-section with railway infrastructure. For underground pipeline under railway infrastructure, aging and external load gets higher ranks among different potential failure causes to the pipeline.
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- Lanau, Maud, 1989, et al.
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The Industrial Ecology of the Göteborg City Region — a first appraisal
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Society for Industrial Ecology 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An infrastructure system – here, the industrial ecology of Gothenburg — is more important for society than we usually credit it for (cf. Technology is society made durable, Latour 1990) and is taken for granted by most inhabitants. Gothenburg is an unusually well-developed and interconnected infrastructure system. The first district heating facility was put in operation in 1952. Soon enough, waste was re-used and recycled into energy, into both electricity and heat. With time, more varied materials and sources became integrated into the system to also produce biogas and compost. The project makes a historiographic description of how the industrial ecology of the Gothenburg city region developed since the Gothenburg technical environmental flow system is unique in size, age, diversity of flows and functions. The study describes environmental flows and their actors in a networked organization. The focus on interconnectivity of the different actors, flows and sectors of Gothenburg requires the combination of several theoretical fields. Such theoretical fields include Networked Learning, which takes a relational stance in which learning takes place both in relation to others, and in relation to learning resources (Dirckinck-Homfeld et al., 2009); STS (Science Technology and Society), which study how technical innovation are affected by social, political and cultural values, and how these innovation affect, in turn, political, social and cultural values; (Joerges & Novotny, 2003); and Urban Metabolism, which uses models to facilitate the description and analysis of the flows of the energy and materials within cities, such as Material Flow Analysis of a city, and provides a metaphorical framework to study the interactions of natural and human systems in specific regions. Preliminary findings will be presented.
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- Frühwald, Eva, et al.
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Teachers’ view on combining assessment elements into a holistic assessment concept
- 2008
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing].
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedAssessments of students’ knowledge and skills are sometimes habitually performed, but the design of proper assessment concepts – beneficial to both teaching and learning – ought to be a central issue for all course planners in higher education. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss a variety of assessment elements, as well as ways in which to combine them. It uses experiences from Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LTH) to provide suggestions and advice for course planners. The discussion is based on the combination of a literature review in the field of teaching and learning, of empirical material obtained from surveys and group discussions with 22 teachers at LTH, and of the authors’ own experiences in their capacity as course leaders and teachers. The study reveals a preference for projects and written assessment, as compared with the less preferred individual oral assessment. The paper indicates potential for quality enhancements through the adapted tailoring of assessment elements into holistic assessment concepts.
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- Wikby, Pierre, 1995, et al.
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The influence of parameter variability on subsidence
- 2023
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Ingår i: 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering. ; , s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leakage into rock tunnels covered by thick soft clay deposits may cause a pore water pressure drop over large areas through underdrainage, resulting in settlement problems and potential damage to structures. In urban areas, heterogeneity in soil properties can be substantial. In this paper, a case study with a systematic sensitivity analysis combined with coupled hydro-mechanical finite element analyses was performed for three key parameters (overconsolidation ratio, vertical hydraulic conductivity and hydraulic anisotropy) considering one scenario of underdrainage. The results show that both the magnitude and uncertainty of settlements are strongly stratigraphy-dependent. The overconsolidation ratio contributed the most to the settlement uncertainty and the effect of vertical hydraulic conductivity was also found to be significant, while the changes in hydraulic anisotropy had negligible influence.
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