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2018/19 Rovdjursinventering Lodjur
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den senaste inventeringen av lodjur under vintern 2018/19 visar att det finns cirka 1 200 lodjur i Sverige. Det är samma nivå som förra årets inventering. Populationen ligger därmed fortfarande över referensvärdet för gynnsam bevarandestatus som är minst 870 individer.Flera myndigheter och organisationer är delaktiga i rovdjursövervakningen. Naturvårdsverket utarbetar instruktioner för den metodik som används för inventering av lodjur och övriga stora rovdjur, samt granskar och fastställer de årliga inventeringsresultaten. Länsstyrelserna ansvarar för de praktiska inventeringarna av stora rovdjur på regional nivå. Länsstyrelsen kontrollerar och dokumenterar de rovdjursobservationer som har betydelse för inventeringsresultaten. Observationerna registreras i databasen Rovbase. Länsstyrelsernas rovdjursinventeringar i renskötselområdet bedrivs i nära samarbete med landets 51 samebyar som är delaktiga i inventeringarna av stora rovdjur. Svenska Jägareförbundet bidrar också i inventeringsarbetet bland annat genom att registrera rovdjursobservationer och bistår vid behov länsstyrelsen i inventeringsverksamheten. Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt (SVA) samlar in data och prover från döda rovdjur så att andra myndigheter och institutioner får de data och prover som efterfrågas.
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2050 Ett koldioxid neutralt Sverige
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 2050 ska Sverige inte längre bidra till växthuseffekten. Visionen är att nettoutsläppen av växthusgaser ska vara noll. Det övergripande målet är att ökningen av jordens medeltemperatur ska begränsas till två grader och att koncentrationen av växthusgaser i atmosfären stabiliseras vid högst 400 ppm. Utifrån de politiska målen har Naturvårdsverket i samverkan med andra myndigheterutformat ett underlag till plan för hur visionen skulle kunna uppnås.Omställnngen till ett klimatneutralt samhälle behöver ske i globalt samförstånd. Varken Sverige eller EU kan ensamt genomföra en sådan omställning. Det finns samtidigt många fördelar med att ta sig an utmaningen tidigt, att utveckla ny teknik och starta arbetet med nödvändiga samhällsomställningar.Vi menar att visionen om ett klimatneutralt Sverigekan nås genom:Stora inhemska utsläppsminskningar, det ser vi somden viktigaste beståndsdelen på längre siktBidrag från ett ökat nettoupptag av koldioxid i skogoch markUtsläppsminskningar i andra länder för att balanserakvarvarande utsläpp
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31 recommendations for increased profit - reducing waste
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Those companies and organizations that wish to ensure long-term profitability must successively decrease resource use in both product development and in product usage. Primarily, it is waste that must be reduced, i.e. the consumption of resources that do not add to customer value or to the organization. Waste is widespread in all operations. Even in well-functioning processes, more than half of the resource consumption can be classified as waste. One obstacle to waste elimination is that most waste is hidden. Thus, executives, middle management and specialists must prioritize efforts to uncover the waste in their operations.Building and construction activities consist of a complex system of decisions, components, organizations and processes that must be coordinated. There are therefore many explanations as to why waste arises, or does not. Based on a series of discussions with experienced builders, consultants, contractors and materials providers, five main groups of factors that characterize effective operations were found. In this report these factors are illustrated in the form of a “value pyramid”. A holistic view of long-term customer benefits is the apex of the pyramid. Structure, competence, leadership and culture act as the driving forces at each corner of the pyramid’s foundation. Should one of the corners gives way, then the pyramid risks toppling over.With the value pyramid as support, 31 recommendations for what should be done to reduce waste are presented. These are aimed at standardizing the product from an overall perspective (five recommendations), defining and standardizing processes (ten recommendations), developing the organization and its competence (seven recommendations), disciplining management (five recommendations), and driving continuous improvement work (four recommendations). Reducing uncertainties and increasing effective time utilization are the red threads, as the Swedes would say, that run through all the recommendations.Everyone who uses resources has a responsibility to reduce waste. By systematically monitoring one’s own use of time, one can gain insights that will help improve one’s work situation. However, the burden of initiating and driving improvements overall obviously lies with management. How this should be done depends on the nature and purpose of the activities as well as on the organization’s capabilities. It is to manage this progress and achieve profitability that managers are appointed. It is in the interest of all enterprises and organizations to develop the ability and an interest to detect and understand what work/task is value adding what is not. This ability will provide possibilities to develop new competitive advantages and new business concepts.
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5 Stora – försök att minska övergödningen
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fem pilotprojektUnder 2010 satsade Naturvårdsverket bland annat på fem större pilotprojekt som ansökt om finansiering från Havsmiljöanslaget. Den gemensamma nämnar en för projekten är att man kommer att genomföra omfattande åtgärder i jordbruksdominerade pilotområden för att ta reda på hur belastningen från jordbruk kan minska ytterligare. Man kommer att mäta och utvärdera nyttan av de genomförda åtgärderna och utveckla metoder och arbetssätt för genomförande där jordbrukare och andra aktörer som påverkar vattenmiljöerna arbetar tillsammans. Resultaten från projekten bedöms kunna ge ett bättre underlag för vidare åtgärdsinsatser för att förbättra miljötillståndet i havet. De fyra första projekten arbetar i mindre avrinningsområden med stor andel jordbruksmark, medan det femte projektet, Slätbaken, innefattar ett större land- och vattenområde.
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- Aaberge, Rolf, et al.
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U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms. Where the US earned income tax credit (EITC) is phased out and favours low and medium earnings, the Swedish system is not phased out and offers 17 and 7 per cent tax credit for low and medium low incomes and a lump-sum tax deduction equal to approximately 2300 USD for medium and higher incomes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency and distributional effects of these two alternative tax credit designs. We pay particular attention to labour market exclusion; i.e. individuals within as well as outside the labour force are included in the analysis. To highlight the importance of the joint effects from the tax and the benefit systems it appears particular relevant to analyse the labour supply behaviour of single mothers. To this end, we estimate a structural random utility model of labour supply and welfare participation. The model accounts for heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences as well as for heterogeneity and constraints in job opportunities. The results of the evaluation show that the Swedish system without phase-out generates substantial larger labour supply responses than the US version of the tax credit. Due to increased labour supply and decline in welfare participation we find that the Swedish reform is self-financing for single mothers, whereas a 10 per cent deficit follows from the adapted EITC version used in this study. However, where income inequality rises modestly under the Swedish tax credit system, the US version with phase-out leads to a significant reduction in the income inequality.
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- Aabrekk, S., et al.
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Deliverable 2.2 Possible market strategies for one stop shops of renovation of single family house. : Report prepared for Nordic Innovation Centre
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The document describes examples of missions, visions and strategies based on the potentialpiloting models defined in report 3.2. It is based on status of interest amongst thestakeholders, and the information, figures and challenges which were discussed in the reportD 2.1 Stakeholder interests. The different service models will request different missionsdepending on the stakeholder in charge of the model. Also visions and strategies could bedifferent depending on the composition of services (core business) offered within each pilot aswell as the additional services offered by sub suppliers and the network connected to the pilot.In the report D2.1 Stakeholders interests, the following 5 different piloting models aresuggested:Type 1 Joint venture of industry, retailers and contractorsType 2 Joint venture of construction/renovation, industry and architect/engineering companiesType 3 Complementary businesses expand their business into renovationType 4 Joint venture of type house producer, bank and home owner associationType 5 Energy/building consultant, real estate agent and financing institutions, e.g. bankIn this report we have described mission, vision and market strategies for 4 existing orproposed models; The Project Manager by Bolig Enøk, from Norway (type 1), ENRA concept(type 2) and K-Rauta & Rautia (type 3) from Finland, and ProjectLavenergi (type 2) fromDenmark. Cleantech by Dong Energy (type 3) from Denmark is also addressed, but notdescribed in detail. As there is no concrete examples representing two of the models fromD2.1 (types 4 and 5), we have made a theoretical exercise in developing mission, vision andmarket strategies for type 5 model, while type 4 is not handled.It may be concluded that there are commercial actors in different parts of the value chainwhich see an opportunity in developing different approaches of “one stop shops” for energyefficient holistic renovations. The concepts are still in a development phase and differ inrespect to how they are organised (as supply side). We may say that the pilots in the differentcountries also find inspiration from each other through this research project. Due to thecomplexity of a holistic renovation project, it is a prerequisite with good partnerships even inthe development phase. In all identified models there is however one main actor taking thelead and ownership to the business model.Independent of the business model the responsible company needs to make some strategicchoices. The starting point is the SWOT analysis which sums up all major challenges for therespective business model. How the strategies should be developed is described in this report.Although the main target group for this report is companies seeing an interest in developingbusiness models for renovation, we found some important issues identified in the SWOTanalysis which the authorities may influence including lack of interest in the market (need ofmore public attention through holistic campaigns), fragmented solutions (stop subsidisingsingle measures without a holistic plan), serious vs unserious companies (need of certificationsystems to build credibility), cost focus leads to limited renovation (need of subventionschemes for holistic retrofitting including tax deduction measures) and finally lack incompetence within companies (need of support to training and collaboration acrosscompanies).
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- Aad, G., et al.
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Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV in dilepton final states
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A measurement is presented of the production cross section of top quark pairs (σ_{\ttbar{}}) in proton-proton (pp) collisions at √s = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Using a data sample of 35 pb−1, candidate events are selected in the dilepton topology with large missing transverse energy, \met{}, and at least two jets.A baseline analysis employing kinematic properties of the candidate events to separate the signal from background and using data-driven techniques to determine the most important backgrounds, results in a measurement ofσ_{\ttbar{}} = 173 ± 22(stat.)+18 −16(syst.)+8 −7(lum.) pb,where the three uncertainties are from statistics, systematics and integrated luminosity, respectively.We also perform a cross section measurement requiring at least one b-tagged jet and a looser kinematic selection that increases the signal-to-background ratio, yieldingσ_{\ttbar{}} = 171 ± 22(stat.)+21 -16(syst.)+7 −6(lum.) pb.Additional studies are performed to corroborate these measurements; a technique that normalizes the \ttbar{} signal yield to the measured rate of Z decays, a two-dimensional template shape fit using the \met{} vs the number of jets to simultaneously measure the production cross sections of \ttbar{}, WW and Z → ττ final states, and a simultaneous measurement of σ_{\ttbar{}} and the b-tagging efficiency using the distribution of the number of tagged jets in each event.All the measurements are in good agreement with each other and the Standard Model prediction.
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