This thesis aimed to investigate how a rising sea level would affect the livable area of the island Fongafale, Tuvalu. Through the IPCC stabilization scenarios it was examined which areas of the island that would be affected by flooding. The local population?s perceptions of the effects of climate change were studied to see how the consequences of a world-wide problem such as global warming affect people's lives. The paper clarified the Tuvaluans place in the discussion of climate refugees, explained IPCC's work and described the results of previous studies concerning people in Fongafales perceptions and concerns about climate-related changes.

Intranet is today a common technical groupware to communicate in many organisations. People can interact through the Intranet and communicate within the organization and get relevant information according to their workplace. It can be difficult to get everybody to use the Intranet as an information- and communication tool. This causes problems when people want to reach out with information. With these thoughts we entered our work at Luftfartsverket at Arlanda Airport.

Analysen visar på att flygplatsfrågan är en diskussion som byggs utifrån en ekonomisk representation, där olika bilder framträder. Samarbete och tillväxt är två tankelinjer i flygplatsfrågan. I materialet framträder tankar kring samarbete, både som något svårt att lösa men också nödvändigt för utveckling och framtid. Den andra framträdande tanken bygger på tillväxt, en konkurrenstanke kring ökning av produktion och marknadsvinster. Konkurrenstanken är starkt närvarande i både samarbets- och tillväxtdiskussionerna, samtidigt framstår i analysen en alternativ konkurrensbild växa fram.

This thesis aimed to investigate how a rising sea level would affect the livable area of the island Fongafale, Tuvalu. Through the IPCC stabilization scenarios it was examined which areas of the island that would be affected by flooding. The local population?s perceptions of the effects of climate change were studied to see how the consequences of a world-wide problem such as global warming affect people's lives. The paper clarified the Tuvaluans place in the discussion of climate refugees, explained IPCC's work and described the results of previous studies concerning people in Fongafales perceptions and concerns about climate-related changes.

In this thesis, it is investigated if it is possible to create a common factor of the work tasks done by an air traffic controller, which then can measure workload. This will lead to the development of a tool to measure workload at small Airports. In the research project a questionnaire is created to measure the different tasks an air traffic controller has. The same questionnaire will also measure the number of environmental factors that exists around the air traffic controller. To measure the validity of the questionnaire, the authors are using NASA-TLX.

I denna rapport redovisas ett examensarbete för högskoleingenjörer inom produktutveckling med inriktning industriell design. Arbetet är utfört på företaget Mase Brush AB i Eskilstuna och innefattar produktutveckling av ett kassettborstsystem. Kassettborstsystemet används till att sopa bort snö från flygbanor samt för att ta bort eventuella gummirester och smuts under sommaren.  Problemet studenterna fick baserades på en hypotes som skulle bevisas. Därefter har studenterna utvecklat ett koncept som löser problemet. Hypotesen innefattar teorier om en så kallad fläkteffekt som gör att ett luftdrag skapas som drar med sig snö till fel sida av systemet. Detta gör att flygbanorna inte blir helt fria från snö. Studenterna har bevisat hypotesen med hjälp utav enklare datasimuleringar samt tillverkat en prototyp som tester utförts på.

The purpose of the study is to investigate and elucidate how low-cost airlines can influence and develop tourism in a region. In order to bring about the purpose the author used two research questions. Have low-cost airlines contributed to regional development? How many additional visitors have low-cost airlines contributed to Stockholm? In order to answer these questions a survey was carried out at Arlanda Airport and statistics were collected. The results of the study show that there has been a regional development.

This report describes how the system may be exposed to oscillations and how this can lead to resonance. Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is affected by external periodic oscillations with frequencies close to the system's natural frequencies. Structures subjected to resonance can risk great damage and destruction, why resonance is something that is important to take into account when designing structures. Alternative ways to counteract resonance is to supply damping in the system. Damping means that the resonance decreases instead of letting the amplitude increase.The report discusses some examples on constructions that have experienced the effect of resonance.

This report describes how the system may be exposed to oscillations and how this can lead to resonance. Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is affected by external periodic oscillations with frequencies close to the system's natural frequencies. Structures subjected to resonance can risk great damage and destruction, why resonance is something that is important to take into account when designing structures. Alternative ways to counteract resonance is to supply damping in the system. Damping means that the resonance decreases instead of letting the amplitude increase.The report discusses some examples on constructions that have experienced the effect of resonance.

This report describes how the system may be exposed to oscillations and how this can lead to resonance. Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is affected by external periodic oscillations with frequencies close to the system's natural frequencies. Structures subjected to resonance can risk great damage and destruction, why resonance is something that is important to take into account when designing structures. Alternative ways to counteract resonance is to supply damping in the system. Damping means that the resonance decreases instead of letting the amplitude increase.The report discusses some examples on constructions that have experienced the effect of resonance.

This report describes how the system may be exposed to oscillations and how this can lead to resonance. Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is affected by external periodic oscillations with frequencies close to the system's natural frequencies. Structures subjected to resonance can risk great damage and destruction, why resonance is something that is important to take into account when designing structures. Alternative ways to counteract resonance is to supply damping in the system. Damping means that the resonance decreases instead of letting the amplitude increase.The report discusses some examples on constructions that have experienced the effect of resonance.

This report describes how the system may be exposed to oscillations and how this can lead to resonance. Resonance is a phenomenon that occurs when a system is affected by external periodic oscillations with frequencies close to the system's natural frequencies. Structures subjected to resonance can risk great damage and destruction, why resonance is something that is important to take into account when designing structures. Alternative ways to counteract resonance is to supply damping in the system. Damping means that the resonance decreases instead of letting the amplitude increase.The report discusses some examples on constructions that have experienced the effect of resonance.

The overall aim is to examine how the European Union Water Framework Directive has affected the local water management in the catchment Märstaån situated in the eastern part of the lake Mälaren river basin, Sweden. The first part of the study gives an historical overview of the area with focus on how the old agricultural landscape was handling the nutrient load from farming activities by means of different kinds of wetlands. By using the concept of the procedural landscape, introduced by Torsten Hägerstrand , together with historical maps with dates starting from the 17th century, the pre-modern landscape is analyzed.  The second part is an investigation, based on qualitative data, on how the different actors in the catchment area work together to secure the water quality for the Märstaån river. The analysis shows that the Märstaån catchment river systems are mostly unchanged in the rural areas.  The exception is the mainstream section of the Märstaån river running partly underground today and the Halmsjöbäcken river that is heavily affected by the Arlanda Airport situated within the catchment area.

This thesis consider alternatives for heating and cooling planned office buildings at Arlanda Airport. The thesis is divided into three parts where the third part is a shorter synthesis of the two first. In the first part the energy demands of the buildings are modelled in a computer program. Two different building models are created, one more conventional and one with good energy properties. The results shows that with proper construction and ventilation systems etc.

Problem: I den globaliserade värld vi lever i är den generella uppfattningen att samverkan är ett konkurrensmedel för företag. Det råder dock brist på explicit teoretiskt förankrade studier som kritiskt analyserar samverkan och dessutom handlar mycket av dagens samverkansforskning om det intraorganisatoriska perspektivet. Detta ser vi som ett problem då företag i dagens samhälle arbetar alltmer i nätverk. Att företag bildar nätverksorganisationer kan nämligen leda till intressekonflikter då flera olika intressen ska sammanlänkas, vilket kan vara problematiskt för chefen/ledaren.Syfte: Vårt syfte med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka samverkansproblem chefer/ledare kan komma att konfronteras med i en nätverksorganisation.Metod: Syftet ska uppnås genom att empiriskt studera och analysera nätverksorganisationen Kristianstad Airports samverkan. Metoden vi använder oss av är en intervjubaserad kvalitativ fallstudie.Resultat: Det största problemet för en chef/ledare på Kristianstad Airport är att en av organisationerna är politiskt styrd.