This essay deals with risk management and social risks, which have received increased attentionin recent years. Methods for dealing with social risks, for example within local Risk andvulnerability assessment (RSA), are currently under development. The purpose of this paper is toexamine if and how social risk can be quantitatively assessed and mapped using GeographicInformation Systems (GIS). The definition of social risk that the essay is based on states: "Theprobability of unwanted events, behaviors or conditions originating in the social conditions thathave a negative impact on the objects that are worth to preserve.? A number of social riskindicators that can be used for a spatial analysis have been operationalized based on thisdefinition.

Syfte: K3-regelverket kom att bli tvingande för företag att tillämpa från januari i år. En nyhet med regelverket var komponentavskrivning, en avskrivningsmetod som innebär att företagens tillgångar ska delas in i olika komponenter som är av betydelse och som har en nyttjandeperiod som väsentligt skiljer sig från hela tillgången i sig. SABO var redan innan införandet kritisk till metoden och uttalade sig om att byggnader är komplexa tillgångar och menar att metoden innebär att kostnaden kommer att överstiga nyttan, speciellt för fastighetsbolagen. Med det som utgångspunkt kommer studiens syfte att behandla hur ledande befattningshavare i allmännyttiga bostadsföretag tillämpar och upplever det strikta kravet på komponentavskrivning. Vidare undersöks vilka faktorer som kan tänkas påverka det föregående.Metod: Studien utgår från en tolkande forskningstradition som ämnar att skapa en bättre förståelse kring hur ledande befattningshavare i allmännyttiga bostadsföretag upplever komponentavskrivning och hur tillämpningen av metoden kommer att ske.

Syfte: Att identifiera metoder för projektledare att använda motivation för att minimera negativ stress. Metod: Kvalitativa djupintervjuer Slutsatser: Vi har definierat tre metoder som bidrar till att en internaliseringskedja påbörjas. Internalisering ökar den inre motivationen både hos projektledare och hos projektdeltagare och kan bidra till att minska negativ stress. Den första metoden handlar om att utveckla en modell gällande vilken information projektledare behöver från beställare när projekt beställs. Den andra metoden handlar också om behovet av ökad beställarkompetens, och innebär att utbilda beställarna. Den tredje metoden innebär att tydliggöra gränsen mellan projektledarens och projektdeltagarnas ordinarie chefs ansvar när det kommer till motivations- och stressfrågor gällande projektmedlemmarna.

A system to regulate both quality and sustainability regarding Swedish tourism industry is under way. In order for the system to be successfull it needs to be accompanied by an education, in this case a net based education is studied.High requirements are demanded for a successful net based education for a sustainable tourism industry. This is valid both for the didactic area,  which is how an education is structured and planned and in the organisational area, which is how and education best is implemented in a company. The aim with this study is to increase the understandings of which aspects that are important for  developers  if this net based education. The study was conducted at three hostels in Stockholm with surrondings. Both managers and  employees participated in the study.  The managers where interviewed and got to answer a questionniare.

Veterinary medicine is not merely an area of occupation but also an area of business. In a business the customer service is its identity and brand and more importantly what makes the client choose and recommend the clinic to other potential customers. The licensed veterinary nurse is habitually the one who first meets the clients at the clinic. Therefore it is particularly important for the licensed veterinary nurse at the clinic to offer high-quality customer service. The object of this study was to understand and elucidate how the pet owners experience the encounter with the licensed veterinary nurse at different stages in their contact with the clinic.

Government regulations and customs duties restrict the import of trucks to some of the markets to which Scania tries to sell their trucks. The distribution problem due to these regulations is solved by the foreign assembly department, KD, at Scania. This means that competence is needed and costs are added not related to Scania's core operations.The aim of this master thesis has been to analyse and to evaluate alternative ways of managing the packing operations considering cost, quality and work organisation. To study and examine the work methods and operations of today and also to present methods measuring the operations effectiveness and productivity.We have used the system approach to maintain totality and to understand the component's relation to this totality. Field studies combined with studies of relevant literature and studies of other companies operations have given us the knowledge and the understanding of the packing operations needed.

Växtgestaltning är ett av landskapsarkitektens viktigaste verktyg. Det är också en komplex process eftersom växtmaterialet förändras beroende på faktorer som ståndort, växtzon och årstid. I mitt arbete har jag undersökt växtgestaltningsprocessen genom att ta fram ett förslag som fokuserar på växtgestaltning för hela året. Arbetet har skett genom inventering, analys och intervjuer som ledde fram till ett gestaltningsprogram och en konceptidé. Vid valet av växter använde jag mig av Nick Robinsons metod ?funktion, karaktär, ståndort?.

During the 20th century a significant proportion (about 15 %) of the peat-covered wetlands in Sweden were drained to improve forest productivity. Area wise, most of the forest drainage was done in northern Sweden, but relatively speaking a larger part of the wetlands have been drained in the southern parts of the country. Most often, the forest drainage resulted in increased forest growth, but failures were not unusual, and harmful effects, e.g. on species richness, have been a common cause for draining. Ditch cleaning is necessary for maintaining the ditches in good condition.

Detta examensarbete ger en beskrivning av musikterapin fo?ljt av hur Funktionsinriktad Musikterapi ? FMT va?xte fram. Jag har praktiserat mina teoretiska kunskaper genom att sedan sommaren 2012 fram till idag ha haft FMT-sessioner med tva? adepter som jag valt att kalla Mikael och Malin. Jag redogo?r fo?r den teoretiska beskrivningen av FMT-metoden och det praktiska arbetet med Mikael och Malin.Fo?r att beskriva resultatet har jag valt att anva?nda mig av s.k.

This diploma-work assess the public outdoor space. It has its starting point in, Ålidhem, a town district of Umeå. I have been studying public spaces in the outdoor environment. In this essay this refers to the spaces between the houses. What they are, what they contain, how they function and how they can improved.

Floating housing is a concept gaining ground in Sweden. The dwellings are different in many ways from traditional homes, not only regarding flotation, but also several other technologies. The purpose of this thesis is to emphasize the qualities that exist in living on water. The ambition was to present a proposal for a floating residential area located in Jönköping, containing homes of varying sizes, and to present their technologies. In order to find inspiration and solutions studies have been made on existing floating homes in Stockholm and Kalmar, focusing on their technical and functional solutions.

In this study the practical work with the EU Water Framework starts on the island of Gotland. 33 lakes and 32 streams have been characterized and classified regarding to their ecological status. The aim with the characterisation is to create a uniform discription of all waterbodies and a comparable estimation for the future. The aim with the classification is both to study the waterbodies ecological status and to gain knowledge of where the resources should be concentrated so that the ecological status in all waterbodies will be good in 2015.The characterisation has been done according to the EU Water Framework Directive, and the factors that have been applied are the mean depth and area of the lake. The length and size on the catchment area are the factors that have been used on streams.

Många elever i förskolan är flerspråkiga, vilket kan få konsekvenser för personalens arbete för deras behov av ökade kunskaper. För att dessa möten skall vara berikande för barnens utveckling krävs en medvetenhet hos personalen genom att de skapar ett arbetssätt som stödjer barnen i att utveckla två språk och blir delaktiga i två kulturer. Lärarna behöver därför ta hjälp av andra metoder än bara talspråket för att kunna göra sig förstådda. En sådan arbetsmetod är TPR.Syftet med detta arbete har varit att jämföra TPR metoden med de strävandemål som ges i läroplanen för förskolan angående språkutveckling hos barn med annat modersmål än svenska. Därför gjorde vi en sammanställning av de strävandemål angående språk som ges i läroplan för förskolan ställda mot empirin samt litteratur.

In one of six garbage collectors area in Cairo, Esbet el Nakhl, there's a handicap school run by the Coptic church. We chose to study this school using observations and interviews. The purpose of our thesis has been to describe the school, the goals of the education and the educational forms. The questions we asked our selves before the trip to Cairo were; how does the school look like? What's a garbage collectors area? How do the teachers educate the children? How's the situation for the handicapped children?We spent six days of observations and interviews at the school gathering information for the thesis.

AbstractPolitical Science, level III thesisSpring semester 2010Author: Emelie AlfredssonSupervisor: Tomas Mitander"A Changed Leadership? - A study of the EU leadership from a institutional standpoint, related to multilateral environmental negotiations"The EU has for a relatively long time considered itself a leader in the environmental policy area as a whole as well as in multilateral environmental negotiations. This study attempts to classify and identify the European leadership with the purpose of relating it to the institutional framework of the Union. The treaties of the European Union decide its ability to act and its institutions the right to engage in different policy areas, the environmental area being the focus of this study. With the recent ratification of the Lisbon treaty this study aims to make out if the type of leadership the Union showed during the Kyoto negotiations has changed with the new treaty, into a new type during the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen.