Syftet med denna studie var att med kvantitativ data undersöka om de deltagare som upplevde respektive inte upplevde en attitydförändring även erfarit att vanorna förändrats vid vissa specifika aktiviteter efter ett hållbarhetsprogram. Studien syftade även till att med kvalitativ data urskilja uppkomsten till den eventuella förändringen. Datainsamling har skett via två enkäter som skickats ut via e-post till 1187 deltagare. Svarsfrekvensen var 477 respektive 200. Deltagarna var kvinnor och män i åldern 25-66.

Mechanization of Swedish agriculture started in the beginning of the twentieth century, to be able to have more animals without raising the number of employers. The horse business has not by far kept up with these cost savings solutions. Cleaning out stables and feeding horses are the most time-consuming tasks in horse stables today. The most common way to clean out the stable is still by shovel and wheelbarrow. The clean out process can easily be mechanized through semi- permanently beds with movable walls between the boxes so that the litter can be removed by a tractor or a loader.

This is an investigation of a mobile prefabrication factory´s competitiveness and profitability which also will result in a suggestion for a design of the factory. The mobile prefabrication factory is an idea of a new concept for production which is meant to be used in the manufacture of slab. The main intention with this concept is that by using a fast established prefabrication factory to produce elements near the construction site, thus avoiding transport from the factory to the building site. This means not only an environmental and economic gain, but also that you can avoid risking damage the elements which often occur during transportation. The contractor is owner of the mobile prefabrication factory and can thus avoid long waiting times and cyclicality.

The essay deals with gender aspects on climate change adaption. The aspects consist of the fact that women in Sweden drive cars less than men, and that women in the developing world are more affected by natural disasters arising from global warming. This study was carried out in the municipality of Huddinge, a suburb to Stockholm, by interviewing one Agenda 21 coordinator, one planner and one student in genderstudies. I also attended a meeting in the Committee for built environment in the Huddinge Municipality, to ask the politicians questions and observe gender structures during the meeting. The results also consist of a search for gender-related words in the documents used in the essay.The results are analysed using ecofeminsim, a theory that connects woman subordination and environmental destruction.

Antifouling paint containing the biocide bisTributyltinoxide (TBTO) has been used since1960 to reduce the occurrence of fouling on hulls on boats/ships. January 1st, 2003 theantifouling paints containing TBTO were prohibited. This ban covered all use of paintcontaining the substance TBTO. The ban was introduced because of alarming observationssuch as development of imposex in aquatic non-target organisms. Imposex is the impositionof male sexual characteristics on mainly female marine snails and occurs due to exposure toTributyltin (TBT).

LKAB är en producent av järnmalmsprodukter och har stora tillverkningsanläggningar i Kiruna. Den stora produkten är pellets, sintrade malmkulor, och i den kulsintringskedjan finns kylare som kyler kulorna från 1300°C till 100°C för att möjliggöra vidare transport. Kylarens botten består av rörliga luckor där glidlagringen i ändarna arbetar i en tuff miljö med hög värme och malmdamm. Lagren smörjs idag med ett otillförlitligt centralsmörjningssystem och problem har uppstått med stort slitage på axlar och bussningar. Orsakerna till en del av problemen har undersökts men det mesta arbetet har gjorts för att undersöka lagerparametrar för ett nytt lagerkoncept.

The purpose of this masters thesis is to evaluate bookmobile service as a decentralised library service. I have made a qualitative interview survey, with seven Swedish municipalities participating, all providing bookmobile service in their rural parts. The purpose with the interviews is to examine their bookmobile service. I have also studied articles on bookmobile service, and decentralisation through small library units in library journals, to get an insight into how the work with decentralised library service is done in Swedish municipalities. In this thesis answer is sought to the following questions: - Which decentralised library services are suitable for inhabitants and institutions in sparsely populated areas, considering factors such as number of inhabitants, proportion of old people and children, demographic changes, economy, possibilities to cooperate with other municipalities? - What is the current bookmobile service situation in Sweden, taking seven municipalities in the region of Småland as a starting point? My conclusions are that each municipality must decide which decentralised library services that best suites their needs.

Jämställdhet låter bra ? men vad är det egentligen vi planarkitekter ska göra? Det finns idag stor kunskap om jämställdhetsarbete och riktlinjer för hur detta arbete bör bedrivas. Samtidigt har inte implementeringen inom planeringsprofessionen utvecklats i någon större omfattning. Frågan är varför det inte har skett, samt hur planarkitekter kan integrera jämställdhetsaspekter i sitt arbete. Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka rekommendationer från experter och deras möjliga tillämpning.

Denna rapport är resultatet av ett examensarbete som har utfört på Security Qube System, SQS, i Skellefteå. Med filosofin att tjuven aldrig ska belönas konstruerar och tillverkar SQS värdetransportväskor med ett patenterat skalskydd. Väskorna är designade för transport och lagring av sedlar, lösa eller packade i plastpåsar, samt ATM kassetter. Deras problem är att väskorna blir tunga, svårhanterliga och har otydliga gränssnitt. Uppgiften har varit att utveckla en värdetransportväska, ämnad för en ATM kassett, med avseende på design, funktion och användarvänlighet.

Detta examensarbetehandlar om barns uppfattningar om sin egen rörelse. Anledningen till denna undersökning är att barn i dagens samhälle är mer stillasittande och övervikten bland barn har ökat. Enligt läroplanen för förskolan ska förskolan sträva mot att barn görs medvetna om vikten av god hälsa. Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka dels vad barn har för definition på begreppet rörelse, dels undersöka hur barn upplever rörelsen på förskolan och om de anser att det är viktigt med rörelse. Fjorton femåriga barn intervjuades enskilt där intervjun försöktes göras som ett samtal.

Vi lever i en värld där handeln mellan länder ökat kraftigt och blivit mer global. Avståndensom varor transporteras har blivit allt längre. På grund av förändringarna i världshandeln harefterfrågan på fler och längre transporter skapats. Till följd av detta har den ökande trafikenen allt större negativ inverkan på natur och människa, både globalt och regionalt, genomexempelvis buller och utsläpp av koldioxid. Idag står lastbilen för den största inverkan avtransportsektorns miljöpåverkan.Studie har haft till syfte att fylla i luckor i forskningen genom att utreda och jämföra EUR-palloch DACA:s plastpall utifrån deras användningscykel.

Environmental issues and sustainable development is a high priority in today?s society and has received substantial attention lately. In the inaugural speech it is expressed that the goal for the IT?politics is a sustainable information society for everyone, which can be achieved by using IT to support sustainable growth. The Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications has developed a document which outlines three specific proposals on what the government should focus on during a three?year period (2008?2010) that with the use of IT will contribute to a sustainable society.

Shopping for groceries often means that, as consumers, we travel to the grocery store ourselves, by ear, bike or on foot. At the store we pick out the groceries that we want, go the register and pay for them. During the last couple of years consumers in Sweden have been given the opportunity to let someone else select and transport the groceries to their home instead, so called home shopping. As this report is being written, the possibility to buy groceries this way is somewhat limited, but many forecasters believe that in the near future it will increase immensely. Because of the large volumes of groceries that are being transported, there is great transport work being done in the supply chain.

There is a new beverage container on the market, a bottle made out of pure aluminum as a replacement for the traditional container made out of glass. This new container has the potential to reduce both cost and pollution during transportation, the lighter and stronger construction has every advantage compared to the old one in glass. The new container has every possibility to make it on the market. Some of the biggest brands within the soft drink market already use these bottles in countries without any recycling demands like: Coca-Cola, Heineken and Pepsi. The only thing stopping these brands from the Swedish market is the lack of a functional return system, there is only one company that uses the bottle in Sweden today and they take care of their own used bottles.

After the storm Gudrun in 2005, the Swedish Transport Administration started clear-cutting of railroad corridors to reduce the risk of trees falling down on the tracks. Simultaneously, train accidents with moose and roe deer have become more frequent and the costs for consequent delays and repairs of engines are of growing concern. There is reason to assume that tree-clearance of railroad corridors may have contributed to an increase in number of accidents with moose and roe deer because the cleared areas provide attractive forage and thus may attract wildlife. The objective of my study was to investigate how clearing of trees affected the number of accidents with moose and roe deer. I compared deer-train collision frequencies before and after clearance of the selected railroads and compared these with uncleared control railroads in a BACI (before-after control-impact) approach.