Arktis Àr den plats dÀr den globala uppvÀrmningen Àr som mest mÀrkbar pÄ hela jorden (Arktiska rÄdet). DÀrför Àr Arktis ett intressant omrÄde att studera ur klimatsynpunkt. Enligt Gore (2006) sÄ kan en ökning av jordens medeltemperatur pÄ 1,5 °C leda till att de ekvatoriala omrÄdena fÄr en temperaturökning pÄ 0,5 °C medan temperaturen vid Arktis kan stiga med hela 6 °C. De senaste 30 Ären har medeltemperaturen vid Arktis stigit med drygt en grad per decennium (Anisimov, 2007) medan den globala medeltemperaturen för samma period endast stigit med ca 0.15 grader per decennium.Arktis tros ha varit isfritt under en vÀrmeperiod för ca 6000 ? 8500 Är sedan (Founder, 2011) men det som Àr unikt med den aktuella situationen Àr att avsmÀltningen gÄr sÄ snabbt.

Jag har i denna uppsats genomfört de empiriska studierna vid AstraZeneca i Lund. Personerna som intervjuades arbetade i olika former av virtuella team, med kollegor sÄvÀl inom Sverige som utomlands. Genom den snabba tekniska utvecklingen under senare Är har det uppstÄtt nya möjligheter för mÀnniskor att kommunicera med kollegor som Àr fysiskt placerade utanför det lokala kontoret. Samtidigt Àr mÄnga företag verksamma pÄ global basis i likhet med det undersökta företaget AstraZeneca. I mitt uppsatsarbete har jag haft för avsikt att undersöka vilka faktorer som Àr sÀrskilt betydelsefulla för att fÄ ett vÀl kommunicerande och fungerande virtuellt team.

Globalisering Ă€r ett ord pĂ„ allas lĂ€ppar och i globaliseringens spĂ„r följer ett behov av globala ledare. En global ledare Ă€r en person som behĂ€rskar förmĂ„gan att hantera personal av olika nationaliteter, kulturer och team som befinner sig i olika vĂ€rldsdelar.Sony Ericsson, ett "joint venture" företag i mobiltelefonbranschen, tog kontakt med pedagogiska institutionen pĂ„ Lunds Universitet för att fĂ„ utomstĂ„endes syn pĂ„ globalt ledarskap. Inom detta omrĂ„de har vi valt att fokusera pĂ„ "knowledge sharing" av ledarskapsrelaterade frĂ„gor och hur detta kan leda till organisatoriskt lĂ€rande.VĂ„r undersökning har utförts med hjĂ€lp av semistrukturerade intervjuer av ledare pĂ„ olika nivĂ„er som alla har konfronterats med utmaningen att leda team i en global organisation.Alla har svĂ„rt för att finna den gemensamma vĂ€rderingen för vad som krĂ€vs av globala ledare inom Sony Ericsson. De saknar ett verktyg för "knowledge sharing" av ledarskapsrelaterade frĂ„gor. Även HR avdelningen vill ha gemensamma vĂ€rderingar nĂ€r det gĂ€ller vad som krĂ€vs av globala ledare.

Swedish Development Cooperation emphasizes the need for collaboration among actors on a national level. In that context, the purpose of the thesis is to investigate how Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) may influence the changing role of the state. The thesis is informed by Critical Discourse Analysis. In order to investigate the social constructions of reality, the thesis is a critical study of language related to ?Globalt Ansvar: Swedish Partnership for Global Responsibility? to identify through what discourses Collaboration on Corporate Social Responsibility is produced; and the implications in relation to Public Private Partnership.

The interest in providing a post 9/11 image of Islam to contrast the media?s frequent focus on its practitioners? alleged tendencies toward hostility and violence has in Sweden manifested itself (among other things) in an increased range of courses on Islam given by denominational Muslim organizations. In this paper I examine the construction of Islam by two Muslim organizations that offer education in Islam to non-Muslims in the context of the management?s stated goals of the education. My aim is to illustrate how discourses within these organizations are a result of the combination of local and global conditions..

Med klimatförÀndringar och stigande oljepriser stÄr vi inför en utmaning. EnergifrÄgan mÄste lösas. Allt fler anser att vi mÄste satsa mer pÄ kÀrnkraften istÀllet för att avveckla de svenska kÀrnkraftverken.Men det finns miljöproblem kopplade till kÀrnkraften, frÀmst nÀr det gÀller uranbrytningen. FrÄgan om slutförvaret av anvÀnt kÀrnbrÀnsle Àr inte löst. Med en mer global terrorism finns ocksÄ rÀdslan för att terrorister ska komma över kÀrnvapen.

The meeting industry is a growing industry around the world, and the technological development in recent decades is one of the contributing factors to the increased travel opportunities and meeting industry's expansion. It can be assumed that the technology could replace some of the personal meetings, but humans have always had a need to meet in physical locations in work related purposes, therefore there is no evidence that personal meetings will disappear. Technological development should be seen as complementary rather than a substitute to the existing professional meetings. Public and private sectors within countries has drawn attention to meeting industry's potential, as favored destinations in terms of economic administration, image creation, expansion and acquisition of further market share in the global market. Meeting industry is complex precisely because there are so many different actors and stakeholders that integrate.

Trough a literature study based on both philosophic and objective fact this essay is taking off in the meaning of public space. It investigates how the information society and its virtual world are affecting the idea and use of public space in the city. The city and the actual world have developed from the traditional meeting between people while the virtual world is based on flows of information. The information flow has expanded through the Information and Communication Technique (ICT). ICT covers among others Internet, mobile phones and computers.

Föreliggande uppsats studerar sambandet mellan ekonomisk tillvÀxt och koldioxidutslÀpp med global uppvÀrmning som följd. Med hjÀlp av en utveckling av ?den gröna Solow-modellen? görs en simulering av Sveriges BNP-utveckling frÄn 2005 till 2050 dÀr en variabel för mÀngden koldioxid förs in. Syftet Àr att visa pÄ hur koldioxidutslÀpp pÄverkar tillvÀxten negativt genom att deprecieringen av realkapitalet ökar. Deprecieringen ökar pÄ grund av ökad förslitning som naturkatastrofer, översvÀmningar och jorderosion medför.

Är det möjligt att reducera utslĂ€ppen av vĂ€xthusgaser och samtidigt nĂ„ en hĂ„llbar utveckling? Regionförbundet i Kalmar lĂ€n antog utmaningen 2006 och Ă€r dĂ€rmed en föregĂ„ngsregion i arbetet med detta. Till Ă„r 2030 Ă€r mĂ„let att Kalmar lĂ€n ska bli en fossilbrĂ€nslefri region. Den största potentialen anses finnas inom nya alternativ till fordonsbrĂ€nsle. HushĂ„llens sopor innehĂ„ller organiskt matavfall som skulle kunna bli fordonsgas.

Företag och organisationer pÄverkar den vÀrld vi lever i bland annat genom att sysselsÀtta individer och producera varor men Àven genom att förbruka resurser. I takt med allmÀnhetens ökade miljö- och klimatmedvetenhet har trycket pÄ att företag ska ta ansvar ökat. En vÀl anvÀnd term i sammanhanget Àr corporate social responsibility (CSR) som tar sikte pÄ företags ansvar i samhÀllet. UtifrÄn dessa förÀndringar har företag börjat redovisa sitt miljö-, ekonomi- och sociala arbete i sÀrskilda hÄllbarhetsredovisningar. I uppsatsen undersöks svenska börsnoterade företags miljöredovisning och specifikt miljöredovisningen som Àr en del i Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) ramverk för hÄllbarhetsredovisning.

In July 2011 the journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson are arrested in Ethiopia when on a mission to report the activities of the oil exploration company Lundin Petroleum. Following a trial, closely observed by media, the two journalists are convicted to a prison sentence of eleven years. The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Carl Bildt, is now to act on their behalf to preserve their rights as Swedish citizens. However, doubts are raised as to whether Bildt has a conflict of interest because of his former engagements as a board member in Lundin Petroleum.

Title: Global Reporting Initiative - A comparative study on compliance with the initiative's guidelines between Ericsson and Vattenfall.Authors: Peter Leidhammar, Mattias ThorénSupervisor: Bo EnquistExaminer: Margareta BjurkloSeminar Date: 2009-01-14Background and problem formulation: The interest and the requirements that stakeholders have for companies sustainability issues are becoming increasingly important. Thus more companies are increasing their work on their sustainability reports. As there are no laws governing how these are to be designed, standards have been created by various organizations that companies voluntarily can follow. Now, after the Swedish government gave them the directive to follow the GRI's guidelines the Swedish public companies have started to follow this trend. The question then stand how much the private companies' sustainability reports differ from state companies and whether this can be traced to the differences in the companies' ownership and their stakeholders picture.Objective: The purpose of the paper is:· analyze how the GRI's guidelines are followed by the two organizations· highlight differences between them from a theoretical perspectiveLimitations: This paper is limited to two companies, one company owned by the government and one privately-owned company.

Introduction: Sex and education level has demonstrated effects on health status.Osteoarthritis is a widespread disease that causes reduced health-related quality of life and isthe most common reason for total hip replacement. Osteoarthritis was ranked as the 11thhighest contributor to global disability as reported in the Global Burden of Disease 2010.Aim: The aim of this study was to explore how sex and education level together affectedhealth-related quality of life after total hip replacement. The aim was also to examine whatdimensions of EQ-5D that changed.Methods: The study is a prospective observational study with a quantitative approach. Dataconsisted of education level, obtained from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and health-relatedquality of life before and one year after total hip replacement from the Swedish HipArthroplasty Register (SHAR). Health-related quality of life was measured with astandardised instrument, the EQ-5D, and the study population consisted of 39,141 patients.Results: Womens? EQ-5D-value, before and one year after surgery, were lower in alleducational categories compared with men.

During the year of 2008, a powerful earthquake hit the southern part of Iceland, which changed the geothermal conditions in the area around the city of Hveragerdi. Elevated soil temperatures in a nearby forest plantation have contributed to a unique opportunity for researchers to study how an increased soil temperature affects the boreal forest ecosystem, something that partly can be connected to the climate changes which are happening today. The boreal forest is representing a carbon sink and a buffert for the emissions that occurs. Changes in this ecosystem will for that reason contribute to major impact for the global carbon cycle. To study the impact of how elevated soil temperatures affects different processes in a plantation of Sitka spruce, studies were made on the photosynthesis of the trees and the respiration from the soil.