In 2001 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a revised global recommendation for exclusive breastfeeding for a child ÂŽs first six months. The aim of this study was to investigate what information parents receiving from the Child Health Care about introduction of solids to breastfed infants and if they follow the recommendation. A further aim is to document reasons for introduction of solids at the selected time and describe what food parents start with.The method has a descriptive and a qualitative design. Users of several Swedish parenting websites were asked to participate in the study. A total of 27 users completed the anonymous open-ended questions posted on the websites.

Work environment has been an important part of the Swedish working life for a long time and with the help of the Working Environment Law the work environment is mandatory. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper insight into how the system of middle managers systematic work environment looks like. The question was: How do six middle managers perceive and deal with systematic work environment? A qualitative study was conducted with six middle managers from a global company. During the analysis, there were three main themes to be recognized (cooperation and support facilitates the work environment, problem with the systematic work and difficulties with staff) and six sub themes.

The effects of anthropogenic climate change are becoming more and more visible as being highlighted by scientists, politicians and media. The causes of droughts, floods, melting ice caps and rising sea levels can all partially be traced back to human activities. In this study, I examine where the future climate refugees of Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands should go when inhabitants of these low lying island nations are forced to leave their disappearing territories due to sea level rise. By using a normative method of analysis i egentlig mening, arguments deriving from certain values will be presented to confront the problem. These values originate from Edward A.

The Swedish stock-market gives investors an opportunity to benefit from the global growth while financing companies invests and contributes to a socio-economic development. Parallel to the ownership of the funds also follows a responsibility as companies in the funds affect society and the environment. The growth of savings in funds, combined with an increased focus on sustainability has developed SRI (socially responsible investment). Therefore it is interesting to examine whether responsibility is an exception, which only concerns SRI-funds or a general principle, which includes the whole Swedish stock-market.The results of the survey makes it clear that all the Swedish major banks actively works to integrate sustainability within the respective bank's business to achieve a more sustainable financial system. Thus concludes the investigation that responsible investments are a general principle on the Swedish mutual stock-market.How responsibility is integrated in fund management differ between the banks.

Problems with the current energy system, which partially relies on non-renewable fuels, are increasingly recognized. Emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels may speed up global warming, which in turn leads to a number of negative consequences. Nuclear energy is risky and relies on consumption of a scarce resource. This leads to a demand of renewable energy that is also economically feasible. One possible renewable source of energy is solar energy.

The purpose of this study is to examine to what extent the senior level Swedish school can be viewed as supporting, or counteracting, a colonial discourse that legitimizes global and national injustices. The study is executed through a discourse analysis of five textbooks in social science for senior level Swedish schools.Using elements from Foucault and Edward Said a theoretical framework is constructed, in which a colonial discourse is perceived as structured around four clusters of ideas, namely (i) the use of dichotomies, (ii) the concept of progress and civilization, (iii) the construction of -we- as synonymous with (ii), and (iv) the construction of -the others- as the opposite of (ii) and, therefore, the opposite of -us-.The results show that a colonial discourse is still highly present in the textbooks, in that the texts are structured around dichotomies such as tradition/modernity and democracy/dictatorship. Sweden and the Western world are perceived as closely associated with democracy, freedom, and modernity, whereas -the others- of the world are being associated with e.g. poverty, conflict, tradition, and ignorance. -The others- within Sweden, i.e.

Bakgrund: I dagens samhÀlle ökar medvetenheten om vÄr omgivning mer och mer. Miljö, samhÀlls- och etiska frÄgor blir allt viktigare att ta hÀnsyn till, bÄde för privatpersoner och för företag. Banksektorn har lÀnge legat pÄ efterkÀlken nÀr det kommer till hÄllbarhetsredovisning. Dock blir bankernas intressenter mer och mer medvetna om hÄllbarhetsfrÄgor och för att vara konkurrenskraftiga har bankerna dÀrför börjat engagera sig i detta. Dock kostar engagemanget bÄde tid och pengar för bankerna sÄ dÀrför gÀller det att mervÀrdet av hÄllbarhetsarbetet Àr större Àn de resurser som lÀggs ner.Syfte: Syftet med studien Àr att undersöka varför endast vissa banker vÀljer att hÄllbarhetsredovisa enligt GRI, samt varför de banker som redovisar enligt GRI vÀljer att stanna pÄ en B- eller C-nivÄ.

International regulations target a global reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through the allocation of national reduction targets and the definition of mechanisms to achieve these targets. One of these mechanisms is international emissions trading, these trading programs have been the targets of widespread criticism since they were introduced into the policy-making arena. The point of departure in this study has been that the trading raises questions about morality, since it implies signals, which legitimates pollution. The main purpose with this study has been to find out if emissions trading systems can be morally justified with the method of wide reflective equilibrium. From the study it was found that the moral intuition; it is wrong to pollute the environment, and perform activities, which legitimates pollution, finds support from the different theories within environmental ethics and Kantian ethics.

Dagens företag som sysslar med tillverkning och distribuering tvingas idag till konkurrens pÄ global nivÄ, deras produkter fÄr en allt kortare livscykel och kundernas smak och tycke förÀndras snabbt och dramatiskt. Kundlojalitet kan inte lÀngre tas för givet och kundanpassning Àr ett mÄste om företagen vill behÄlla sina kunder. Om dagens företag inte vÀljer att satsa pÄ en lÄngtgÄende relation med sina kunder, under vilket utbytet av varor och pengar sker, sÄ kommer de inte att klara sig.Till sin hjÀlp har företag en mÀngd olika hjÀlpmedel sÄsom kundorienterad marknadsföring och olika datoriserade informationssystem och verktyg. Alla dessa hjÀlpmedel anvÀnder sig av kundinformation som företag mÄste antingen köpa eller samla in. Rapportens syfte Àr att undersöka hur dagens företag anvÀnder kundinformation och strategiska teknologiska hjÀlpmedel för att förbÀttra sina kundrelationerRapporten presenterar först en bakgrund som bygger upp ett problemomrÄde dÀr problemformuleringen presenteras.

Regulation of rivers by dams and reservoirs is a good example where anthropogenic impact could be considerable both in the local environment, but also has major implications upstream and downstream. This study was accomplished as a literature study of the river Nile, which is extremely important for water supply. The purpose of this study was to investigate the consequences of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, to obtain a consistent flow for water supply, irrigation and power generation in Egypt. Since Egypt has a very hot and dry climate large amounts of water in reservoir is lost to the Nubian aquifer system and by evaporation. The consequences from constructing the dam are considerable.

Addressing increasing global environmental problems requires greater resource efficiency, and one way of working towards this is through industrial symbiosis. Industrial symbiosis means that companies collaborate through sharing of resources for collective benefits. The documented benefits of working with industrial symbiosis indicate that there is potential for companies to operate commercially with facilitation of industrial symbiosis. An interesting company to study within this context is Econova. Econova operates within the recycling and gardening industry and has been identified as a possible catalyst for industrial symbiosis.

Underordningen av kvinnor som grupp har pĂ„ global nivĂ„ lĂ€nge varit en frĂ„ga som stĂ„tt i skuggan av traditionella politiska frĂ„gor. Sedan 1979 har det dock funnits en kvinnokonvention stadgad av FN, CEDAW, som har som mĂ„l att genom internationell lagstiftning garantera kvinnor samma rĂ€ttigheter som mĂ€n pĂ„ alla omrĂ„den av det offentliga livet. ÄndĂ„ finns det mĂ„nga indikationer som visar att kvinnor fortfarande inte i praktiken har samma möjligheter som mĂ€n. Syftet med denna uppsats Ă€r att definiera de punkter som Ă€r bristfĂ€lliga med CEDAW och som dĂ€rmed utgör ett hinder för uppluckringen av de patriarkala strukturerna, och lĂ€gga fram The Mexico City Policy som ett exempel pĂ„ sĂ„dana hinder i internationell politik. Vidare Ă€r syftet Ă€ven att med hjĂ€lp av radikalfeministisk teori argumentera för varför man bör ta i beaktande diskriminering av kvinnor Ă€ven i den privata sfĂ€ren.

Studien utgick frÄn de vetenskapliga frÄgestÀllningarna: ?Hur yttrade sig klimatskepticism i Dagens Nyheter, Verdens Gang, The Times och The New York Times under perioden 1:a januari till 30:e juni Är 2010?? och ?Hur skiljde sig rapporteringen mellan dessa tidningar?? För att kunna svara pÄ dessa frÄgor anvÀndes gestaltningsteori och kvalitativ metod. Med kvalitativa textanalyser samt gestaltningsanalys undersöktes hur tre olika gestaltningar yttrade sig i fyra ledare och fyra reportage. De gestaltningar som studien baserades pÄ var ?vetenskaplig osÀkerhetsgestaltning?, ?tvetydighetsgestaltning? och ?ekonomisk gestaltning? som alla i tidigare forskning har gÄtt att koppla till klimatskepticism.

Foreign invested SMEs have recently become increasingly interested in China. The enterprises are in this report categorized as second wave companies since they follow the footsteps of previous pioneers, of which mostly were larger companies. The ambitions of the SMEs are either to sell products on the ever expanding Chinese market or to utilize the potential of low cost production for global markets. The existing literature is fragmented and solely based on the experience of larger companies. We believe that SMEs are facing new and different challenges, and thus a new generic theoretical frame work is desirable.

Den nya globala försvarsmakten stÀller nya krav, inte minst pÄ logistikkedjan dÀr avstÄnden ökar och förutsÀttningarna för insats inte Àr lika klara som under det kalla kriget. Syftet med uppsatsen Àr att undersöka vilka krav ur en doktrinÀr synvinkel som kan komma att stÀllas pÄ logistikkedjan pÄ strategisk nivÄ kopplat till en strategisk rörlighet vid en framtida Svensk insats. Som empiri i uppsatsen anvÀnds de doktriner och reglementen som finns i Sverige och i NATO som avhandlar logistikkedjan pÄ strategisk nivÄ och strategisk rörlighet. Samt en fallstudie frÄn Operation Iraqi freedom för att exemplifiera de krav som kan komma att stÀllas pÄ logistikkedjan pÄ strategisk nivÄ. Uppsatsens metod Àr deskription och fallstudie dÀr fallstudien exemplifierar de problem som kan komma att uppstÄ.