The aim and purpose with this essay is to identify the natural conditions of the New Orleans City region, and to establish an understanding of the disastrous event of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Who lived in this area and how did this event affect the outcome of the disaster?The theory is based on two Swedish human geographers Torsten Hägerstrand and Thomas Lundén, and their theories on regional geography and political geography, also regarded as ?geopolitics?. Regional and Political Geography are explained as the relation between state and territory, power over the territory and the variables that affect the relations on different levels such as; economy, culture, technology, demography and communication.The author decided to use the quantitative method in the process of research, the essay underwent an overall analyzes of the media settings, articles, written literature and documentaries. The author has been very critical to the material and data that was presented by the American authorities, media and non governmental organisations.New Orleans City?s topography is unique in the matter that the city is constructed on a delta area, the Mississippi River, Missouri and Ohio River systems are all connected in New Orleans.

The Swedish carrot market is dominated by a few big companies and three of them stands for 50 % of the market. During the last twenty years the number of growers has decreased, the area and the harvest have increased. The big producers have invested in advanced and expensive postharvest equipment that fulfils the high standards of the food industry. Few carrot producers are members of an organisation and they keep contacts with there buyers one by one. The buyers are mostly wholesalers and these have during a long period of time decreased the number of suppliers.

Mind the gap encourages you to beware of the interspaces. The project seeks to defend the gaps that occur in time and space and encourages the reader to care about the interruptions of the routine-like and planned, whilst also opening up a discussion about interaction and participation. Mind the gap is a project about the many opportunities the public space has in the contemporary city. What you have in front of you is the result of this project. As society constantly changes, new and different needs arise in the city and it is necessary that architects and planners understand and adapt to these changes. They have to be able to develop new ways of thinking and to challenge established perceptions of what the public space is and should be. This means being able to see that the public space could be different and to recognize the potentials for it to change. This project examines the underlying ideals of urbanism and investigates the potentials of the City when shaped by these ideals.

Vattenlek i offentlig miljö- planering av vattenlek, är titeln på det här examensarbetet som har sitt fokus på hur vattenlek i den offentliga miljön kan utvecklas. Arbetet är indelat i tre huvuddelar; en bakgrundsdel, en fallstudiedel, med Linköping som fallstudieort och slutligen en diskussions och reflektionsdel.Bakgrundsdelen behandlar de valda metoderna för arbetet: Enkätundersökningar, intervjuer, analyser, skissande och besök av referensplatser samt litteratur- och bildstudiersom bidragit till fakta-inhämtningen.Vidare behandlar bakgrundsdelen hur vatten och vattenlek påverkar människor. Vatten ger oavsett ålder, kön och etnicitet upphov till upplevelser. Genom att låta vattnets krafter komma till uttryck kan man uppnå olika virtuella uttryck,ljud och reflexer som ger starka sensoriska upplevelser som vi bär med oss under lång tid. Vatten har goda rekreativa kvaliteter vilka får oss att koppla av, samla kraft och återhämta oss samtidigt som det kan uppmuntra vår kreativitet och inlärningsförmåga.

The number of inhabitants of the towns and city centers have generelly increased, concurrent as the population in smaller towns has decreased. In Stockholm, the migration is very fast and here is also the most populous place, if one compares with other Sweden. In order to respond to the increasing population and the pressure they put on city spaces has Stockholm's town a town building strategy that says "build inwards". It means that one stem seals the town with spaces and business activities in central locations. The increased population in the towns and the densification of buildings leads however to an increased pressure on parks and public places.

SUMMARY Establish a pasture There is many valuable nature and culture landscapes in Sweden that has developed during a long period of time, throw natural processes or human use. Unfortunately lot of these are disappearing. My thought with this work is to explore the possibility to establish new areas with similar qualities. The motive for this is that attractive countryside biotopes are well worth to use as model to enrich the urban landscape. Another thought has concerned the people that establish, build and manage landscapes and parks. They often have varied views, both coming from a difference in background and previous experiences.

The goal of this work has been to search historical materials, to identify the park's historical development, to prepare proposals on measures and that work should be the basis for further research. The aim has been to train us in searching for and use of materials and to gain an understanding of the process of work with older plants. In the process we have sought and found materials in archives, through literary and oral sources, and email contacts. Because of its excellent location perched on an islet in the low landscape Näsbyholm was long a fortress. The old castle on Näsbyholm was from the late 1400s but the site was fortified much earlier. The islet was at this time completely surrounded by water and there was a drawbridge over the narrow waterline. The owners are liable since the late 1200s.

An introduction to the complexity which surrounds the matters of land in the northern parts of Sweden was the purpose of this thesis. The agriculture colonization, the delimitation and the development of forestry and mining business were big events which are shown from the view of property rights. The situation of the Lappish people and how their situation has changed through the history was the main theme of the thesis. Hopefully this thesis will also serve as a support while reading for example investigations published by the government and judgments by courts. Supply to the resources of nature has always been decisive for the survival of humans.

In Sweden today so-called "prescribed nature conservation burning" is performed due to the change in silvicultural law, certification and an increased knowledge regarding the field of fire in the forest landscape. The aim is to re-create structures and qualities made by the fire regimes of the past, though on a much smaller geographical scale. The structures and qualities to be re-created are for example broad leaf stands, trees with large diameter, heterogeneous stands regarding variables such as age and diameter. If we increase our knowledge of the constitution of forests characterized by fire, then we will be able to set goals for what achievements to reach both on landscape scale and stand scale. The aim of this paper is to try to describe how a stand from the past was composed regarding mainly the spatial arrangement and compare it with the stand of today in the same place. This to be done by using relict material, that is stumps and dead standing trees.

Sweden has almost 600 000 hectares planted with lodgepole pine, and large areas are soon ready to be clear-felled. The provenances that have been planted are producing high level of permanently closed, so called serotinous, cones. In their natural setting, the Canadian boreal forest, these cones are opened mainly after crown fires when the heat make the resin between the cone scales melt, which releases the seeds. This is viewed as an adaption to the fire regimes that prevail over the natural distribution area of lodgepole pine. Because of the short flame-exposure that occurs in a crown fire, the seeds can survive.

SUMMARYFor thousands of years horses have been at people's side. They have been used for transportation at war, to save time, manpower and money. For practical reason, man has forced the horses into narrow spaces. Stabling includes factors as feeding and bedding. In the boxes the bedding materials must be kept clean and maintain good hygiene.

Sammanfattning Arkösund är ett samhälle beläget på Vikbolandet i Östergötlands skärgård och utgör Norrköpings kommuns enda större semesterort vid havet. Ortens avstånd till Norrköping är cirka 50 kilometer. Med sin skärgårdsmiljö och marint förknippade aktiviteter är samhället en stor tillgång för kommunen. Arkösund har i dagsläget en permanent befolkning på drygt 200 personer. Arkösunds utveckling tog fart kring mitten på 1890-talet när en järnvägsförbindelse till Norrköping, den så kallade Vikbolandsbanan, iordningställdes.

Sammanfattning Arkösund är ett samhälle beläget på Vikbolandet i Östergötlands skärgård och utgör Norrköpings kommuns enda större semesterort vid havet. Ortens avstånd till Norrköping är cirka 50 kilometer. Med sin skärgårdsmiljö och marint förknippade aktiviteter är samhället en stor tillgång för kommunen. Arkösund har i dagsläget en permanent befolkning på drygt 200 personer. Arkösunds utveckling tog fart kring mitten på 1890-talet när en järnvägsförbindelse till Norrköping, den så kallade Vikbolandsbanan, iordningställdes. Tanken var att hamnen i Arkösund skulle komplettera Norrköpings hamn, som var belagd med is under den kalla delen av året. Den nyöppnade järnvägslinjen lade grunden till en positiv utveckling av samhället.