The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline has been a controversial project. The debate was primarily escalated by Poland's strong negative reaction to the project in the spring of 2006 over safety and security and then alternated back and forth in Europe until the approval by the nations most concerned in the Baltic region during the autumn of 2009.In the case study an approach is used that primarily maps out the media image of the various viewpoints that deal with the pipeline and how these viewpoints position themselves, primarily through political and environmental dimensions. Simultaneously there?s an attempt to map out the spatial spread of the media image views as to the proximity and distance to the pipeline in Sweden, Poland and Germany. A key question is whether distance or proximity to a large facility can affect people's attitudes.A parallel focus of the study is to explore the role of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the cross-border hinterland region of Szczecin-?winouj?cie.

Där hav möter land kan det ske spännande saker. Eller rättare sagt, där hav möter land borde det ske spännande saker. Med den inställningen gick jag in i ett projekt som syftar till att lyfta fram ett sådant vattennära område och utsätta det för undersökning och komma med förslag på förändring. Tanken är att synliggöra gestaltningsprocessen med allt vad det innebär: sökandet efter form, funktion och mening. Platsen för arbetet är en del av Visby hamn och det är idag en plats utan riktig identitet.

AbstractThe Swedish Road Administration in the region of Mälardalen has since 2004 worked to in¬crease the efficiency of the maintance of bridges based on limited functional requirements and time demanded action.The maintenance of the bridges is contracted in the county of Uppsala since 2004, and Örebro since 2007. The county of Nyköping and Västerås is contracted by the traditional system. The contractor will perform a regular maintenance on all bridges. The bridges are inspected by the contractor at least once every year.The contractor registers the result of the inspection in a database called BaTMan. BaTMan is a Bridge and Tunnel Management system and is a strictly web solution were the user logs in via the internet.The Swedish Road Administration also inspects the bridges to se that the demands on the bridges are followed.My work is to compare these different inspections and to see any development..

The aim for the project was to develop a risk analyse tool for measuring the fire safety level in Cultural Heritage buildings of Visby, Gotland. In 1995 Visby were taken into the Unesco:s World Heritage List with the explanation ?Visby is an outstanding example of a Northern European walled Hanseatic town which has in a unique way preserved its townscape and its extremely valuable buildings? One of the demands for the tool was that it should be easy to use and result into a ranking level in examined buildings. The user of the tool is recommended to be personnel in the fire department. To develop the tool a Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method was used.

By examine plastic craniums from eight different hominids I wanted to find morfological characteristics that agreed with those of modern humans. The species that were selected had a plastic casting of its cranium in the laboratory at Gotland University. My focus was on species from the family Australopithecius and Homo and only working with their craniums. And this because the cranium and the theeth shows the most visible morfological characteristics between the different hominids. I also wanted,in a small part of the essay, to write about the differences in now living primates and humans skulls.Except from analysing the plastic castings I also studied surveys written by other scientist on the same subject.

The Sub-Saharan countries have for a long time struggled with poverty and conflicts which might have proven hostile for investors. The analysis aims to see if there is a significant correlation between foreign direct investments (FDI) and economic growth and which cultural and institutional factors seem to be significant in this correlation. Considered are also other variables and their influence that might explain what motivates and gives incentives for foreign direct investments (FDI) and are used in the construction of a regression analysis. This to see whether there is an effect on the economic growth in relations to FDI. The results show that FDI is of significance to the economic growth in the region and the study shows that corruption seems to be the most significant institutional factor in the correlation with effect on economic growth and the ability to attract FDI..

?Are the headwaters streams at the right position in the map? is a study that has been performed on behalf of Holmen Forest, region Örnsköldsvik. This study will be the basis for deciding if the Hydrology Layer Property map or Holmen Forest map will be used for planning nitrogen fertilization in forestry. The background to this study is that nitrogen fertilization near water will increase the risk of nitrogen leaching out into the water systems, which has a negative impact on the environment. The headstreams positions have been recorded in the field with a GPS and the data analyzed in the geographic information system ArcMap.

Mitt examensarbete var att göra musik till Romateaterns uppsättning av Shakespeares komedi Trettondagsafton, sommaren 2011. Detta är den skriftliga delen av mitt examensprojekt. Jag börjar med en kort inledning om bakgrunden till projektet samt skriver kort om ordet musik som begrepp, musikens roll i vårt samhälle och hur vi tar till oss musik när den presenteras i samband med andra konstformer som t.ex. teater. Jag sammanfattar sedan kompositions och repetitionsperioden i kronologisk ordning fram till en vecka efter premiären av pjäsen; alltså från det första mötet med regissören till tiden innan premiären då jag bodde på Gotland och jobbade intensivt.

?Re:Regional? is a diploma work by Sanna Alm and Ylva Hedin, for the Master?s Programme in Spatial Planning presented at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. ?Greater Helsinki Vision 2050 ? International Ideas Competition? was the starting point of this study. The competition was launched the 15th of December 2006 and the closing date was the 31st of May.

Östersjöregionen är en av Europas snabbast växande regioner och Blekinge har ett strategiskt läge mitt i denna expansiva region. Studien behandlar Sydöstra Östersjöregionens utveckling och belyser de tre INTERREG-projekten Seagull, SEB Trans-Link och Baltic Gateway ur ett robusthetsperspektiv. En robusthetsanalys med hänsyn till tekniska, ekologiska och sociala aspekter görs med utgångspunkt från identifierade regionala riskfaktorer samt de effekter INTERREG-projekten förväntas få på Blekinge. Resultaten från analysen jämförs sedan med Blekingestrategin och slutligen presenteras föreslagna prioriteringar för att uppnå ett robustare Blekinge..

Bakgrund: MoDo Skog upplever idag att deras ekonomistyrning i allt för hög utsträckning fokuserar kostnader, framförallt kostnader som förknippas med avverkning samt transport av råvara. Som ett led i denna kostnads-fokusering har MoDo Skog en misstanke om att det förekommer suboptimeringar inom virkesflödesprocessen. Före-taget upplever dessutom att de är dåliga på att mäta och följa upp så kallade mjuka faktorer.Syfte: Vårt syfte med denna uppsats är att kartlägga en virkesflödesprocess och därefter undersökaförutsättningarna att utarbeta ett Balanced Scorecard med funktionella nyckeltal. Avgränsningar: Arbetet inom fallföretaget begränsas till att gälla virkesflödesprocessen från avverkning till dess att råvaran kommer till industrin på Iggesundsregionen. Vi beaktar endast de avverkningar som sker på fallföretagets eg-na marker.Genomförande: Studien har genomförts på fallföretagets region Iggesund.

Denna uppsats har för avsikt att undersöka det negativa sambandet mellan arbetslöshet och tillväxt i svenska län. Sambandet vi använder oss av är den inom nationalekonomin välkända Okun?s lag. Denna lag kommer vi att applicera på Sveriges 21 län mellan åren 1986 till 2003. Vi förväntar oss att sambandet kommer att variera mellan länen.

The aim of this Master's thesis is to discuss and analyse co-operation between public and academic libraries. The political changes that were initiated during 2004 have come to alter the conditions for Swedish libraries. The Swedish library law was changed at the 1st of January 2005 and co-operation between libraries is now statuary even if there is no description of how the new mission is to be executed. At the same time an extensive report about the Royal Library and its role as the Swedish National Library was presented. This report also recommended an increased co-operation between different types of libraries.

Rotröta i träd medför stora årliga skador och därmed kostnader för det svenska skogsbru­ket. Siffror som brukar nämnas i sammanhanget är 500-1000 Mkr/år. Exempel på orsaker till dessa kostnader är nedklassning av virke, tillväxtförluster, ungskogsdöd, tidigarelagda avverkningar och ökade stormfällningar. Syftet med denna studie var att analysera förekomsten av rotröta hos gran, tall och björk fördelat på ett antal ståndorts-, bestånds- och trädvariabler. Resultaten redovisades för hela landet och uppdelat på regioner.

Green manuring is a way of creating an organic fertilizer by growing a crop that is mowed down. Besides the fertilizing effect this method has been shown to have a positive influ-ence on soil organic matter as well as weed flora, and green manure is an important me-thod of weed control in organic farming in parts of Sweden. However, the release of nu-trients from the green manure varies and can therefore be difficult to control. Risks for losses of nutrients are also present. Although the area of organic farmland is increasing in Sweden, the use of green manure is decreasing.This report contains a literature study which compiles research on the functions of green manure in a cropping system and also how the crop can be used if harvested, for example to produce biogas.