Studies show that the interest and knowledge about science among teenagers is decreasing. They also reveal the difficulties to explain the ecological processes and that the ideas about the nature are collected from everyday life and early school years.The intention of this investigation was to find out more about children?s ideas and knowledge about the ecological processes and to compare these results with the curriculum.The method was a questionnaire and interviews with children in school year 1 ? 6. The aim of the studies was also to find out if any progress connected to age could be found, concerning understanding of the ecological processes.The results showed difficulties in achieving the predestined goals for biology and chemistry concerning ecology cycles and they differed a lot between the children. Often the learning process showed very little progress.

Den traditionella bilden av en flygplats som ett ställe där uttråkade resenärer sitter och väntar på att så snabbt som möjligt få åka därifrån, håller på att förändras. Många flygplatser har numera utvecklats till att bli mycket mer än gråa väntsalar och flera stora internationella flyg­platser så som Heathrow i London kan idag jämföras med shoppingcenter. Detta gör att flyg­platserna nu inte bara lockar resenärer utan även andra som exempelvis bor i flygplatsens när­område. Den kommersiella delen av flygplatsernas verksamhet har blivit en viktig inkomst­källa för många flygplatser, speciellt eftersom konkurrensen på marknaden hårdnar och in­komsterna från den flygrelaterade verksamheten minskar. Även i Sverige arbetar man inom LFV (tidigare Luftfartsverket) med att öka sina flygplatsers kommersiella verksamhet. Dock är resurserna mer begränsade och antalet resenärer betydligt färre på de regionala flygplatserna i Sverige jämfört med på stora internationella flygplatser.

The purpose of this essay was to get some knowledge about how the situation was for children with overweight and obesity. I wanted to examine what experience about causes, consequences and measure the professionals, who meets children in different situations in their daily work had, and I wanted to find out which explanations current research had about the problem.The knowledge I have acquired during my work with this paper about the problem was that it was depending on many different factors on various stage in the child's life which influences and interacts with the child in its development. The risk that a child would develop overweight was amongst other things depending on the child's eating- and exercising habits.This habit was formatted for example by the circumstances in the family, availability of sweets/food and the choice of leisure time activities.The consequences for the overweight/obese children could be that the child did not manage to keep up with its friend's physical activities which led to a sense of rejection, risk of being bullied by friends, the risk of a damaged physical and psychic health. The problem was not easy to measure and all of the studies demonstrated that parental involvement is necessary in an effective treatment of childhood obesity..

The purpose of this study is to ? through a discourse analysis ? examine how the parliamentary committee ? Ansvarskommittén ? legitimizes the need for merging administrative regions. The committee?s investigation is what underlies the present debate on regionalisation and the merging of regions in Sweden. To carry out this discourse analysis, I have used ?What?s the problem represented to be??, by Carol Lee Bacchi as an analytical framework.

Norsholm kan beskrivas som en bostadsort i ett lugnt och unikt läge vid sjön Roxen och Göta kanal som på sommaren lever upp i och med omfattande turisttrafik på kanalen, vilket även lockar besökande på land. Det lilla samhället präglas av småskalighet men har närhet till en stor bostads-, studie- och arbetsmarknad. Inom regionen vill kommunerna i framtiden genom bra kommunikationer knyta samman redan etablerade orter som ett alternativ till att bygga ut nya förortsområden och i detta sammanhang nämns Norsholm som en potentiell utvecklingsort. Södra stambanan skär idag genom samhället, men tågen stannar inte här. Om Ostlänken blir verklighet, som innebär att Södra stambanan kan öppnas upp för pendeltågstrafik, skulle Norsholm kunna få en egen pendeltågsstation med täta avgångar inom regionen. Flera viktiga planeringsfrågor aktualiseras beträffande Norsholms framtid, men den viktigaste är var och hur en expansion av orten kan ske, vilket föranleder en strategi som kan formuleras genom ett program..

This paper has bearing on the subject of foreign policy analysis and decision-making,but is nonetheless important to peace and conflict studies due to its emphasis onnuclear weapons and deterrence.I have constructed a theoretical framework for the analysis of foreign policydecision-making that I set out to test on a crucial case. The framework iscrosscutting, and takes into consideration four levels of analysis: the system-,regional-, state-, and individual level. It is centred on a key decision maker, andapplies a cognitive approach for determining his or hers belief system through whichthe inputs from the other levels are filtered in order for the decision maker toconstruct a perception of reality, from which the decision is then formulated within.The framework is applied to North Korean and its leader Kim Jong Il. It sets outto explain his behaviour in the matter of their claimed nuclear weapons program, andhis decision to conduct a nuclear weapons-test, getting inside his head trying to figureout why he chose to do it and for what reasons.The conclusion indicates that the basic structure of the framework and its generalapplicability is sound, but that it needs further testing in order to make it perfectly solid..

In theory, the logic behind partnerships is simple: All organisations have strengths, but no organisation has all the strength required to do everything. Triggered by global perspectives and challenged by sustainability objectives, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 pointed out needs for corporate responsibility. In this conference, Private-public partnership, PPP, was identified as a potential way to work towards sustainability, especially as a way to emphasize a corporate responsibility commitment. Nowadays, organizations exist to satisfy the needs and interests of all their stakeholders, such as customers, markets, shareholders, as well as secondary stakeholders such as media, NGOs, and society at large. Addressing all stakeholders and working towards a sustainable business development makes PPP a potential solution, but also a source of challenges.

I FORM is the biggest health magazine of Scandinavia. It is a magazine that treats subjects like health food, training, sports gear, sex and relationships. The magazine addresses women directly and only women appear in the magazine.This is a study on how I FORM portrays women in their segment called ?Addicted to? (Biten av). It is a study of what kind of stereotypes that are used and also what kind of pictures that has been used to portrait the women.

Coastman (Coastal Zone Management in the Baltic Sea Region) är ett internationellt INTERREG III B projekt och drivs av avdelningen för Industriell Ekologi på KTH tillsammans med Stockholms Stadsbyggnadskontor och ett antal universitet/kommuner runt Östersjön. Projektet innebär att värdera erfarenheter och metoder för kustzons planering där olika intressekonflikter finns kring såväl ekologiska, sociala och ekonomiska aspekter. Den Svenska fallstudien i projektet avser nedläggningen av oljeterminalen Loudden. Loudden är den största oljedepån i östra mellan Sverige och hanterar bensin, olika oljor och diesel. 1999 fattade Stockholms kommunfullmäktige beslutet att Loudden ska avvecklas och upphöra till år 2011.

Syftet är att undersöka de flytande biobränslen som dominerar på den svenska marknaden för drivmedelsproduktion samt belysa miljöpåverkan av biooljeanvändningen.Syftet med examensarbetet uppnåddes genom insamling av relevant information via litteratursökningar samt kontakt med lämpliga företag, leverantörer och föreningar.I detta examensarbete kom det fram att alla biooljor inte är hållbara och koldioxidneutrala. Vissa biooljor leder till ökat utsläpp av växthusgaser till atmosfären samt negativ påverkan av den biologiska mångfalden.Tallolja är en bioolja som ökar i andel på den svenska marknaden, SunPines fabrik är avsedd att producera 100 000 m3 talldiesel varje år. Rapsolja är den mest dominerande biooljan för drivmedelsproduktion på den svenska marknaden. En ökad import av biooljor till EU kommer inte ge exportländerna möjlighet att minska sin fossila oljeanvändning. Användningen av biooljor och biodrivmedel kanske minskar utsläppen av växthusgaser på lokal och regional nivå, men kommer även att bidra till ett ökat koldioxidutsläpp i exportländerna av biooljor och därmed har det globala problemet inte lösts.

This thesis examines the ongoing European political debate on the links between livestock production and climate change. In the end of 2006 the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released their report Livestock?s long shadow, showing that livestock production represents some 18 % of the total global greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of this paper is to explore the European Commission?s position and response to this question since the release of the report.Using Arne Naess? argumentation analysis, statements made by the Commission will be systematically organized and broken apart.

A water treatment unit consisting of two aeration basins, two settling tanks, a residence basinand a horizontal subsurface flow wetland were used to treat wastewater from an eggprocessing factory in Brazil. The aim of this paper was to determine the efficiency of thesystem in reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, BOD5 and TSS (among other parameters) andgetting a further understanding on different kinds of constructed treatment wetlands as well astheir nitrogen and phosphorus removal processes. The wastewater from the factory consistedof process water from manufacturing and water used for cleaning, no stormwater or sewagewater entered the system. Tests were taken three times a month from October 2013 ?til April2014.

In January 2007 the Öresund committy changed its statutes to become a more politically oriented lobby organization. This change can be interpreted as one part of a continuously evolving process where the Öresund region is emancipating itself from the national states in a multi-level European environment. By focusing on this latest development the thesis puts forward the importance of political institutions, as well as politicians and civil servants as actors in them, as crucial factors in the process where the region is gaining political power. The thesis shows how the political cross-border cooperation in the Öresund region is being institutionalized which affects its power relations to other levels in the multi-level system, predominantly the national states. In other words, there is a connection between power and institutionalization.The Öresund committee has by gaining better access to policymaking agendas on the national levels proven that the organizational change has already started to bear fruit.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska dagstidningsredaktioner förhåller sig till featurejournalistik i dag och vilken betydelse feature har för papperstidningens överlevnad. Undersökningen är uppdelad i en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ del. Vi har lagt fokus på fyra tidningar ? Katrineholms-kuriren, Norrköpings tidningar, Sydsvenska dagbladet och Göteborgs-posten. Som kvantitativ metod har vi räknat antalet texter med featurekaraktär i respektive tidning under en vecka i november 2009.

This essay examines what some of the Swedish authorities? argument are for vegetation, what their grounds are for the arguments and why vegetation is important for the human health and experience. I have examined publications and reports from 6 different authorities on state- , regional and communal level. The authorities which publications I have studied are Boverket, Naturvårdsverket, Folkhälsoinstitutet, Miljödepartementet, Länsstyrelsen Skåne och Malmö Kommun. The publications has been analyzed by different themes; Children and young peoples influence of vegetation, Elderly and sick?s influence of vegetation, Human health, wellbeing and experience of vegetation, Vegetation at work, The influence of vegetation on stress and The effect of vegetation in the city.