Denna uppsats är en studie av fosterföräldrar i en familjeby i Rumänien. Fosterföräldrarna arbetar för en frivillig organisation i Rumänien som har svenska grundare. Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och mitt syfte är att studera fosterföräldrarnas föräldraskap och familjernas betydelse för barnen som växer upp i frånvaro av sina biologiska föräldrar i dagens Rumänien. Jag belyser hur barnens bakgrund ser ut, hur relationerna till barnens biologiska föräldrar är, vilken motivation som driver fosterföräldrarna i arbetet med barnen och hur den kristna ideologin påverkar deras attityder och arbete. Jag jämför arbetet med forskning om familjehem i Sverige samt teorier om utvecklingspsykopatologi och Resilience forskning, samt kristen tro och socialt ansvar, vilket också är mina teoretiska utgångspunkter .

The purpose of this study is to explain how shame can be experienced by women with the stigmatizing illness of alcoholism. Another aim is to illustrate how this shame can be affected in social interaction with others and by other circumstances. The following questions will be highlighted in this essay: How can shame be experienced by female alcoholics? What can affect shame in interaction with other people, from the view of female alcoholics? What other circumstances can affect the shame, from the view of female alcoholics?This study features interviews with women who have successfully gone through the process of rehabilitation from the illness of alcoholism, have a long going and stable sobriety and arecurrently part of the work force. The study also features interviews with therapists specializing in the field of addiction recovery and have considerable experience in their fieldof working with women suffering from alcoholism.The subject matters shame and stigma form the theoretical/analytical tools for this research.

The purpose of this study is to explain how shame can be experienced by women with the stigmatizing illness of alcoholism. Another aim is to illustrate how this shame can be affected in social interaction with others and by other circumstances. The following questions will be highlighted in this essay: How can shame be experienced by female alcoholics? What can affect shame in interaction with other people, from the view of female alcoholics? What other circumstances can affect the shame, from the view of female alcoholics?This study features interviews with women who have successfully gone through the process of rehabilitation from the illness of alcoholism, have a long going and stable sobriety and arecurrently part of the work force. The study also features interviews with therapists specializing in the field of addiction recovery and have considerable experience in their fieldof working with women suffering from alcoholism.The subject matters shame and stigma form the theoretical/analytical tools for this research.

An increasing global population and a worldwide growing urbanization has raised the questionabout the future food security in cities all over the world. Peak-oil limits the access to cheap fossilfuels which threatens the global food-supply chain. This has resulted in a larger awareness anddiscussion related to urban agriculture. Growing crops and keeping animals within the city-borderscould be one way of creating a more robust and sustainable food supply for city dwellers. However,to enable an expansion of the urban agriculture many theorists argue that policies and institutionalstructures that supports and promotes city farming have to be developed.

Näsåker och Resele är två bygder där man nyligen öppnat flyktingboenden. I samband med detta har det skett en organisering i civilsamhället och man har bildat Näsåkers Integrationsgrupp och Reseles Asylgrupp. Den här uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka hur den här organiseringen har gått till, hur verksamheten ser ut idag och vilka utmaningar de engagerade möter. Samt att koppla samman detta med begreppet resiliens för att se möjliga vinster för bygderna. De engagerade har under sin organisering varit enormt flexibla och an-passat verksamheten efter både de lokala förutsättningarna och de asylsökandes behov.

This study examines how the Swedish state has communicated security, threats,and citizen responsibility to the population through different versions of thebrochures ?If Crisis or War Comes?. Drawing on securitization theory and UlrichBeck?s theory of the risk society, the study analyzes how threat perceptions, protected referent objects, and the role attributed to individuals have changed overtime. The analysis is based on a deductive qualitative content analysis of sixbrochures published in 1943, 1952, 1961, 1989, 2018, and 2024.The findings demonstrate a clear transformation in the construction of threats,shifting from a predominant focus on conventional military conflict during theSecond World War and the Cold War to a more diversified threat landscape in thetwenty-first century, including societal disruptions, propaganda, cyber threats,environmental risks, and pandemics.

The hybrid larch (Larix x eurolepis Henry) is a fast growing tree species and was introduced in Sweden for about 50 years ago. The high growth and expected resistance to diseases are probably the main reasons of introducing the tree species into the Swedish forests. The purpose of this thesis was to document the production of hybrid larch planted in the Snogeholm landscape laboratory and to compare the production in the pure hybrid larch stand with the mixture together with pedunculate oak (Quercus robur). The data collection in Snogeholm since the establishment has been carried out by the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). The fieldwork for the thesis was carried out in 3 stands, containing hybrid larch, pedunculate oak and a mixture of hybrid larch and pedunculate oak, in order to be able to compare the total stand production of the areas. The results show that the total production of hybrid larch in the mixed stand only is 35 % compared with the total production of hybrid larch in the pure stand. Therefore, the hypothesis that the total production of hybrid larch is equal to the planted mixture with pedunculate oak was rejected. The other hypothesis that the total production of a 2 hectare large stand containing a mixture of hybrid larch and pedunculate oak would be greater than the total production of two pure stands of 1 hectare containing hybrid larch and oak each was also rejected. In the studied case the total production was 45 % greater if hybrid larch and pedunculate oak was planted in pure stands. The results from the case-study only indicate that the total production of hybrid larch and oak under the investigated conditions can be higher when planting the two species in pure stands compared with a mixture of the two species.

The focus on this essay is derived from an international and national dialogue for sustainable development. The recommendation from international level has been to find solutions for governments to implement strategies for sustainable development between local and regional level. This initiative is to improve and stimulate the dialogue between the local inhabitants, officials, entrepreneurs and stakeholders in the communities together with the authorities on the regional level. The purpose is to share knowledge and find ways to learn about the natural systems and how to co-operate in the work of preserving the natural resources and developing different processes for a sustainable development. Many scientists? today stress the importance that ecosystem Resilience is promoted by biodiversity conservation and that we need to find solutions for local ecosystem management practices.This essay aims to find theoretical approaches and perspectives that can be used in a wider framework to study co-operative processes between the local (agent) and regional (structure) level.

Detta arbete handlar om barn till föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa och som går i barngruppsverksamheten Fontänen. Verksamheten stöder sig på olika fackböcker om barn som far illa och framförallt om barn till föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa. Arbetsmetoden kommer från Källan som är en barngruppsverksamhet för barn till föräldrar med psykisk ohälsa. Arbetets syfte är att undersöka om och på vilket sätt Fontänen skapar förutsättning för barnen att hantera sin situation samt hur Fontänen uppfyller uppgiften av att vara ?någon? för barnen.

Föreliggande kandidatuppsats handlar om att söka beskriva samverkan och konflikt i samband med naturresurshantering. Undersökningens forskningsobjekt är ett försök till lokal samförvaltning som togs av lokala invånare i Tivedsbygden, en skogsbygd i gränslandet mellan Västergötland och Närke. Visionen om detta hållbara naturresursarrangemang lyckades dock aldrig nås. Initiativet togs i samband med ett landsbygdsutvecklingsprojekt pågick under åren 2009-2011. Min tolkning är att detta försök präglades av samverkan och konflikt.

Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of anthrax, a serious and globally distributed zoonosis affecting a wide range of wild and domestic animals, invariably also humans. However, although known to humans since biblical times, much remains to be elucidated concerning the ecology and transmission of this bacterium. Of particular interest is the Bacillus anthracis spore, the uptake of which is the predominant way to contract anthrax and which is legendary for its Resilience in the environment and thus crucial for persistence and spread of the disease. Hence, the aim of this study is to review the natural transmission of Bacillus anthracis and investigate potential means by which soil persisting Bacillus anthracis spores reach concentrations sufficient to infect susceptible hosts. When reviewing the literature, three different theories can be distinguished. Firstly, ?the incubator area? hypothesis suggests that favourable soil factors, possibly in association with amoebas, may constitute an environment supporting repeated spore-bacterium-spore cycling, thus increasing the local amount of spores.

Support group activities for children with mentally ill parent´s, without a parallel parent group, is by far the most common form in Sweden. The activities have primarily focused on increasing the frequency of the protective factors around children. Of course, parents and the families are also influenced of children´s participating in these activities. Most studies examining support group activities for children from the child's perspective. The experiences of parent?s perspective have not been well studied.

Bakgrund: Autismspektrumtillst?nd (AST) k?nnetecknas av brister i social kommunikation och interaktion samt begr?nsade och repetitiva beteenden och intressen, ofta med p?verkan p? perception, lek och fantasi. Symtomen m?ste ha varit tydliga tidigt i utvecklingen f?r att diagnosen ska kunna st?llas (APA, 2013), vilket kan medf?ra betydande utmaningar i vardagliga situationer och sociala sammanhang.? Syfte: Att beskriva f?r?ldrars erfarenheter av att leva med barn inom autismspektrumtillst?nd (AST). Metod: En litteratur?versikt genomf?rdes utifr?n tio kvalitativ, vetenskapliga originalartiklar publicerades 2015?2025.

Responsinsatser vid extra ordinära händelser såsom kriser och katastrofer karakteriseras av höga risker och stor tidspress i en föränderlig och komplex miljö. Vissa händelser går till viss del att förutse men dessvärre inte att hindra, exempelvis översvämningar eller orkaner, medan andra händelser kan vara svåra att förutse, exempelvis jordbävningar eller tsunamis. Kraven på prestation av de involverade responsorganisationerna vid sådana extrema händelser är höga samtidigt som kunskapen om situationen ofta är begränsad. Improviserat arbete och anpassning efter rådande situation är därför en förutsättning för en lyckad insats (Medonça, 2006).Tidigare forskning har visat att en rad svårigheter kan uppstå med att ha flexibla och improviserade roller under en insats, exempelvis en annan befattning eller funktion än den man vanligtvis har. Genom att studera en ledningsövning för Svenska Stödstyrkans samordningsstab där deltagare fått ta på sig en roll de inte är utbildade för syftar denna studie till att närmare undersöka förutsättningar och förmågor som ligger till grund för ett lyckat improviserat arbete.En kvalitativ fallstudie av den genomförda ledningsövningen gjordes.

The purpose of this study is to establish how a few youngsters have experienced their time in contact families and which, if any, significance their respective ?contact families? has for them today. The study aims to determine the life situation in the youth?s families at the time support through ?contact families? was initiated and the youths? own view of the reasons for this support. We also want to shed light on the meaning that the contact families had on the youth; considering both positive as well as negative meaning.