This essay is about local history in history teaching in two cities; Kalmar and Vetlanda. The purpose was to see how teachers in Kalmar and Vetlanda define local history and what kind of local history they teach their students. I have also examined what benefits of didactics the teachers see in teaching local history. In order to find out I interviewed four history teachers at three schools in Kalmar and two history teachers at one school in Vetlanda. Some of the interviews were carried out over the telephone and the rest at the teachers´s schools.

The purpose of the thesis is to describe how environmental compensation is carried through when it comes to exploitation of Natura 2000. The thesis also relates to the three theories of planning synoptic, advocacy and transactive. Three cases of environmental compensation have been studied from three different countries where an exploitation of the Natura 2000 is done. Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands have all been working with environmental impact assessments as a demand to be able to carry through their projects. The projects concern the development of a railway track, an industry and a port which all have been approved by the EU-commission to carry on because of socioeconomic reasons.

GPS (Global Positioning system) and GIS (Geographical information system) has been used for planning and inventory in the forest sector for more than ten years. The last years the development has come to equip harvesters and forwarders with GPS and GIS (GIT). The goal with this study was to reach a basis for decision, how Stora Enso Skog should continue its investment in GPS and GIS in harvesters and forwarders. To reach this basis for decision, possible advantages and benefits, disadvantages and problems in the harvesting process was evaluated. The study was made as an interview study with four harvesting managers and ten machine teams. To secure the quality of the results an interview questionnaire was made before the interviews were done. The results showed that GIT will make the harvesting managers work easier.

The purpose of this masters thesis is to examine how managers in public libraries are managing financial cuts. Questions posed are: What strategies are used by the library manager to handle the cuts and how are the strategies being worked out? What are the consequences of the cuts? How do the managers use their library plans in the work with the cuts and how do the plans change as a consequence of the cuts? Library managers in eleven communities are interviewed about their financial cuts in 2003 and/or 2004. The result shows that cuts are made in different ways. The study analysed the managers statements with a model about strategies created by Oulton.

Boliden Mineral Ab's mine in Garpenberg, Dalarna is going through a massiveexpansion. The annual ore production is being increased from 1,4 million tons to 2,5million tons in less than two years period of time. Along this expansion thedepartment of mining techniques is administrating a project of optimizing the shortterm planning for the mining production. Garpenberg have since mid 90s storedinformation from all mining processes in a database.The information consists of time data from all the different activities required in themining process, for example charging, blasting, loading etc. The database also containstime data of delays that are affecting the production.

The purpose of this study is to examine if, how and why history teachers work with local history projects in education. The results will be analyzed based on a theory of the uses of history. I also investigate, through group interwiews with students, if and how students? historical consciousness may develop through teaching about local history. The result is a variation map of teachers? different uses of history and how students historical consciousness can manifest itself.The results of the study shows that all the teachers interviewed uses local history projects in education.

I Stockholms ytterstad orsakar tunnelbanans tydligt radiella struktur svaga tvärkopplingar mellan förorterna. Tvärbanan, spårvagnen mellan stadens södra och västra förorter i det halvcentrala bandet, är ett framgångsrikt försök att förbättra tvärförbindelserna i Stockholms kollektivtrafiknät. Under den fortsatta utbyggnaden av tvärbanan kan en samordnad kollektivtrafik- och bebyggelseplanering bidra till att integrera ytterstadens stadsdelar med varandra. Mariehäll-Brommafältet-Ulvsunda i nordöstra Stockholm är ett av 12 stadsutvecklingsområden som enligt Stockholms översiktsplan från 1999 utgör stadens framtida utvecklingsresurs för en blandad och varierad stadsbebyggelse. Idag domineras området av Bromma flygplats, vars buller förhindrar nybyggnad av bostäder i stora delar av området. Tvärbanan, som idag går mellan Sickla och Alvik, planeras inom kort förlängas norrut i två grenar via Ulvsunda industriområde och Bromma flygplats.

SUMMARYInventory of raw materials holds an important role in companies within the manufacturingsector. The inventory works as a buffer that secure the supply of materials to the productionunit. The aim of the inventory is to ensure that the company is able to meet the customers?demands despite fluctuations and variations in the material flow. The size of the warehouseand the layout are physical limitations for the quantity of articles that can be stored.

Reinforcement is of great importance to fulfill the dimensioned strength of a concrete construction. This requires that the work needs to be carried out with adequate results that neither endangers the workers or the safety of the construction. Progressive development of the planning phase, construction documents, and construction methods is in constant need since the technology constantly evolves.In order for contractors to be able to get acceptances from their quotations requires that they have to increase their working pace in order to be able to leave a quotation with a lower price than the competition.Due to the increasing pace the different parts involved in the construction process is subjected to time pressure. The design stage, construction documents, work preparation and the execution are all affected when everything has to be finished quickly. To avoid problems, it is required that all parts are able to deliver good quality solutions and results under the influences of time pressure, which is not always easy.

Trots att lite mindre än 2 miljoner människor idag utsätts för ohälsosamma ljudnivåer är samhällets ljudmiljöer idag en lågt prioriterad miljöfråga. Flest exponerade finns det i storstäderna, men problematiken med för höga ljudnivåer ökar i hela Sverige. Detta tillsammans med ljuds kända påverkan på kroppen, bland annat dess bidragande till stress samt störd nattsömn, gör att städernas ljudmiljöer kommer att bli en allt mer viktig fråga för samhällsplaneringen. Samhällsplaneringen arbetar idag defensivt med stadens ljudlandskap. Bullerplank sätts upp, bullervallar anläggs samt installeras tjockare glas i särskilt utsatta byggnader. Boverket har idag det övergripande ansvaret för att ta fram riktvärden och arbetsmetoder för hur buller ska hanteras i samhället.

The purpose of this study is to examine if, how and why history teachers work with local history projects in education. The results will be analyzed based on a theory of the uses of history. I also investigate, through group interwiews with students, if and how students? historical consciousness may develop through teaching about local history. The result is a variation map of teachers? different uses of history and how students historical consciousness can manifest itself.The results of the study shows that all the teachers interviewed uses local history projects in education.

SUMMARYInventory of raw materials holds an important role in companies within the manufacturingsector. The inventory works as a buffer that secure the supply of materials to the productionunit. The aim of the inventory is to ensure that the company is able to meet the customers?demands despite fluctuations and variations in the material flow. The size of the warehouseand the layout are physical limitations for the quantity of articles that can be stored.

SUMMARYInventory of raw materials holds an important role in companies within the manufacturingsector. The inventory works as a buffer that secure the supply of materials to the productionunit. The aim of the inventory is to ensure that the company is able to meet the customers?demands despite fluctuations and variations in the material flow. The size of the warehouseand the layout are physical limitations for the quantity of articles that can be stored.

Safety in the construction industry has become a question of top priority in recent years. Despite a massive investment of time, money and knowledge, the occur-rence of fatal accidents in Sweden alone is around one a month.The purpose of this study is therefore to improve the safety on the construction site. By an examination of the role of the safety agents and their cooperation with the construction workers and supervisors as well as examine how safety agents can improve safety on the construction site, which is the goal of the study.Four questions were formulated based on the purpose and the goal of the study.The methods used to answer the questions were a questionnaire survey, multiple interviews, a literature review and a document analysis.The report describes the safety agent?s role as a complex one with many different tasks. The role of the safety agents is regulated in the health and safety law, but it can sometimes be difficult to interpret and the agents can therefore interpret their role differently.

Denna uppsats är en beskrivning och undersökning på vad utemiljön har för betydelse för oss som individer och hur den påverkar oss. Uppsatsen kommer först att gå igenom en litteraturgenomgång, sedan görs en analys av två bostadsområden i Kristianstad och därefter presenteras en intervjuundersökning som har gjorts på respektive bostadsområde. Utefter de slutgiltiga resultaten kommer uppsatsen att avslutas med en diskussion och slutsats. Enligt bl.a. Karla Werner (Olsson m.fl. 1998), Kevin Lynch (1977) och Patrik Grahn (Olsson m.fl.) föredrar människan platser där denne känner sig hemma och kan skapa sig en egen identitet.