Residential estates are created without any adaptation to the users who will use them. Clients wouldprofit on involving users in an early project stage to create housing estates adapted to the user?s needsand wishes. Clients of the housing estates that require missions from consultants should realize that noone exclusive can represent other people's needs, regardless of the theoretical expertise they possess. TheSwedish million programme in the 1970s is an example of how objective expertise gained control, whichled to the creation of outdoor environments where few wanted to stay and live.

Arkeologiska fynd har visat tecken på att hästen levde vid människans sida redan för mer än 5 000 år sedan. De utmaningar som tidigare förfäder tvingats hantera har i mångt och mycket dagens hästar fått hjälp av oss människor att undvika. Trots detta är inte dagens hästar framselekterade för att reagera annorlunda på omgivingen, utan använder sig av samma samma sätt att hantera sin tillvaro som deras förfäder tvingats att göra för sin överlevnad. Hästhållningen i Sverige regleras i många avseenden enligt de lagar och förordningar som finns, både i fråga om hur den fysiska miljön ska se ut och vilka krav som ställs på hästens dagliga hantering. Jordbruksverket har tagit fram uppgifter som visar att nästan 90 % av svenska hästhållare tillgodoser hästarnas behov av social kontakt genom att de får gå i hage tillsammans med andra hästar och att 80 % har stall med boxar. Att inhysa tidigare stäpplevande djur på begränsade ytor kan antas medför en hel del risker.

Evaluations of open Ditch status and function, with an assessment of suitability of a conversion to a two stage ditch as a low maintenance alternative. To illustrate Swedish drainage problems this work focused on two agricultural drainage associations assessed in detail with a new method called MADRAS (Minnesota Agricultural Ditch Reach Assessment for Stability). With the assessment of the MADRAS method estimates were made to conclude the ditches operating problems. This was made through measurements of sediment depths, mass bank failures etc. in order to quantify ditch problems and propose practical actions for improved ditch stability and water quality. The MADRAS surveys were conducted in two main ditches that drains 2900 hectares of land on the northern shores of Mälaren. In the study measurements of the ditch cross-sections were also conducted to compare actual profiles with the original map profiles. The evaluation showed that parts of the studied ditch sections were operatively poor; main reason was mass bank failure, undercut channel banks, sediment aggregations and narrowed ditches. The profile survey shows that a majority of the profiles 80 % has sediment accumulations there remains only 64 % of the original profile from the map.

The primary goal of this study was to investigate how the radial growth of retained trees responds after thinning-from-above. The National Board of Forestry which initiated this study, was interested in whether there were differences in the growth-response between the tree species Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.). Another question of issue was if there were differences in the growth response between trees of different sizes. It is within the framework of the National Board of Forestry?s, Continuous Forests Project that these urgent questions are to be answered.

The travelling sector is expanding worldwide, which puts all destinations under pressure to have a functioning social system and good resources to manage the problems and take advantage of the opportunities that the tourism sector can offer a community. The area around Kisumu in Kenya, like much of Africa, tourism can simultaneously ensure a stable financial future while it removes, as a result of a growing population, more and more of the scenery that many tourists want to experience. Responsible travel to natural areas that promotes conservation of the environment and improves the welfare of local people is what defines ecotourism. A concept that implies a closed cycle, where visitor?s needs are met in balance with what can be given back, without risking creating imbalances in society. Along the coast of Lake Victoria, valuable papyrus wetlands provide Kisumu vital ecosystem services such as water purification, climate adaptation while it also serves as a reservoir for biodiversity.

stater bildats på internationellt initiativ vilket verkade fungera under 40 år för Jugoslavien men de etniska motsättningarna i landet utnyttjades av nationalistiska partier efter kommunismens fall vilket trappade upp de etniska konflikterna och resulterade i ett inbördeskrig som varade i fyra år. 1994 hölls det ett fredssamtal i Dayton vilket resulterade i ett fredsavtal, The General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP). I GFAP gavs OSSE, som är den största regionala säkerhetsorganisationen i världen med 55 medlemsstater från Europa, Centralasien och Nordamerika, uppdraget att säkra freden och demokratisera landet. Detta innebar en demokratisering uppifrån med en begränsad möjlighet till inflytande vad det gäller den bosniska befolkningen. Detta reser frågan om denna sortens demokratiexports möjlighet till framgång? Den internationella interventionen och fredsavtalet som följde syftade inte bara till att få slut på kriget i regionen utan också till att skapa helt nya institutioner för interagerande i alla delar av statsapparaten och det civila samhället.

What is the relation of image and word, of sentences and pictures? What kind of message does this combination produce when juxtaposed on a single material plane? And how do we read its ?infinite? relation? These are the questions at the center of this inquiry. My main interest concerns the exact nature of the relation between photographic images and textual elements of poetic language when these are juxtaposed in what I call Phototext poetry.The thesis calls into question the conventional reading habits of the conjunction of photographs and texts, and seeks to understand the more complex connections intrinsic to the relation image/word and its material and perceptual play in poetic works. Does a text always ?anchor? the multiple meanings of an image, as Roland Barthes argues? What if the alterations of an image could ?anchor? certain fractions of a poetic, polysemantic textual construct? Is a photograph indifferent to the visual, material permutations of texts that certain contemporary poetic practices produce?I discuss phototextual works and collaborations of various kinds, from Molin fontän [?Molin?s fountain?] (1866) over classic surrealist poetry to language-oriented writing.

Open pit mining creates huge amounts of tailings and waste rock deposits. Due to it's content of sulphide minerals, predominantly pyrite (FeS2), there is a risk of oxidation and formation of acid water containing heavy metals, known as Acid Rock Drainage (ARD). To prevent the process of oxidation, the tailings and waste rock have to be reclaimed. The most commonly used methods of reclamation are a coverage of water or soil. Mining also results in a large-scale interference in the landscape that will make an eternal change of its appearance.

The European Union is a 60 year long collaboration between the European countries. It was born from the intention to ease trade and thereby reassure peace. Within the 60 years EU has functioned it has developed and expanded further. In 1952 it evolved around the trade of coal and steel between six countries, today it includes 27 nations and oversees a large number of topics such as foreign affairs, a common currency and regional politics. EU has grown at several times, the latest expansion was the largest where 12 new countries became members. The unions of countries that only 60 years ago were at different sides of a world war can be considered an accomplishment.