Milj?omr?det har sedan 1970-talet blivit ett att allt viktigare politikomr?de inom den Europeiska unionen (EU). En f?ruts?ttning f?r att EU:s ambiti?sa milj?politik ska realiseras ?r att medlemsstaterna s?kerst?ller att nationella akt?rer i praktiken implementerar milj?lagstiftningen. Den Europeiska kommissionens officiella statistik visar dock att det finns problem i den praktiska implementeringen av EU:s milj?lagstiftning.

Milj?omr?det har sedan 1970-talet blivit ett att allt viktigare politikomr?de inom den Europeiska unionen (EU). En f?ruts?ttning f?r att EU:s ambiti?sa milj?politik ska realiseras ?r att medlemsstaterna s?kerst?ller att nationella akt?rer i praktiken implementerar milj?lagstiftningen. Den Europeiska kommissionens officiella statistik visar dock att det finns problem i den praktiska implementeringen av EU:s milj?lagstiftning.

Det här examensprojektet har utförts på Volvo CE, Hauler & Loader Division, Arvika. Projektet ingick som ett avslutande moment i maskiningenjörsprogrammet vidKarlstads universitet. Volvo i Arvika tillverkar hjullastare vilket man har gjort sedan mitten av 60-talet. Fabriken har idag ca 1150 anställda som tillsammans levererar över 6000 hjullastare per år.Produktionsvolymen i Arvikafabriken ökar allt mer vilket medför att ett behov av många investeringar för att klara denna volymtillväxt har uppstått. Den huvudsakliga tillverkningen på svetsavdelningen består av fram- och bakramstillverkning.

I en tid d?r samh?llet st?ndigt f?r?ndras och utvecklas har banksektorn f?tt m?ta nya krav och f?rv?ntningar fr?n marknaden. Efterfr?gan p? digitala l?sningar, tekniska innovationer och nya kundbeteenden ?r saker svenska banker beh?vt anpassa sig till under senare ?r. I ett f?r?ndringsklimat kan akt?rer i banksektorn beh?va genomf?ra strategiska f?r?ndringsarbeten f?r att forts?tta f?lja utvecklingen och den r?dande efterfr?gan.

Obemannade flygplan har de senaste °aren varit en v¨axande bransch som hela tiden utvecklasoch nya anv¨andningsomr°aden tillkommer i och med att tekniken g°ar fram°at och priset ned. Ettintressant anv¨andningsomr°ade ¨ar ¨overvakning och spanningsuppdrag. Detta ¨ar en konceptstudiesom syftar till att presentera ett l¨onsamt och milj¨ov¨anligt alternativ till de helikoptrar som densvenska polisen anv¨ander men ¨aven f¨or andra civila till¨ampningar som ¨ar av intresse f¨or elbolagoch andra industrier. Resultatet ¨ar ett autonomt v¨atgasdrivet flygplan som kommunicerar viamobiln¨aten och som kan styras med endast en laptop och en antenn. Flygplanet har en sp¨annviddp°a 10 m, en marschfart p°a 175 km/h och en r¨ackvidd p°a 473 km.

Stump wood was used between 1850 and 1950 for production of tar and as firewood. In the 1950s the use decreased because of the introduction of the cheap fossil oil. In the 1970s stump wood became an interesting issue again as a raw material for the pulp industry. Stump lifting has today become a possible source for bioenergy. The objectives with this study were to investigate the productivity of stump lifting and stump extraction, and to analyse the economy.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical developments on social entrepreneurship. Our purpose is to create a better understanding of the phenomenon leading to new insights. We have categorized the knowledge of the concept into social economy, social ownership, social innovation and social missions. Drawing from our theoretical review we have chosen four empirical illustrations, Grameen Bank, Wikipedia, Basta Arbetskooperativ, Jörn Hälsogemenskap, and we have shown how these fit into the general description of the social entrepreneur. With help of our illustrations we show that it is complicated to pin point the core of social entrepreneurship as they each have separate structures, innovations, social missions and operate close to different sectors.

The purpose of this essay was to investigate affecting factors concerning social workers in social services assessments with cases of abuse. We wanted to see if social workers in social services tend to make different assessments of the need of substance abusers care. Our survey was carried out as a vignettesurvey with complementary interviews as means to deepen the outcome results.Our survey showed that the included social workers in social services in some senses make different assessments when it comes to choice of effort put in for the client. We shed light on different factors and circumstances, which could bear meaning for the social workers in social services assessments. Examples of factors were the social workers in social services age, gender, working experience and attitude towards substance abusers..

Social work is a social phenomenon, existing in most societies, that has given rise to a multitude of special organizations and professions. For that reason social work is dealing with a complex identity. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how social workers and the scientific discourse interpret the concept of social work. In addition to that the study intends to show similarities and differencies. The research process containes two studies, one based on qualitative interviews with five social workers and the other consisting a surway of academic litterature.

Sedan 2011 allt fler barn med autism tas emot idag i den svenska grundskolor eftersom de inte l?ngre har r?tt till grunds?rskolan utan signifikanta intellektuella funktionsneds?ttningar (SFS, 2010:800). Dock, vissa studier har visat att barn med autism i grundskolan ?r ensamma och ?r mindre accepterade av sina kamrater (Chamberlain et al; 2007). Jag ville unders?ka vad ?r det som f?rsv?rar eller underl?ttar social integration f?r barn med autism i grundskolan.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how social procurement can be a further development of public-private partnership. This is done with interviews and a case study of the social procurement Mitt Gröna Kvarter and its labor effort Boendebyggarna. The theoretical framework used in the thesis consists of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility. It tries to answer the following questions:What does this social procurement mean by the concept of public-private partnership?What does this social procurement mean for the participants involved?How can social procurement be seen as a further development of public-private partnership?The thesis uses the theory development around the concepts of public-private partnership and corporate social responsibility and shows that social procurement does indeed have similarities to public-private partnership and could very well be a further development of it..

The aim of this study is to illuminate social worker?s perception of social class within the Swedish social service system. This study therefor examine if social class contributes to the production and reproduction of the client and what impact social class has on the interaction between client and social workers. The study was conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with social workers from three different departments of social service. The theoretical approach is Yeheskel Hasenfeld?s theory about moral practices in welfare organisations, Michael Lipsky and Roine Johansson?s theories about client construction and Pierre Bourdieu?s class theory.

Purpose: To compare the expectations of coming profession in social work with experienced social work. We wanted to compare the pictures between the students in school of social work studies with social workers. We also wanted to increase social workers as well as other readers? awareness of social work as a profession.Questions: What characterizes the school of social studies? How do students in school of social work view the coming role as a professional? How do students in school of social work view upon social workers as professionals? How do social workers view upon their own profession? How do social workers view upon the own role as a professional? How do social workers view upon the relation between the idea of the profession and the daily practice? How do the students in school of social work studies and social workers view upon professional social work?Method: Qualitative study with qualitative interviews.Conclusion: Social work is a low status profession. How to increase the status of social work is not easy.

My big interest in sports was what shaped my choice of subject for the essay. The purpose of this study has been to explore the social meaning of team sports for functionally impaired persons. In order to fulfil the purpose of the essay I formed following questions: How do the actives experience their participation in team sports? And how important is the social intercourse in team sports to the individual welfare? The methods I?ve used have been qualitative with an ethnographic approach. I have used participant observations and field interviews to gather my empirical material.

This study analyses social age as a phenomenon and if unaccompanied refugee children has a social age that, according to the Swedish culture, do not correspond with their biological age and if so is, the reason for that. Furthermore, our study has discussed the potential consequences of the effects for the unaccompanied refugee children and the social age when interacting with Swedish society. According to our study, the social age is effected by other factors besides cultural norms, values and role expectations that a society has on a specific biological age. The results in this study shows that social age is a vital component to someone?s identity.