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Proteins are one of three macro-components of a diet. An increasing demand for products that can be a complete protein source exists. The vulnerability of the current food system towards environmental impacts and the inability to keep up with the rising population has shifted the focus on valorising underutilised by-products of the food industry. The rapeseed cake (a leftover from rapeseed oil pro
På grund av plasts ubikvitet i världens hav utvecklas rättsliga instrument för att motverka de negativa miljöeffekterna av plast. Denna uppsats analyserar kritiskt två nya rättsliga utvecklingar inom den internationella miljö-rätten: förordning (EU) 2023/2055 om mikroplaster (som en del av REACH-initiativet) och utvecklingen av ett globalt FN-plasttraktat. Uppsatsen undersöker huruvida de två rättDue to the ubiquity of plastics in the world’s oceans, legal instruments are developed to combat the adverse environmental effects of plastics. This essay critically analyses two recent legal developments in international environmental law: the EU Microplastics Restriction (as a part of the REACH initiative) and the development of a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution. The essay examines whether the tw
The Asian Dragon is challenging the economic hegemony of the United States but at the same time depends on energy imports to sustain its economic growth. Most of China's Oil comes from the Middle East and Africa, and the supply passes through the Indian Ocean and the Malacca Strait, a critical choke point. Western literature has extended the idea of String of Pearls -denied by China-, consisti
Access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is a human right. Today water scarcity is a large problem and inequality in access to safe water is a striking truth. In Mozambique, the US foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation introduced the Rural Water Point Installation Program to increase access to safe water and sanitation – a step towards reducing poverty. 600 water points – in
A negative long-run relationship between inequality and growth has been found for a variety of inequality measures, but as these measures invariably ignore the pro-poor effect of in-kind redistribution, one may question the reliability of previous studies’ inequality-growth estimates. In this paper, I incorporate in-kind benefits into the Gini index and present new estimates of the inequality-grow
The Fiskarheden quarry, situated in NW Dalarna, central Sweden, reveal thick deposits of coarse-grained sediments of Scott type facies association; a sandur deposited in an ice-proximal proglacial environment. Preliminary OSL dating of the sandur sediments suggest that they are of a pre-Saalian age (>200 000 years). Of special interest here is, besides its pre-LGM age, the large-scale and intense
The SABR model has for a long time been an invaluable tool for capturing the volatility smile and to price nancial derivatives not quoted in the market. However, the current negative rate environment in the EUR market has led to numerous challenges for nancial institutions. One of the most problematic issues is that the SABR model used for volatility interpolation and extrapolation fails when rate
This thesis has the ambition to provide an answer to why governments’ asylum policy changes. Previous research suggests that changes in policy lay within ideational and material sources of preference. Correspondingly, the reason for change in asylum policy specifically, is partly due to the number of asylum seekers, the public opinion and the party ideology. However, scholars are not in agreement
Since the establishment of an Islamic regime in Iran 1979, the poverty in the country has grown, especially among the middle class. This has occurred despite growing national prosperity, a solider government budget and decades of management experience. To understand this paradox, there is a need for research focusing on the connection between poverty and regime security. By using Critical Discours
The great climate impact of the agri-food sector has only recently been brought into light, and become a concern of political actors around the world. Standardizations as an initiative to govern this sector have received increasing attention, but while these initiatives can prove an effective tool for influencing consumer choice, they also hold certain problematic characteristics. Although they ar
In this investigation, based on fieldwork during a five-month period, the impacts on school gardens on students’ relationships with food and the environment on the Big Island in Hawai‘i are explored. The focus is on the effects of garden based learning on student’s understanding and attitudes towards food and their local environments as well as how it encourages the Hawaiian concept of living pono
This master thesis is a socio-legal study which explores the Swedish drug policy and its discourses, more specifically how discourses within the political sphere affects the political discussion and the legal norms regarding drugs in Sweden. As methodological approach I have used a critical discourse analysis, created by Norman Fairclough, to analyze political documents, trying to find the most po
After the financial crisis in 2008, many companies, as a response to stakeholders’ claims, decided to make profits and “do good”, increasing the chances of providing a positive societal impact. Social enterprises have always pursued this cause, however, very little of them succeed in changing the world due to their hybrid business model. The primary purpose of this study is to determine how social
The purpose of this paper is to predict the cost-effectiveness of a preventive health care project based on physical exercise that will take place at Medicon Village, Lund, in the fall of 2016. Data from the Health Survey for England is used to develop an empirical model with individual fixed effects that estimates the relationship between physical exercise and psychological well-being. The freque
In the aftermath of the public protests now known as the “Umbrella Revolution”, many Hongkongers struggle to renegotiate what it means to be “Chinese”. Previous agreements about universal suffrage and political autonomy in Hong Kong, as outlined in the “One Country, Two System”-policy, now appear like broken promises. This thesis asks the question whether the Umbrella Revolution has changed the un
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between environmental factors and value capture capabilities and their effect on value capture. A qualitative Case Study was conducted based on interviews from five Key Account Managers and the CFO and CEO of a Business to Business firm operating in the Nordic region. This thesis shows that despite having a superior value offering and high
Rapid urbanization has dramatically increased housing demand in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. To alleviate housing shortage, the city of Hanoi has developed a housing program of which the major part is housing development through new urban area projects. New urban area, or new town, projects are large-scale developments designed mainly for residential purposes, with integrated infrastructure
In this essay the systemic risk contributions of financial institutions in the European Monetary Union are analyzed. For this purpose the CoVaR measure, first introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011), is applied. The definition of CoVaR is changed in the way that 1) the definition of financial distress is changed from an institution being exactly at its VaR-level to being at most at its Va
