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The study is about the housing situation of the urban poor in Navotas in Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is a field study carried out in Manila, a city with 13 million inhabitants, where people live in an already congested area and at the same time people from the provinces move there to pursue jobs and the promise of a better life. Unfortunately, the people often first end up living on the stre

This Master Thesis treats the problems involved with a dust explosion inside a filter unit. The project is a cooperation between AB Ph. Nederman in Helsingborg and the Mechanical Design Department of Design Sciences LTH, Lund. The Master thesis was carried out from December 2009 to April 2010. The initial phase of the project involves studies of the phenomena dust explosions, standards and regulat

This book considers the potential solutions that the sharing economy offers to tackle the increasing challenges of urbanisation and sustainability facing cities. It emphasises the need for robust policies to ensure that the sharing economy supports urban sustainability and resilience by promoting more efficient and circular use of urban resources through practices like car-sharing, accommodation r

Decision biases reinforce firms’ tendency to develop innovations based on narrow economic motivations. Consequently, sustainability-oriented ideas explicitly targeting social and environmental issues are easily discarded in idea selection when trade-offs between economic and sustainability values are faced. Given the so far limited knowledge about how sustainability-oriented ideas are developed an

Recent research has highlighted the importance of reducing economic shrinking—periods of negative per capita growth—for long-term development. Building on this literature, this chapter proposes a new framework explicitly connecting the dynamics of poverty eradication to the dynamics of resilience to economic shrinking. It argues that a key driver of this resilience is the alignment of incentives b

Climate change pushes species toward higher latitudes and altitudes, but the proximate drivers of range expansions vary, and it is unclear whether evolution facilitates climate change–induced range changes. In a temporally replicated field experiment, we trans-located wall brown butterflies (Lasiommata megera) descending from range interior and range margin populations to sites at 1) the range int

Hydrophobic hydration, the perturbation of the aqueous solvent near an apolar solute or interface, is a fundamental ingredient in many chemical and biological processes. Both bulk water and aqueous solutions of apolar solutes behave anomalously at low temperatures for reasons that are not fully understood. Here, we use 2H NMR relaxation to characterize the rotational dynamics in hydrophobic hydrat

In recent years, the antibody microarray technology has made significant progress, going from proof-of-concept designs to established high-performing technology platforms capable of targeting non-fractionated complex proteomes. In these cross-disciplinary efforts, a particular focus has lately been placed on two key technological issues: the sample and data handling. To this end, robust protocols

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