Before 1978, Chinese dam policies were tallied with the political movement ¡§Big Leap¡¨, people all obeyed the order no matter they were under the situation of lacked of instruments. Sanmenxia can be a special sample. ZhouEnlai¡¦s chrisma made people did their best on dam projects. This could be said that dam construction policies were methods to show the authority of the leader and the state. And further, under the system of people¡¦s commune and SOEs, the state can totally control the society. After executing the opening reform policy in 1978, social organizations were in bud in China. Since 1994, environmental non-government organizations (ENGO) dramatically grew up and played an important role in anti-dam movements, in addition the international non-government organizations joined the movement, and then the two kinds of organizations became transnational advocacy networks. However, the transnational advocacy networks successfully stopped the projects of Nu River and Hutiaoxia. In this study, the documentary analysis is the key research methodology and the dam construction is the case to illustrate the purpose of constructing dam in China. Furthermore, this thesis would make a description of the reasons of anti-dam movements, the emergence of NGOs and ENGOs, and the cooperation with INGOs to confer the transforming State-Society relations in China.

The thesis "Social Housing Policy in the Czech Republic and it's target group" is focused at a contemporary situation of the social housing system and it's relationship towards the people of housing distress. It is based upon the fact, that there has been no such legislative document approved, which would be comprehensively dedicated to the issue of Social Housing Policy, although various attempts have been reappearing for the last ten years, and current government defined the approval of such a document as one of it's key political agenda. The thesis itself is based upon theoretically-methodological approach of targeted population's social construction, while using identification narrative to explain contemporary status, which occurs among policy makers. These narratives are defined as social reality overviews of researched reality and are distinguished by it's own issue definition and mutual approaches to this topic. They also defend public interests, while also creating notions about targeted population. The thesis is also dedicated to define the impact of political decisions on targeted population, distribution of burdens and benefits. Three narratives were identified, while social construction of targeted population differs. Two of the even differs by narrative itself, which highlighted the...

Statybai, kaip vienai iš žmogaus ūkinės veiklos šakų, sparčiai keičiančiai gyvenamąją aplinką kiekybiniu ir kokybiniu požiūriais, skiriamas išskirtinis dėmesys. Statyba šiame darbe vertinama atsižvelgiant į darnumo principus. Norint sėkmingai integruotis į Europos Sąjungą, reikalingi infrastruktūros planavimo ir plėtros pokyčiai, būtina gerinti gyvenimo ir aplinkos kokybę. Šalies politika, taip pat ir darnios statybos klausimais, turi būti adekvati Europos valstybėms. Pastaraisiais metais darniai statybai, tame tarpe ir presuotų šiaudų panaudojimui, skiriamas didelis dėmesys ne tik populiarioje literatūroje: laikraščiuose, žurnaluose, bet ir mokslinėje literatūroje. Rašomi ne tik straipsniai, bet ir knygos. Atsinaujinančių statybinių medžiagų panaudojimo klausimais atliekami užsakomieji moksliniai tyrimai, ruošiamos disertacijos. Atsižvelgiant į tai galima teigti, kad ir Lietuvoje bus suformuota valstybinė darnaus vystymosi kriterijais paremta statybos politika. Tačiau kol kas, siekiant darnumo statybos pramonės srityje, tenka vadovautis bendrais aplinkosauginiais ir darnaus vystymosi idėjas deklaruojančiais politiniais ir teisiniais dokumentais. Lietuvoje darnios statybos plėtros galimybės nėra vertintos. Magistro darbą sudaro penki skyriai, išvados ir pasiūlymai bei naudotų literatūros šaltinių sąrašas. Pirmajame skyriuje nagrinėjama darnaus vystymosi samprata ir raida. Antrajame – statybos sektoriaus poveikis aplinkai. Trečiajame ir ketvirtajame skyriuose nagrinėjama darni... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The special attention is given for the construction as one of the branches of human economic activities, rapidly modifying the living environment in quantitative and qualitative approaches. In this work construction is evaluated by taking into consideration principles of sustainability. In order to successfully integrate into the European Union changes of infrastructure planning and development are required, it is necessary to improve the quality of life and environment. Country policy, as well as sustainable construction issues, must be adequate to the European countries. In recent years the great attention is paid for the sustainable construction including the use of compressed straw not only in the popular literature: newspapers, magazines, but also in the scientific literature. Not only articles are written, but books as well. Scientific researches are performed in the issues of renewable construction material use as well as the dissertations are prepared. Taking this into consideration it can be stated that Lithuania will establish a state construction policy based on sustainable development criteria. However, at the moment in an attempt of sustainability in the sphere of construction industry, we have to follow general environmental, political and legal documents declaring the ideas of sustainable development. In Lithuania the possibilities of sustainable construction expansion have not been evaluated. Master thesis consists of five chapters, conclusions and... [to full text]

The UK has committed to deep, long-term reductions in national greenhouse gas emissions as part of a global effort to address climate change. Material efficiency, reducing the material inputs per service output, has long been identified as a globally underexplored mitigation strategy. Previous studies show unrealised technical potential to improve the efficiency of steel use, a large contributor of industry emissions, in the UK. This thesis explores why these opportunities may be unrealised along the steel supply chain.