Baljväxter kan utgöra ett hälsosamt och klimatvänligt alternativ till kött. Med lämpliga tillagningsmetoder utgör deras innehåll av osmältbara ämnen inget problem. I dagsläget importeras den största delen av färska och torkade baljväxter som konsumeras i Sverige. En ökad inhemsk ekologisk yrkesodling av baljväxter skulle föra med sig fördelar i form av minskad användning av gödningsmedel och gynnande effekter i ett växelbruk. I Sverige odlas i stort sett bara ärter och bruna bönor som livsmedel. En anledning till att inte fler arter odlas storskaligt är att det svenska klimatet är lite för kärvt, särskilt för bönodling. En annan anledning är att de gamla arter och sorter som förr fanns i lokal odling har fasats ut av förändrade kostvanor och mer rationella odlingssystem. Det finns exempel på nya baljväxter som skulle kunna lämpa sig för en svensk odling, men här uppstår ett moment 22-läge; inga lantbrukare vågar börja odla utan en säker efterfrågan, och handeln vågar inte ta in nya grödor i sitt sortiment utan ett stabilt odlarunderlag. Både odlare och handel anser att en utökad svensk ekologisk baljväxtodling för humankonsumtion till stor del hänger på en förändrad matkultur. Detta kan uppnås genom att framta nya produkter eller förändra synen på de svenska baljväxterna som råvara. Den existerande odlingens framtid påverkas till stor del av vilka olika ekonomiska stöd som utbetalas, detta gäller inte minst odlingen av bruna bönor på Öland.

In today's society, we are facing challenges such as rising sea levels and increased average temperatures, which have heightened awareness and social responsibility regarding climate and sustainability issues. The EU taxonomy is a response to these challenges and aims to limit emissions and promote sustainable investments. It regulates companies' environmental work and investments to reduce climate impact, which has direct implications for various sectors and financial transactions. Within the real estate industry, which is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, companies are expected to undergo changes to comply with EU regulations. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the implementation of the EU taxonomy affects the value of commercial properties in Sweden. We formulate the research question: "How does the EU taxonomy's regulatory framework affect the value of commercial properties?" To answer this question, we employ a qualitative and empirical analysis method. The empirical material consists of six semi-structured interviews with transaction managers and transaction directors within the real estate industry. Subsequently, the interviews are analyzed together with previous research and the theoretical framework, enriched by value and price theory. The results indicate an increase in value for commercial office properties that meet the EU taxonomy's requirements and are located in the country's metropolitan regions, while office properties that do not meet these requirements are expected to decrease in value. On the other hand, the values of commercial residential properties are not affected by this trend. Within the logistics property sector, there is observed growth in new constructions that meet the taxonomy's criteria, which is believed to anticipate a future increase in value, especially for large new logistics properties leased to financially significant companies.

This thesis considers the translation of Dutch and Flemish picture books into Swedish from 1995 to 2006. The main aim of the thesis is to study what meaning the notion translation takes on where picture books are concerned and how the translation practice for picture books is influenced by international co-productions. The thesis includes a bibliographical study and a larger case study of the Dutch picture book artist Dick Bruna and his internationally renowned picture books about the rabbit Miffy in Swedish translation. Working within the theoretical frame of descriptive translation studies (DTS), I describe and analyse picture book translation as a phenomenon and a practice that occurs at a certain moment in time in a certain sociocultural context. Using the model of Toury (1995), I study translation norms governing the selection and translation of Dutch and Flemish picture books and of Bruna’s picture books about Miffy in particular. Toury’s model is largely designed for the analysis of written texts. As picture book texts combine both verbal and visual modes of expression, I use multimodal analysis combining the social semiotic visual grammar of Kress & van Leeuwen (2006) with systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as a tool to analyse the translation of picture book texts. By combining DTS and SFL, I study translation as a cultural and social semiotic practice. The analyses in the thesis indicate that picture book translation can be characterised as an international, target culture-oriented and multimodal translation practice. The multimodal translation analysis shows that, while translated picture books have the same images as their source text due to co-production, images can be combined with different social meanings, as for instance images of children and interaction with the reader, expressed in the written text. Images can also assume different meaning potentials and also referential interplay and plausible reading paths between words and images can change.