Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: Michael Gamel-McCormick, Dept. of Individual & Family Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Amid growing concern over access to sufficient and cheap energy resources, on March 31, 2010 the Obama Administration announced the opening of new exploratory and drilling sites for oil within the United States Outer Continental Shelf. The announcement concerning the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Strategy came only three weeks before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that marked an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster. Though the concern over offshore drilling, especially regarding regulation and environmental impact, has increased in the wake of the oil disaster, the general debate regarding offshore oil drilling has been a concern of environmental activists and domestic energy policy for decades. This thesis examines the development of environmental activism and energy security discourses concerning offshore oil policy in the state of Florida. It places offshore oil drilling at the intersection of discourses of energy security and environmental security by looking at the construction of ocean space as both an informant and product of the discursive constructions of energy security and environmental security. The study aims to provide a deeper understanding of how ocean spaces are incorporated into the economic, national, environmental and social imaginations of Americans, particularly Floridians, and how these imaginations, in turn, dictate offshore oil drilling policy.

Although family centered care and natural environment services have been heralded as the ideal model in early childhood intervention and have been mandated by Part C of IDEA, research demonstrates that family centered principles are still not adhered to in many early childhood programs. Previous research in this area is lacking with regard to the limited diversity of participants (i.e., white, middle-class woman) and perspectives (i.e., childcare providers). This dissertation reports the results of a study that took into account perspectives of multiple stakeholders in early intervention including families, service providers, and program directors in order to understand the full range of difficulties and supports experienced when providing family centered care in the natural environment. This qualitative study used grounded theory methods to analyze information gathered through semi-structured interviews to elaborate the barriers and facilitators experienced in family centered care and natural environment services. The core theme identified in the data was the tension between the resources available to early intervention and the ideals of best practice. This core finding was supported by three themes regarding facilitators and barriers to service provision. Two of these, the need for theoretical buy-in to the model and the challenges of negotiating roles in family centered care, emerged as either facilitators or barriers, depending on service provider roles. The third theme was common across the data and indicated that the major barrier to natural environment services was the management of scarce resources.

Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 234-248). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-219). Also available via the World Wide Web.

The Volta Basin covers most of the major food producingdistricts of Ghana. Thus said, it is considered as the foodbasket of Ghana. This perception underscores the need toprotect the basins bio-physical environment and resource base.This concern has been mirrored by several initiatives both interms of policy and planning that aim at improving themanagement of the basin’s resource base to enable itspeople depend on it in meeting their livelihoods. Like mostcommunities that lie in the lower reaches of the Volta, thepeople of the South Tongu District have been brought under theimpact of the dam. Even though no extensive study has yet beenconducted to establish the extent of the dam’s impact inthe district, it is widely believed by the locals thatlivelihoods have been impacted by environmental changes. Keycomplaints include, amongst others, tree cover depletion,decline in soil fertility, poor agricultural productivity, lowrainfall and bush fires. At the district level some steps havebeen taken in the form of projects and programmes to addresspoverty and resource management issues, while others areunderway. This study seeks to contribute to the on-goinggeneral discussion concerning poverty and environmentalmanagement in the basin by presenting some perspectives fromfour villages, namely, Torsukpo, Agbogbla, Akato and Alesikpein the South Tongu District. From two perspectives, thesecommunities are considered as homogenous: (i) they are allpredominantlyeweswith respect to ethnic composition, and (ii)subsistence farming features as a key occupation in all thecommunities. Among the range of issues identified in thedistrict, the study discusses mainly conservation (with respectto tree planting), bush fires and co-operative management. Ittreats these issues with focuses on key socio-cultural factors.In the examination of these issues institutional matters suchas tenure are seen as central players in resource managementand are thus given attention. While information gathered hereincontributes generally to deepening knowledge on the prevailingproblems, some recommendations are also offered as possiblesteps to improving resource management and livelihoods in theDistrict. <b>Key words:</b>environment; natural resources; lower volta;local people; livelihood

This study paper not only to do the comparison study of competition strategy analysis , also cover the other two dimensions¡¦s comparison of entrepreneurship and innovation strategy analysis. Through these three dimensions analysis to do the case study of Starbucks, and further to do comparison between two selected restaurant , 85 C & Cha for tea with the Starbucks (1992, before IPO) then try to concluded to future tea restaurant model. The production of Taiwan tea leaf industry, drop from per year 4 thousand tons to Around 2 thousand tons, but actually the total industry sales value still keep same level as the peak year, the major reason is cause by the growth from three market segment ,First segment , the tradition tea shop ,sale more then 4 thousand tons tea leaf ,mainly Oolong tea & Green tea ,total sales amount around 11 Bio NTD . Second segment, the ready-to- drink ,tea drink beverage industry ,consume more then 6 thousand tons tea leaf, total end product sales amount over 15 Bio NTD, Third segment , tea house + tea stand and tea restaurant ,consume around 7 thousand tons tea leaf,total end product sales amount around 18 Bio NTD. Base on above three segment , we can see tea house + tea stands and the tea restaurant are the major growing segment for the whole tea industry, also if we counts in the total involve labors ,still this segment share the biggest contribution. Then we foresee as long the innovation growth from this segment will in final contribute to Taiwan tea industry. This paper then focus on the future dream model of tea restaurant , while review the history of Stuarbucks & Taiwan tea restaurant ,It is very interesting to found that both starting from early 1970, till 1992, come out to be huge difference, Starbucks start its IPO in 1992 then continuous to do the internationalize extension, and become a worldwide leading specialty coffee house and famous brand . In the mean time , Taiwan tea restaurant ,diversity growth in Taiwan inland and east Asian, there been a lot success medium & small chain store , without a realy internationalize teaestaurant. I select Starbucks in 1971- 1992 before IPO period as target benchmark to do the case study, after screening the local tea restaurant and chain store , found that the 85 C coffee house and Cha for tea Tea restaurant was the best candidates to be a dream module as the comparison study. Case study ,start from background introduction of Taiwan tea house+tea stands and tea restaurant's history. Second part, Collect the theory and analysis model for success strategy and innovation strategy. Third part, outline Starbucks success model, utilized the external market environment and internal value chain and plus entrepreneurships & innovation strategy to outline the success of Starbucks . The final part is to do the details comparison between 85 C coffee house and Cha for tea Tea restaurant with Starbucks ,Then concluded to the future dream model of tea restaurants.

In this thesis, the first section will talk about how to implement the software development environment for 8bit microprocessor, including Compiler, Assembler, and Debugging mechanism etc. The design of Debugging mechanism is based on in-circuit emulator. In-circuit emulator is a common debugging technique for microprocessor. The designed ICE contains hardware implement and debugging software for it in this thesis. ICE hardware is a control circuit from TAP Controller, IEEE 1149.1 std. and it control the scan cells on the data bus. The Debugging software uses JTAG port, IEEE 1149.1 std., to insert debug instruction from PC to ICE hardware. In this thesis, the second section will focus on the process of integrating ICE hardware circuit and software debugger issued by two ways, our own design version and business suit debugging software support. The examples are not only integrating our LAB¡¦s 32bit microprocessor and ICE hardware, but also verifying software debugger to control ICE circuit by FPGA to prove above two methods are work.

Date:             2009 – 05 – 28 Level:            Master thesis in Industrial Management with specialization in Sustainable Development, 30 hp Authors:       Nominchuluun Nyamdavaa                      Sam Amirebrahimi                       Engerbrektsgatan 19                         Centrallasarettet Ing.21                       72216 Västerås                                         72189 Västerås                       073 – 696 93 69                                       073 – 907 74 91 Tutor:           Magnus Linderström Title:             Organizational interactions in the energy sector regarding environment and growth – case study of Mälarenergi AB Problem:       Energy sector has been much debated regarding growth and environmental issues. Energy situation in 2020 sets an emergency that a New Energy Policy has to be made immediately in order to meet the growing energy demand without compromising the environment. Thus the energy sector is strictly regulated by national and international level policies. It is interesting to investigate how organizations interact with each other in the sector regarding growth and environment.    Purpose:       Aim of this thesis is to describe the inter-organizational relationships in the Swedish energy sector and analyze how organizations interact with each other depending on their attitude towards sustainable development. The research involves a case study of a local energy company Mälarenergi AB and different actors in its institutional field and how the company acts according to its interests in forming relationships with others. Method:        This thesis is an interpretive case study which aims to research the link between understanding and action. Organizational and institutional theories are used as theoretical framework. Empirical data will be collected through qualitative semi-structured interview with organizational members as well as secondary data that are collected through literature, documentation, archival records and previous researches.   Result:          The Swedish energy sector is a complex field that consists of different actors and complicated relationships. The sector is mainly affected by national and EU-level decisions thus a local energy company is regulated by national and EU-level environmental policies. Interactions with other actors are fundamental in Mälarenergi’s institutional field. Organizations form co-operations and collaborations in order to achieve environmental goals as well as to conduct joint R&amp;D activities. The environment pressure made it clear that the organizations have to work together in order to maintain a sustainable growth in the energy sector.