<p>European Union (EU) Enlargement is more than a collaboration of nations; it has become a large-scale development project where countries facing significant economic challenges undergo enormous transitions in order to meet the standards for acceptance into the EU. This level of accelerated development calls for a strong integrated sustainable development oversight.</p><p>Sustainable development is a global development management philosophy that aims to conserve the integrity of the earth’s ecosystems while supporting economic growth and social welfare. It was developed by the Brundtland Commission during the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, its primary purpose was to reduce the resistance to the conservation of the environment while raising awareness for the importance of the earth’s natural resources, both for those who need it today and those who will need it tomorrow.</p><p>The aim of this study was to investigate the degree to which sustainable development has been implemented into the process of EU Enlargement. A snowball method was used to identify both qualitative and quantitative data through official documents and statements, reports, research, and web pages. First, I investigated both the EU and the UN definitions of sustainable development to see how they compared and how the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) addressed EU Enlargement. Next, I examined the EU accession assistance programs available to candidate countries to determine if they were guided by sustainable development and if they had had any influence on the sustainable development within the candidate countries.</p><p>The definitions of sustainable development for both the EU and the UN were notably different. The UN:s definition provided a balanced approach to the Three Pillars of Sustainable Development, while the EU:s definition strongly supported the economic pillar decreasing the value of the environmental pillar. The EU SDS showed no marked reference to EU Enlargement and the accession assistance programs were not guided by sustainable development. Furthermore, the quantitative data collected from the EU sustainable development indicators in EuroStat indicated that the process of accession increased candidate countries GDP growth which also increased their capacity to meet the MDG’s and therefore, to implement sustainable development. However, while economic and social standards of the candidate countries were shown to increase while environmental conservation was shown to decrease. The significant lack of data designed to monitor the environmental pillar of sustainable development within the EU:s strategy indicated that the environmental pillar of sustainable development has been neglected. In conclusion, while the capacity to implement sustainable development has increased, implementation of sustainable development has not. Discussed in response to this is the need for a comprehensive EU SDS that reaches through the boundaries of member states and into candidate and candidate hopeful countries. Acting through an umbrella program the EU Enlargement SDS could bring both enlargement and sustainable development together cohesively increasing the chances that new EU members will make a more rapid advance in the process of sustainable development.</p>

<p>Denna undersökning syftar till att undersöka vad leverantörerna anser om sina kunder. Förhållandena mellan företag och leverantör utvecklas konstant. Det är lämpligt att företagen strävar efter att minska antalet leverantörer samtidigt som de ökar samarbetet med dem som är kvar. För att undersöka vad leverantörerna har för åsikter om sina kunder genomfördes en ostrukturerad intervju med leverantörerna där de fick berätta vad de tyckte var de viktigaste egenskaperna hos en kund. Utifrån dessa egenskaper, teoretiska aspekter och fallföretagets kärnvärden konstruerades det en enkät.</p><p>Innan utskicket visade det sig att det fanns en undertäckning på ett antal företag till följd av att fallföretaget inte hade möjlighet att få fram kontaktpersoner till alla leverantörer. Av de leverantörer som valde att svar på enkäten visade det sig att majoriteten av respondenterna svarade Varken instämmer eller tar avstånd, instämmer delvis eller instämmer helt för samtliga fyra företagen och alla frågorna/påståendena på den femgradiga Likert-skalan.</p><p>Efter att jämfört fallföretagets arbetssätt med sina leverantörer med den presenterade teorin för hur ett företag bör arbeta för att uppnå hög kvalitet, lägre kostnader m.m. visade det sig att fallföretaget hade en hel del arbete framför sig. Fallföretaget har insett vikten av att samarbeta med sina leverantörer men de är i dagsläget bara i början av sitt arbete.</p>

<p>BAKGRUND: Studien redogör för de företeelser vilka möjliggör eller hindrar tillvaratagandet av barns intressesfär i verksamhet inom förskola/fritidshem. Forskning och styrdokument betonar vikten av barn vilka görs till medskapare i sin vardag, där deras intressen ska utgöra grunden. SYFTE: Syftet med vår undersökning är att utreda i vilken utsträckning barn har inflytande över sina intresseyttringar i förskola/fritidshem. METOD: Med utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ ansats har examensarbetet utifrån observationer och intervjuer ämnat undersöka i vilken utsträckning barns intressen tillvaratas i verksamhet inom förskola/fritidshem. Informanterna har innefattats av både barn och pedagoger. RESULTAT: Intervjuresultatet har påvisat barns inflytande, vilket tycks vara förskjutet till den ”fria leken”. Styrdokumenten å sin sida, ger uttryck för barns rätt till inflytande över hela verksamheten. Samtliga pedagoger uttrycker att barns intresse bör ges stort utrymme. Dessvärre verkar faktorer såsom tid, miljö, barnsyn, styrdokument och stora barngrupper hämmande i tillvaratagandet av barns intressen. De centrala delarna i vårt resultat har kategoriserats. Därmed har barns och pedagogers uppfattningar utmynnat i följande kategorier: bestämmande, hörsammandet av barns intressen och tid och rum.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-368).

This is an interdisciplinary arts practice based PhD that incorporates fieldwork into its exploration of Abernethy Forest in Cairngorms National Park, and Culbin Forest in Morayshire, Scotland. The thesis explores how a contemporary arts practice can articulate a place’s multi-layered complexities and how processes of coming to know influence and impact on the kinds of artworks created. This way of working incorporates an innovative approach that draws on geographical, anthropological, historical and ecological sources, and includes the synthesis of a contemporary arts practice with an ethnographic element - more specifically participant observation, with foresters, ecologists and others - as a mode of gathering. Description and examination of encounters in the field give context to the artwork and provide additional knowledge that lends insight into management practices and the knowledge that these workers possess. The research constitutes an original contribution to investigations of the forests of Culbin and Abernethy and correspondingly innovative outputs. This research proposes that a contemporary arts practice can articulate and communicate aspects and elements of place in ways that offer insights to artists, geographers, anthropologists and others. Central to this is the idea that places are multi-layered, everchanging, embodied, active and containing complex ecological, sensorial and physical histories and presences. Communicating these understandings requires a multi-faceted way of working and multi-modal ways of articulation in recognition of place as an experiential field of investigation. The art produced forms a non-linear, multi-stranded body of work that emphasises the benefits of multiple formats within an arts practice. The thesis enhances and further complicates conceptualisations of place that in geography and anthropology are often restricted to academic writing and demonstrates how artists and others can usefully enlarge and expand the ways in which places can be articulated and rendered.

Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone / This case study examined the potential of creating collaborative co-working spaces at the University of Arizona. Through qualitative research on the effectiveness of co-working spaces already in place at three different universities across the nation, this study identified key features that could successfully be implemented at the University of Arizona. These features were a co-working space built around a student organization centered on collaboration and innovation. The latest in technological resources to aid in project execution and learning. Lastly, a partnership with a local makerspace providing students of all backgrounds and interests to collaboratively work on building physical items in a space they might not have had previous access to. While research was limited to university affiliated websites and articles on co-working spaces, scholarly articles on this specific subject where not found to further back conclusive findings and recommendations.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universität Berlin. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Im Rahmen einer interdisziplinären Projektwoche entwickeln Wirtschaftsingenieure und Designer gemeinsam Ideen, wie intelligente Materialien unser Leben angenehmer gestalten können

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