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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Food preparedness and the protection of agricultural land among municipalities : A case study in Haninge and Heby municipalities / Livsmedelsberedskap och skydd av jordbruksmark bland kommuner

Handler, Freja January 2023 (has links)
Food provision in times of environmental and social crises has become a hot topic over recent years. The covid-19 pandemic and the Russian war on Ukraine have led to a re-evaluation of Swedish food preparedness. One proposed way of addressing food preparedness is to increase the resilience of the food system, so that it is better able to withstand disturbances. Additionally, one way of increasing food preparedness can be by increasing domestic production and reduce the dependency on imported food and fertilisers. Swedish municipalities have the power to decide to build on or protect agricultural land. Additionally, Swedish municipalities are responsible for providing food to schools, hospitals and care facilities even during crises. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate how Swedish municipalities are working with food preparedness and protection of agricultural land through policies, plans and in practice. Case studies were conducted on Haninge and Heby municipalities through text analysis of governing documents and semi-structured qualitative interviews with municipality officials. Neither municipalities have policies in place for food preparedness nor protection of agricultural land. However, some efforts are being made in terms of food preparedness in public meals and encouraging locally produced food through procurement. Furthermore, limited practices outside of procurement and meal service could be identified, but some interesting ideas and potential innovative practices were mentioned in the interviews. Building housing or providing jobs within the municipality was prioritised over protecting agricultural land in certain cases. The results from the case study were analysed from a resilience thinking perspective, using the seven principles of resilience defined by Biggs et al. (2012). Resilience was not explicitly mentioned in the reviewed documents nor in interviews. However, some resilience thinking and practices were displayed by some of the officials during the interviews in terms of collaborations and connectivity, the encouragement of a diversity of actors at different scales and the enablement of participation and learning. As the municipalities are in the early stages of addressing food preparedness, they have the opportunity to include resilience thinking in the shaping of their governance and management policies. Ideally the inclusion of resilience thinking could aid in creating municipal food systems that are resilient to disturbances and sustainable in the long term. / Livsmedelsförsörjning i tider av miljömässiga och sociala kriser har blivit ett hett ämne under de senaste åren. Covid-19-pandemin och det ryska kriget mot Ukraina har lett till en omvärdering av den svenska livsmedelsberedskapen. Ett föreslaget sätt att hantera livsmedelsberedskap är att öka livsmedelssystemets resiliens, så att det bättre kan motstå störningar. Vidare kan ett sätt att öka livsmedelsberedskapen vara att öka den inhemska produktionen och minska beroendet av importerade livsmedel och gödningsmedel. Svenska kommuner har befogenhet att besluta om att bygga på eller skydda jordbruksmark. Dessutom är svenska kommuner ansvariga för att tillhandahålla mat till skolor, sjukhus och vårdinrättningar även under kriser. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka hur svenska kommuner arbetar med livsmedelsberedskap och skydd av jordbruksmark genom policyer, planer och i praktiken. Fallstudier genomfördes på Haninge och Heby kommuner genom textanalys av styrdokument och semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med kommuntjänstemän. Ingen av kommunerna har någon policy för livsmedelsberedskap eller skydd av jordbruksmark. Vissa ansträngningar görs dock när det gäller livsmedelsberedskap i offentliga måltider och uppmuntran av lokalt producerade livsmedel genom upphandling. Dessutom kunde begränsade metoder utanför upphandling och måltidsservice identifieras, men några intressanta idéer och potentiella innovativa metoder nämndes i intervjuerna. Att bygga bostäder eller skapa arbetstillfällen inom kommunen prioriterades i vissa fall framför att skydda jordbruksmark. Resultaten från fallstudien analyserades utifrån ett resiliensperspektiv, med hjälp av de sju principerna för resiliens som definierats av Biggs et al (2012). Resiliens nämndes inte explicit i de granskade dokumenten eller i intervjuerna. Några av tjänstemännen visade dock prov på resilienstänk och -metoder under intervjuerna när det gäller samarbete och anslutningsmöjligheter, uppmuntran av en mångfald av aktörer på olika nivåer och möjliggörande av deltagande och lärande. Eftersom kommunerna befinner sig i ett tidigt skede av att ta itu med livsmedelsberedskap har de möjlighet att inkludera resilienstänk i utformningen av sina styrnings- och förvaltningspolicyer. I bästa fall kan införandet av resilienstänk bidra till att skapa kommunala livsmedelssystem som är motståndskraftiga mot störningar och hållbara på lång sikt.
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Analýza účinnosti nástrojů ochrany lesního a zemědělského půdního fondu / Efficiency analysis of the protection instruments of forest and agricultural land resources

Javoříková, Zuzana January 2018 (has links)
Soil is an irreplaceable natural resource, a fundamental component of the environment and a source of livelihood. At present, however, urban sprawl is excessive and land cover is detrimental to the agricultural system; these are the leading contributors to soil damage and the loss of its function. The most serious type of soil degradation is "land grabbing". Such land grabbing may be considered one of the major environmental problems of the Czech Republic. Development in greenfield sites has significant environmental impacts, such as the loss of good agricultural or forest land. Unlike tools to protect forests, tools to protect agricultural land resources (ALR) appear to be ineffective. The objective of the present thesis is to explain how such tools are applied in practice, and to analyze the tools and to answer the crucial question: How do tools to protect agricultural land resources work in practice and for what reasons do tools to protect ALR appear to be ineffective? The theoretical section of the thesis provides the legislative and theoretical background. This section is primarily based on Act No. 334/1992 Sb. on the protection of agricultural land resources and Act No. 289/1995 Sb. on forests. An analysis is made and the defined issues are assessed in practice. I used qualitative research,...

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