10 pp. / Pruning recommendations for shrubs commonly planted in the low and mid-elevation desert in Arizona are given based on the intended use and individual plant growth characteristics.

Klimatpåverkan och hållbar utveckling är aktuella ämnen för dagens samhälle. Människan utnyttjar mer resurser än vad jorden har att tillgå och agerar på ett vis som kommer leda till en klimatomställning om inte en förändring sker inom en snar framtid. Byggsektorn är en av de branscher som har en större påverkan på jordens klimat och därmed en av de branscher som måste förändra sitt arbetssätt för att bidra till en förändring.   I denna studie har privatpersoners tankar och agerande undersökts för att ta reda på hur medvetna svenska konsumenter är om sin miljöpåverkan vid en renovering. Detta för att ta reda på hur man kan få privatpersoners agerande, vid en renovering, att bidra till byggsektorns arbete mot FN:s globala miljömål och en hållbar utveckling.   Studien har genomförts i form av en enkätundersökning. Av resultatet från 300 respondenter kunde det konstateras att det finns ett intresse för hållbarhet och att använda miljövänliga produkter. En avgörande faktor i deltagarnas val av material och produkter är priset då en övervägande del ansåg att de hållbara alternativen är för dyra. Okunskap kring vad som är ett hållbart alternativ och inte gör att konsumenterna väljer efter rekommendationer från butikspersonal eller priset.   Genom att analysera sambanden mellan de olika frågorna i enkäten kunde det konstateras att hållbara- och miljövänliga produkter behöver hamna i samma prisklass som de mindre hållbara- och miljövänliga produkterna för att fler konsumenter ska välja dessa. Det kunde även konstateras att en tydligare hållbar marknadsföring av produkterna skulle öka chanserna för att privatpersoner ska renovera mer hållbart. / Climate impact and sustainable development are trending topics for today's society. Mankind is using more recourses than Earth has to offer and are acting in a way that will lead to a climate change if nothing changes in the near future. The construction sector is one of the industries with a larger impact om the climate and therefore one of the sectors that needs to change its way of doing to contribute to a change.  In this study, thoughts and actions of private individuals have been investigated to find out how aware Swedish consumer are of their climate impact while renovating. Moreover, find out how to make the individual actions, while renovating, to contribute to the construction sector’s work towards U. N’s global environmental goals and a sustainable development.   The study has been carried out by conducting a survey. With the results from 300 respondents, it could be established that there is an interest in sustainability and the use of environmentally friendly products. One key factor in the choice of materials and products is the price and a predominant part considered the sustainability options to be too expensive. The lack of knowledge of what is a sustainably option and what is not, tends to make the individuals to make choices based on recommendations from staff or the price.   By analyzing the correlations between the different questions from the survey, it could be established that the sustainability- and environmentally friendly products needs to be in the same price range as the less sustainability- and environmentally friendly products for more consumers to choose these products. It could also be established that a more distinct sustainable marketing could increase the chances of a more sustainably renovation amongst private individuals. / <p>Betyg 2021-06-04</p>

The purpose of this study was to document and understand the meanings associated with the visual elaboration (Painter, 2002a), of a particular house i.e. what was done to it after it was built and why, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, by successive occupants, including myself, over a period of nine decades. I used a case study, involving documents and artefacts and interviews with key informants. Taking an interpretive epistemological stance, I employed a narrative approach to inquiry (Kramp, 2004, Johnson-Bailey, 2004). The individual narratives resonated with recent anthropological findings. The house saw home managers exert their agency (Pink, 2004). Additionally, inhabitants left a signature on the structure (Dominy, 1997), and carried with them mementos from the home they had made there (Marcoux, 2001). Over time, through transformation processes, both individuals and the house were changed (Miller, 2001a). Further, the design legacy left by previous inhabitants acted as a form of agency on successive residents (Miller, 2001b), and through reciprocal accommodation the house and its occupants came to terms with each other (Miller, 2002). Additionally, six common themes emerged: epistemological orientation, economics, male and female, reminiscences and affect, childhood to adulthood and history and presence. My finding that an individual’s epistemological stance was related to her/his artistry supports an emerging vision in art education, that of art practice as research (Sullivan, 2005). This has implications for both research and practice. Firstly, the processes through which non-specialists work need to be more fully explored. Secondly, we require a changed view of art history where art images are understood as part of a productive visual culture (Marshall, 2007). This is a concept-focused analysis of art where meaning is demonstrated to be contextual and intergraphical, and is manifest in artworks that can be scrutinized across cultures and time. Thirdly, our concept of visual literacy must expand; if we construct knowledge and reality through making images as well as by decoding the meaning of existing visual images, then art practice is schools is imperative (Marshall). Finally, visual thinking is integrative (Marshall), and thus art integration and a new approach to art and learning are essential.