Thesis (doctoral)--Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uppsala, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and index.

Diss. Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2007.

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Left-hand drive (LHD) vehicles share higher road accident risks under left-hand traffic because of blind spot areas. Due to low import prices, the number of wrong-hand drive vehicles skyrockets in emerging countries like Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. I identify the causal effect of wrong-hand drive vehicles on road safety employing a new “backward version” of the synthetic control method. Sweden switched from left-hand to right-hand traffic in 1967. Before 1967, however, almost all Swedish vehicles were LHD for reasons of international trade and Swedish customer demand. I match on accident figures in the period after 1967, when both Sweden and other European countries drove on the right and used LHD vehicles. Results show that right-hand traffic decreased road fatality, injury and accident risk in Sweden by approximately 30 percent. An earlier switch would have saved more than 4,000 lives between 1953 and 1966.

This study is dealing with the adoption of Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRWC) by Swedish farmers during the last 20 years. SRWC is considered as an innovation in land use. An exploratory case study was set up by interviewing Swedish farmers and land owners to find out (1) about their decision process and reasons to start with Salix cultivation and (2) their opinions from today’s (time of interview, 2008) point of view about that decision. The aim is to improve German investigations in this field, to find out about reasons for farmers to decide in favour of or against SRWC. The development of Salix cultivation in Sweden seemed successful in the beginning of the 1990s as the total area of SRWC increased considerably until 1995. With the entry to the EU and participation in the common agricultural policy (CAP) in 1995 the positive development ended and has remained on the same level until this investigation. The study is based on 14 interviews with farmers who have been involved in SRWC. The interviews are part of the appendix A (Anhang A). On the basis of these 14 cases reasons and aspects for making decisions are evaluated in a qualitative method. Important factors for decision making in Sweden were in this study: agricultural policy before 1995, income from Salix, workload, service enterprise Agroenergi AB, hunting, site quality, and some miscellaneous aspects more. Further investigations should consider the type of farmer referring to his personal income structures as SRWC seems suitable for landowners who are financially independent from agricultural income. Another topic for further investigations should be the transfer of the obtained knowledge in Sweden to Germany.

Business School, Diss.--Jönköping, 2007. / Enth. 4 Beitr.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 2002. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223).

Diss. (sammanfattning)--Lund : Lunds, 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. Umeå : Univ., 2003.