Sustainable development
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There are 28 English pages and 33 Swedish pages that are tagged with SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. The content may vary depending on language.
Lic seminar with Hafizur Rahman
On March 22 Hafizur Rahman presented his Licentiate Thesis called Modified Kraft Pulping to Produce a Softwood Pulp Requiring Less Energy in Tissue...
The Many Faces of Sustainability
A book sprung from frustration. So might we describe the book "Hållbarhetens många ansikten" (The Many Faces of Sustainability) by political scientists...
App against master suppression techniques
It started out as satire and ended up as a highly regarded app. The Forum for Gender Studies app about master suppression techniques was intended to...
Issues of mountain landscape conservation and development continue to be important
“The Swedish mountains are not a landscape of wilderness - humans have left their mark and people still use the landscape in various ways”, says...
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Mid Sweden University becomes partner in Treesearch
10 January - 2018Mid Sweden University becomes a core partner in Treesearch, a platform for collaboration on research and competence building in the field of new materials...
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The lab that tests anything from tents to quilted jackets
18 December - 2017At the Sports Tech Research Centre's Materials Testing Lab companies can come and test their products. Gneis, who specialise in outdoor wear for children,...
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New light on rural areas' media shadows
13 December - 2017How can local news journalists who cover rural areas be given support in an age when more and more provincial editorial offices are being closed down?...
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Odours as a weapon against damage to forests
13 December - 2017Is it possible to communicate with a 5 mm long creature by means of odour? Is it possible to make elks eat only a certain part of young pine trees? If you...
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In birds' best interests
13 December - 2017Movement is a three-year research project that is developing tomorrow's technology for studying wind power's impact on birds. The research can contribute...
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Digital sensors in the hunt for oil spillages
13 December - 2017Oil spillages can cause serious harm to lakes and other bodies of water and there are unfortunately often no tools to detect a spillage at an early stage....
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The paper that is not afraid of water
13 December - 2017You have probably heard a great many alarming reports about gigantic "garbage patches" in the seas and oceans, bags that end up in the natural environment...
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Cellulose replaces plastic in future packaging materials
12 December - 2017RISE PFI, Mid Sweden University and MoRe Research are the main actors of the newly launched Interreg project PlastiCel. The project aims to...
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Patrik Jonsson – new Adjunct Assistant Professor at STC
11 December - 2017Welcome to STC Dr. Patrik Jonsson! As from November 1 he is our new Adjunct Assistant Professor from our partner company Combitech. Patrik has a PhD...
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In the wake of climate change
08 December - 2017How are house-owners affected when the number of storms and floods increases? How much responsibility can be put on insurance policy holders and what will...
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New research identifies widespread sexism in the tourism sector
08 December - 2017Employees in the tourism sector are often young, immigrants and women. And they are subjected to more sexism than workers in many other industries....
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Tourism and cultural heritage are used to build peace
08 December - 2017How can tourism and heritage support peace-building efforts? Daniel Laven, Associate Professor in Human Geography and senior lecturer at ETOUR, asked himse...