The oldest unit of land assessment in Sweden is the attung (lat. octonarius). It is first mentioned in written documents from the late 12th century. When, where and why it was introduced has been much discussed. In this study an investigation of documents mentioning the attung until 1376 is...

Environmental policy aims at preserving environmental values. But what is the point… i) of the concept of environmental values and ii) of environmental values that will actually be reached? This thesis focuses on both these questions. Setting an environmental target requires a, implicit or...

For many of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, fruit and vegetables are very important products. In light of the increasing trade liberalization and thus increasing competition between countries, this paper aims to investigate the competitiveness of ten Mediterranean countries with...

To manage coastal zones suffering from eutrophication in the presence of spatial heterogeneity requires an understanding regarding the complexity of such problem. This thesis contributes to the understanding about setting an optimal policy design for sources whose effect on the recipient varies...

As the modern firm has continued to grow and its owner base has widened, the owners' opportunities to exert influence has diminished. While the board of directors is a strategic resource available to management it is also the owners' primary tool for exercising control. To a large extent...

Water pollution caused by nutrients and chemicals that are leached from arable soils is a pervasive problem around the globe. The nonpoint-source nature of this pollu-tion makes it particularly complex to control from an environmental policy perspec-tive. This thesis focuses on the economics of...

The thesis is about summer farms (fäbodar) in Sweden, analyzing how the agrarian economy in the north of Sweden developed from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. The aim is to understand the impact of summer farms in the agricultural economy and their role in the...

Macedonia, as a candidate country to the EU and a member of the WTO is in need of a comprehensive, transparent, and internationally comparable assessment of the support to agriculture in the country. OECD that has been measuring support to agriculture on a yearly basis, in its member countries...

Avhandlingen har en tvärvetenskaplig inriktning och avser att belysa hankgärdesgårdens betydelse från 1640 – 1900 på flera plan: virkesbehov; arbetsbehov; funktion inom byalaget. Avhandlingens grundläggande hypotes är att hägnaderna ökade över tiden. Därmed blir avhandlingens...

The overall aim of this thesis is to clarify relations between the value perspective of economics and other value perspectives and its significance for the interpretation of normative statements and of anomalies found in stated preference (SP) surveys. The thesis contains two papers. The main...