Achieving sustainable development goals and contributing to climate change mitigation is of key importance in reorganising research aims, used methods and selection of study objects. The replacement of fossil materials with renewable ones and full utilisation of biomass according to a zero-waste concept is a strategy providing new challenges and opportunities for structuring research and...
Forestry has long been one of the main driving forces of the economy in Northern Europe. The main product produced from this sector is timber; however, a large amount, approximately 30%, of the biomass is either left in the forest to decompose or chipped for production of bioenergy. Logging residue from the coniferous trees - Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris),...
New Genomic Techniques have been developed after adoption of the Directive 2001/18/EC to introduce targeted changes in crop plant genomes potentially leading to new traits that can lead to more sustainable agriculture under the climate change. There are legal challenges for use of NGT plants in the EU, as they are still considered GMO, although some of them are not transgenic. The talk will...
The wine microbiota is a dense but highly exploited ecosystem. The selection of new microbial species from non-conventional ecological niches could constitute a new pool of biodiversity in the winemaking process. This research for the first time addresses the metabolomic impact generated by non-Saccharomyces strain, Candida oleophila (C. oleophila) YS209, selected from the honey...
Maritime spatial planning (MSP) is significantly important to upholding sustainability and managing conflicts among the maritime industries. The first-generation planning document, the Maritime Spatial Plan 2030 (MSPlan 2030) covering also sea waters along the Kurzeme coast, was officially adopted in May 2019. The first Interim Evaluation 2019-2023 of the MSPlan 2030 was published in October...
Aim. My main research question is whether these narratives reproduce the anthropocentric world order or whether they attempt to transform it and introduce a new language into the museum space.
Methods. The empirical material consisted of texts accompanying museum exhibitions. I used critical discourse analysis to analyse the empirical material.
Results. The texts accompanying...
