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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Meliponiculture, or stingless bee domestication, is an ancient Maya practice that has been at the edge of disappearance in the past 20 years. Thanks to an alarming preoccupation of the future of stingless bees, many ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Addressing the environmental challenges that are a result of the ballooning Chinese economy is becoming an increasingly important national priority. Today, China has the highest number of deaths linked to ambient air ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Agriculture is one of the most controversial industries in the world. The population is growing and the need for food is too. But the strain that agricultural production puts on the environment, and the imbalance between ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015 was the largest Ebola outbreak ever, killing over 11,000 people. In this thesis, I explore the Norwegian response to this crisis, focusing particularly on two projects conducted by the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Ferrosilicon is one of the fundamental building blocks of modern society, yet seldom discussed outside the factory halls in which it is produced. Products from the ferrosilicon industry end up in everything from cars to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Self-help literature has attempted to change people’s mindsets for more than a century, but its potential to make a difference for the environment has barely been studied before. This thesis uses an interdisciplinary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis navigates the intersection of environmental peacebuilding, youth engagement, and the intricate dynamics of the Cyprus conflict, with a specific focus on the UN-led initiative, UNYCHEP. Positioned within ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western ...