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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This case study looks at how the Chinese wind turbine industry has grown from being almost non-existent ten years ago, to become the world’s largest today. In a country where electricity supply is predominately fuelled by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Hvordan involveres medlemmer og lokallag i klimaarbeid i store medlemsbaserte miljøorganisasjoner? Hvordan kan disse organisasjonene bidra til at klima kan gjøre "lokalt"? Denne oppgaven utforsker lokalt klimaarbeid i to ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The study focuses on two types of community forest, village forest and customary forest - using qualitative case study from two villages namely Lubuk Beringin and Guguk in Jambi Province. The findings show that village ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The thesis focuses on the relationship between Hungarian environmental NGOs and the EEA and Norway Grants. The study describes and analyses how foreign civil society assistance has enabled green civil society organizations ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to explore local narratives on the conservation of Trillemarka-Rollagsfjell, in 2012, four years after its inauguration. The study reveals that there is a wide gap between the successful picture ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households’ heat pump ownership. The heat pump is a technology that has the potential to reduce electricity ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The barriers to energy savings in institutions and private homes are well known and include people’s lack of interest, awareness, knowledge and human and financial capacity. Experiences made in several countries show that ...
Bringing The Blue Flame Home : An Investigation of Key Factors for Household Biogas Adoption in Rural Indonesia. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis aims at investigating key factors for household biogas adoption with the case study in Sri Hardono village situated in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Province Indonesia. By employing Appropriate Technology and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Recent debates on African agency in China–Africa relations highlight how China provides African governments with an alternative to traditional donors that should allow African policy-makers to experiment with policy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis aims to show the role of networks of experts (epistemic communities) in constructing knowledge and social structure upon which a CDM project was successful.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Climate change is affecting men and women differently, influencing their priorities and adaptation strategies for coping with the challenges. The challenge of climate change could impede people’s livelihood opportunities ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) for smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa is subject to ongoing scholarly and public debate regarding the evidence-base and the agenda-setting power of involved stakeholders. We ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmente en Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestas violentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
As we grapple with our relationships with nature in search of sustainable solutions in our precarious age, religion has entered the sphere of environmentalism. Offering religious ideas as a key to sustainability, some have ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Why do NGOs and companies form a relationship and how, if at all do they implement it in order to create value? These are central questions that are addressed in this paper, and the answers are sought by taking a closer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
In the modern era cattle ranching in Nicaragua has become a principle economic activity for a number of reasons, with the result that as much as 30% of the country´s forested lands have been converted to pasture for grazing. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis is based on a case study of a planned wind power park in Vindafjord municipality in western Norway. It seeks to understand how the stakeholders involved in the plan talk about the proposed wind power park, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP) is the proposed 1177 km link to bring crude bitumen from the Alberta Tar Sands over to the BC coast for Asian-bound super-tankers, presenting unique risks; crossing 1000+ salmon ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis analyzes the design intentions of architects in the Norwegian National Tourist Routes. Since architecture is not an isolated concept, this analysis incorporates philosophical and theoretical ideas in an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Solar Transitions project initiated and implemented Ikisaya Energy Centre, a social enterprise providing solar powered electricity services in Ikisaya village in Kenya. This study explores to what extent participatory ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This current study focuses on exploring expectations of World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farming (WWOOF) hosts and volunteers participating in various countries using online semi-structured interview method. Using ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Poverty and inequality have risen dramatically in Britain since the late 1970s leaving the country today with one of the lowest levels of social intergenerational mobility in the developed world. Drawing upon qualitative ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis set out to investigate Norwegians’ attitudes towards beef consumption. UNEP calls for a worldwide dietary change, away from animal products. Still, the Norwegian authorities do not address the problem of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2003)
Bioprospecting: Global discourses and local perceptions Shaman Pharmaceuticals in Tanzania Bioprospecting is an activity whereby researchers and agents for pharmaceutical companies travel to various parts of the world ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The purpose of this thesis is to get knowledge about the prerequisites for and the forces behind a more environmentally friendly textile production in India. I have chosen to study two cases of firms which aspire to be ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2001)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Heat Pumps and Household Energy Consumption in Norway: An actor-network and practice theory approach
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The aim of this project is to determine how heat pumps, as technical objects, impact energy consumption in Norwegian homes. Much of the previous research on energy consumption has focused on what motivates users to reduce ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Modern food production and consumption practices release greenhouse gases and other pollutants, contributing to global warming, as well as causing resource depletion and environmental degradation of local landscapes. As ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The Living Manor: Sustainable living and visitors' experiences in a Danish ecovillage Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Ecovillages are small scale communities, striving for environmental sustainability and social integration. This thesis is based on a fieldwork of three months duration in a Danish ecovillage. The thesis explores their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The term voluntary simplicity is attributed to the social reformer Richard B. Gregg, who in 1936 wrote an influential pamphlet in favour of the conscious and deliberate simplification and repurposing of life, to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
One of the most significant multifaceted national challenges in Ghana is the spread of illegal gold mining activities. This type of informal mining is a major source of employment in many parts of a country. This study ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Nordic high-trust societies are underpinned by prosociality , a term denoting cooperation and working for the good of others. State-funded voluntarism provides opportunities for altruism that appears to contribute to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis is an attempt to approach the questions of environmental ethics from a Rortyan, anti-foundationalist perspective. I draw on the writings of Richard Rorty in order to construe a perspective on environmental ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Based on three case studies of community sharing in different sectors of society, we address how and under what conditions community sharing can contribute to sustainability transformation. Considering modes of exchange ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Blue Nile Basin has for the past century been characterized by Egyptian dominance, both directly and through British colonial rule. This dominance is institutionalized through the Nile Water Agreements and the Anglo-Italian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study sets out to examine the potential of four Oslo museums / learning centers for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). ESD has gained ground in the course of UNESCO`s Decade for Education for Sustainable ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Ethics - how we ought to live and act in relation to other human beings - is an integrated part of our everyday lives, and it is accepted as an important part of public debates. But other human beings are not the only ones ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The success of the garment and textile industry has contributed immensely to a culture of mass consumption. In 2011 Norway accounted for 16.2 billion NOK worth of clothing imports (Garberg, 2012), with households spending ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
A direction which sustainable development in energy systems could take is towards electricity ‘co-provision.’ Here, centralised fossil-powered generation is partly replaced by decentralised, renewable micro generation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis looks at Parque 3 de Febrero and Parque Las Heras in Buenos Aires in an attempt to establish the role of public greenspace in ‘modernizing’ a city. Rather than looking at modernity as a stagnant collection of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Inspired by research on rural sustainability and development in China, this thesis presents a case study on The Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project (LPP), a state-led, World Bank-funded environmental improvement ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This research looked into the emerging role of ‘slow fashion’ within the Danish clothing market and the factors that enabled this nation to become an industry leader. The research employed both primary and secondary research ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Middle Class Food Consumption and Provisioning Practices - The Fridge and Everyday Life in São Paulo
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis seeks to examine how food consumption and provisioning practices involving the fridge and other supporting appliances are being shaped in São Paulo. Everyday practices are becoming energy intensive in affluent ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis sets out to investigate the factors that challenge a reduction of food waste within households of young adults in Norway. Food wastage is one of the biggest barriers to ensuring a sustainable food system, with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Household energy consumption accounts for the largest proportion for the emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. These gases are the main contributors to global warming. World leaders have set a goal to limit warming to a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In spite of the realization that Norway and other rich, industrialized countries need to move towards a less meat-heavy diet, and in spite of a blossoming general interest in vegetarian practices, not much research has ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The aim of this paper is to examine people’s attitudes towards electricity and electricity consumption within the Norwegian market context. The empirical material is based on 18 in-depth interviews and eight focus group ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis is based on a longitudinal study and it examines the social impacts of the introduction of genetically modified (GM) soya in Santa Cecilia, an agricultural colony located in northern Argentina. Two additional ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The study looked on differences of cycling culture between Dar es Salaam and Tanga cities in Tanzania. The study attempts to find factors behind a thriving cycling culture in Tanga and factors for a weakening cycling culture ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
How genomic selection enables species to adapt to divergent environments is a fundamental question in ecology and evolution. We investigated the genomic signatures of local adaptation in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) along ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis intends to explore and analyse the discrepancies that exist between the accepted global narratives that promote investing in hydropower projects with the argument that it will bring development, economic growth ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Consumption of red meat has been recommended reduced from a climate and health perspective. In Norway, National Nutrition Council has pointed it out through their dietary advice published in 2011. Meat production is an ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Central America as a region has made world headlines mainly due to civil wars, insurgencies, and, more recently, drug-trafficking and youth gang violence. Central American enterprises are only rarely studied; even less so ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Electricity provides a range of desirable services such as the electric light and the use of mobile phones and is regarded as a conditional factor for economic growth. Gender equality and women's empowerment are also ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study focuses on a Saminist (Sedulur Sikep) community in Java – Indonesia, particularly related to the contemporary anti-cement movement. With their Javanese puritanical traits and non-violent resistance, the Sedulur ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability on 10 October 2014, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781315797106
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis strives to increase understanding of what causes the continuation of dithering on the issue of climate change – that is, knowing full well the consequences of a course of action, but failing to change course. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This research seeks to understand the way a new modal shift in mobility has become popular among population in Mexico City. The modal mobility system that is studied is the use and popularization of the bicycle, which ...
Sugarcane Bioethanol: As sweet as it seems? – A sustainability assessment of the Norwegian company Umoe Bioenergy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In a world facing a global climate crisis, the debate about the role and responsibility of the corporate sector in finding a solution rises. While sustainability and green growth are suggested as means to reconcile the ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Este artículo presenta resultados de un estudio sobre las estrategias de los Grupos Empresariales Diversificados (GED) centroamericanos en frente a la globalización. Busca comprender cómo estos han cambiado en el proceso ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is one of the so-called ‘Rio Conventions’, three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) ensued from the ‘Earth Summit’ of 1992. Unlike its two ‘sisters’ ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Everyday 1500 Nepalis of all different castes migrate overseas in pursuit of a better life, sending money home to family and returning when they can, often laden with foreign gifts. As a result, the economic capital of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
There is currently a struggle about land between indigenous people and farmers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The conflict has already caused deaths, and both sides point to the other as the instigator. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
While growing rates of air-travel contributes to large amounts of global emissions – and a substantial part of the environmental footprints of those who fly – it has not yet been subject to strict environmental regulations. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis examines two Small Scale Irrigation Schemes in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana, as a poverty intervention measure. And the aim is to study how a relevant poverty intervention ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Oil’s importance in the global economy cannot be overlooked. Gas, diesel and petrol, which are by-products of oil, fuel transportation globally, and allow for the free movement of goods and people. Revenue from oil is also ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The global climate change issue is generally met with an expectation that it can only be solved through global solutions. Within this global framework, the various local and cultural experiences of climate change may be ...