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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Due to significant increase in both disposable income and leisure time (which is now visible in many developed countries), tourism and recreational activities are becoming a more and more important part of countries’ ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Trade and Investment Agreements (TIAs) have been widely criticized for their potentially negative effects on health. Many governments, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, have voiced concerns that mega-regional ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis is concerned with the food security of low-income, internal migrants in India. Based on a quantitative survey as well as qualitative fieldwork conducted in one of India’s biggest cities, Bangalore, it explores ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper investigates non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in policy processes related to Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) comparing four countries: Norway, Brazil, Indonesia, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Concern has been growing over the increasing average age of American farmers as well as the larger environmental impact of agriculture. This research is focused on a growing craze of going ‘back to the land’ as a sustainable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article presents new empirical research on what it takes to provide enduring access to affordable, reliable and useful electricity services for all. We analyze and synthesize the long-term experiences with three ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Drawing on cultural sociology and memory studies, this thesis offers a new framework for understanding post-industrial urban development. Focusing on the case of the Lower Area of Vítkovice in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This paper examines the gendered implications of various types of electricity access in rural Kenya spanning from the central grid to solar-based systems such as community projects, village scale supply and private solar ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Major approaches to land reform have been argued to lack holistic thinking and contextualised solutions that impede on sustainable implementation projects. This has brought scholars to move towards a rethinking of land ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Worldwide, the number of electricity end-users who produce electricity and feed it to the grid, denoted ‘prosumers’, is increasing. Following innovations in policy, technology (e.g. inverters, smart meters), tariffing and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Alternative food networks (AFNs), in their myriad forms, have the potential to challenge the destructive tendencies of the globalized food system, affecting how food is produced, distributed and consumed and the logics ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The objective of this paper is to assess the possibilities and barriers for subaltern actors' participation in environmental policy making. To discuss this issue I focus on the case of the creation of new forest legislation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
To achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 on maternal health, many countries have focused on marginalized women who lack access to care. Promoting facility-based deliveries to ensure skilled birth attendance and emergency ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Global health donors increasingly embrace international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) as partners, often relying on them to conduct political advocacy in recipient countries, especially in controversial policy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This paper presents a qualitative study of Hurdal Ecovillage in Norway. It explores how the actors involved have interacted over time and contributed to shaping the ecovillage. The study demonstrates that the ecovillage ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The paper uses qualitative data from Norway and the United Kingdom to understand the New technology of In Home Display monitors as a material object loaded with meaning and norms that may affect social practices and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines how solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been incorporated into the daily lives of residential households in Querétaro, Mexico. The dissemination of small-scale solar PV systems has rapidly increased ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
China has become a significant contributor to closing Africa's infrastructural gap, but Chinese companies are repeatedly criticised for not involving local businesses in their operations, and for isolating themselves from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Abstract The growth of global public-private partnerships for health has opened up new spaces for civil society participation in global health governance. Such participation is often justified by the claim that civil society ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Food insecurity is a major global problem, affecting millions of people, especially in developing countries. Although food insecurity is considered solvable, various development strategies have failed to ensure food security ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
In 2018, Brazilian authorities released a new policy plan for the planted forests sector. The plan’s discourse promoted planted forests for their environmental and climatic potential, despite its actual contents prioritizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Nicaragua has a long history of health activism and government policies aimed at achieving various models of participation in health. Drawing on ethnographic research in rural Nicaragua, this article situates contemporary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize how managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) manage risk, particularly in fragile and/or conflict-affected areas of operation. The authors suggest that MNEs ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This article presents and discusses results from an empirical study of people’s uses of various types of heat pumps in Norwegian homes. We analyze the rebound effect from a practice theory perspective. In-depth interviews ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2005)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
En vårkveld i 2011 stod ikke mindre enn fem ministre samtidig på podiet på Litteraturhuset. De overgikk hverandre i superlativer for å beskrive betydningen av samarbeidet med et latinamerikansk land. Anledningen var ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The thesis analyzes two case studies from two groups of organic coffee producers in La Paz Honduras, and their experiences with certified and non-certified organic farming and fair trade. It looks at how their adoption of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The thesis starts from the supposition that hunting has become a morally contested practice in the Western world. It identifies a challenge to the moral legitimacy of hunting in the perspectives of animal rights theorists, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
¿Qué es lo que motiva a investigadores de las ciencias sociales de un país pequeño, periférico y lejano como Noruega a estudiar fenómenos sociales en América Latina? ¿En qué medida podemos decir que el pensamiento social ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
A common conclusion of studies on Central America’s democracies and political economy is that the weakness of institutions and the strength of elites are a main reason for the region’s problems. Recently, a set of studies ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In Norway, a vast majority of the population supports scientific findings of climate change. At the same time, Norway´s emissions are increasing, while support for the environmental movement is decreasing. One might ask ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Mauna Kea is located on the Big Island of Hawai i. It is a dormant volcano and the highest mountain in the world measured from sea bottom. Mauna Kea first attracted astronomers in the 1960s. Since then there has been a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This study was conducted in Moshi-Tanzania. The research topic is Coping with Power Interruptions in Tanzania.An Industrial Perspesctive:A Case Study of one Small Scale Animal Food Processing Industry in Moshi Municipality.The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The focus of this work is on the phenomena surrounding the increasing consumption that has been occurring among the poor in developing countries over the past decades. People who were confined to subsistence levels of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Throughout the last decades, results-based management (RBM) and capacity building (CB) of civil society organizations have become more important parts of Norwegian development assistance. Despite increased efforts of RBM, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
In 2008 Tanzania was selected to be amongst the countries that would be implementing the REDD Project in its piloting phase as a way of demonstrating how the future REDD would look like. It was selected because of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis explores the food blogosphere as a potentially transformative space in which bloggers and readers alike have the opportunity to engage in an environmentally conscientious discourse about food. Through the mixed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
As Uganda is about to start exploiting its petroleum reservoirs, it is apparent that there is a genuine fear of it becoming the next country on the list of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa suffering from a resource curse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores environmental public debate on the Arctic in the context of Russian and Norwegian media. The aim of the study is to define how environmental public debate is constructed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The purpose of this dissertation is first to provide a historical overview and discuss the progress of the status of indigenous knowledge in Mexico. How has it advanced from being a repressed tradition to becoming part of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Since the 1960s democratic member based organizations (DMOs) have formed the back bone of the Norwegian environmental movement (NEM). A series of recent developments, however, have challenged both their dominant position ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Cabins have a special place in the hearts of Norwegians. A main aspect of cabins is their function as meeting places between nature and civilization. It is therefore meaningful to read the cabin as a symbol of Norwegian ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the use of in-home displays affects daily practices and electricity consumption. Through two pilot projects, in-home displays were installed in 33 Norwegian homes, and we ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis focuses on men, in a search for the root causes of gender inequality, gender based violence and HIV in South Africa. I argue that it is time to move beyond the victimization of women and start politicizing ...
North- South trade. A case study of the bilateral agreements regulating trade between Namibia and Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Over the last couple of decades, the number of bilateral free trade agreements has accelerated on a global scale. Close geographic proximity seems to matter little, as new arrangements around trade are emerging. About one ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The increasing use of internal carbon pricing among companies demonstrates the possibility of an interaction between business and environmental interests. An internal carbon price is a price that is voluntarily placed on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis provides a critical overview of the theoretical evolution of CSR and current international frameworks. It also examines the drivers and institutional environment for CSR in China today, before discussing the ...
Obstacles on the Road from Authoritarianism to Democracy : How international democracy promoters view obstacles for party aid projects in Belarus Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The opposition in Belarus and the international organizations cooperating with them are fighting an uphill battle for a more democratic and less authoritarian political system. The main tool of this cooperation is party ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artifacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis studies an on-going state-implemented climate-changed induced preventive resettlement process in the Peruvian Amazon, implemented as a risk reduction and adaptation strategy. The thesis examines the resettled ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory on democratic practice will need to take into account the world's largest democracy. We assert that Indian democracy is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India’s social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its ...
Make it Personal : Eco-Narratives and the Norwegian Financial Elite Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
As a German citizen with a background in business I have been inspired to research how Norway’s financial elite takes part in the green transition: firstly, by a correlation that is sometimes made in the literature, between ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
At the time of writing this thesis, a group of asylum-seeking children often referred to as October children was turning 18 and facing deportation to Afghanistan as their temporary residence permits were about to expire. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Indigenous peoples around the world and particularly in Latin America are struggling to strengthen their control over land and the territories they inhabit. The strengthening of rights has come as a result of multiple ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Colombia, now the fourth producer in terms of volume worldwide has experienced a sustained expansion of cultivated areas and production yields. Following policy incentives, access to markets and increasing international ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) play an increasingly prominent and multifaceted role in the field of global health – as policy advocates, recipients of donor funds, and implementers of donor-funded ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
As intermediaries between donors and beneficiaries ‘local development brokers’ play a crucial role in shaping the implementation of development initiatives. They tie together different interests through acts of translation ...
The Bear and the Shepherd: Nationalism, Nature Politics and Rural Development in the Catalan Pyrenees Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis is a qualitative study that discusses the intersections between nationalist agendas, nature politics, and contemporary rural transformations in Pallars Sobirà, a region in the Catalan Pyrenees. Applying ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
A renewable energy transition may take different forms. It could, among other possibilities, follow a decentralized pathway where renewable energy is produced on a distributed manner which inherently leads to intermittency ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract The overall objective of this thesis is to explore why it has taken so long to start commercial oil production in Uganda. The thesis is based on review of secondary literature supplemented by interviews carried ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Nature’s living ecosystems, which sustain all of us, are unravelling, and the world is changing at an unimaginable pace. There is an increasing urgency to move away from the commodification, desacralization and exploitation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Existing literature analyzing the spread of artisanal and small-scale mining highlights precarization and rising poverty in developing countries, generally as a consequence of neoliberal reforms,as the main drivers. Building ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
What has environmental ethics done? This field, where combinations of analysis and praxis come together to make sense of the human-nature moral relationship, has done much for theory-building. It has confronted the premise ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In urban environments, ‘chemical’ air pollution has long been of concern. Currently, ‘physical’ air pollution, in the form of excessive temperatures, is likely to impact public health even more, especially in cities with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Business has been involved in cooperation with multilateral organizations through public-private partnerships (PPPs) since the late 1990s. With their adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), multilateral ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis draws mainly on the theoretical constructs of capital and field of power, developed by Bourdieu, to explore climate change attitudes of holders of different types of capital who are considered positioned within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Waste is an environmental challenge that cannot be easily “swept under the rug” anymore and neglected. Billions of tons of household waste are produced globally each year. Until waste is handled properly, valuable resources ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The use of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture is an ongoing scholarly and public debate, which has been dominated by a polarization between proponents and opponents: the pro- and the anti-GM sides. In 2002, Bt ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Anthropocene may entail at least two major civilizational and planetary events; the environmental crisis and the project of spreading humans and Earth-life to other planets. This thesis operates in the span between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Despite the scientific evidence that more plants and less animal-based food is more sustainable, policy interventions to reduce meat consumption are scarce. However, campaigns for meat free days in school and office canteens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In July 2015, Malawi’s Special Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion released a draft Termination of Pregnancy bill. If approved by Parliament, it will liberalize Malawi’s strict abortion law, expanding the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
As the global health community seeks to, “ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all”, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Agenda, unreliable electricity in health facilities is one challenge that needs ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis deals with the challenges low-income countries face when working towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. The thesis looks into Malawi’s capacity to reach SDG 6 “Ensure access to water and sanitation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The degrowth movement offers an ambitious vision and proposal for a civilisational and ecological transformation alongside a coalition of transition discourses. Degrowth is growing in popularity among other green political ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In this paper we quantify gendered decision-making patterns regarding electricity access, light and appliances in selected rural contexts in Mahadevsthan (Nepal), Homa Bay (Kenya) and Chhattisgarh (India). In the literature, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this article I discuss the factors contributing to the drafting and approval of the forestry incentives law (PINPEP) in Guatemala. This is a remarkable law because (a) it is among the few in the country recognizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The global consumption of meat and animal products has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly due to rising consumption in so-called developing countries. This increase has popularly been explained as part ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the implications of ‘business for peace’ (B4P), a new global governance paradigm that aims to put international businesses at the frontline of peace, stability and development efforts in fragile and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Global public-private partnerships for health and nutrition have proliferated since the 1990s—a trend raising important questions about authority and legitimacy in global governance. Yet within the fields of international ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Over the last decades, encouragement of business engagement with environmental and socio-economic development has gained prominence due to the perceived weakening of states and multilateral institutions against the forces ...