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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
The papers in this special issue provide accounts of the politics and knowledge that shaped the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The open and transparent processes in the Open Working Group (OWG) and Post‐2015 agenda ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Development strategies deal extensively with the question of how to spend money in order to most effectively further economic development. A subset of these policies called Financing for Development discusses the source ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
As the populations of the world's cities are increasing at rapid rates, the development of effective sustainable solutions for urban areas is an important measure to mitigate further exacerbation of the environment. However, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
While societies are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint in life, people rarely stop to think about the ecological impact they might have after they die. Yet in the United States, post-mortem customs ...
Why Is It So Hard to Diversify? Inside Thailand’s Poverty Reduction Intervention in Rural Cambodia Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Being poor and yet having limited options to make a living had been the local reality in Bang Kayak village, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, for a long time. There, in 2007, arrived a poverty reduction project by Thailand ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The tourism industry contributes significantly to climate change, mainly through greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. In order to reduce emissions, we need to travel shorter distances, less frequently and by flying ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The backdrop for this research builds on a growing momentum that appreciates nature and the environment as the very cornerstone of our existence. The study examines the recently renewed ambition to develop a Norwegian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Cities around the globe are rapidly growing. The high urbanisation rates bear potentials for innovations, including adaptation to climate change and transformations towards sustainability. However, urbanisation also involves ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Consumers in Western societies are increasingly called upon to reduce their consumption of meat to help alleviate the many environmental consequences of industrial livestock production. Dominant discourses around sustainable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the motivations behind Norway’s contributions to the global response to Ebola (2014). Unpacking the interests, norms and context at play, it finds that the repatriation of an Ebola-infected volunteer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
An essential strategy for development organisations to get attention and funding is to present specific narratives and portrayals of their targets of interventions. In this thesis I investigate a fairly new branch of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In a food system hungry for change, every bite of food matters. Locked in a global system of unsustainable production, processing, distribution and disposal, current food consumption practices of Norwegians contribute to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article develops an initial framework for a Gramscian and political ecological food regime analysis of India’s ongoing agrarian crisis. Criticizing readings of Polanyi in food regime analysis in light of Gramscian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Conducting a multi-sited psychology study on how Malawian participants perceive Western-oriented non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) gendered development approaches, it became apparent that perceptions of ufiti (the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Climate change's burden is double for many Indigenous communities: while changing weather-patterns threaten their ways of life, greenlabeled extractive industries take hold in their territories. This article advances ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Since 2010, solar energy companies in North America and Europe have played a pivotal role in delivering clean, reliable and sustainable electricity to millions of people living off the grid across sub-Saharan Africa. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to previously settled everyday routines, prompting a period of forced experimentation as people have adjusted to rapid changes in their private and working lives. For discussions ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Whether, and how, enterprises can contribute to enhancing peace is heavily debated, but some scholars claim that enterprises can play a beneficial role in promoting peace and stability in areas with institutional and social ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
World expos are occasions for the type of rhetorical display known as "epideictic," and as such, they provide glimpses into how a nation wants to be seen at a particular point in time. In this article, I probe into Norway’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Empowerment is a prominent concept in psychology, and for decades, it has been a key term in global development policy, theory, and practice. However, in line with similar turns toward individualism in psychology, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks, amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a recent wealth of research across varied fields. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Since the end of the Vietnam war, it has begun to be widely acknowledged that military tactics during armed conflicts can have devastating and long-lasting impacts on the environment. Environmental impacts of war became ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The article critically analyses how the transformative ambition of the SDGs may be threatened in the process of moving from vision, through goals and targets to indicators. This is exemplified by a case study concerning ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Climate change amplifies social, political, economic, infrastructural and environmental challenges in many Global South cities, and perhaps no city is more vulnerable than Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka. Climate-induced ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
How to re-member a fragmented world while climate change escalates, and green growth models reproduce coloniality, particularly in Indigenous territories? What can be the concrete contributions from different scholarly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Cuba has been largely absent in academic and policy discourse on global health security, yet Cuba’s history of medical internationalism and its domestic health system have much to offer contemporary global health security ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article proposes a political ecology of resistance. This is done by putting forward insurrectionary political ecology as a lens of research and struggle, through the confluence of the complementary "political" practice ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
At the root of techno-capitalist development – popularly marketed as “modernity,” “progress” or “development” – is the continuous and systematic processes of natural resource extraction. Reviewing wind energy development ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Norway is committed to promoting the use of energy from renewable sources and, as such, has established policies to facilitate the long-term development of the land-based wind power sector. Wind power installations, however, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis explores understanding and manifestation of a feminist theory “Intersectionality” in a popular gender equality framework called “GESI” (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) by development and humanitarian aid ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A central theme in global governance is the ongoing diffusion of power and authority from nation states to a myriad of non-governmental actors. While private and civil society actors have always influenced policy, they are ...
Viral Nature: Exploring non-profit social media use during the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What could make virality relevant to the non-profit sector? Technological advancements can now produce large amounts of information, and gaining attention in digital spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis follows post-development, decolonial degrowth, and diverse economies theories to examine the Really (Really) Free Market (RRFM) global movement. The RRFM is a nonmonetary, nonexchange, non-barter, and nonreciprocal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We analyse whether and how current municipal climate policies can be characterised as transformative and which factors and pathways may lead to transformative change at the municipal level. Based on 13 in-depth case studies ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract This thesis is an extensive analysis of the dynamic migratory process of Romania with a focus on return migration from Norway, and the sociocultural changes that it involves for Romanian migrants and their home ...
Attitudes Toward Growth in the Norwegian Transport Sector. An explorative study on the whereabouts of degrowth and other alternatives to the growth-omertá Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
From Documents to Dairies: The Emerging Role of Livestock Veterinarians in the Multispecies Health Issue of Antimicrobial Resistance Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Matters of health and care in the age of the Anthropocene blur divisions between humans and our nonhuman companions, inciting new ways of understanding and managing this intense interspecies traffic. This thesis investigates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Este artículo analiza las reacciones políticas “top-down” de la empresa minera Southern Copper Perú y del gobierno peruano a la oposición popular frente a un proyecto minero de cobre, situado sobre el valle agrícola de ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This research has used a Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze nine different documents relating to the management of the Inshore and Offshore lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, Canada, to answer the question: How does the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The present study undertakes a critical analysis of the vegetable supply chain in Bangladesh, with a specific emphasis on the intermediaries' role, the impact of neoliberal and neopatrimonial policies, and the capacity of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the transformative potential of citizens’ assemblies on climate change (climate assemblies). Citizens’ assemblies are a type of ‘deliberative mini-public’: a body of randomly selected citizens that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The European Green Belt is a strip of protected land spanning 12.500 kilometers through Europe, along the line of what used to be the Iron Curtain, which separated Western and Eastern European ideologies. Today, 24 countries ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis examines policymaking for sustainable development in Australia. It specifically focuses on climate change policy at the federal and state levels by examining how the coal mining industry has managed to continue ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The successful protection and promotion of human rights depend on a healthy environment. Environmental degradation and climate change adversely affect the enjoyment of virtually all human rights. While ecological concerns ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
After the Second World War, modernisation processes such as the industrialisation of agriculture transformed the Norman bocage, a landscape defined by hedgerow networks. In order to keep up with the living landscape evolving ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out ...
Bringing food to the table: Food security and civil society in Ethiopia’s WTO accession Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Drawing on a qualitative case study of consumers involved in community-supported agriculture farms in Norway, this article applies social practice theory to understand pro-environmental behaviour transformation in relation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
As a response to ongoing climate change challenges, the world is increasingly transitioning to low-carbon societies with increased use of renewable energy sources. Because Norway’s power system primarily consists of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract The environmental impact associated with the petroleum industry is pervasive and expansive. Anthropological climate change and pollution are some of the impacts associated with the petroleum industry. Petroleum ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Jaguars are one of Mexico’s most iconic species. They are ecologically crucial and charismatic animals that inform conservation strategies. This thesis examines jaguar conservation programmes in Southern Mexico, the region ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The transition towards a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient global economy will require huge amounts of investments, and private finance is increasingly singled out as the solution. But in contrast to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article examines conflicting conceptualizations of the human subject in political ecology and geography: Foucauldian views of “subject-making” and Gramscian views of “the person”. While Foucauldian work holds that the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article focuses on how Chinese state actors understand the concept of sustainable development and implement policies for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We examine the concept ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male ‘brother’ layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Spin, hyperbole, meaningless buzzwords, and technocratic jargon have become increasingly common in global health discourse. They are part of a broader phenomenon labelled “global health nonsense”
Three main forms of global ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Around a third of Tanzanians light their homes with solar electricity. Foreign companies are building on the popularity and availability of solar to ‘leapfrog’ the classic state led mains electricity grid infrastructure ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This special issue focuses on a trend that appears to run counter to the recent fascination with scaled-down solutions to world problems. From the predictive powers of Big Data in Kenya to market-driven humanitarian attempts ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Across East Africa, mobile phones and tablets are increasingly sitting in the hands of community health workers, clinicians, managers and patients. They are being used for a widening range of functions from diagnostics to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Digital and data-driven technologies are increasingly being deployed in healthcare systems around the world, and used by individuals seeking to improve their health. Major global health institutions, from the WHO to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This project examines the problem of inaction in environmental behavior and explores why a proliferation of environmental knowledge has not generally inspired sustainable change. What explains this information-behavior ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 2013, the Norwegian Armed Forces decided to introduce a meat reduction scheme in its military mess halls, for both health reasons and environmental concerns. This article explores Norwegian soldiers' reactions to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Shades of Displacment Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Acts of resistance against forced displacement can manifest itself through a wide variety of social and cultural expressions. This thesis explores resistance against the dam-induced displacement in the highlands of Georgia ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
How does the discovery of the mausoleum of Herod the Great in the West Bank relate to Jewish Neo-Zionist territorial claims? What are the connections between agricultural farms and social exclusion? And why is it so difficult ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study is dedicated to understanding broadly what kind of role do mobile phones play in a health system and what is the impact of mHealth programs on the lives of people in Kenya. This thesis investigates some of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study was conducted in Kisiju-Pwani village, Mkuranga District in Tanzania. It was conducted from the on-going project on sustainable energy system for the provision of rural electrification services under PITRO. This ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2000)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Almost 50 million EU citizens are affected by energy poverty, which is generally defined as inadequate use of domestic energy services. However, while extensive research has been conducted on the implications that some ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is concerned with the significant cultural, physical, and emotional losses of the Ojibwe people and their current efforts to use food as a means of regaining their sovereignty and self-sufficiency. In Ojibwe ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Climate change has been framed in terms of disaster, cost, uncertainty, and sacrifice for decades. Many researchers have argued that we have to talk about climate change in a different way. My aim in this thesis has been ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Access to nature and green areas is a real battle in many cities around the world. However, these battles can be very different in nature, resulting in various outcomes depending on the context and the actors. This thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The purpose of this study has been to contribute to the current scholarly debate on conservation and poverty alleviation by providing empirical knowledge in the case of Kilimanjaro National Park. Through social science ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis aims to take a closer look at Sen's assertion and inquire into the degree to which sustainable development (as the electrification in Russia can be conceived) was generated by unfreedom. The practical implications ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This is a study of wind power and ecotourism in Møre and Romsdal. Wind power seen as renewable and “clean” energy production while ecotourism is defined as sustainable travel. Ecotourism is a relatively new concept in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The aim of this thesis is to study participants’ in environmental projects, and their perceptions of their own environmental behaviour. The motives for joining these projects and perceived hindrances for the participants ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Jordan, according to Indo-Aryan origins of the name, means “the stream that descends rapidly”. In Arabic, another term for Jordan is Esh-Sheri’s – “the watering place” (Jordan River Foundation 2002: 3). It is interesting ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
In this paper I investigate the metaphysics of the Buddhist conception of Reality to see how this can contribute to an ecological understanding of the human existence. Through this investigation I reveal that life from a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Throughout the history of India, farmers have been the central initiator of activity related to irrigation structures and the management of irrigation water. Today the farmer’s role has changed and in this case, study in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This study describes the relationship between the culture of trade unions, solidarity and sustainable development. The major objective is to show how the culture of trade unions affects their perceptions of sustainable ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on maize and sorghum production in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Maize is the most produced crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, but yields are low and climate change is projected to further constrain smallholder production. The current efforts to breed and disseminate new high ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In this thesis, I examine the main constraints to the propagation of bicycle commuting in Oslo. Furthermore, recommendations for the promotion of bicycle commuting in Oslo through policymaking are made. Data has been ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This quantitative study took place in Oslo and focused on the motives for owning an electrical car. The main objective of the study was to identify the most important motivations of electrical car owners and explore the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Barcarena, a city located in the Brazilian Amazon, was a small town until the 1970 s, but a massive aluminium production plant was built in the region in the 1980 s and the alumina and primary aluminium plants were responsible ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Background: There is extensive use of polystyrene (PS6), polypropylene (PP5) and other plastics in packaging practices in Iceland today, despite these materials being a threat to the environment. As Iceland is portrayed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The objective of this thesis is to find out how music festivals in Norway communicate environmental awareness to their audience. Through the use of mixed methods for collecting data, I measure the impact that the music ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis sets out to explore the factors that have challenged the introduction of Meat-Free Monday in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The need to address the unsustainable levels of meat consumption, especially in the West, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The purpose of this thesis has been to produce insights on the agendas on sustainability that are empowered by social actors as a result of a “quality turn” in food practices in the Norwegian context. I described the quality ...