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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
While the legitimacy of global public–private partnerships (partnerships) remains contested, particularly within the fields of health and nutrition, they continue to proliferate. How do partnerships gain and maintain support ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Climate change now serves to justify new mandates for increasing ‘clean’ and ‘renewable’ energy, which affirms the existing European trajectory of infrastructural expansion. Employing a multi-sited political ecology analysis ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In the Arctic, indigenous reindeer herding peoples rely on a pastoralist food and knowledge system that supplies them with protein, vitamins, and minerals. Reindeer pastoralism is a product of the interaction between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted from finding a cure to acquiring vaccines and organizing vaccination. The race for vaccination has exacerbated tendencies of hoarding, particularly among rich countries, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
During the past decades, reduced disaster mortality, efficient evacuations in the face of storms and climate change advocacy earned Bangladesh a reputation as a global leader within disaster risk reduction (DRR). From a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Purpose
This paper aims to present a new survey data set of 9,065 private sector respondents and other stakeholder groups, in Myanmar. The primary aim of this paper is to offer new insight avenues on local business–co ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Guatemala is one of the most mining conflict prone countries in the world, with disproportionately high levels of violence accompanying the sector. Starting in the early 2000's, the rapid spread of mining projects throughout ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
In 2021, donor countries, the pharmaceutical industry, and the COVAX initiative promoted vaccine donation or “dose-sharing” as a main solution to the inequitable global distribution of Covid-19 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
During the first year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVAX has been the world’s most prominent effort to ensure equitable access to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Launched as part of the Access to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis studies the relationship between the ecosystem services of the Nujiang Valley in Yunnan province in south-west China and the wellbeing of the local population, and how this relationship will be influenced by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Wolves have been demonized and romanticized, feared and admired, figuring as barbaric intruders in some cultures and as kindred spirits in others. This thesis explores what wolves symbolize for different social groups in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Tía Maria copper mine situated above the agricultural Tambo Valley, southwest Peru, has sparked nearly ten years of protracted conflict. This conflict began in 2009, yet Southern Copper Peru or Southern, a subsidiary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Provision of safe abortion is widely recognized as vital to addressing the health and wellbeing of populations. Research on abortion is essential to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers in population ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork‐based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the ...
Heritage and Scale – Challenges to Wellbeing and Place Management in Dubrovnik’s World Heritage Site
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article is an ethnographic contribution to ongoing debates on the consequences of heritagisation and touristification in the lived realities of World Heritage sites. Based on my doctoral research in Dubrovnik, Croatia, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The major way in which IPES-Food seeks to achieve change is by preparing and widely disseminating reports on different aspects of the global food system, which are rigorous in both empirical and analytical terms. These ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Despite emerging study of business initiatives that attempt to support local peace and development, we still have significant knowledge gaps on their effectiveness and efficiency. This article builds theory on business ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis is a theoretical examination of the problematic relationship between sustainability and the orthodoxy in economics disciplines and practice—characterized by neoclassical theories and assumptions. For this ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The proposal for a Law of Ecocide (LOE) raises some ethical questions. As an amendment to the Rome Statute, it would give the International Criminal Court the mandate to prosecute individuals with superior responsibility ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlighted the significance of trust between the public and public health authorities in the mitigation of health crises. Since the end of the epidemic, there has been a focus ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The world is currently facing an increasingly grave climate crisis and finding solutions will be a significant challenge to the modern world. The production and consumption of meat and its effect on the climate is becoming ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In March 2017, Save the Children International complied with the reinstated Mexico City Policy, banning US funding to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that inform about, advocate for, or provide abortion ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
In order to ensure that scientific knowledge is made relevant and useful for solving pressing societal challenges such as climate change, science policy actors like the European Union have increasingly advocated for various ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts nearly universally expect to see rising tensions within (and between) countries in the next 5–20 years. Being able to predict ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores water insecurity, or the idea of it, and examines uncertainty of water for household use both in terms of access and quality. Water is a vital resource for humans; nevertheless, it is one that is under ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Despite the strong global focus on improving maternal health during past decades, there is still a long way to go to ensure equitable access to services and quality of care for women and girls around the world. To understand ...
"Nor any drop to drink": Women’s experiences of water insecurity in Lalitpur, Nepal. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores how women experience the chronic water scarcity in Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and which role the ancient water supply system of the hitis play in their everyday lives. “Water, water, everywhere ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
There has been considerable attention in recent years on the close linkages between business, ethics, and economic development and how businesses not only have responsibilities to their shareholders but also to wider ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
China is now a major actor in global development and wields considerable influence in large parts of the world. The success of the Chinese development model has not only challenged the notion that democracy is necessary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Large corporations and financial institutions have come to the realization that they can no longer ignore the twin emergencies of nature and climate crises. In this thesis, I investigate the Taskforce on Nature-related ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The stories told in media shape how we perceive of the world, and in doing so, they play a significant part in determining whose worlds are allowed to exist and expand (or "grow"), and whose are to be eradicated. The social ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In August of 2021, the announcement that the borders of the Dana Biosphere Reserve would be redrawn to facilitate copper exploration caused national controversy in Jordan. Whereas mining actors centred the potential for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Many new concepts have emerged to better capture socio-technical change in energy systems from a normative perspective. Two of the most visible, popularized, and politically charged are Energy Justice and Energy Democracy, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
During a period of pro-independence mass mobilizations and diminishing financial confidence, the government of Catalonia attached a traditional idea of the rural household to its market in public debt. This article analyzes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This master’s thesis compares bottom-up strategies of climate activism and top-down ‘green’ urban development strategies in Oslo, aiming to examine the city’s environmental identity and reputation as a frontrunner for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Modern mating markets relegate a growing number of men to being incels (involuntary celibate). Increasing attention befalls another group struggling in the same markets: female insings (involuntary single). In the partly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Norway is committed to promoting energy from renewable sources, but wind power installations are often sited in areas where the environment remains relatively untouched. This has generated a debate about the acceptability ...
Too much justice, too little transition? Exploring approaches to just transition in the Norwegian trade union movement Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
This thesis explores one of the main concepts advanced by the Norwegian trade union movement when engaging with climate politics: The concept of just transition. Just transition is commonly understood as a framework of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Background
One of the potential dimensions on which exclusion and injustice may occur in energy transitions is age. Age-based patterns of exclusion—ageism—has recently been conceptualized in the context ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The role of China in the world and in Latin America is rapidly changing. From being a fast-developing nation, scouring the world for raw materials and markets for its own industrialization, it has set out to be a global ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Policy makers and researchers are increasingly emphasising the need for more diversified and localised food systems. This study investigates relations between local food systems and community development, revealing how ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Positive psychology is a thriving field with increasing political influence, yet there are few evolutionary studies that have had a tangible impact on rethinking mechanisms of well-being. This Element reviews existing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Since the mid-2000s, extortion has impacted social and economic development in El Salvador significantly. Against the grain of the extant literature, which predominantly takes for granted that extorted businesses are passive ...