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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
The aim of this thesis is to understand the socio-cultural impacts backpackers, as ‘alternative tourists’, have on the destinations they visit. Through a case study analysis, I examine the relationship between the hosts ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The challeges of sustainable development are explored through this investigation of household water consumption in a slum colony in New Delhi, India. The thesis explores how water is consumed on a litre by litre, task by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Large scale land acquisition for commercial agriculture is a fast-evolving type of investment in many developing countries. However, such investments entail negative impacts particularly on the local communities, who see ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Uganda is one of the most biologically diverse countries in Africa. Most of its biodiversity is represented within a system of national parks, wild life reserves and forest reserves. In 1991, Bwindi forest was turned into ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Food systems have a need for better conceptual and applied tools to evaluate the extent to which they are resilient. The purposes of this thesis is to conceptually explore a better understanding of what a resilient food ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The Danube is the only significant body of water in the Budapest region. Thus, during the period between the late 19th and mid 20th when modern sewerage and water supply systems were built for the Hungarian capital, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
It has been proposed by some social scientists that studying economics and economic models has a narrowing effect on students’ views. This thesis discusses how economics may influence a student’s views about development. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This qualitative study took place in the Oslo area and focused on the transportation mode choices of parents with children in day care. Understanding why parents choose a certain mode of transport was the main objective ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Explicit Norwegian ecophilosophy emerged in the late 1960’s as a collective effort for the common purpose of addressing the perceived crisis caused by a faulty human-nature relationship. The emergence was facilitated by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The thesis focuses on the energy intensity in the household food refrigeration, and it seeks to analyze the way refrigeration is perceived by Norwegians in a historical perspective. The practice theory is applied in the ...