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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis surveys knowledges about sustainable dwelling in Oslo. Crises of homelessness, displacement, extermination, and extinction are unjustly affecting, hurting, and killing humans and non-humans all over this planet. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)In an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Europe is making strides to achieve the electrification of its economy and society. Batteries are considered a critical instrument in accomplishing this electrification, making ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Deterioration and absence of bureaucracy: The situation of public employees in Venezuela from a state capacity perspective
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Summary While obesity prevention represents an established field of research, the inclusion of young people, who are regularly cited as an important priority group, are rarely actioned in long‐term studies. This paper ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(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 ...
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Development and Wellbeing: The Relationship between Hydropower Development in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in China and the Wellbeing of the Local PopulationRestricted Access (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 ...