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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)The way we relate to our food has changed. From knowing and practicing food production, it is now brought to us from distant places with little information about its origins. The modern industrial food system alienates ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract This paper presents the results from a qualitative research project in Norway on a forthcoming change in electricity grid tariffs. As a form of Demand Side Management to avoid capacity constraints in the grid, the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)While growing rates of air-travel contributes to large amounts of global emissions – and a substantial part of the environmental footprints of those who fly – it has not yet been subject to strict environmental regulations. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This paper examines how organic food can be introduced in Norwegian schools. The qualitative study took place in four lower secondary schools in different regions of Norway. The pupils’ perceptions about organic food are ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)Over three decades since the publication of the Brundtland Report, the world is witnessing changing patterns in forest fires, hurricanes, temperatures, and biodiversity loss at a pace without a previous analogy. These ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The aim of this study is to achieve an understanding and explanation of the effect of UNDPs energy efficiency educational program on the forming of environmental behavior among children in Russia, and to find out the ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Dette kapittelet tar utgangspunkt i en utbredt fortelling om forholdet mellom forskning og samfunn, der det heter at vitenskapen er i krise, og at forskere derfor må «kommunisere mer», for på den måten å sikre forskningens ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This is a study of women’s capabilities and constraints in accessing contraceptive services in Guatemala. The thesis aims to draw attention to the importance expressed by the women themselves to have access to contraceptive ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article argues that the “production” of success has become crucial for NGOs to manage their individual brand and secure funding within the contemporary global health and development landscape. Based on an empirical ...
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From Documents to Dairies: The Emerging Role of Livestock Veterinarians in the Multispecies Health Issue of Antimicrobial ResistanceRestricted 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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The thesis explores to what degree differences in actor participation can explain a municipality's performance in obtaining sustainable energy consumption. It compares the patterns of participation by the different actors ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The increasingly industrial character of meat production has entailed significant changes to the relations we have to the animals we eat. In this article we first describe some of the practices and rituals that characterized ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Meliponiculture, or stingless bee domestication, is an ancient Maya practice that has been at the edge of disappearance in the past 20 years. Thanks to an alarming preoccupation of the future of stingless bees, many ...
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(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 ...