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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)One of the most significant multifaceted national challenges in Ghana is the spread of illegal gold mining activities. This type of informal mining is a major source of employment in many parts of a country. This study ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)In spite of the realization that Norway and other rich, industrialized countries need to move towards a less meat-heavy diet, and in spite of a blossoming general interest in vegetarian practices, not much research has ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” ...
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(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 ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) play an increasingly prominent and multifaceted role in the field of global health – as policy advocates, recipients of donor funds, and implementers of donor-funded ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Rural and agrarian societies are increasingly transformed through processes of agricultural expansion, industrialization, and market capitalism, imposing an economic squeeze on the small-scale farming sector. In Sweden, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This case study looks at how the Chinese wind turbine industry has grown from being almost non-existent ten years ago, to become the world’s largest today. In a country where electricity supply is predominately fuelled by ...
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(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 ...
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“Guilty until proven innocent”: the contested use of maternal mortality indicators in global health (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The MMR – maternal mortality ratio – has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite ...