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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The thesis, “When Two Elephant Fight…!: Conflict in Environmental Conservation; the case of the Kakum National Park in Ghana”, is an analysis of the sources of conflicts between managers of the Kakum national park and local ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Abstract Using an interdisciplinary approach with focus on cultural studies, this study provides institutional perspectives to explain local scale deforestation and community-based forest management. Conducted in the North ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The aim of this thesis is to study participants’ in environmental projects, and their perceptions of their own environmental behaviour. The motives for joining these projects and perceived hindrances for the participants ...
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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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(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2005)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The thesis starts from the supposition that hunting has become a morally contested practice in the Western world. It identifies a challenge to the moral legitimacy of hunting in the perspectives of animal rights theorists, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)In the late 1990s, the Indian Supreme Court issued a series of orders intended to improve the environmental conditions in Delhi, the best known of which mandated the conversion of the entire fleet of diesel-powered buses ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Abstract The four central gaols that motivate this research dissertation are as follows. First, in order to bring social changes from inside, we need to understand the knowledge of local people, the nature of their ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Abstract This thesis aims to provide insight to the issue of multilateral organizations cooperating with private actors in order to increase their relevance in a rapidly changing world. The cases elaborated on are two ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis discusses how the difficult relationship between tourism and the environment, in a local context, may be improved. More specifically, it is discussed how ecotourism may be less environmentally and socio-culturally ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The objective of the present thesis is to achieve a better understanding of CSR in a cross country context. It bases itself on a qualitative case study of the Chilean salmon industry with emphasis on the Norwegian companies ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis examines contemporary Norwegian imaginative literature, and the study’s thematic criterion is the environmental crisis. The approach is textual analysis, and the normative aspects of this study are from a ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)Discourse analysis based on the archaeological method developed by Michel Foucault shows that International governmental organisations (UNEP and EEA) and national governments (Norway) are relying on two discursive systems ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2006)Siden 1999 har det i Norge vært et politisk mål å styrke arbeidet med å effektivisere den nasjonale energibruken. Disse målene kan knyttes til “energiomlegging” som da både dekker økt bruk av nye, fornybare energikilder – ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The thesis explores the influence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) measures of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) operating in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). NGO influence ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Different ideas exist on how human beings relate to non-human animals, and on how we make room for other creatures in ‘our’ world. In view of the frequent disparity that exist between people’s attitudes to animal welfare ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)ABSTRACT Following decades of rapid urbanization in Africa, national governments are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by challenges posed by cities. Urban policy interventions over the years have usually excluded issues ...