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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on importing raw materials for low-carbon infrastructures from around the globe. This material dependence has, since 2019, initiated legislation and efforts to intensify mining ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)The climate and environmental crisis is growing more tangible and extreme every day. From being a threat in a distant future, it is now taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the world. Further, the crisis is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)A direction which sustainable development in energy systems could take is towards electricity ‘co-provision.’ Here, centralised fossil-powered generation is partly replaced by decentralised, renewable micro generation ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Since 2010, solar energy companies in North America and Europe have played a pivotal role in delivering clean, reliable and sustainable electricity to millions of people living off the grid across sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper examines the gendered implications of various types of electricity access in rural Kenya spanning from the central grid to solar-based systems such as community projects, village scale supply and private solar ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article aims to explore the expansion of capitalism among Argentine farmers in a historical perspective in the light of view of the recent soy boom. First it draws attention to the soy boom, focusing on the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate change now serves to justify new mandates for increasing ‘clean’ and ‘renewable’ energy, which affirms the existing European trajectory of infrastructural expansion. Employing a multi-sited political ecology analysis ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Existing literature analyzing the spread of artisanal and small-scale mining highlights precarization and rising poverty in developing countries, generally as a consequence of neoliberal reforms,as the main drivers. Building ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
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Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around: Consumption, Sustainability and the ‘Rise of the South’ (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)Full text pdf finner du på følgende nettside: http://www.sum.uio.no/publications/pdf_fulltekst/dt2000.12.nossum.pdf
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nordic high-trust societies are underpinned by prosociality , a term denoting cooperation and working for the good of others. State-funded voluntarism provides opportunities for altruism that appears to contribute to the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Consumption of red meat has been recommended reduced from a climate and health perspective. In Norway, National Nutrition Council has pointed it out through their dietary advice published in 2011. Meat production is an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)There is currently a struggle about land between indigenous people and farmers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The conflict has already caused deaths, and both sides point to the other as the instigator. This ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)The use of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture is an ongoing scholarly and public debate, which has been dominated by a polarization between proponents and opponents: the pro- and the anti-GM sides. In 2002, Bt ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)The stories told in media shape how we perceive of the world, and in doing so, they play a significant part in determining whose worlds are allowed to exist and expand (or "grow"), and whose are to be eradicated. The social ...
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Sugarcane Bioethanol: As sweet as it seems? – A sustainability assessment of the Norwegian company Umoe BioenergyBegrenset tilgang (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)In a world facing a global climate crisis, the debate about the role and responsibility of the corporate sector in finding a solution rises. While sustainability and green growth are suggested as means to reconcile the ...
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(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)