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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)A Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to development has been adopted by numerous international NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies. In theory, the HRBA has the potential to dislodge inequalities and discrimination ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)At the root of techno-capitalist development – popularly marketed as “modernity,” “progress” or “development” – is the continuous and systematic processes of natural resource extraction. Reviewing wind energy development ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Based on three case studies of community sharing in different sectors of society, we address how and under what conditions community sharing can contribute to sustainability transformation. Considering modes of exchange ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)We analyse whether and how current municipal climate policies can be characterised as transformative and which factors and pathways may lead to transformative change at the municipal level. Based on 13 in-depth case studies ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract The World Economic Forum is a major player in global health governance, promoting the role of the private sector and specific public–private partnerships (PPPs). It exerts influence in three main ways: by exercising ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male ‘brother’ layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Despite emerging study of business initiatives that attempt to support local peace and development, we still have significant knowledge gaps on their effectiveness and efficiency. This article builds theory on business ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)In urban environments, ‘chemical’ air pollution has long been of concern. Currently, ‘physical’ air pollution, in the form of excessive temperatures, is likely to impact public health even more, especially in cities with ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate change's burden is double for many Indigenous communities: while changing weather-patterns threaten their ways of life, greenlabeled extractive industries take hold in their territories. This article advances ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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Too much justice, too little transition? Exploring approaches to just transition in the Norwegian trade union movementRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)This thesis explores one of the main concepts advanced by the Norwegian trade union movement when engaging with climate politics: The concept of just transition. Just transition is commonly understood as a framework of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Concerns regarding touristic commodification and its effects on host communities have long been a staple of tourism research. While on one hand, tourism is often heralded as a powerful tool for promoting economic development, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Building on this journal’s recent debates about the need for “global” international relations (IR), this article calls attention to the overlooked significance of two important Latin American thinkers from the interwar ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)A renewable energy transition may take different forms. It could, among other possibilities, follow a decentralized pathway where renewable energy is produced on a distributed manner which inherently leads to intermittency ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article develops an initial framework for a Gramscian and political ecological food regime analysis of India’s ongoing agrarian crisis. Criticizing readings of Polanyi in food regime analysis in light of Gramscian ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)A common conclusion of studies on Central America’s democracies and political economy is that the weakness of institutions and the strength of elites are a main reason for the region’s problems. Recently, a set of studies ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Explicit Norwegian ecophilosophy emerged in the late 1960’s as a collective effort for the common purpose of addressing the perceived crisis caused by a faulty human-nature relationship. The emergence was facilitated by ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Over the last decades, encouragement of business engagement with environmental and socio-economic development has gained prominence due to the perceived weakening of states and multilateral institutions against the forces ...