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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The thesis focuses on the energy intensity in the household food refrigeration, and it seeks to analyze the way refrigeration is perceived by Norwegians in a historical perspective. The practice theory is applied in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This research seeks to understand the way a new modal shift in mobility has become popular among population in Mexico City. The modal mobility system that is studied is the use and popularization of the bicycle, which ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The term voluntary simplicity is attributed to the social reformer Richard B. Gregg, who in 1936 wrote an influential pamphlet in favour of the conscious and deliberate simplification and repurposing of life, to the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Trade and Investment Agreements (TIAs) have been widely criticized for their potentially negative effects on health. Many governments, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, have voiced concerns that mega-regional ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article focuses on how Chinese state actors understand the concept of sustainable development and implement policies for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We examine the concept ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis presents insights into various issues connected to the practice and adoption of agroforestry in the village cluster of Tiby in rural Mali. In the context of the sustainable livelihoods framework, it is looked ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)Across the world, attempts are being made to challenge and rework bureaucratic hierarchies. One such attempt is the policy to give cash with no strings attached to the poor. Lying at the heart of these grants is the belief ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The success of the garment and textile industry has contributed immensely to a culture of mass consumption. In 2011 Norway accounted for 16.2 billion NOK worth of clothing imports (Garberg, 2012), with households spending ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Drawing on a qualitative case study of consumers involved in community-supported agriculture farms in Norway, this article applies social practice theory to understand pro-environmental behaviour transformation in relation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Agriculture is the mainstay of most of the developing countries like Nepal that has significant contribution to food availability, poverty alleviation and rural employment. A number of research and United Nations reports ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This qualitative study took place in the Oslo area and focused on the transportation mode choices of parents with children in day care. Understanding why parents choose a certain mode of transport was the main objective ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)From clothing to computers, toothbrushes, automobiles, and everything in between; plastic (synthetic polymers) dominates daily practices. Despite plastic's many useful applications it also harms; clogging waterways, choking ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)The aim of this thesis is to understand the socio-cultural impacts backpackers, as ‘alternative tourists’, have on the destinations they visit. Through a case study analysis, I examine the relationship between the hosts ...