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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)On background of the framework of Sustianability, this thesis aims at understanding Energy consumption in households, and uses the example of Norway as having three times higher electricity consumption per capita than the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Development strategies deal extensively with the question of how to spend money in order to most effectively further economic development. A subset of these policies called Financing for Development discusses the source ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This research has used a Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze nine different documents relating to the management of the Inshore and Offshore lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, Canada, to answer the question: How does the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Almost 50 million EU citizens are affected by energy poverty, which is generally defined as inadequate use of domestic energy services. However, while extensive research has been conducted on the implications that some ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Norway is committed to promoting the use of energy from renewable sources and, as such, has established policies to facilitate the long-term development of the land-based wind power sector. Wind power installations, however, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Norway is committed to promoting energy from renewable sources, but wind power installations are often sited in areas where the environment remains relatively untouched. This has generated a debate about the acceptability ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Throughout the history of India, farmers have been the central initiator of activity related to irrigation structures and the management of irrigation water. Today the farmer’s role has changed and in this case, study in ...
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Why Is It So Hard to Diversify? Inside Thailand’s Poverty Reduction Intervention in Rural CambodiaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Being poor and yet having limited options to make a living had been the local reality in Bang Kayak village, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, for a long time. There, in 2007, arrived a poverty reduction project by Thailand ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)In March 2017, Save the Children International complied with the reinstated Mexico City Policy, banning US funding to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that inform about, advocate for, or provide abortion ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)The study looked on differences of cycling culture between Dar es Salaam and Tanga cities in Tanzania. The study attempts to find factors behind a thriving cycling culture in Tanga and factors for a weakening cycling culture ...
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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, 2009)This is a study of wind power and ecotourism in Møre and Romsdal. Wind power seen as renewable and “clean” energy production while ecotourism is defined as sustainable travel. Ecotourism is a relatively new concept in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis is based on a case study of a planned wind power park in Vindafjord municipality in western Norway. It seeks to understand how the stakeholders involved in the plan talk about the proposed wind power park, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)In order to ensure that scientific knowledge is made relevant and useful for solving pressing societal challenges such as climate change, science policy actors like the European Union have increasingly advocated for various ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Wolves have been demonized and romanticized, feared and admired, figuring as barbaric intruders in some cultures and as kindred spirits in others. This thesis explores what wolves symbolize for different social groups in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the ...
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(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Based on a qualitative study of Chinese-led construction projects in Mozambique, this article explores how Chinese engagement in the construction sector affects workplace regimes. The study addresses the following set of ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2007)This report is prepared in the light of the statement of the current Norwegian Government Declaration (the Soria Moria Declaration) that Norwegian aid shall not support programs that are made conditional on liberalization ...