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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This study takes a closer look at a Norwegian establishment of second homes in the area of Natal in Brazil. It sets out to answer how such settlements takes place in its context, compared to how it was seen in its initial ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2007)
A new Norwegian electricity directive that will take effect in 2007 will mandate the compliance of Norwegian electricity utilities with the European Unions EL Directive (2003/54/EC, par 6). The EU Directive states that all ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis deals with the participatory structures people may take advantage of in order to influence the implantation of the right to water in the city of Durban in South Africa. The thesis discuss the use of judicial, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The objective of the thesis is to chart the current feminist landscape in Norway by looking at four organizations: Norsk Kvinnesaksforening Ottar, MiRA Senteret, and Dancers with Attitude. Each organization lies in different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Developments within map technologies provide an increasingly sophisticated view of the world, facilitating surveillance, management and movement. The simplified interpretations of reality presented through these technologies ...
Writing the Blue Revolution : Theoretical Contributions Toward a Contemporary History of Aquaculture
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Due to fewer people being directly involved in agricultural food production, there is a decline in direct, practical knowledge of food growing processes. Thus there is a lack of understanding ecological effects of food ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The importance of pineapple production as a major foreign exchange earner to the economy of Ghana has long been realized. The pineapple sector alone generates over US$31,632,939 to the economy each year. Ghana’s pineapple ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
Nov. 29th 2005, on the front page of Norway’s largest newspaper Verdens Gang (VG): next to photos of two young Chinese boys, the title read “Disappeared from Moss – the police fears: TAKEN by human traffickers” . It was ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Can high levels of poverty be a competitive advantage for a country in the world economy? Or, put differently, can low labour costs provide a sustainable basis for a small country’s export
strategy? In this study poverty ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
(Series / Serietittel, 2002)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The empirical focus of this thesis is the issue of waste from its beginning to end in the context of Buenos Aires. In the thesis I thus follow the life of garbage through its different stages, from its place of origin to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Silence is also a message. It is also an opinion. This work attempts to voice a particular silence: the silence of others in ecological ethics.
Concentric ecological ethics – a project known as the widening of the moral ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The thesis is concerned with documenting how sense of place amongst the inhabitants of the village in Feios, Sogn og Fjordane, affected stances towards a proposed local hydropower project. Through qualitative analysis of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The focus of this thesis is on the civil-military cooperation (CIMIC ) currently used in complex conflicts and post-conflict situations. It examines how this method may have an adverse effect on the hitherto cooperative ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
This thesis is about the modernization of fishing practices in a traditional fishermen community in Indonesia in the context of decentralization. The focus will be to learn how the process takes place, and how actors ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
South Sudan finally reached the status of being an independent country after having been in almost constant conflict with northern Sudan for the last half century. On the other hand, due to the protracted war, South Sudan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The thesis explores social, cultural and historical factors behind the increase in use of air-con in Singapore since the1960s. It questions how and why Singapore has ended up as an almost entirely air-conditioned city-state. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The objective of this thesis is to explore the reasons why Norway chose Guyana as a partner for their REDD initiative - a 'risky' country where it had very little knowledge or traditional presence. How can the marriage of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights, unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011 represent a watershed in the business and human rights debate. The Guiding Principles are based ...
Middle-Class Perceptions of Poverty in Cairo Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis looks at middle-class Cairenese perceptions of poverty in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. Moreover, it discusses the difficulty of defining class in Egypt. The aim of this study has been to find out how middle-class ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Throughout the last decade the Norwegian development assistance for health has gone through some profound changes, both regarding implementation and organization. Norwegian development assistance for health has been known ...
Exploring the capacities of cash transfers to improve food security among India s urban poor Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
A key player in the world economy, India s national economy today allows for a sustainable expansion and significant improvements in social aspects. This remarkable economic growth has however failed to include and benefit ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The focus of this thesis is to explore how Burundian coffee producers and traders perceive direct trade influences on producer’s wellbeing. Direct trade in coffee is still a newly establishing approach to the coffee trade ...
Commoning the Neighborhood: Tatavla Neighborhood Forum Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In my thesis, I will be analyzing a neighborhood assembly that was founded after the Gezi Park Protests that took place in 2013, as a form of commoning practice. I will question if and how this local solidarity organization ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This research seeks to explore and address the dynamic organisational aspects and the mechanisms of construction, maintenance and diffusion of a socio-technical innovation network revolving around the spread of large-scale ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This study investigates how employees of development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) form judgments about risks that may affect their organization, its process, activities and objectives. The thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The thesis focuses on the relationship between Hungarian environmental NGOs and the EEA and Norway Grants. The study describes and analyses how foreign civil society assistance has enabled green civil society organizations ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to explore local narratives on the conservation of Trillemarka-Rollagsfjell, in 2012, four years after its inauguration. The study reveals that there is a wide gap between the successful picture ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The study focuses on two types of community forest, village forest and customary forest - using qualitative case study from two villages namely Lubuk Beringin and Guguk in Jambi Province. The findings show that village ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households’ heat pump ownership. The heat pump is a technology that has the potential to reduce electricity ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The barriers to energy savings in institutions and private homes are well known and include people’s lack of interest, awareness, knowledge and human and financial capacity. Experiences made in several countries show that ...
Bringing The Blue Flame Home : An Investigation of Key Factors for Household Biogas Adoption in Rural Indonesia. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis aims at investigating key factors for household biogas adoption with the case study in Sri Hardono village situated in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Province Indonesia. By employing Appropriate Technology and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Recent debates on African agency in China–Africa relations highlight how China provides African governments with an alternative to traditional donors that should allow African policy-makers to experiment with policy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis aims to show the role of networks of experts (epistemic communities) in constructing knowledge and social structure upon which a CDM project was successful.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Climate change is affecting men and women differently, influencing their priorities and adaptation strategies for coping with the challenges. The challenge of climate change could impede people’s livelihood opportunities ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP) is the proposed 1177 km link to bring crude bitumen from the Alberta Tar Sands over to the BC coast for Asian-bound super-tankers, presenting unique risks; crossing 1000+ salmon ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis analyzes the design intentions of architects in the Norwegian National Tourist Routes. Since architecture is not an isolated concept, this analysis incorporates philosophical and theoretical ideas in an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This current study focuses on exploring expectations of World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farming (WWOOF) hosts and volunteers participating in various countries using online semi-structured interview method. Using ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis set out to investigate Norwegians’ attitudes towards beef consumption. UNEP calls for a worldwide dietary change, away from animal products. Still, the Norwegian authorities do not address the problem of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The Solar Transitions project initiated and implemented Ikisaya Energy Centre, a social enterprise providing solar powered electricity services in Ikisaya village in Kenya. This study explores to what extent participatory ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2000)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2003)
Bioprospecting: Global discourses and local perceptions Shaman Pharmaceuticals in Tanzania Bioprospecting is an activity whereby researchers and agents for pharmaceutical companies travel to various parts of the world ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Poverty and inequality have risen dramatically in Britain since the late 1970s leaving the country today with one of the lowest levels of social intergenerational mobility in the developed world. Drawing upon qualitative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The Living Manor: Sustainable living and visitors' experiences in a Danish ecovillage Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Ecovillages are small scale communities, striving for environmental sustainability and social integration. This thesis is based on a fieldwork of three months duration in a Danish ecovillage. The thesis explores their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
One of the most significant multifaceted national challenges in Ghana is the spread of illegal gold mining activities. This type of informal mining is a major source of employment in many parts of a country. This study ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2001)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Modern food production and consumption practices release greenhouse gases and other pollutants, contributing to global warming, as well as causing resource depletion and environmental degradation of local landscapes. As ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The purpose of this thesis is to get knowledge about the prerequisites for and the forces behind a more environmentally friendly textile production in India. I have chosen to study two cases of firms which aspire to be ...
Heat Pumps and Household Energy Consumption in Norway: An actor-network and practice theory approach
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The aim of this project is to determine how heat pumps, as technical objects, impact energy consumption in Norwegian homes. Much of the previous research on energy consumption has focused on what motivates users to reduce ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study sets out to examine the potential of four Oslo museums / learning centers for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). ESD has gained ground in the course of UNESCO`s Decade for Education for Sustainable ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis is an attempt to approach the questions of environmental ethics from a Rortyan, anti-foundationalist perspective. I draw on the writings of Richard Rorty in order to construe a perspective on environmental ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Ethics - how we ought to live and act in relation to other human beings - is an integrated part of our everyday lives, and it is accepted as an important part of public debates. But other human beings are not the only ones ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Blue Nile Basin has for the past century been characterized by Egyptian dominance, both directly and through British colonial rule. This dominance is institutionalized through the Nile Water Agreements and the Anglo-Italian ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2005)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This article presents and discusses results from an empirical study of people’s uses of various types of heat pumps in Norwegian homes. We analyze the rebound effect from a practice theory perspective. In-depth interviews ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The thesis analyzes two case studies from two groups of organic coffee producers in La Paz Honduras, and their experiences with certified and non-certified organic farming and fair trade. It looks at how their adoption of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
En vårkveld i 2011 stod ikke mindre enn fem ministre samtidig på podiet på Litteraturhuset. De overgikk hverandre i superlativer for å beskrive betydningen av samarbeidet med et latinamerikansk land. Anledningen var ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
(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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmente en Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestas violentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Throughout the last decades, results-based management (RBM) and capacity building (CB) of civil society organizations have become more important parts of Norwegian development assistance. Despite increased efforts of RBM, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
In 2008 Tanzania was selected to be amongst the countries that would be implementing the REDD Project in its piloting phase as a way of demonstrating how the future REDD would look like. It was selected because of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis explores the food blogosphere as a potentially transformative space in which bloggers and readers alike have the opportunity to engage in an environmentally conscientious discourse about food. Through the mixed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
As Uganda is about to start exploiting its petroleum reservoirs, it is apparent that there is a genuine fear of it becoming the next country on the list of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa suffering from a resource curse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores environmental public debate on the Arctic in the context of Russian and Norwegian media. The aim of the study is to define how environmental public debate is constructed ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
¿Qué es lo que motiva a investigadores de las ciencias sociales de un país pequeño, periférico y lejano como Noruega a estudiar fenómenos sociales en América Latina? ¿En qué medida podemos decir que el pensamiento social ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The purpose of this dissertation is first to provide a historical overview and discuss the progress of the status of indigenous knowledge in Mexico. How has it advanced from being a repressed tradition to becoming part of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Since the 1960s democratic member based organizations (DMOs) have formed the back bone of the Norwegian environmental movement (NEM). A series of recent developments, however, have challenged both their dominant position ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Cabins have a special place in the hearts of Norwegians. A main aspect of cabins is their function as meeting places between nature and civilization. It is therefore meaningful to read the cabin as a symbol of Norwegian ...