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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In Norway, a vast majority of the population supports scientific findings of climate change. At the same time, Norway´s emissions are increasing, while support for the environmental movement is decreasing. One might ask ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis focuses on men, in a search for the root causes of gender inequality, gender based violence and HIV in South Africa. I argue that it is time to move beyond the victimization of women and start politicizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis intends to explore and analyse the discrepancies that exist between the accepted global narratives that promote investing in hydropower projects with the argument that it will bring development, economic growth ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
How genomic selection enables species to adapt to divergent environments is a fundamental question in ecology and evolution. We investigated the genomic signatures of local adaptation in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) along ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Central America as a region has made world headlines mainly due to civil wars, insurgencies, and, more recently, drug-trafficking and youth gang violence. Central American enterprises are only rarely studied; even less so ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Electricity provides a range of desirable services such as the electric light and the use of mobile phones and is regarded as a conditional factor for economic growth. Gender equality and women's empowerment are also ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This study focuses on a Saminist (Sedulur Sikep) community in Java – Indonesia, particularly related to the contemporary anti-cement movement. With their Javanese puritanical traits and non-violent resistance, the Sedulur ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
The aim of this paper is to examine people’s attitudes towards electricity and electricity consumption within the Norwegian market context. The empirical material is based on 18 in-depth interviews and eight focus group ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis is based on a longitudinal study and it examines the social impacts of the introduction of genetically modified (GM) soya in Santa Cecilia, an agricultural colony located in northern Argentina. Two additional ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015 was the largest Ebola outbreak ever, killing over 11,000 people. In this thesis, I explore the Norwegian response to this crisis, focusing particularly on two projects conducted by the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Self-help literature has attempted to change people’s mindsets for more than a century, but its potential to make a difference for the environment has barely been studied before. This thesis uses an interdisciplinary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Ferrosilicon is one of the fundamental building blocks of modern society, yet seldom discussed outside the factory halls in which it is produced. Products from the ferrosilicon industry end up in everything from cars to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
This chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis navigates the intersection of environmental peacebuilding, youth engagement, and the intricate dynamics of the Cyprus conflict, with a specific focus on the UN-led initiative, UNYCHEP. Positioned within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is one of the so-called ‘Rio Conventions’, three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) ensued from the ‘Earth Summit’ of 1992. Unlike its two ‘sisters’ ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Este artículo presenta resultados de un estudio sobre las estrategias de los Grupos Empresariales Diversificados (GED) centroamericanos en frente a la globalización. Busca comprender cómo estos han cambiado en el proceso ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Mauna Kea is located on the Big Island of Hawai i. It is a dormant volcano and the highest mountain in the world measured from sea bottom. Mauna Kea first attracted astronomers in the 1960s. Since then there has been a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the use of in-home displays affects daily practices and electricity consumption. Through two pilot projects, in-home displays were installed in 33 Norwegian homes, and we ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
North- South trade. A case study of the bilateral agreements regulating trade between Namibia and Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Over the last couple of decades, the number of bilateral free trade agreements has accelerated on a global scale. Close geographic proximity seems to matter little, as new arrangements around trade are emerging. About one ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This study was conducted in Moshi-Tanzania. The research topic is Coping with Power Interruptions in Tanzania.An Industrial Perspesctive:A Case Study of one Small Scale Animal Food Processing Industry in Moshi Municipality.The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The focus of this work is on the phenomena surrounding the increasing consumption that has been occurring among the poor in developing countries over the past decades. People who were confined to subsistence levels of ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Inspired by research on rural sustainability and development in China, this thesis presents a case study on The Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project (LPP), a state-led, World Bank-funded environmental improvement ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis looks at Parque 3 de Febrero and Parque Las Heras in Buenos Aires in an attempt to establish the role of public greenspace in ‘modernizing’ a city. Rather than looking at modernity as a stagnant collection of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The increasing use of internal carbon pricing among companies demonstrates the possibility of an interaction between business and environmental interests. An internal carbon price is a price that is voluntarily placed on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis provides a critical overview of the theoretical evolution of CSR and current international frameworks. It also examines the drivers and institutional environment for CSR in China today, before discussing the ...
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international ...
Middle Class Food Consumption and Provisioning Practices - The Fridge and Everyday Life in São Paulo
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis seeks to examine how food consumption and provisioning practices involving the fridge and other supporting appliances are being shaped in São Paulo. Everyday practices are becoming energy intensive in affluent ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis sets out to investigate the factors that challenge a reduction of food waste within households of young adults in Norway. Food wastage is one of the biggest barriers to ensuring a sustainable food system, with ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This research looked into the emerging role of ‘slow fashion’ within the Danish clothing market and the factors that enabled this nation to become an industry leader. The research employed both primary and secondary research ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In spite of the realization that Norway and other rich, industrialized countries need to move towards a less meat-heavy diet, and in spite of a blossoming general interest in vegetarian practices, not much research has ...
(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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Household energy consumption accounts for the largest proportion for the emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. These gases are the main contributors to global warming. World leaders have set a goal to limit warming to a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is a case study based on the urban development project Harstadpakken . It seeks to 1) identify leading discourse or discourses in the projects planning documents and how this, or these discourses influence the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The MMR – maternal mortality ratio – has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) for smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa is subject to ongoing scholarly and public debate regarding the evidence-base and the agenda-setting power of involved stakeholders. We ...
Sugarcane Bioethanol: As sweet as it seems? – A sustainability assessment of the Norwegian company Umoe Bioenergy Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis strives to increase understanding of what causes the continuation of dithering on the issue of climate change – that is, knowing full well the consequences of a course of action, but failing to change course. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Meliponiculture, or stingless bee domestication, is an ancient Maya practice that has been at the edge of disappearance in the past 20 years. Thanks to an alarming preoccupation of the future of stingless bees, many ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Everyday 1500 Nepalis of all different castes migrate overseas in pursuit of a better life, sending money home to family and returning when they can, often laden with foreign gifts. As a result, the economic capital of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability on 10 October 2014, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781315797106
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Addressing the environmental challenges that are a result of the ballooning Chinese economy is becoming an increasingly important national priority. Today, China has the highest number of deaths linked to ambient air ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Agriculture is one of the most controversial industries in the world. The population is growing and the need for food is too. But the strain that agricultural production puts on the environment, and the imbalance between ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts nearly universally expect to see rising tensions within (and between) countries in the next 5–20 years. Being able to predict ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract The overall objective of this thesis is to explore why it has taken so long to start commercial oil production in Uganda. The thesis is based on review of secondary literature supplemented by interviews carried ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores water insecurity, or the idea of it, and examines uncertainty of water for household use both in terms of access and quality. Water is a vital resource for humans; nevertheless, it is one that is under ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
As intermediaries between donors and beneficiaries ‘local development brokers’ play a crucial role in shaping the implementation of development initiatives. They tie together different interests through acts of translation ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis draws mainly on the theoretical constructs of capital and field of power, developed by Bourdieu, to explore climate change attitudes of holders of different types of capital who are considered positioned within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Nature’s living ecosystems, which sustain all of us, are unravelling, and the world is changing at an unimaginable pace. There is an increasing urgency to move away from the commodification, desacralization and exploitation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Despite the scientific evidence that more plants and less animal-based food is more sustainable, policy interventions to reduce meat consumption are scarce. However, campaigns for meat free days in school and office canteens ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Despite the strong global focus on improving maternal health during past decades, there is still a long way to go to ensure equitable access to services and quality of care for women and girls around the world. To understand ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Waste is an environmental challenge that cannot be easily “swept under the rug” anymore and neglected. Billions of tons of household waste are produced globally each year. Until waste is handled properly, valuable resources ...
"Nor any drop to drink": Women’s experiences of water insecurity in Lalitpur, Nepal. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores how women experience the chronic water scarcity in Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and which role the ancient water supply system of the hitis play in their everyday lives. “Water, water, everywhere ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
As the global health community seeks to, “ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all”, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Agenda, unreliable electricity in health facilities is one challenge that needs ...
(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 ...
The Bear and the Shepherd: Nationalism, Nature Politics and Rural Development in the Catalan Pyrenees Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis is a qualitative study that discusses the intersections between nationalist agendas, nature politics, and contemporary rural transformations in Pallars Sobirà, a region in the Catalan Pyrenees. Applying ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Anthropocene may entail at least two major civilizational and planetary events; the environmental crisis and the project of spreading humans and Earth-life to other planets. This thesis operates in the span between ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) play an increasingly prominent and multifaceted role in the field of global health – as policy advocates, recipients of donor funds, and implementers of donor-funded ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In July 2015, Malawi’s Special Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion released a draft Termination of Pregnancy bill. If approved by Parliament, it will liberalize Malawi’s strict abortion law, expanding the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Alternative food networks (AFNs), in their myriad forms, have the potential to challenge the destructive tendencies of the globalized food system, affecting how food is produced, distributed and consumed and the logics ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis examines two Small Scale Irrigation Schemes in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana, as a poverty intervention measure. And the aim is to study how a relevant poverty intervention ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Oil’s importance in the global economy cannot be overlooked. Gas, diesel and petrol, which are by-products of oil, fuel transportation globally, and allow for the free movement of goods and people. Revenue from oil is also ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this article I discuss the factors contributing to the drafting and approval of the forestry incentives law (PINPEP) in Guatemala. This is a remarkable law because (a) it is among the few in the country recognizing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The global consumption of meat and animal products has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly due to rising consumption in so-called developing countries. This increase has popularly been explained as part ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the implications of ‘business for peace’ (B4P), a new global governance paradigm that aims to put international businesses at the frontline of peace, stability and development efforts in fragile and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In this paper we quantify gendered decision-making patterns regarding electricity access, light and appliances in selected rural contexts in Mahadevsthan (Nepal), Homa Bay (Kenya) and Chhattisgarh (India). In the literature, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper investigates non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in policy processes related to Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) comparing four countries: Norway, Brazil, Indonesia, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Due to significant increase in both disposable income and leisure time (which is now visible in many developed countries), tourism and recreational activities are becoming a more and more important part of countries’ ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis is concerned with the food security of low-income, internal migrants in India. Based on a quantitative survey as well as qualitative fieldwork conducted in one of India’s biggest cities, Bangalore, it explores ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Drawing on cultural sociology and memory studies, this thesis offers a new framework for understanding post-industrial urban development. Focusing on the case of the Lower Area of Vítkovice in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Concern has been growing over the increasing average age of American farmers as well as the larger environmental impact of agriculture. This research is focused on a growing craze of going ‘back to the land’ as a sustainable ...
(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 ...