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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The objective of this paper is to assess the possibilities and barriers for subaltern actors' participation in environmental policy making. To discuss this issue I focus on the case of the creation of new forest legislation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The global climate change issue is generally met with an expectation that it can only be solved through global solutions. Within this global framework, the various local and cultural experiences of climate change may be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
To achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 on maternal health, many countries have focused on marginalized women who lack access to care. Promoting facility-based deliveries to ensure skilled birth attendance and emergency ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This paper presents a qualitative study of Hurdal Ecovillage in Norway. It explores how the actors involved have interacted over time and contributed to shaping the ecovillage. The study demonstrates that the ecovillage ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The paper uses qualitative data from Norway and the United Kingdom to understand the New technology of In Home Display monitors as a material object loaded with meaning and norms that may affect social practices and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines how solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been incorporated into the daily lives of residential households in Querétaro, Mexico. The dissemination of small-scale solar PV systems has rapidly increased ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article presents new empirical research on what it takes to provide enduring access to affordable, reliable and useful electricity services for all. We analyze and synthesize the long-term experiences with three ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Global health donors increasingly embrace international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) as partners, often relying on them to conduct political advocacy in recipient countries, especially in controversial policy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork‐based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The major way in which IPES-Food seeks to achieve change is by preparing and widely disseminating reports on different aspects of the global food system, which are rigorous in both empirical and analytical terms. These ...
Heritage and Scale – Challenges to Wellbeing and Place Management in Dubrovnik’s World Heritage Site
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article is an ethnographic contribution to ongoing debates on the consequences of heritagisation and touristification in the lived realities of World Heritage sites. Based on my doctoral research in Dubrovnik, Croatia, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Tía Maria copper mine situated above the agricultural Tambo Valley, southwest Peru, has sparked nearly ten years of protracted conflict. This conflict began in 2009, yet Southern Copper Peru or Southern, a subsidiary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Provision of safe abortion is widely recognized as vital to addressing the health and wellbeing of populations. Research on abortion is essential to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers in population ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis is a theoretical examination of the problematic relationship between sustainability and the orthodoxy in economics disciplines and practice—characterized by neoclassical theories and assumptions. For this ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
There has been considerable attention in recent years on the close linkages between business, ethics, and economic development and how businesses not only have responsibilities to their shareholders but also to wider ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
China is now a major actor in global development and wields considerable influence in large parts of the world. The success of the Chinese development model has not only challenged the notion that democracy is necessary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Business has been involved in cooperation with multilateral organizations through public-private partnerships (PPPs) since the late 1990s. With their adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), multilateral ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The tourism industry contributes significantly to climate change, mainly through greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. In order to reduce emissions, we need to travel shorter distances, less frequently and by flying ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
The papers in this special issue provide accounts of the politics and knowledge that shaped the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The open and transparent processes in the Open Working Group (OWG) and Post‐2015 agenda ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Globally, the urban transport sector is facing a diversity of problems such as pollution, congestion, high energy dependency, and parking space shortage. Cycling is considered as a desirable means of transportation, which ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT) promotes outdoor activities all over Norway. It marks trails and operates 550 cabins, maintained by extensive voluntary efforts, throughout the country. Based on a case study of one ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Solar prosuming is an emerging phenomenon in which many actor groups are involved in shaping new solutions. Here we study national policymakers, relevant stakeholders such as grid companies, and the prosumers themselves – ...
Why Is It So Hard to Diversify? Inside Thailand’s Poverty Reduction Intervention in Rural Cambodia Begrenset tilgang
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
While societies are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint in life, people rarely stop to think about the ecological impact they might have after they die. Yet in the United States, post-mortem customs ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis deals with the challenges low-income countries face when working towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. The thesis looks into Malawi’s capacity to reach SDG 6 “Ensure access to water and sanitation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Cities around the globe are rapidly growing. The high urbanisation rates bear potentials for innovations, including adaptation to climate change and transformations towards sustainability. However, urbanisation also involves ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
As the populations of the world's cities are increasing at rapid rates, the development of effective sustainable solutions for urban areas is an important measure to mitigate further exacerbation of the environment. However, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In a food system hungry for change, every bite of food matters. Locked in a global system of unsustainable production, processing, distribution and disposal, current food consumption practices of Norwegians contribute to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The backdrop for this research builds on a growing momentum that appreciates nature and the environment as the very cornerstone of our existence. The study examines the recently renewed ambition to develop a Norwegian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The degrowth movement offers an ambitious vision and proposal for a civilisational and ecological transformation alongside a coalition of transition discourses. Degrowth is growing in popularity among other green political ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
One of the biggest challenges in understanding the political development of eSwatini has been how has this country escaped international attention and scrutiny despite having an absolute Monarchy where political parties ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
In the nearly half century since it began lending for population projects, the World Bank has become one of the largest financiers of global health projects and programs, a powerful voice in ...
COVID-19, (sustainable)Mobility, and Happiness Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted from finding a cure to acquiring vaccines and organizing vaccination. The race for vaccination has exacerbated tendencies of hoarding, particularly among rich countries, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
In 2021, donor countries, the pharmaceutical industry, and the COVAX initiative promoted vaccine donation or “dose-sharing” as a main solution to the inequitable global distribution of Covid-19 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
During the first year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVAX has been the world’s most prominent effort to ensure equitable access to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Launched as part of the Access to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis studies the relationship between the ecosystem services of the Nujiang Valley in Yunnan province in south-west China and the wellbeing of the local population, and how this relationship will be influenced by ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Norway’s “nation brand” rests on the notion that this country is characteristic for its inclination to do good on the world stage. This brand is at risk of being exposed as hypocrisy, however, since Norway demonstrably ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), has been promoted as ‘the only global solution' to vaccine equity and ending the Covid-19 pandemic. ACT-A and COVAX build on the public-private ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Since the end of the Vietnam war, it has begun to be widely acknowledged that military tactics during armed conflicts can have devastating and long-lasting impacts on the environment. Environmental impacts of war became ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks, amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a recent wealth of research across varied fields. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to previously settled everyday routines, prompting a period of forced experimentation as people have adjusted to rapid changes in their private and working lives. For discussions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Conducting a multi-sited psychology study on how Malawian participants perceive Western-oriented non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) gendered development approaches, it became apparent that perceptions of ufiti (the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Empowerment is a prominent concept in psychology, and for decades, it has been a key term in global development policy, theory, and practice. However, in line with similar turns toward individualism in psychology, the ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Whether, and how, enterprises can contribute to enhancing peace is heavily debated, but some scholars claim that enterprises can play a beneficial role in promoting peace and stability in areas with institutional and social ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Food regime analysis is a prominent approach to the role of food and agriculture in global capitalism. Yet recent advancement within the approach has not received as much attention as it deserves outside of specialized ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The ‘grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are ‘political crops’ intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
During the past decades, reduced disaster mortality, efficient evacuations in the face of storms and climate change advocacy earned Bangladesh a reputation as a global leader within disaster risk reduction (DRR). From a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Guatemala is one of the most mining conflict prone countries in the world, with disproportionately high levels of violence accompanying the sector. Starting in the early 2000's, the rapid spread of mining projects throughout ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Climate change now serves to justify new mandates for increasing ‘clean’ and ‘renewable’ energy, which affirms the existing European trajectory of infrastructural expansion. Employing a multi-sited political ecology analysis ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Purpose
This paper aims to present a new survey data set of 9,065 private sector respondents and other stakeholder groups, in Myanmar. The primary aim of this paper is to offer new insight avenues on local business–co ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In the Arctic, indigenous reindeer herding peoples rely on a pastoralist food and knowledge system that supplies them with protein, vitamins, and minerals. Reindeer pastoralism is a product of the interaction between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Since 2010, solar energy companies in North America and Europe have played a pivotal role in delivering clean, reliable and sustainable electricity to millions of people living off the grid across sub-Saharan Africa. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A central theme in global governance is the ongoing diffusion of power and authority from nation states to a myriad of non-governmental actors. While private and civil society actors have always influenced policy, they are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
World expos are occasions for the type of rhetorical display known as "epideictic," and as such, they provide glimpses into how a nation wants to be seen at a particular point in time. In this article, I probe into Norway’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis follows post-development, decolonial degrowth, and diverse economies theories to examine the Really (Really) Free Market (RRFM) global movement. The RRFM is a nonmonetary, nonexchange, non-barter, and nonreciprocal ...
Viral Nature: Exploring non-profit social media use during the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What could make virality relevant to the non-profit sector? Technological advancements can now produce large amounts of information, and gaining attention in digital spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis explores understanding and manifestation of a feminist theory “Intersectionality” in a popular gender equality framework called “GESI” (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) by development and humanitarian aid ...
(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, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract This thesis is an extensive analysis of the dynamic migratory process of Romania with a focus on return migration from Norway, and the sociocultural changes that it involves for Romanian migrants and their home ...
Attitudes Toward Growth in the Norwegian Transport Sector. An explorative study on the whereabouts of degrowth and other alternatives to the growth-omertá Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Bringing food to the table: Food security and civil society in Ethiopia’s WTO accession Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Este artículo analiza las reacciones políticas “top-down” de la empresa minera Southern Copper Perú y del gobierno peruano a la oposición popular frente a un proyecto minero de cobre, situado sobre el valle agrícola de ...
From Documents to Dairies: The Emerging Role of Livestock Veterinarians in the Multispecies Health Issue of Antimicrobial Resistance Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Matters of health and care in the age of the Anthropocene blur divisions between humans and our nonhuman companions, inciting new ways of understanding and managing this intense interspecies traffic. This thesis investigates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The present study undertakes a critical analysis of the vegetable supply chain in Bangladesh, with a specific emphasis on the intermediaries' role, the impact of neoliberal and neopatrimonial policies, and the capacity of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the transformative potential of citizens’ assemblies on climate change (climate assemblies). Citizens’ assemblies are a type of ‘deliberative mini-public’: a body of randomly selected citizens that ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The European Green Belt is a strip of protected land spanning 12.500 kilometers through Europe, along the line of what used to be the Iron Curtain, which separated Western and Eastern European ideologies. Today, 24 countries ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis examines policymaking for sustainable development in Australia. It specifically focuses on climate change policy at the federal and state levels by examining how the coal mining industry has managed to continue ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The successful protection and promotion of human rights depend on a healthy environment. Environmental degradation and climate change adversely affect the enjoyment of virtually all human rights. While ecological concerns ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
After the Second World War, modernisation processes such as the industrialisation of agriculture transformed the Norman bocage, a landscape defined by hedgerow networks. In order to keep up with the living landscape evolving ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
As a response to ongoing climate change challenges, the world is increasingly transitioning to low-carbon societies with increased use of renewable energy sources. Because Norway’s power system primarily consists of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract The environmental impact associated with the petroleum industry is pervasive and expansive. Anthropological climate change and pollution are some of the impacts associated with the petroleum industry. Petroleum ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Jaguars are one of Mexico’s most iconic species. They are ecologically crucial and charismatic animals that inform conservation strategies. This thesis examines jaguar conservation programmes in Southern Mexico, the region ...