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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)In the course of a few years, 2007-2010, the protection of rainforest has become one of the most interesting and important elements in Norwegian development policy. This swift evolution of importance and the huge dimensions ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Around a third of Tanzanians light their homes with solar electricity. Foreign companies are building on the popularity and availability of solar to ‘leapfrog’ the classic state led mains electricity grid infrastructure ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Worldwide, the number of electricity end-users who produce electricity and feed it to the grid, denoted ‘prosumers’, is increasing. Following innovations in policy, technology (e.g. inverters, smart meters), tariffing and ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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The Living Manor: Sustainable living and visitors' experiences in a Danish ecovillageRestricted 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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The challeges of sustainable development are explored through this investigation of household water consumption in a slum colony in New Delhi, India. The thesis explores how water is consumed on a litre by litre, task by ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide an account of why Buea is still backward in terms of socio-economic development. It examines the role of Local Governments (LGs) in rural development in supposedly ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The purpose of this study has been to contribute to the current scholarly debate on conservation and poverty alleviation by providing empirical knowledge in the case of Kilimanjaro National Park. Through social science ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)As a German citizen with a background in business I have been inspired to research how Norway’s financial elite takes part in the green transition: firstly, by a correlation that is sometimes made in the literature, between ...
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(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 ...