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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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India’s social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis focuses attention on whether public finances to the private sector can deliver public goals, explicitly development, in foreign aid interventions. I intend to do that by analyzing the Norwegian Investment Fund ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)A deregulated and global economy poses several challenges for the realization of human rights. Human rights due diligence (‘HRDD’) is today considered a key tool for companies and states to conceptualize and operationalize ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)In 2013, the Norwegian Armed Forces decided to introduce a meat reduction scheme in its military mess halls, for both health reasons and environmental concerns. This article explores Norwegian soldiers' reactions to the ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every single day, and an increasing amount of this is specialty coffee. The third wave of coffee focuses on quality, taste and variety and consumers demand socially responsible ...
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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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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’ ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis is a narrative analysis of the role of sustainable development in secondary education (ages 13-16) in Norway. The aim is to examine narratives on sustainable development in education, and find whether these ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: Maize is the most produced crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, but yields are low and climate change is projected to further constrain smallholder production. The current efforts to breed and disseminate new high ...
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(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 ...