Browsing Senter for utvikling og miljø by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela’s recent crisis. We highlight the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article proposes a political ecology of resistance. This is done by putting forward insurrectionary political ecology as a lens of research and struggle, through the confluence of the complementary "political" practice ...
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(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 – ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The article explores the impact of one of the deadliest disasters in the twentieth century, the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970, also known as the Great Bhola Cyclone, on the first-ever general election held in united Pakistan ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)In this article, we explore the contexts and appearances of what we argue is a Norwegian version of the Green Man – the Glibb – in vernacular settings. We also discuss the figure’s possible meanings in Norwegian secular ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)As old as industrialism or civilization itself, socio-ecological problems are nothing new. Despite all efforts to resolve environmental dilemmas, socio-ecological catastrophe has only intensified. Governments, in response, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...