Browsing Senter for utvikling og miljø by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The success of the garment and textile industry has contributed immensely to a culture of mass consumption. In 2011 Norway accounted for 16.2 billion NOK worth of clothing imports (Garberg, 2012), with households spending ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Agriculture is the mainstay of most of the developing countries like Nepal that has significant contribution to food availability, poverty alleviation and rural employment. A number of research and United Nations reports ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This qualitative study took place in the Oslo area and focused on the transportation mode choices of parents with children in day care. Understanding why parents choose a certain mode of transport was the main objective ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)From clothing to computers, toothbrushes, automobiles, and everything in between; plastic (synthetic polymers) dominates daily practices. Despite plastic's many useful applications it also harms; clogging waterways, choking ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)The aim of this thesis is to understand the socio-cultural impacts backpackers, as ‘alternative tourists’, have on the destinations they visit. Through a case study analysis, I examine the relationship between the hosts ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Different ideas exist on how human beings relate to non-human animals, and on how we make room for other creatures in ‘our’ world. In view of the frequent disparity that exist between people’s attitudes to animal welfare ...
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Viral Nature: Exploring non-profit social media use during the 2019 Amazon rainforest firesRestricted Access (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, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis explores the food blogosphere as a potentially transformative space in which bloggers and readers alike have the opportunity to engage in an environmentally conscientious discourse about food. Through the mixed ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis discusses political participation, democracy and development in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. It looks at channels for participation and how participation relates to issues of democracy and development. In South ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)While the legitimacy of global public–private partnerships (partnerships) remains contested, particularly within the fields of health and nutrition, they continue to proliferate. How do partnerships gain and maintain support ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Local support is instrumental to natural resource extraction. Examining militarization beyond the battlefield, this article discusses the organization of volunteers in three controversial resource extraction projects. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This quantitative study took place in Oslo and focused on the motives for owning an electrical car. The main objective of the study was to identify the most important motivations of electrical car owners and explore the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is to get knowledge about the prerequisites for and the forces behind a more environmentally friendly textile production in India. I have chosen to study two cases of firms which aspire to be ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Major approaches to land reform have been argued to lack holistic thinking and contextualised solutions that impede on sustainable implementation projects. This has brought scholars to move towards a rethinking of land ...
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(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 ...