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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Everyday 1500 Nepalis of all different castes migrate overseas in pursuit of a better life, sending money home to family and returning when they can, often laden with foreign gifts. As a result, the economic capital of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)An Afforestation and Reforestation Clean Development Mechanism (A/R CDM) project is a forest conservation project that involves global, national and local actors. The interests and expectations of these actors are different. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Despite the strong global focus on improving maternal health during past decades, there is still a long way to go to ensure equitable access to services and quality of care for women and girls around the world. To understand ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The thesis, “When Two Elephant Fight…!: Conflict in Environmental Conservation; the case of the Kakum National Park in Ghana”, is an analysis of the sources of conflicts between managers of the Kakum national park and local ...
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(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, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)On background of the framework of Sustianability, this thesis aims at understanding Energy consumption in households, and uses the example of Norway as having three times higher electricity consumption per capita than the ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Almost 50 million EU citizens are affected by energy poverty, which is generally defined as inadequate use of domestic energy services. However, while extensive research has been conducted on the implications that some ...
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(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, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Norway is committed to promoting energy from renewable sources, but wind power installations are often sited in areas where the environment remains relatively untouched. This has generated a debate about the acceptability ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)