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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis is based on a case study of a planned wind power park in Vindafjord municipality in western Norway. It seeks to understand how the stakeholders involved in the plan talk about the proposed wind power park, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Why do NGOs and companies form a relationship and how, if at all do they implement it in order to create value? These are central questions that are addressed in this paper, and the answers are sought by taking a closer ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
As we grapple with our relationships with nature in search of sustainable solutions in our precarious age, religion has entered the sphere of environmentalism. Offering religious ideas as a key to sustainability, some have ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
In the modern era cattle ranching in Nicaragua has become a principle economic activity for a number of reasons, with the result that as much as 30% of the country´s forested lands have been converted to pasture for grazing. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmente en Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestas violentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2006)
Siden 1999 har det i Norge vært et politisk mål å styrke arbeidet med å effektivisere den nasjonale energibruken. Disse målene kan knyttes til “energiomlegging” som da både dekker økt bruk av nye, fornybare energikilder – ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis explores the political capacity, defined as both abilities as well as opportunities, of the Egyptian Islamist social movement, the Muslim Brothers, in the Mubarak era. The Islamist social movement, the Muslim ...
Branding destinations : A review of critical success factors in a Norwegian setting Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Oppgaven er en eksplorativ studie av en artikkel presentert av 'Baker & Cameron (2008). De har gjennomført en bred gjenomgang av eksisterende litteratur og kommet frem til 33 kritiske faktorer som er nødvendige i en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The thesis examines the effects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a flexible mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, on the Indian wind power sector. Indian wind power has captured a large share of the global CDM market, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This is a study of women’s capabilities and constraints in accessing contraceptive services in Guatemala. The thesis aims to draw attention to the importance expressed by the women themselves to have access to contraceptive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Hvordan involveres medlemmer og lokallag i klimaarbeid i store medlemsbaserte miljøorganisasjoner? Hvordan kan disse organisasjonene bidra til at klima kan gjøre "lokalt"? Denne oppgaven utforsker lokalt klimaarbeid i to ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The main objective of the study was to find the practices of Limbu people in resource management. The study also aims to find out the relation of Limbu with nature and the role of government and NGOs in resource management ...
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2000)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis investigates the way Eco-Art seeks to influence environmental policy through changing the values and beliefs of audience members. Rolf Groven's painting, Oljemaleri, depicts a satirical visual warning about the ...
(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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The aim of this study is to achieve an understanding and explanation of the effect of UNDPs energy efficiency educational program on the forming of environmental behavior among children in Russia, and to find out the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
Nov. 29th 2005, on the front page of Norway’s largest newspaper Verdens Gang (VG): next to photos of two young Chinese boys, the title read “Disappeared from Moss – the police fears: TAKEN by human traffickers” . It was ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
(Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2004)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
In the late 1990s, the Indian Supreme Court issued a series of orders intended to improve the environmental conditions in Delhi, the best known of which mandated the conversion of the entire fleet of diesel-powered buses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
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The four central gaols that motivate this research dissertation are as follows. First, in order to bring social changes from inside, we need to understand the knowledge of local people, the nature of their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract
This thesis aims to provide insight to the issue of multilateral organizations cooperating with private actors in order to increase their relevance in a rapidly changing world.
The cases elaborated on are two ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The objective of the thesis is to chart the current feminist landscape in Norway by looking at four organizations: Norsk Kvinnesaksforening Ottar, MiRA Senteret, and Dancers with Attitude. Each organization lies in different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis discusses how the difficult relationship between tourism and the environment, in a local context, may be improved. More specifically, it is discussed how ecotourism may be less environmentally and socio-culturally ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The empirical focus of this thesis is the issue of waste from its beginning to end in the context of Buenos Aires. In the thesis I thus follow the life of garbage through its different stages, from its place of origin to ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The focus of this thesis is on the civil-military cooperation (CIMIC ) currently used in complex conflicts and post-conflict situations. It examines how this method may have an adverse effect on the hitherto cooperative ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
South Sudan finally reached the status of being an independent country after having been in almost constant conflict with northern Sudan for the last half century. On the other hand, due to the protracted war, South Sudan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The thesis explores social, cultural and historical factors behind the increase in use of air-con in Singapore since the1960s. It questions how and why Singapore has ended up as an almost entirely air-conditioned city-state. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This paper examines how organic food can be introduced in Norwegian schools. The qualitative study took place in four lower secondary schools in different regions of Norway. The pupils’ perceptions about organic food are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The thesis explores the influence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) measures of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) operating in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). NGO influence ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2001)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The importance of pineapple production as a major foreign exchange earner to the economy of Ghana has long been realized. The pineapple sector alone generates over US$31,632,939 to the economy each year. Ghana’s pineapple ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Uganda is one of the most biologically diverse countries in Africa. Most of its biodiversity is represented within a system of national parks, wild life reserves and forest reserves. In 1991, Bwindi forest was turned into ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The Danube is the only significant body of water in the Budapest region. Thus, during the period between the late 19th and mid 20th when modern sewerage and water supply systems were built for the Hungarian capital, the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
It has been proposed by some social scientists that studying economics and economic models has a narrowing effect on students’ views. This thesis discusses how economics may influence a student’s views about development. ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Explicit Norwegian ecophilosophy emerged in the late 1960’s as a collective effort for the common purpose of addressing the perceived crisis caused by a faulty human-nature relationship. The emergence was facilitated by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The thesis focuses on the energy intensity in the household food refrigeration, and it seeks to analyze the way refrigeration is perceived by Norwegians in a historical perspective. The practice theory is applied in the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is about(re)formation of Norwegian development policy and investigates the Norwegian state-led aid program 'Oil for Development' (OfD). As a public-private partnerhsip aiming to draw on the competence of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Concerns regarding touristic commodification and its effects on host communities have long been a staple of tourism research. While on one hand, tourism is often heralded as a powerful tool for promoting economic development, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis presents the optimistic narrative produced at Vega, a small island community in North-Norway. Vega is one of Norway’s seven UNESCO world heritage sites. However, like many other small rural communities in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This case study looks at how the Chinese wind turbine industry has grown from being almost non-existent ten years ago, to become the world’s largest today. In a country where electricity supply is predominately fuelled by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The driving force behind this thesis is indications that the relationship between scientific community and the rest of society is strained. There is an apparent disconnection between the two, as well as the general societal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The thesis explores to what degree differences in actor participation can explain a municipality's performance in obtaining sustainable energy consumption. It compares the patterns of participation by the different actors ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Can high levels of poverty be a competitive advantage for a country in the world economy? Or, put differently, can low labour costs provide a sustainable basis for a small country’s export
strategy? In this study poverty ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The thesis herein examines some of the vital links between international humanitarian law and sustainable development. Although environments of war are seemingly paradoxical, the fact remains that the natural environment ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Laboratory animal science is considered by many to be a contested enterprise. Yet the animal technicians working in the laboratory do not characterize their job as one consisting of insurmountable ethical dilemmas. Their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The thesis is a contribution to the interdisciplinary research project 'Solar Transitions', which assesses the implementation of solar energy efforts in West Bengal, India. Founded in theory about the MDGs, the Rights-Based ...
(Series / Serietittel, 2002)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Silence is also a message. It is also an opinion. This work attempts to voice a particular silence: the silence of others in ecological ethics.
Concentric ecological ethics – a project known as the widening of the moral ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The objective of the present thesis is to achieve a better understanding of CSR in a cross country context. It bases itself on a qualitative case study of the Chilean salmon industry with emphasis on the Norwegian companies ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis examines contemporary Norwegian imaginative literature, and the study’s thematic criterion is the environmental crisis. The approach is textual analysis, and the normative aspects of this study are from a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a study on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Norwegian Primary Schooling.It takes two different school types, State Schools and Steiner Schools, as to make this broad topic easier accessible. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This study takes a closer look at a Norwegian establishment of second homes in the area of Natal in Brazil. It sets out to answer how such settlements takes place in its context, compared to how it was seen in its initial ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2007)
A new Norwegian electricity directive that will take effect in 2007 will mandate the compliance of Norwegian electricity utilities with the European Unions EL Directive (2003/54/EC, par 6). The EU Directive states that all ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2007)
This report is prepared in the light of the statement of the current Norwegian Government Declaration (the Soria Moria Declaration) that Norwegian aid shall not support programs that are made conditional on liberalization ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Food systems have a need for better conceptual and applied tools to evaluate the extent to which they are resilient. The purposes of this thesis is to conceptually explore a better understanding of what a resilient food ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Gilgel Gibe III hydropower project is one of the large-scale projects presently under construction in Ethiopia. The project has been surrounded by controversies and strong oppositions. This study sought to examine these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis deals with the participatory structures people may take advantage of in order to influence the implantation of the right to water in the city of Durban in South Africa. The thesis discuss the use of judicial, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Developments within map technologies provide an increasingly sophisticated view of the world, facilitating surveillance, management and movement. The simplified interpretations of reality presented through these technologies ...
Writing the Blue Revolution : Theoretical Contributions Toward a Contemporary History of Aquaculture
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This study seeks to understand the underlying causes why the energy consumption increases in Norwegian cabins in the highlands. It explores how changing energy use is related to changing cabin life. The study has not focused ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Large scale land acquisition for commercial agriculture is a fast-evolving type of investment in many developing countries. However, such investments entail negative impacts particularly on the local communities, who see ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Due to fewer people being directly involved in agricultural food production, there is a decline in direct, practical knowledge of food growing processes. Thus there is a lack of understanding ecological effects of food ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This interdisciplinary study explores the idea of sustainable development in the context of one country: Russia. This work presents ‘the career’ of the idea of sustainable development at the federal level, including its ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This paper focuses on volunteers who practice voluntary activities at a reception centre for refugees in the outskirts of Oslo. My overall purpose is to seek the meaning behind the relationship between the volunteers and ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is the result of a study of the Mole National Park Project and its impact on the local community. The study seeks to investigate the local people‘s perceptions and expectations of as well as opinions on the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Discourse analysis based on the archaeological method developed by Michel Foucault shows that International governmental organisations (UNEP and EEA) and national governments (Norway) are relying on two discursive systems ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis gives an overview of Animal Ethics in Norway and discusses its place in the public debate.
At the base of this thesis lie three central questions:
The first question addresses the attitudes towards animals ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Abstract Using an interdisciplinary approach with focus on cultural studies, this study provides institutional perspectives to explain local scale deforestation and community-based forest management. Conducted in the North ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis presents insights into various issues connected to the practice and adoption of agroforestry in the village cluster of Tiby in rural Mali. In the context of the sustainable livelihoods framework, it is looked ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate to what extend access to justice is obtained in Chinese environmental disputes from the perspective of pollution victims in the. By investigating dispute settlement process ...