How to re-member a fragmented world while climate change escalates, and green growth models reproduce coloniality, particularly in Indigenous territories? What can be the concrete contributions from different scholarly ...

In my thesis, I will be analyzing a neighborhood assembly that was founded after the Gezi Park Protests that took place in 2013, as a form of commoning practice. I will question if and how this local solidarity organization ...

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 ...

In this paper we quantify gendered decision-making patterns regarding electricity access, light and appliances in selected rural contexts in Mahadevsthan (Nepal), Homa Bay (Kenya) and Chhattisgarh (India). In the literature, ...

The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the ...

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 ...

Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...

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 – ...

The backdrop for this research builds on a growing momentum that appreciates nature and the environment as the very cornerstone of our existence. The study examines the recently renewed ambition to develop a Norwegian ...

Cities around the globe are rapidly growing. The high urbanisation rates bear potentials for innovations, including adaptation to climate change and transformations towards sustainability. However, urbanisation also involves ...

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 ...

The degrowth movement offers an ambitious vision and proposal for a civilisational and ecological transformation alongside a coalition of transition discourses. Degrowth is growing in popularity among other green political ...

While societies are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint in life, people rarely stop to think about the ecological impact they might have after they die. Yet in the United States, post-mortem customs ...

Being poor and yet having limited options to make a living had been the local reality in Bang Kayak village, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, for a long time. There, in 2007, arrived a poverty reduction project by Thailand ...

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 ...

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, ...

This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations ...

In a food system hungry for change, every bite of food matters. Locked in a global system of unsustainable production, processing, distribution and disposal, current food consumption practices of Norwegians contribute to ...

Ideal notions of efficient aid are challenged continuously by realities on the ground in the wake of major disasters, such as dire needs, limited resources, and opportunism. This paper demonstrates how ‘relief lists’ can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cuba has been largely absent in academic and policy discourse on global health security, yet Cuba’s history of medical internationalism and its domestic health system have much to offer contemporary global health security ...

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 ...

Electricity plays a vital role in everyday life. However, electricity-dependent practices are often taken for granted, and the complex underlying infrastructure tends to be invisible – until power supply is disrupted. ...

At the root of techno-capitalist development – popularly marketed as “modernity,” “progress” or “development” – is the continuous and systematic processes of natural resource extraction. Reviewing wind energy development ...

Across the world, attempts are being made to challenge and rework bureaucratic hierarchies. One such attempt is the policy to give cash with no strings attached to the poor. Lying at the heart of these grants is the belief ...

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 ...

Climate change amplifies social, political, economic, infrastructural and environmental challenges in many Global South cities, and perhaps no city is more vulnerable than Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka. Climate-induced ...

This article argues that the “production” of success has become crucial for NGOs to manage their individual brand and secure funding within the contemporary global health and development landscape. Based on an empirical ...

In spite of the large number of studies of populism, few have discussed the relationship between populism and different types of elites, apart from showing the antielitism of the discourse that characterizes populist ...

This article studies the effects of sanctions on different economic sectors in Venezuela, framed as a rentier capitalist state. We analyse four sectors: hydrocarbons, agriculture, manufacturing, and what we call “emerging ...

This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding ...

This qualitative study asks farmers in Alberta, Canada, what are their motivations for using a practice in beef production called management-intensive grazing (MIG). By adopting this practice, these farmers engage in ...

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 ...

The proposal for a Law of Ecocide (LOE) raises some ethical questions. As an amendment to the Rome Statute, it would give the International Criminal Court the mandate to prosecute individuals with superior responsibility ...

In order to ensure that scientific knowledge is made relevant and useful for solving pressing societal challenges such as climate change, science policy actors like the European Union have increasingly advocated for various ...

The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlighted the significance of trust between the public and public health authorities in the mitigation of health crises. Since the end of the epidemic, there has been a focus ...

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 ...

The Anthropocene may entail at least two major civilizational and planetary events; the environmental crisis and the project of spreading humans and Earth-life to other planets. This thesis operates in the span between ...

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 ...

The use of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture is an ongoing scholarly and public debate, which has been dominated by a polarization between proponents and opponents: the pro- and the anti-GM sides. In 2002, Bt ...

International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) play an increasingly prominent and multifaceted role in the field of global health – as policy advocates, recipients of donor funds, and implementers of donor-funded ...

This thesis draws mainly on the theoretical constructs of capital and field of power, developed by Bourdieu, to explore climate change attitudes of holders of different types of capital who are considered positioned within ...

The purpose of this thesis has been to produce insights on the agendas on sustainability that are empowered by social actors as a result of a “quality turn” in food practices in the Norwegian context. I described the quality ...

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 ...

As the global health community seeks to, “ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all”, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Agenda, unreliable electricity in health facilities is one challenge that needs ...

A renewable energy transition may take different forms. It could, among other possibilities, follow a decentralized pathway where renewable energy is produced on a distributed manner which inherently leads to intermittency ...

Nature’s living ecosystems, which sustain all of us, are unravelling, and the world is changing at an unimaginable pace. There is an increasing urgency to move away from the commodification, desacralization and exploitation ...

Existing literature analyzing the spread of artisanal and small-scale mining highlights precarization and rising poverty in developing countries, generally as a consequence of neoliberal reforms,as the main drivers. Building ...

This thesis explores how women experience the chronic water scarcity in Lalitpur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and which role the ancient water supply system of the hitis play in their everyday lives. “Water, water, everywhere ...

This thesis is a qualitative study that discusses the intersections between nationalist agendas, nature politics, and contemporary rural transformations in Pallars Sobirà, a region in the Catalan Pyrenees. Applying ...

Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize ...

Wolves have been demonized and romanticized, feared and admired, figuring as barbaric intruders in some cultures and as kindred spirits in others. This thesis explores what wolves symbolize for different social groups in ...

This thesis is a theoretical examination of the problematic relationship between sustainability and the orthodoxy in economics disciplines and practice—characterized by neoclassical theories and assumptions. For this ...

The Tía Maria copper mine situated above the agricultural Tambo Valley, southwest Peru, has sparked nearly ten years of protracted conflict. This conflict began in 2009, yet Southern Copper Peru or Southern, a subsidiary ...

The major way in which IPES-Food seeks to achieve change is by preparing and widely disseminating reports on different aspects of the global food system, which are rigorous in both empirical and analytical terms. These ...

This article is an ethnographic contribution to ongoing debates on the consequences of heritagisation and touristification in the lived realities of World Heritage sites. Based on my doctoral research in Dubrovnik, Croatia, ...

There has been considerable attention in recent years on the close linkages between business, ethics, and economic development and how businesses not only have responsibilities to their shareholders but also to wider ...

Business has been involved in cooperation with multilateral organizations through public-private partnerships (PPPs) since the late 1990s. With their adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), multilateral ...

While growing rates of air-travel contributes to large amounts of global emissions – and a substantial part of the environmental footprints of those who fly – it has not yet been subject to strict environmental regulations. ...

In 2018, Brazilian authorities released a new policy plan for the planted forests sector. The plan’s discourse promoted planted forests for their environmental and climatic potential, despite its actual contents prioritizing ...

This thesis studies an on-going state-implemented climate-changed induced preventive resettlement process in the Peruvian Amazon, implemented as a risk reduction and adaptation strategy. The thesis examines the resettled ...

Colombia, now the fourth producer in terms of volume worldwide has experienced a sustained expansion of cultivated areas and production yields. Following policy incentives, access to markets and increasing international ...

Over the last decades, encouragement of business engagement with environmental and socio-economic development has gained prominence due to the perceived weakening of states and multilateral institutions against the forces ...

After Myanmar ended military rule in 2011, significant foreign investment arrived to facilitate a profitable transition to an integrated regional economy, and under the promise that foreign actors can help facilitate ...

The papers in this special issue provide accounts of the politics and knowledge that shaped the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The open and transparent processes in the Open Working Group (OWG) and Post‐2015 agenda ...

Global public-private partnerships for health and nutrition have proliferated since the 1990s—a trend raising important questions about authority and legitimacy in global governance. Yet within the fields of international ...

The article critically analyses how the transformative ambition of the SDGs may be threatened in the process of moving from vision, through goals and targets to indicators. This is exemplified by a case study concerning ...

Globally, the urban transport sector is facing a diversity of problems such as pollution, congestion, high energy dependency, and parking space shortage. Cycling is considered as a desirable means of transportation, which ...

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 ...

The world is currently facing an increasingly grave climate crisis and finding solutions will be a significant challenge to the modern world. The production and consumption of meat and its effect on the climate is becoming ...

Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts nearly universally expect to see rising tensions within (and between) countries in the next 5–20 years. Being able to predict ...

Abstract The overall objective of this thesis is to explore why it has taken so long to start commercial oil production in Uganda. The thesis is based on review of secondary literature supplemented by interviews carried ...

Despite emerging study of business initiatives that attempt to support local peace and development, we still have significant knowledge gaps on their effectiveness and efficiency. This article builds theory on business ...

In March 2017, Save the Children International complied with the reinstated Mexico City Policy, banning US funding to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that inform about, advocate for, or provide abortion ...

As intermediaries between donors and beneficiaries ‘local development brokers’ play a crucial role in shaping the implementation of development initiatives. They tie together different interests through acts of translation ...

In July 2015, Malawi’s Special Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion released a draft Termination of Pregnancy bill. If approved by Parliament, it will liberalize Malawi’s strict abortion law, expanding the ...

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 ...

Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this article I discuss the factors contributing to the drafting and approval of the forestry incentives law (PINPEP) in Guatemala. This is a remarkable law because (a) it is among the few in the country recognizing ...

Provision of safe abortion is widely recognized as vital to addressing the health and wellbeing of populations. Research on abortion is essential to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers in population ...

China is now a major actor in global development and wields considerable influence in large parts of the world. The success of the Chinese development model has not only challenged the notion that democracy is necessary ...

In urban environments, ‘chemical’ air pollution has long been of concern. Currently, ‘physical’ air pollution, in the form of excessive temperatures, is likely to impact public health even more, especially in cities with ...

At the time of writing this thesis, a group of asylum-seeking children often referred to as October children was turning 18 and facing deportation to Afghanistan as their temporary residence permits were about to expire. ...

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 ...

There is currently a struggle about land between indigenous people and farmers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The conflict has already caused deaths, and both sides point to the other as the instigator. This ...

Global health donors increasingly embrace international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) as partners, often relying on them to conduct political advocacy in recipient countries, especially in controversial policy ...

This thesis examines how solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been incorporated into the daily lives of residential households in Querétaro, Mexico. The dissemination of small-scale solar PV systems has rapidly increased ...