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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)This chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)In an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Europe is making strides to achieve the electrification of its economy and society. Batteries are considered a critical instrument in accomplishing this electrification, making ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Deterioration and absence of bureaucracy: The situation of public employees in Venezuela from a state capacity perspective
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Summary While obesity prevention represents an established field of research, the inclusion of young people, who are regularly cited as an important priority group, are rarely actioned in long‐term studies. This paper ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis looks at Parque 3 de Febrero and Parque Las Heras in Buenos Aires in an attempt to establish the role of public greenspace in ‘modernizing’ a city. Rather than looking at modernity as a stagnant collection of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)How does the discovery of the mausoleum of Herod the Great in the West Bank relate to Jewish Neo-Zionist territorial claims? What are the connections between agricultural farms and social exclusion? And why is it so difficult ...
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Development and Wellbeing: The Relationship between Hydropower Development in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in China and the Wellbeing of the Local PopulationRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis studies the relationship between the ecosystem services of the Nujiang Valley in Yunnan province in south-west China and the wellbeing of the local population, and how this relationship will be influenced by ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Digital and data-driven technologies are increasingly being deployed in healthcare systems around the world, and used by individuals seeking to improve their health. Major global health institutions, from the WHO to the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Across East Africa, mobile phones and tablets are increasingly sitting in the hands of community health workers, clinicians, managers and patients. They are being used for a widening range of functions from diagnostics to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Throughout the last decades, results-based management (RBM) and capacity building (CB) of civil society organizations have become more important parts of Norwegian development assistance. Despite increased efforts of RBM, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Inspired by research on rural sustainability and development in China, this thesis presents a case study on The Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project (LPP), a state-led, World Bank-funded environmental improvement ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)During the past decades, reduced disaster mortality, efficient evacuations in the face of storms and climate change advocacy earned Bangladesh a reputation as a global leader within disaster risk reduction (DRR). From a ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis is a case study based on the urban development project Harstadpakken . It seeks to 1) identify leading discourse or discourses in the projects planning documents and how this, or these discourses influence the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Oil’s importance in the global economy cannot be overlooked. Gas, diesel and petrol, which are by-products of oil, fuel transportation globally, and allow for the free movement of goods and people. Revenue from oil is also ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Food insecurity is a major global problem, affecting millions of people, especially in developing countries. Although food insecurity is considered solvable, various development strategies have failed to ensure food security ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Excessive meat consumption is associated with environmental, ethical and public health concerns. Substituting meat with plant-based alternatives has been located as a key strategy for consumers to reduce their meat intake. ...