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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In 2013, the Norwegian Armed Forces decided to introduce a meat reduction scheme in its military mess halls, for both health reasons and environmental concerns. This article explores Norwegian soldiers' reactions to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Rural livelihoods relying on agriculture are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Climate models project increasingly negative effects on maize and sorghum production in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background: Maize is the most produced crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, but yields are low and climate change is projected to further constrain smallholder production. The current efforts to breed and disseminate new high ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The MMR – maternal mortality ratio – has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite ...
(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 ...
(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” ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
A common conclusion of studies on Central America’s democracies and political economy is that the weakness of institutions and the strength of elites are a main reason for the region’s problems. Recently, a set of studies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an ...