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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Nordic high-trust societies are underpinned by prosociality , a term denoting cooperation and working for the good of others. State-funded voluntarism provides opportunities for altruism that appears to contribute to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Artificial intelligence is likely to undermine the anthropocentrism of humanism, the master narrative that undergirds the modern world. Humanity will need a new story to structure our beliefs and cooperation around. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Whether, and how, enterprises can contribute to enhancing peace is heavily debated, but some scholars claim that enterprises can play a beneficial role in promoting peace and stability in areas with institutional and social ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A central theme in global governance is the ongoing diffusion of power and authority from nation states to a myriad of non-governmental actors. While private and civil society actors have always influenced policy, they are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The present study undertakes a critical analysis of the vegetable supply chain in Bangladesh, with a specific emphasis on the intermediaries' role, the impact of neoliberal and neopatrimonial policies, and the capacity of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the transformative potential of citizens’ assemblies on climate change (climate assemblies). Citizens’ assemblies are a type of ‘deliberative mini-public’: a body of randomly selected citizens that ...
From Documents to Dairies: The Emerging Role of Livestock Veterinarians in the Multispecies Health Issue of Antimicrobial Resistance Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Matters of health and care in the age of the Anthropocene blur divisions between humans and our nonhuman companions, inciting new ways of understanding and managing this intense interspecies traffic. This thesis investigates ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The transition towards a sustainable, low-carbon and resource-efficient global economy will require huge amounts of investments, and private finance is increasingly singled out as the solution. But in contrast to the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Meat production and consumption have been linked to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, loss of biodiversity, human health concerns, and animal welfare issues. Accordingly, individuals have been called upon to eat less ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Agriculture is the mainstay of most of the developing countries like Nepal that has significant contribution to food availability, poverty alleviation and rural employment. A number of research and United Nations reports ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In Norway, a green industrial shift is underway, and batteries are framed by some as a key technology to enable the “green transition”. In this domain, a story of the Norwegian battery industry as a new industrial adventure ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated in the regions’ literature and cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated the West’s First Sexual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the literature on food and ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
From its very incipient form, the environmental critique of ‘development’ understood as modernization, industrialization and economic growth, was accompanied by a critique of the state as a modernizing actor. The main ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
It is increasingly recognized that climate change mitigation will require fundamental changes to societal systems, also known as societal transformations. This thesis explores local perceptions of and engagement with climate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Island of Hawai’i, this thesis explores human- landscape relations through engagement with coffee farming practices. By exploring relations between the past, present, human and nonhuman, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The broiler industry is a key driver of the enormous growth in meat production and consumption across the world. Currently, a global outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is wreaking havoc on commercial ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis discusses potential measures to mitigate CO2-emissions presented in two Norwegian newspapers, Aftenposten and Klassekampen, in 2021. Aftenposten is considered mainstream and conservative, and Klassekampen a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Outdoor sports consumption is rapidly growing in Norway, where sports, nature, and society are intricately intertwined. While these pursuits offer opportunities for experiencing connecting with nature, they also entail the ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Public administrative action is crucial in facilitating sustainability transitions. Although organizational structures, cultures and established practices have been shown to lead to differing innovation results and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The way we relate to our food has changed. From knowing and practicing food production, it is now brought to us from distant places with little information about its origins. The modern industrial food system alienates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
In this article, we explore the contexts and appearances of what we argue is a Norwegian version of the Green Man – the Glibb – in vernacular settings. We also discuss the figure’s possible meanings in Norwegian secular ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This paper presents the results from a qualitative research project in Norway on a forthcoming change in electricity grid tariffs. As a form of Demand Side Management to avoid capacity constraints in the grid, the ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Skal vi ha høyere formueskatt? Hvordan bør en overgang til et lavutslippssamfunn foregå? Når forskeres møter slike spørsmål, noe de ofte gjør, møter de samtidig et annet, nemlig hvor langt de kan gå i retning av å ytre ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A new wave of encroachments is unfolding in Northern Sweden on the lands of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralists. Even if the State and corporations may accept that landscape transformations represent threats to reindeer ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on importing raw materials for low-carbon infrastructures from around the globe. This material dependence has, since 2019, initiated legislation and efforts to intensify mining ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract The World Economic Forum is a major player in global health governance, promoting the role of the private sector and specific public–private partnerships (PPPs). It exerts influence in three main ways: by exercising ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Antonio López de Santa Anna is one of the most well-known yet misunderstood figures in North American history. His periods of rule in the mid-nineteenth century helped bring Mexico its independence, lost Mexico nearly half ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis surveys knowledges about sustainable dwelling in Oslo. Crises of homelessness, displacement, extermination, and extinction are unjustly affecting, hurting, and killing humans and non-humans all over this planet. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
As old as industrialism or civilization itself, socio-ecological problems are nothing new. Despite all efforts to resolve environmental dilemmas, socio-ecological catastrophe has only intensified. Governments, in response, ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Deterioration and absence of bureaucracy: The situation of public employees in Venezuela from a state capacity perspective
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic had severe impacts in Latin America, with small businesses intensely affected. Beyond its economic consequences, the pandemic also exacerbated structural flaws in some of the region's weakly ...
(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. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article aims to explore the expansion of capitalism among Argentine farmers in a historical perspective in the light of view of the recent soy boom.
First it draws attention to the soy boom, focusing on the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Dette kapittelet introduserer boken Formidlende omstendigheter og gir en overordnet beskrivelse av bokens formål og innretning. Kapittelet setter spørsmålstegn ved en utbredt oppfatning om at forskningskommunikasjon først ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Dette kapittelet tar utgangspunkt i en utbredt fortelling om forholdet mellom forskning og samfunn, der det heter at vitenskapen er i krise, og at forskere derfor må «kommunisere mer», for på den måten å sikre forskningens ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Sorghum is an important crop in the livelihoods of Kunama and Tigrayan farmers in Northern Ethiopia and we present here a study of what factors have shaped the genetic diversity of the varieties cultivated in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Large corporations and financial institutions have come to the realization that they can no longer ignore the twin emergencies of nature and climate crises. In this thesis, I investigate the Taskforce on Nature-related ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The stories told in media shape how we perceive of the world, and in doing so, they play a significant part in determining whose worlds are allowed to exist and expand (or "grow"), and whose are to be eradicated. The social ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This master’s thesis compares bottom-up strategies of climate activism and top-down ‘green’ urban development strategies in Oslo, aiming to examine the city’s environmental identity and reputation as a frontrunner for ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In the postmodern 1990s, LGBT families were portrayed as pioneers for new family forms and processes of individualization. The queer viewpoint was that of a socially beneficial vanguard that could help liberate everyone ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
It remains a consistent problem within academia, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, that theory and practice are at odds. This also rings true regarding degrowth solutions to the environmental and social ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article proposes an evolutionary model for well-being informed by multilevel selection. We posit that people’s subjective assessment of their own quality of life is the sum their happiness, which is related to individual ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The article explores the impact of one of the deadliest disasters in the twentieth century, the East Pakistan cyclone of 1970, also known as the Great Bhola Cyclone, on the first-ever general election held in united Pakistan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A deregulated and global economy poses several challenges for the realization of human rights. Human rights due diligence (‘HRDD’) is today considered a key tool for companies and states to conceptualize and operationalize ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In August of 2021, the announcement that the borders of the Dana Biosphere Reserve would be redrawn to facilitate copper exploration caused national controversy in Jordan. Whereas mining actors centred the potential for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
During a period of pro-independence mass mobilizations and diminishing financial confidence, the government of Catalonia attached a traditional idea of the rural household to its market in public debt. This article analyzes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The global norm setting Agenda 2030 has revived the inclusive development concept. Sustainable development has become a consensus building term without legal recourse to address the structural barriers to inequality in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In the Arctic, indigenous reindeer herding peoples rely on a pastoralist food and knowledge system that supplies them with protein, vitamins, and minerals. Reindeer pastoralism is a product of the interaction between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
In 2021, donor countries, the pharmaceutical industry, and the COVAX initiative promoted vaccine donation or “dose-sharing” as a main solution to the inequitable global distribution of Covid-19 ...
(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, ...
(Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2022)
This thesis explores understanding and manifestation of a feminist theory “Intersectionality” in a popular gender equality framework called “GESI” (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) by development and humanitarian aid ...
Attitudes Toward Growth in the Norwegian Transport Sector. An explorative study on the whereabouts of degrowth and other alternatives to the growth-omertá Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Viral Nature: Exploring non-profit social media use during the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What could make virality relevant to the non-profit sector? Technological advancements can now produce large amounts of information, and gaining attention in digital spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. Furthermore, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract This thesis is an extensive analysis of the dynamic migratory process of Romania with a focus on return migration from Norway, and the sociocultural changes that it involves for Romanian migrants and their home ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Drawing on a qualitative case study of consumers involved in community-supported agriculture farms in Norway, this article applies social practice theory to understand pro-environmental behaviour transformation in relation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
We analyse whether and how current municipal climate policies can be characterised as transformative and which factors and pathways may lead to transformative change at the municipal level. Based on 13 in-depth case studies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The successful protection and promotion of human rights depend on a healthy environment. Environmental degradation and climate change adversely affect the enjoyment of virtually all human rights. While ecological concerns ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The European Green Belt is a strip of protected land spanning 12.500 kilometers through Europe, along the line of what used to be the Iron Curtain, which separated Western and Eastern European ideologies. Today, 24 countries ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis examines policymaking for sustainable development in Australia. It specifically focuses on climate change policy at the federal and state levels by examining how the coal mining industry has managed to continue ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
After the Second World War, modernisation processes such as the industrialisation of agriculture transformed the Norman bocage, a landscape defined by hedgerow networks. In order to keep up with the living landscape evolving ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Este artículo analiza las reacciones políticas “top-down” de la empresa minera Southern Copper Perú y del gobierno peruano a la oposición popular frente a un proyecto minero de cobre, situado sobre el valle agrícola de ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
As a response to ongoing climate change challenges, the world is increasingly transitioning to low-carbon societies with increased use of renewable energy sources. Because Norway’s power system primarily consists of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Abstract The environmental impact associated with the petroleum industry is pervasive and expansive. Anthropological climate change and pollution are some of the impacts associated with the petroleum industry. Petroleum ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Jaguars are one of Mexico’s most iconic species. They are ecologically crucial and charismatic animals that inform conservation strategies. This thesis examines jaguar conservation programmes in Southern Mexico, the region ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks, amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a recent wealth of research across varied fields. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to previously settled everyday routines, prompting a period of forced experimentation as people have adjusted to rapid changes in their private and working lives. For discussions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Around a third of Tanzanians light their homes with solar electricity. Foreign companies are building on the popularity and availability of solar to ‘leapfrog’ the classic state led mains electricity grid infrastructure ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This special issue focuses on a trend that appears to run counter to the recent fascination with scaled-down solutions to world problems. From the predictive powers of Big Data in Kenya to market-driven humanitarian attempts ...
(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 ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male ‘brother’ layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article focuses on how Chinese state actors understand the concept of sustainable development and implement policies for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We examine the concept ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article examines conflicting conceptualizations of the human subject in political ecology and geography: Foucauldian views of “subject-making” and Gramscian views of “the person”. While Foucauldian work holds that the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Spin, hyperbole, meaningless buzzwords, and technocratic jargon have become increasingly common in global health discourse. They are part of a broader phenomenon labelled “global health nonsense”
Three main forms of global ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Social movements have been essential in constructing the foundations of the Norwegian democracy and welfare society. Owing to collective actions in the 20th century the living conditions, education, welfare, rights, and ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article investigates how Xinka indigeneity disrupts the dominant order in Guatemala. Our analysis below focus on Xinka politics in a Rancièrian sense. Our main objective is to understand how, and to what extent, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This article critically examines the GND (Green New Deal) platform by exploring the reality of energy development under the European Green Deal (EGD). Taking a special interest in degrowth positions on energy development, ...