Browsing Department of Geography by Issue Date
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Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land-use changes
(Ecological Society of America, 2018-01-10)Compositional changes in Himalayan vegetation in response to the major drivers of biodiver- sity loss, climate change and land-use change, are barely documented. We quantify temporal changes in the alpine vegetation of ...Journal article -
Linking the bottom-up and top-down evolution of regional innovation systems to policy: organizations, support structures and learning processes
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The literature is ambiguous about whether regional innovation systems (RIS) evolve bottom-up or top-down. This is reflected in RIS policies, which tend to focus on either development of the actor level, i.e. organizations ...Journal article -
Kvartærgeologisk kartlegging og estimert alder på brefremstøt ved Litlelangdalen og Berilldalen (Valldalen), indre Sunnmøre
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-21)Målet med denne masteroppgaven har vært å rekonstruere deglasiasjonshistorien i områdene rundt Litlelangdalen og Berilldalen, ved indre strøk av Sunnmøre. Denne rekonstruksjonen er hovedsakelig gjort ved hjelp av ...Master thesis -
Large-Scale Sugarcane Ethanol Production and Its Implications to Ethiopia: A System Dynamics Approach
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-21)Ethiopia imports oil products for its fuel requirements, and the demand for fuel is rapidly increasing. Research indicates that imported fuel accounts for the lion‟s share of the total import expenditure and absorbs much ...Master thesis -
System Dynamic Study of Nepalese Labors Migration Trend to Malaysia
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-19)This thesis deals about the dynamic of the migratory trend of Nepalese labors from Nepal to Malaysia. Though the remittances contribute significantly to Nepal’s national domestic product (GDP), the higher rate of labor ...Master thesis -
System Dynamics Modelling for hidden family homelessness - A case study in Fort Collins, Colorado
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-19)Family homelessness is a long-lasting social problem and causes widespread concerns in the United States and throughout the world. Substantial efforts have been made to lift the homeless families out of the vulnerable ...Master thesis -
Food System Dynamics and Food Insecurity in Humla, Nepal Himalaya
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-14)This study examines the challenges underlying food security of the Himalayan smallholder farmers focusing on three interrelated dimensions: the impact of multiple environmental and socio-economic stressors on food system, ...Doctoral thesis -
Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-07)For decades, extractive industry developments have had direct and indirect impacts on indigenous communities in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. Yet, in a seemingly paradoxical manner and despite massive negative attention, ...Doctoral thesis -
20th century Betula pubescens subsp. czerepanovii tree- and forest lines in Norway
(Pensoft, 2017-11-23)Background: Georeferenced tree- and forest line data has a wide range of applications and are increasingly used for e.g. monitoring of climate change impacts and range shift modelling. As part of a research project, ...Journal article -
The Dynamics of Food Availability in sub-Saharan Africa: An Endogenous Perspective on Food Production Systems
(The University of Bergen, 2017-11-18)Food insecurity is a major challenge of our time: In 2015, 795 million people suffered from hunger worldwide. The eradication of hunger remains a target of high-level policy programs such as the United Nations’ ...Doctoral thesis -
An Ensemble Model for Co-Seismic Landslide Susceptibility Using GIS and Random Forest Method
(MDPI, 2017-11-16)The Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered thousands of landslides in the central part of the Nepal Himalayas. The main goal of this study was to generate an ensemble-based map of co-seismic landslide ...Journal article -
Fuzzy Logic Decision Making in Supply Chain Systems; An Approach to Mitigate the Bullwhip Effect
(The University of Bergen, 2017-11-01)The bullwhip effect has been known and existed for many years as an undesirable characteristic in supply chain. This phenomenon negatively impacts the performance of supply chain particularly in keeping stable inventory ...Master thesis -
Nye og gamle identiteter på Straume: en stedsanalyse
(The University of Bergen, 2017-10-27)Master thesis -
"I Need Some Space!" - Combining Digital and Traditional Methods in the Planning of Public Open Space
(The University of Bergen, 2017-10-06)This thesis explores the use of multiple methods, or triangulation, in the planning of public open space (POS). The focus is on how the Space Syntax method of integration analysis can be combined with other GIS methods, ...Master thesis -
Transforming food systems at local levels: using participatory system dynamics in an interactive manner to refine small-scale farmers’ mental models
(Elsevier, 2017-10)Food systems will need to undergo considerable transformation. To be better prepared for and resilient to uncertainty and disturbances in the future, resource users and managers need to further develop knowledge about the ...Journal article -
Synthetic data analysis by way of system dynamics. A corporate case
(The University of Bergen, 2017-09-20)An organization can be seen as a system that is a collection of subsystems integrated to achieve set of desired goals. Policies within the business organization are decision rules proposed based on strategy developers´ ...Master thesis -
A comparative, simulation supported study on the diffusion of battery electric vehicles in Norway and Sweden
(The University of Bergen, 2017-08-29)We are living at a point in history where global cost dynamics and specific political choices may lead to an integral transformation of the mobility system as we know it. After a century where the internal combustion engine ...Master thesis -
Modelling the Socio-Economic Benefits of the Adoption of Climate Information: An Innovative Approach to Subsistence Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change in Garu-Tempane District, Ghana
(The University of Bergen, 2017-08-29)Decreasing average crop yield resulting mainly from variability and changes in climatic conditions continues to worsen food insecurity and the already low incomes of subsistence farmers in the Garu-Tempane District, Ghana. ...Master thesis -
Sustainable development in the Lower Mekong Basin Cambodia
(The University of Bergen, 2017-08-23)Dette er en model som simulerer sosiale, økologiske og økonomiske konsekvenser av vannkraft utbygging i Mekong regionen i Kambodsja. Modellen er basert på Systemdynamikk og er bygget i programvaren Vensim fra Ventana ...Master thesis -
The dynamics of female labour force participation: How family policy influences women's work behaviour
(The University of Bergen, 2017-08-23)Female labour force participation (FLFP) in the UK has stagnated in recent decades in spite of policies that have tried to increase the number of women in the labour force. This thesis uses system dynamics to investigate ...Master thesis
