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Understanding ‘night grazing’: Conservation governance, rural inequalities, and shifting responses ‘from above and below’ throughout the nychthemeron in Laikipia, Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Across much of eastern Africa, the land area coverage of private or otherwise non-state conservation areas is rapidly increasing. In Kenya, these trends have sparked renewed contestation and debate concerning the property ... -
Urban Flood Modelling and Road Network Vulnerability Assessment in Bergen
(Master thesis, 2020-06-24)Increased emissions of greenhouse gases have brought the world’s climate into a process of change. The oceans and atmosphere are warming up, which also initiates other negative consequences such as more severe urban floods. ... -
Urban freight – a matter of concern for cities? Assessing governance for sustainable freight in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-05-24)Godstransport er av stor betydning for byliv, men behandles ikke som en «sak av betydning» av offentlige myndigheter i samme grad som persontransport. Godstransport skaper flere utfordringer for byer, inkludert økte ... -
Urban planning and the smart city: Projects, practices and politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities ... -
Urban Sprawl and Congestion in The Hague: A System Dynamics Modeling Approach
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Urban sprawl and congestion have significant detrimental effects on society and on the environment (Hennig, et al., 2016; OECD, 2018), and the phenomenon is regarded as a major challenge for urban Europe (Uhel, 2006). This ... -
Using a water tank analogy to transform students’ intuitive knowledge of dynamic systems. A qualitative study of the case of motion
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-09)This dissertation is a study of the effects of a water tank analogy on students’ intuitive knowledge of basic dynamic systems of motion. Prior research from science education shows that student understandings of science ... -
Using collaborative hackathons to coproduce knowledge on local climate adaptation governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While coproduction of knowledge is growing in popularity in social sciences, and especially climate change research, we still need to better understand how to coproduce climate knowledge. In this paper, we explore how ... -
Using microworlds for policymaking in the context of resilient farming systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Resilience management of farming systems requires building an understanding of the underlying drivers of the adaptive capacity of the system. In this paper, we use the concept of resilience as a framework to understand how ... -
Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation problems: Tiger farming as a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Conservation practitioners routinely work within complex social-ecological systems to address threats facing biodiversity and to promote positive human-wildlife interactions. Inadequate understanding of the direct and ... -
Using System Dynamics to Explore Reasonable Assumptions in Business Model Generation
(Master thesis, 2020-09-02)This thesis uses system dynamics to critically examine the definitions and frameworks that govern our understanding of what a business model is and isn’t as well as how one should approach generating a business model for ... -
Using system dynamics to support a participatory assessment of resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-28)Resilience has emerged as a buzzword among researchers and practitioners. However, despite its popularity, there has been little progress in moving it from a metaphor to applied projects. While case study research is rich ... -
Using system dynamics to understand UMG customer purchasing patterns and the evolution of Myanmar's Jadeite industry
(Master thesis, 2012-06-29)This research draws on the system dynamics methodology to investigate, through a dynamic study of Myanmar's jadeite industry that goes from the year 2000 to 2022, the causes of fluctuating purchases of mining equipment at ... -
"Ut av Syn Ut av Sinn?": En studie av søppelhåndteringen i Bhaktapur, Nepal
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Utfordringer ved offentlig-privat nettverksstyring - et casestudie fra planleggingen rundt Damsgårdssundet, Bergen
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Utilsiktet spredning av fremmede arter ved massehåndtering i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2019-05-15)Spredning av fremmede arter er et økende problem i dagens globaliserte samfunn. En relativt ny problemstilling er fokuset på utilsiktet spredning av fremmede arter ved massehåndtering. Bergen kommune ønsker å bekjempe og ... -
Utopia Bergensis - Om utopiske fragmenter og perspektiver i byplanlegging i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2020-12-15)Denne oppgaven søker å undersøke og vise hvordan utopiske ideer og perspektiver er en del av i planlegging i Bergen. Dette er ideer som søker å håndtere drømmer, håp, forventninger og som evner å håndtere det ukjente i ... -
Utviklingstrender i kulturlandskapet langs sørfjorden i Hardanger etter 1960. Kartlegging og analyse ved bruk av fotogrammetri og GIS
(Master thesis, 2005)Oppgaven er knyttet til prosjektet ”Kulturlandskap i endring i Hardanger, Sogn og Nordfjord – konsekvensar for opplevingsturismen på Vestlandet”. Målsettingen for oppgaven er å kartlegge og analysere utviklingen i ... -
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are having unprecedented impacts on people’s lives around the world. In this paper, we argue that those conducting social research in the energy domain ... -
Valorization of side streams in the food supply chain: A case study of the adoption of misshapen produce in the Netherlands
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)In a context of increasing food insecurity, this thesis introduces a case study that evaluates adoption of misshapen produce by consumers as act to counteract food wastage. Apart from some separate events that report ... -
Variasjoner i stormaktivitet fra midt- til sein-holosen på Langøya, Vesterålen
(Master thesis, 2019-05-15)In this study, mid- to late Holocene storminess has been reconstructed from lacustrine sediments from Nøkktjønna. Nøkktjønna is situated 1,5 km from the shoreline at Fjærvoll on Langøya, Vesterålen in Northern Norway. ...