Browsing Department of Geography by Issue Date
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Planning to transform : Exploring the role of climate and energy action plans in municipal low-carbon transformation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-18)The point of departure of the present thesis is to understand local efforts towards low-carbon societies from the point of view of municipalities. Both the theoretical and empirical focus is placed on the municipality as ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-11)Firm value creation and maximization is the primary objective of any firm and the most debated issue in corporate finance. Firms operate in the market to create value for the stakeholders. Valuation plays its role in many ... -
Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Healthcare is complex with multi-professional staff and a variety of patient care pathways. Time pressure and minimal margins for errors, as well as tension between hierarchical power and the power of the ... -
Household Vulnerability to Flood Disasters among Tharu Community, Western Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Monsoon floods are frequent in the Tarai region of Nepal and claim thousands of lives and substantial numbers of properties every year. Certain human activities are more affected than others in the case of the same hazard. ... -
Who is “The Child”? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While the substantiation of “best interests” has received much attention, the question of how “the child” is conceptualised to ensure any action taken or decision made is in the particular child’s best interests has been ... -
Applying a systems perspective to understand the mechanisms of the European School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background For the past two decades, the percentage of European children who consume fruit daily has remained at around 40%, despite numerous school-based policy efforts and interventions. This study aimed to apply a ... -
Age, origin and palaeoclimatic implications of peri- and paraglacial boulder-dominated landforms in Rondane, South Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Boulder-dominated landforms of periglacial, paraglacial and related origin constitute a valuable, but often unexplored source of palaeoclimatic and morphodynamic information. The timing of landform development initiation ... -
Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)There is a consensus that climate factors strongly influence species richness along elevation gradients, but which factors are crucial and how they operate are still elusive. Here, we assess the relative importance of ... -
Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust ... -
How do cities challenge patterns of demand? Characterising the local governance of climate change in Nordic cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Meeting international climate targets will require deep and rapid shifts in urban demand patterns. While the literature has emphasized the role played by cities in the response to climate change, it remains unclear whether ... -
Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Biofuels are currently the only available bulk renewable fuel. They have, however, limited expansion potential due to high land requirements and associated risks for biodiversity, food security, and land conflicts. We ... -
Adaptation, exposure, and politics: Local extreme heat and global climate change risk perceptions in the phoenix metropolitan region, USA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Cities around the planet are facing climate change risks including (but not limited to) extreme heat, drought, wildfire, and flooding. Urbanites perceptions of the risks posed by climate change influence communities' ... -
Conceptual Framework for Modeling Dynamic Complexities in Produced Water Management
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This research addresses a gap in the produced water management (PWM) literature by providing a conceptual framework to describe the connections of PWM to regional water budgets. We use southeastern New Mexico as a case ... -
Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives and collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing ... -
Modeling reverse auction-based subsidies and stormwater fee policies for Low Impact Development (LID) adoption: a system dynamics analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract Many urban areas around the world are facing increasing pressure on stormwater management systems due to urbanization and extreme weather events caused by climate change. Low impact development (LID), including ... -
Climate resilience and the human-water dynamics. The case of tomato production in Morocco
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In Morocco, droughts are an increasing threat affecting water availability, agricultural production and producers' livelihoods. Moreover, water demand for irrigation has led to overexploitation of the groundwater table ... -
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 ... -
Predicting Species and Structural Diversity of Temperate Forests with Satellite Remote Sensing and Deep Learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Anthropogenically-driven climate change, land-use changes, and related biodiversity losses are threatening the capability of forests to provide a variety of valuable ecosystem services. The magnitude and diversity of these ... -
Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Sustainability certification has been posited as a key governance mechanism to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Whilst many certifications now include climate resilience in their standards, their ... -
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 ...