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Class conflicts and planning. A case study of contemporary development at King`s Cross in London
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis will research the urban development that will take place through the next decades atKing’s Cross in London. King’s Cross is located on the “edge” of City of London, and is 67 acresof ‘brownfield’ land close to ... -
Class, Status, Closure. The Petropolis and Cultural Life
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This thesis concerns the correspondence between relations of social class and relations of social status. Dating back to the early days of the social sciences, the debate about class and status has been revitalised in the ... -
Classification: Assumptions and Implications for Conceptual Modeling
(Doctoral thesis, 2005-05-13)Classification is generally held to be of fundamental importance to the analysis and design of software applications. This is clearly reflected in data modelling terminology, in which terms like classification, concept, ... -
Cleavage structures and school politics: a Rokkanian comparative-historical analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic andContinental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree ofcomprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary schoolsystems. It analyses how school ... -
Cleavages and Coalitions. Comprehensive School Reforms in Norway and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (1954-1979)
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This study examines comprehensive school reforms in Norway and the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the period from around 1954 to 1979 from a comparative-historical perspective. In both cases, great ... -
Cleavages and party systems in post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria
(Master thesis, 2008-11-20)This thesis examines the presence of cleavages and their effect on party systems in post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. By using logistic regression models, operationalisations of cleavages from different surveys ... -
Climate and Conflict: A logistic multilevel analysis of the relationship between climate variability and violent conflict
(Master thesis, 2020-06-24)In this thesis I investigate the link between climate variability and violent conflict. By applying an unconventional way of measuring conflict with regards to death toll based in contemporary climate-conflict literature, ... -
Climate and societal impacts in Scandinavia following the 536 and 540 CE volcanic double event
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In the Northern Hemisphere, the mid-6th century was one of the coldest periods of the last 2000 years, as indicated by both proxy records and Earth System Model (ESM) simulations. This cold period was initiated by volcanic ... -
Climate and society. A complex and conditional relationship
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-13)Too little rainfall causes human adaptation problems. Too much rainfall as well. The same isvalid for temperature. What makes people vulnerable to climate and what impacts can climatecause on society? Where lies the border ... -
Climate change adaptation processes seen through a resilience lens: Norwegian farmers’ handling of the dry summer of 2018
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Climate change and more frequent extreme weather events are expected to significantly challenge food production and food security worldwide, underlining the need for adaptation within the agricultural sector. Although ... -
Climate Change and New Approaches to Securing the Arctic: The Case Study of Canada
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Climate Change in the Islands and the Highlands: Melanesian Manifestations, Experiences and Actions
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Pacific Islanders have often been portrayed as ‘helpless victims’ in the popular media because they suffer the consequences of climate changes mainly caused by other, larger nations. In terms of media attention and sheer ... -
Climate Change Journalism in Bangladesh. Professional Norms and Attention in Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10-26)Generally, journalistic issue attention is shaped by the importance of the issue to the target audience and professional norms attached to the issue are supplied by journalists’ understanding of the issue derived from ... -
Climate change risk perceptions and the problem of scale: Evidence from cross-national survey experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ... -
Climate change: Challenging democracies, challenging parties
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-12-04)Climate change has emerged as the most prominent contemporary environmental issue, and poses several challenges to democratic processes. Democracies are struggling to integrate climate concern, and political parties attempt ... -
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 ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Climate-smart greenhouses and their impact on food security in Humla, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2017-06-23)With the basis in two villages in Humla, north-western Nepal, this thesis examined how greenhouses are affecting food security in a high mountainous area. The major focus was on the greenhouse project development in Humla ... -
Climatic variables determining Rhododendron sister taxa distributions and distributional overlaps in the Himalayas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Endemic species in mountains are vulnerable to rapid climate change. We elucidated distributional overlaps and related climatic variables for two endemic sister taxa of Rhododendron and a generalist with respect to current ... -
Close elections and turnout: The margin of victory and horseshoes in comparative perspective
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)More people decide to vote when the race is close than when it is not. This is arguably the most consistent finding in aggregate-level research on turnout. However, studies in recent years using multilevel analysis ...