Department of Geography: Recent submissions
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Knowledge, Technology Transfer and the Third Mission of Universities : A mixed method approach investigating innovation ecosystems, collaboration projects and technology transfer offices
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-27)Sammendrag Målet med med denne avhandlingen er å kunne gi mer og bedre innsikt i den kunnskap- og teknologioverføring som skjer i universiteter og andre offentlige forskningsinstitusjoner innenfor innovasjonsøkosystemer. ... -
Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these global policies and the norms that surround them are used by various political actors seeking to advance their own agendas. ... -
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 ... -
Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Stable water isotopes from polar ice cores are invaluable high-resolution climate proxy records. Recent studies have aimed to improve our understanding of how the climate signal is stored in the stable water isotope record ... -
EDI in Singapore: emerging issues with sexual and gender minorities and people living with HIV
(Chapter, 2022)Diversity management had always been at the forefront of Singapore's social and economic policies. Over the last half a century, a slew of legislation, social and economic policies aimed at maintaining harmony and ensuring ... -
Standards and Certifications for Services. A conceptual overview and typology of standards and certifications
(Chapter, 2023)The Encyclopedia of Services is a ground-breaking resource that offers a unique overview of what constitutes the main source of wealth and employment in our contemporary economies, namely services. This title contains one ... -
Nature-based solutions through collective actions for spatial justice in urban green commons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Urban climate adaptation through nature-based solutions (NBS) requires collective action that incorporates spatial justice considerations. Collective actions reveal new ways of thinking about urban green commons and spatial ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reflecting on factors influencing long-lasting organisational effects of group model-building interventions
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High species turnover and low intraspecific trait variation in endemic and non-endemic plant species assemblages on an oceanic island
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Questions Both species turnover and intraspecific trait variation can affect plant assemblage dynamics along environmental gradients. Here, we asked how community assemblage patterns in relation to species turnover and ...