• The Pandemic as a Rupture that Follows Rules: Comparing Governance Responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway 

  Sareen, Siddharth; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Oskarsson, Patrik; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ...

• E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen 

  Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and ...

• A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo 

  Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen (Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)

  Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ...

• Locally-Procured Fish Is Essential in School Feeding Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Ahern, Molly B.; Thilsted, Shakuntala Haraksingh; Kjellevold, Marian; Overå, Ragnhild; Toppe, Jogeir; Doura, Michele; Kalaluka, Edna; Wismen, Bendula; Vargas, Melisa; Franz, Nicole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Fish make an important contribution to micronutrient intake, long-chained polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFAS), and animal protein, as well as ensuring food and nutrition security and livelihoods for fishing ...

• Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Case examples and priority information needs 

  Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma C.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Thornton, Philip K.; Jones, Andrew D.; Parsons, David; Garrett, James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Analyses of food security with agricultural systems models often focus on indicators of food availability, with limited treatment of the other three dimensions: food access, stability and utilization. We illustrate how ...

• Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements 

  Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma C.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Jones, Andrew D.; Parsons, David; Garrett, James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Improvement of food security is a common objective for many agricultural systems analyses, but how food security has been conceptualized and evaluated within agricultural systems has not been systematically evaluated. We ...

• Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation problems: Tiger farming as a case study 

  Rieder, Erica; Larson, Lincoln; 't Sas-Rolfes, Michael; Kopainsky, Birgit (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 ...

• Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study 

  Lindqvist, Andreas; Fornell, Rickard; Prade, Thomas; Tufvesson, Linda; Khalil, Sammar; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Ensuring sustainable management and an adequate supply of freshwater resources is a growing challenge around the world. Even in historically water abundant regions climate change together with population growth and economic ...

• Anchovy powder enrichment in brown rice-based instant cereal: a process optimization study using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) 

  Akonor, Paa T.; Atter, Amy; Owusu, Margaret; Ampah, Jonathan; Andoh-Odoom, Anthonia; Overå, Ragnhild; Kjellevold, Marian; Pucher, Johannes; Kolding, Jeppe (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  There is a need for expanding the utilization of small fish as they constitute an undervalued and important source of protein and micronutrients in many developing countries suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. One ...

• En forbruksbasert tilnærming til klimaomstilling 

  Hegsbro, Kjersti Sollund (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

  Norske kommuner har tradisjonelt fokusert på å redusere de direkte utslippene som fysisk slippes ut innenfor deres geografiske område (produksjonsbasert tilnærming), i tråd med både nasjonale og internasjonale forpliktelser. ...

• A system dynamics approach to study the state of U.S. roads: validation of dynamic hypothesis 

  Jaiswar, Sanjeet Kumar (Master thesis, 2021-08-26)

  The United States of America which has the world’s biggest road network, is falling behind when it comes to the condition of roads. The 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure found the nation’s road infrastructure ...

• Population dynamic modeling to further improve the understanding of the impact of the level of the Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants (PIKE) on elephant populations at a Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) site in Kenya. 

  Frigyik, Sandor Erno (Master thesis, 2021-08-17)

  Elephants play an important role in ecosystem function and help maintain suitable habitats for many other species as well as maintain ecosystem health. However, African Elephant populations have declined by 60% over the ...

• Maternal Mortality and Choice of Birth Attendants in Kenya A system dynamic Approach 

  Kiprono, Faith (Master thesis, 2021-08-13)

• Automatic detection of rock glaciers from very-high resolution satellite imagery using convolutional neural networks and object-based image analysis 

  Aguera, Márk (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

• Rekonstruksjon av samspillet mellom bre- og havnivåfluktuasjoner under deglasiasjonen ved Renså i Tjeldsund, Nord-Norge 

  Hansen, Halvor Norendal (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

  I denne studien er bre- og havnivåfluktuasjoner i Rensådalen i Tjeldsund kommune, Troms og Finnmark under siste fase av deglasiasjonen etter siste istid rekonstruert. Arbeidet ble gjort gjennom kvartærgeologisk kartlegging, ...

• Natur i endring: Skogekspansjon og gjengroing i et kystlandskap over 70 år - En studie i Isdalen, Bergen kommune 

  Lund, Carl William (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

  Flere steder i Norge og verden er det observert at skog- og tregrenser har ekspandert gjennom de siste 100 årene. Spesielt alpine områder har vært mye undersøkt, mens kystlandskapet til dels er blitt neglisjert. Målet for ...

• Midt- til sein-holosen stormvariabilitet ved Lista, Sør-Noreg, basert på transport og sedimentasjon av flygesand i lakustrine sediment 

  Froastad, Mari (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

  I denne studia er stormvariabilitet rekonstruert frå midt- til sein-holosen (5500 kal. år BP) til i dag ved Lista i Sør-Noreg. Rekonstruksjonen tek utgangspunkt i ei rekkje høgoppløyselege analysar av ei UVITEC-kjerne (111 ...

• The role of systematic reviews in the system dynamics modelling process 

  Aguiar Rodriguez, Anaely (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Scalar Containment of Energy Justice and Its Democratic Discontents: Solar Power and Energy Poverty Alleviation 

  Nordholm, Amber Joy; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The threats climate change poses require rapid and wide decarbonization efforts in the energy sector. Historically, large-scale energy operations, often instrumental for a scaled and effective approach to meet decarbonization ...

• A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development 

  Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn; Wågsæther, Katinka; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  In their article on ‘sociotechnical matters’, Hess and Sovacool (2020) draw on extant STS scholarship to unpack ‘the black box’ of sociotechnical contributions to social science studies of energy. Notably absent in their ...

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