Department of Geography
Recent Submissions
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The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones, Three GIS scenarios for 20 jurisdictions in the western and central Pacific region
(Master thesis, 2020-12-18)Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) are maritime territories that extend 200 nautical miles from a country’s coastline. They mandate sovereign rights over all the natural resources. For Pacific island states, these zones support ... -
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 ... -
Fortetting eller jordvern? En casestudie av håndteringen av bærekraftmålets iboende motsetninger
(Master thesis, 2020-12-11)Flere mål og utfordringer fra nasjonalt, regionalt og lokalt hold nås og håndteres gjennom arealplanlegging. Det overordnede målet med arealplanleggingen i Norge er å fremme bærekraftig utvikling, men på grunn av begrepets ... -
Flexible adaptation in Himalayan small-scale farming : Subsistence production, gender relations, and adaptive capacity under climatic and market uncertainty in Nepal
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-20)Climate change imposes new challenges for small-scale farmers in Nepal by adding climatic uncertainty to the existing natural climate variability, and by disturbing food production systems and food markets. In conjunction ... -
Loops that Matter
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-06)Understanding the origins of behavior in time dependent, non-linear, dynamic mathematical systems with feedback is of critical importance for doing causally accurate science. The modern-day formal methods of loop dominance ... -
A case study on The Vicious Cycle of Food Insecurity in Small-scale Farmer Households in Zambia
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Modeling the Impact of Big Data Analysis Investments on the Dynamics of Customer Acquisition: A Case Study of Telecommunication Sector in the United States
(Master thesis, 2020-09-02)In the age of data explosion, many firms are heavily investing in big data and big data analytics (BDA) without being able to anticipate how much value they will receive. Thus, there is a growing body of research that has ... -
Energy Conservation Through Applying an Energy Management System (EnMS) ISO 50001
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)This Thesis a study of how the reduce Co2 emissions and electricity consumption by applying management methodology and adopting energy management systems (EnMS) ISO 50001 in industrial sectors as a way to reduce energy ... -
A System Dynamics Study on Uneven Distribution of Doctors in Nepal: Rural Vs. Urban
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Understanding Credit Crunch of 2018: A System Dynamics Study of Nepalese Banking Sector
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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 ... -
How wearing a mask and practicing physical ( social ) distancing is changing the shape of Covid-19 pandemics spread curve in Serbia? System Dynamics analysis
(Master thesis, 2020-09-01)Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, emerged in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China, in early December 2019. During the time of writing these lines, numbers of infected ... -
Boligeierne og marginalene - en studie av de ikke-kommersielle boliginitiativene til Tøyen Boligbyggelag og Oslobyrådet
(Master thesis, 2020-08-14)Dette er en casestudie som omhandler to ikke-kommersielle boliginitiativer i Oslo. Det ene er grasrotinitiativet Tøyen Boligbyggelag (TBBL), det andre er er et initiativ fra det rødgrønne byrådet i Oslo, og begge ønsker å ... -
Health Behaviour Theories and the Norwegian response to COVID-19: a System Dynamics Modeling approach
(Master thesis, 2020-08-12)The aim of this work is to investigate the coupled dynamics between infection and behavioural response at the population level in the case of the novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in Norway. For this purpose, a System ... -
Monitoring and risk assessment for groundwater sources in rural communities of Romania (GROUNDWATERISK)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In the past 100 years, a decreasing rainfall trend has been recorded on Romanian territory, a trend that continues today. Therefore, realistic estimation of the groundwater resources is crucial, especially for the rural ... -
A different way of eating ¨Beef vs Chicken¨
(Master thesis, 2020-07-14)