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Smart Electricity Grid with Real Time Pricing (RTP): An Alternative to Fixed Electricity Pricing In the Ghana Electricity Market
(Master thesis, 2017-06-28)Electricity pricing has been identified as a major cause of the shortfall in power supply in Ghana. End user electricity prices are fixed for long period and do not reflect the marginal cost of generating electricity with ... -
Smart gridlock? Challenging hegemonic framings of mitigation solutions and scalability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-05)Urban energy transitions are key components of urgently requisite climate change mitigation. Promissory discourse accords smart grids pride of place within them. We employ a living lab to study smart grids as a solution ... -
Smart Price. A Dynamic Way to Reduce Load Shedding in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2018-06-19)This thesis is a study of how the fixed price in Bangladesh electricity systems causing load shedding. the unstable supply of electricity is hindering the normal progressions of socio economic developments of Bangladesh. ... -
Social and technical differentiation in smart meter rollout: embedded scalar biases in automating Norwegian and Portuguese energy infrastructure
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Within the energy geographies debate on the uneven scalar effects of energy transitions, this article addresses the under-examined, increasing intersection of automation and energy transitions. Using a comparative case of ... -
Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate ... -
Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-06)Coal mining directly employs over 7 million workers and benefits millions more through indirect jobs. However, to meet the 1.5 °C global climate target, coal's share in global energy supply should decline between 73% and ... -
SOPS – A Tool to Find Optimal Policies in Stochastic Dynamic Systems
(2/2005, Working paper, 2005)The task of finding optimal policies in stochastic dynamic systems is challenging.The theory of stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) is quite complex and theavailable software packages are not intended for non-specialists. ... -
Sovereign debt crisis in Greece: A system dynamics approach to policy analysis
(Master thesis, 2011-06-06)Although the budget deficit modification by new elected government and following government bonds downgrading by world rating agencies directly triggered the sovereign debt crisis in Greece, the most substantial cause is ... -
Sovereignty through cartography : The impact of maps on Norwegian national identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-03-08)Kartografi har i mange hundre år blitt brukt som et politisk instrument for å støtte nasjonal stolthet og innflytelse. Det kan skje gjennom bruk av en nasjonal nullmeridian eller lokale stedsnavn, fremheving av landets ... -
Space Debris as a Super-Wicked Problem: A System Dynamics Approach to Achieving Long-Term Sustainability in Low Earth Orbit
(Master thesis, 2021-06-04)The following study shows that a simplified orbital simulation model can generate prominent results from different scenarios in exploring the dynamics of the environment in low earth orbit and its ramifications. Concentrating ... -
Spanske konvensjonar og bygging av merkevare for norsk saltfisk
(Master thesis, 2010-05)Masteravhandling som tek føre seg kva uformelle konvensjonar som spelar inn på spanske distributørar og konsumentar sine val av saltfisk, samt bygging av merkevare for norsk saltfisk i Spania. -
Spatial dynamics of species distributions in an anthropogenic landscape in the context of climate change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-08)Introduction: Climate change and land-use (intensity) change are factors that force biological organisms to change their geographical distributions. These two global drivers, both alone and in combination, have a large ... -
Spatial Variability in Patterns of Glacier Change across the Manaslu Range, Central Himalaya
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02-13)This study assesses changes in glacier area, velocity, and geodetic mass balance for the glaciers in the Manaslu region of Nepal, a previously undocumented region of the Himalayas. We studied changes between 1970 (for ... -
The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City
(Chapter, 2022)The compact city has become the preferred and mainstream model for urban, peri-urban and sometimes even rural planning in the Nordic context. However, the compact city is increasingly contested as a model for sustainability ... -
Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant assemblages under changing climate and land-use regimes in central Nepal Himalaya
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-31)The trajectories of vegetation and landscape dynamics have been redirected globally by climate change and land-use change. The drivers and mechanisms of the spatiotemporal changes are likely scale dependent and are most ... -
Species trait selection along a prescribed fire chronosequence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)1. Fire is a widespread management practice used in the maintenance of European heathland. Frequent prescribed burns in small patches have been shown to benefit carabid communities; however, how fire favours specific ... -
Sprawl dynamics: its drivers and where to intervene
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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 ... -
Strategic pathways to eradicate two infectious diseases: An experimental study on dynamic decision making in resource allocation task
(Master thesis, 2018-08-21)In such areas like infectious diseases management, resource allocation strategies are crucial, as they determine the livelihoods of people both in the short-term and in the long-term. Often, a specific geographic area is ...