Blar i Department of Geography på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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An Integrated Approach to Support Energy Policy Formulation and Evaluation
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-11-27)With the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (UN, 1997) in 1997 and the recentincrease in energy prices, national leaders of industrialized countries have startedinvestigating options for reducing energy consumption and carbon ... -
An Integrated Theory for the Accumulation of Mentally Ill Offenders and the Effect of Realignment in California
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-12)High mental illness prevalence in California state prisons has drawn much attention of scholars and policymakers in the past three decades. Various studies suggest that the mental illness prevalence in prison has increased ... -
International Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin: A Historical-Geographical Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-10)This study reconstructs the evolution of international water management in the Zambezi River Basin in a long-term historical and geographical perspective. The study explores water management by locating it in both a specific ... -
Interpretation-based land cover mapping. Possibilities and challenges for rural land management
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-02-19)Land cover/use maps are often seen as a prerequisite for spatial decision-making processes. Those who have the power to settle land cover categories have an implicit power to imprint certain management regimes on the land. ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Mitigating Information security risks during the Transition to Integrated Operations: Models & Data
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-07-01)This research studies the change of information security risks during the transition toIntegrated Operations (an operation extensively utilize advanced information communicationtechnology to connect offshore facilities and ... -
Modeling Resource-Based Growth for Development Policy Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-11)This dissertation focuses on the design and implementation of simulation models fordevelopment policy analysis, to support a broader understanding of the development processand the identification of effective development ... -
Partners and Competitors. Gendered Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries
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Pedagogisk entreprenørskap som virkemiddel for lokal og regional utvikling: Eksempler fra skoler og mindre kystsamfunn i Finnmark
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-12-04)Formålet med denne avhandlingen er å belyse pedagogisk entreprenørskap som virkemiddel for lokal og regional utvikling. Avhandlingen opererer med et skille mellom en smal og en bred tilnærming til pedagogisk entreprenørskap. ... -
Planning to transform : Exploring the role of climate and energy action plans in municipal low-carbon transformation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-18)The point of departure of the present thesis is to understand local efforts towards low-carbon societies from the point of view of municipalities. Both the theoretical and empirical focus is placed on the municipality as ... -
The potential for transformative adaptation : Collaborative spaces and collective value development in local climate adaptation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-10-20)Behovet for klimaomstilling, -tilpassing og -handling for å kunne handtere konsekvensane av menneskeskapte klimaendringar og tap av biologisk mangfald har aldri vore større. Dette prosjektet utforskar korleis heilskaplege ... -
Practicing urban climate governance : Organisational work and energy demand reduction in Nordic cities
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-02-20)En omfattende og vedvarende reduksjon av energibehovet er nødvendig i løpet av de neste 30 årene for å nå våre klimamål. En slik reduksjon vil bety dyptgripende endringer i infrastruktur og teknologier, men vil også ... -
Public Indebtedness and Fiscal Policy Restructuring for Socio-Economic Development
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-12-03)The flow of finance across national boarders is not an exclusively twentieth century phenomenon(Korner, Maass et al. 1987). In the Middle Ages and later, in the early modern era, when creditoperations and modern banking ... -
Quantification and Change Assessment Benjamin Aubrey Robson 2016 Dissertation date: 31st October 2016 of Debris-Covered Glaciers using Remote Sensing
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-31)This thesis investigates how remote sensing data can be used to assess the changing state of debris-covered ice. The principal study areas are the Manaslu Region in Nepal (papers I and III) and the Hohe Tauern National ... -
The role of multilevel dynamics and agency in regional industry renewal
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-05-15)This dissertation investigates the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and its approach to regional restructuring. A dynamic approach considering that regional industries are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...