Browsing Department of Geography by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Agent-based modeling for environmental management. Case study: virus dynamics affecting Norwegian fish farming in fjords
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-17)Background: Norwegian fish-farming industry is an important industry, rapidly growing, and facing significant challenges such as the spread of pathogens1, trade-off between locations, fish production and health. There is ... -
Biofuels and land politics: Connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts ofjatropha biofuel land deals in Ghana
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-04-17)In the 2003-2006 period, the Ghanaian government supported jatropha biofuel initiatives on so-called degraded land areas to reduce Ghana’s high oil import bills and to generate employment opportunities. However, after ... -
Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-18)Various authors have pointed out that the complex processes of globalization arebringing about general shifts in political practices. In particular, these processes areseen to have weakened traditional practices relating ... -
Changing Forestry Governance in Nepal Himalaya. Interactions of Community Forestry with REDD+ and Traditional Institution
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-21)Although traditional institutions remained involved in the management of local forests in some areas of Nepal Himalaya, Community Forestry (CF) is now a well-established formal forest management institution of the country. ... -
Climate and society. A complex and conditional relationship
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-13)Too little rainfall causes human adaptation problems. Too much rainfall as well. The same isvalid for temperature. What makes people vulnerable to climate and what impacts can climatecause on society? Where lies the border ... -
Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-07)For decades, extractive industry developments have had direct and indirect impacts on indigenous communities in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. Yet, in a seemingly paradoxical manner and despite massive negative attention, ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(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. ... -
The disturbance-diversity relationship: integrating biodiversity conservation and resource management in anthropogenic landscapes
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-10-28)Disturbance, natural or anthropogenic, is ubiquitous to forest and grassland ecosystems across the globe. Many of these ecosystems have evolved alongside centuries old anthropogenic disturbance regimes. Understanding how ... -
The Dynamics of Food Availability in sub-Saharan Africa: An Endogenous Perspective on Food Production Systems
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-11-18)Food insecurity is a major challenge of our time: In 2015, 795 million people suffered from hunger worldwide. The eradication of hunger remains a target of high-level policy programs such as the United Nations’ Sustainable ... -
‘Engineering’ the green transformation of the maritime industry in Western Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-03-27)This dissertation is empirically motivated by understanding the observed and ongoing green transformation of the maritime industry in Western Norway, a development that has had implications for both environmental protection, ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-11)Firm value creation and maximization is the primary objective of any firm and the most debated issue in corporate finance. Firms operate in the market to create value for the stakeholders. Valuation plays its role in many ... -
Essays on commodity cycles based on expanded Cobweb experiments of electricity markets
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-12-15)This thesis studies cycles in commodity markets. Such fluctuations have significant adverse effects onconsumers and producers. The properties of commodity price fluctuations are well known. However,there is considerable ... -
Essays on dynamic non- cooperative games based on simulations and experiments
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-04-27)This thesis studies ways to improve Non-Cooperative Game theory (NCGT) as a policy making methodology. NCGT allows to categorize a wide range of situations and to provide solutions. However, the effectiveness of such ... -
Exploring Deep-Sea Minerals : Systems modeling for an emerging industry and unknown futures
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-18)Dyphavsmineraler er et omdiskutert tema. I tilsvar til befolknings- og økonomisk vekst, i tillegg til etterspørselen fra elektrifisering, teknologisk revolusjon og geopolitisk urolighet, er verden forventet å etterspørre ... -
The Feedback Method. A System Dynamics Approach to Teaching Macroeconomics
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-04)This thesis documents a method for improving undergraduate instruction inmacroeconomics. Called the feedback method, it enables students to learn about dynamicbehavior in a market economy by using feedback loop diagrams ... -
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 ... -
Food System Dynamics and Food Insecurity in Humla, Nepal Himalaya
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-14)This study examines the challenges underlying food security of the Himalayan smallholder farmers focusing on three interrelated dimensions: the impact of multiple environmental and socio-economic stressors on food system, ... -
Freight Transport Decarbonization: How Policy and Logistics Trends Affect Achievement of Climate Objectives
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-14)The transport sector is a major and growing contributor to climate change, requiring large and rapid emissions cuts to keep 1.5ºC global warming pathways within reach. Indeed, transport is attributed a prominent role in ... -
From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-27)Ghana started commercial oil production in 2010 and as part of strategies to facilitate linkages between the oil and gas industry and the Ghanaian economy, a local content law was passed in 2013. This PhD thesis examines ... -
Holocene storminess and climate change in Lofoten and Vesteralen, northern Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-08)This thesis investigates Holocene storminess and climate change reconstructed from lacustrine sediments from the Lofoten-Vesterålen archipelago in northern Norway (68–69°N, 12–16°E). The present thesis consists of an ...