Department of Geography
Recent Submissions
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A Speleological Study and Cave Value Assessment of Kristoffergrotta, a Karst Cave in Rana, Northern Norway
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)SAMMENDRAG Karstlandskap, dannet ved oppløsning av løselig berggrunn, er globalt viktige både for sine morfologiske trekk og for sin rolle i grunnvannslagring. Denne avhandlingen undersøker Kristoffergrotta, som ligger i ... -
Illicit Resilience: Revisiting Political Ecologies of Conservation Noncompliance in the Context of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Over the past several decades, the spatial extent of national parks, forest reserves, and other protected areas has expanded rapidly, encompassing more than 16 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial and inland water area in ... -
Examining the adoption and non-adoption of solar PV among small and medium-scale enterprises in the greater Accra region of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2024-12-02)This study investigates the adoption and non-adoption behaviours of solar photovoltaics (PV) among small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in the greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study applied insights from the diffusion ... -
Influence of the last (de)glaciation on a complex cave system: Grønli-Seter cave system, Northern Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Cave studies enable us to unravel valuable information on landscape evolution. In glacial settings, the glacial cycles induced fluctuations in the underground hydraulic regime, sediment availability and base level in ... -
A systematic method to integrate co-produced causal loop diagrams based on feedback stories
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Within participatory systems dynamics, more practitioners are compiling co-produced causal loop diagrams (CLDs) to analyse and report workshop outputs. Though not formalized, existing documented techniques have been limited ... -
How is feasibility in local climate politics constructed? Balancing between appropriateness and consequence in advancing urban low-carbon plans
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)How does ambitious climate action become politically feasible? The literature has tended to understand political feasibility through interactions between citizens and governing institutions, conditioned by the various costs ... -
Sustainability beyond optimization : Public-private actor interactions in urban logistics governance
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12-17)Den 'bærekraftige' byen er en forførende visjon, som krever rekonfigurering av eksisterende transportsystemer. Både moderne transportforskning og politikkutforming er imidlertid overveldende fokusert på passasjermobilitet ... -
An integrated assessment framework for sustainable development: System Dynamics and its capacity for methodological integration
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-12-16)Ideen til denne oppgaven oppsto fra behovet for å håndtere og redusere kompleksiteten som ligger i politikkplanlegging for bærekraftig utvikling. Hovedmålet er å generere skreddersydd, handlingsvennlig informasjon for ... -
Analyzing sustainable development strategies through multi-method integration in the Green Economy Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Given the increasing interconnectedness of social, economic, and environmental systems, it is increasingly evident there is a need for a new generation of decision support systems to assess the sustainability of development ... -
Introduction to the special issue – Frontiers of property: promises, pitfalls, and ambivalences of ‘resurgent collectivisation’ in global land and resource governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Over the last several decades, a growing number of states, international organisations, and NGOs have pressed for new legislation and policies to formally recognise previously neglected options for collectively owning – ... -
Early Holocene occurrence of loess in Folldal, east-central southern Norway: Identification, origin and palaeoclimatic significance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Identified for the first time in Norway, windblown yellowish-brown dust in Folldal, east-central southern Norway, fulfils physical and geochemical criteria for sensu stricto loess, including a high carbonate content. Two ... -
Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study reconstructs Mid- to Late-Holocene aeolian activity based on lacustrine sediments from a small pond, Nøkktjønna, situated ~1.5 km northeast from the coast, and stratigraphical investigations of coastal dunes at ... -
Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a ... -
Change everything so that (almost) nothing changes? Investigating the territorial distribution of solar energy subsidies in rural India
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The current massive rollout of solar energy in India is primarily driven by private investments, with the federal and state governments facilitating sectoral investments with subsidies, preferential licensing and clearances, ... -
Financially-constrained solar development: A comparative analysis of urban fabrics and scalar expression in Portugal and Rajasthan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Solar energy takes many varied forms in and beyond the urban infrastructure. Compared to large-scale plants, small-scale solar forms have received little attention, yet arguably hold more hope for just energy transitions ... -
Perceptions of competing agendas in carbon neutrality policies in Portugal: Adverse impacts on vulnerable population groups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The links between the political agendas of climate change, the energy transition, and energy poverty are multiple, complex, and overlapping. In line with European Union policy demands, Member States are implementing the ... -
Leisure mobility: Situating emotional geographies of friluftsliv in urban mobility transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In Norwegian culture, outdoor recreation in nature – such as hiking – is an important activity tied to the production of identity and aspirations of a ‘good life’. ‘Friluftsliv’ (outdoor life) in Norwegian entails a ... -
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Urban freight transport is central to urban societies, and yet urban authorities have traditionally left it to private actors to resolve freight challenges. Urban authorities rely on different governance strategies to ... -
"The companies are powerful, people are weak": India's solar energy ambitions and the legitimation of dispossession in Rajasthan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Ecological degradation and climate change have led to widespread calls for altering sociotechnical practices. A sector in which this is particularly visible is energy; more specifically, in efforts to displace conventional ... -
Framing the Intersectional Representation of the Landless Workers’ Movement on Instagram
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is a grassroots organization influenced by Marxism, which has attracted national and international attention for its strategies for the occupation and redistribution of land in Brazil. ...
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