Department of Geography
Recent Submissions
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Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Populism is multilayered and involves two main dimensions – ideology and strategy – which are employed within and beyond political parties. These dimensions can result in sometimes overlapping but generally divergent ... -
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Effective biodiversity protection is generally associated with a strict rule of law and democratic participation in environmental decision making. Norway's exceptional ranking in terms of governance, however, has failed ... -
Balancing agricultural practices to conserve biodiversity and ensure agricultural production in Dutch Apple Orchards
(Master thesis, 2024-06-28)Pollinators are crucial for apple cultivation. Research has shown that diversity in wild bee species around apple orchards makes the system more resilient and enhances production quality. However, the population of wild ... -
Between Bauxite Extraction, Environmental Impact, and Local Development: A System Dynamics Perspective of mining in the Amazon region in Brazil
(Master thesis, 2024-06-28)The current study explores the complex interactions within environmental, social, and economic aspects within a region in the Amazon region highly dependent on the extraction of mineral resources. We pursue to identify the ... -
Late Holocene Glacier and Palaeoclimate Fluctuations at Gåbrokbreen, Austre Svartisen
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Det kan være problematisk å anta at isbrefluktuasjoner bare foregår på land, siden isbreer overkjører landformer. Isbrevann i nærheten av isbreer kan brukes til å vurdere brefluktuasjoner og paleoklima, med hjelp av ... -
Feasibility trade-offs in decarbonising the power sector with high coal dependence: The case of Korea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Decarbonising the power sector requires feasible strategies for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and the expansion of low-carbon sources. This study assesses the feasibility of plausible decarbonisation scenarios for ... -
The role of investors in developing academic spin offs: The biotech sector in South Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: While research on commercialisation of academic research suggests that close interaction among academic entrepreneurs, technology transfer officers and investors can aid developing academic spin-offs, we argue ... -
Have climate policies accelerated energy transitions? Historical evolution of electricity mix in the G7 and the EU compared to net-zero targets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate policies are often assumed to have significant impacts on the nature and speed of energy transitions. To investigate this hypothesis, we develop an approach to categorise, trace, and compare energy transitions ... -
Analysis of dynamic models by optimization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Decision-makers use system dynamics models to understand how model structure causes problematic behaviors, and how the structure should be changed to improve performance. However, understanding problem behavior and designing ... -
Assessing Combinations of Landsat, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 Time series for Detecting Bark Beetle Infestations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Bark beetle infestations are among the most substantial forest disturbance agents worldwide. Moreover, as a consequence of global climate change, they have increased in frequency and in the size and number of affected ... -
Management of rented farmland in Norway: Factors impacting on tenants’ decisions to make investments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Renting agricultural land is a common practice in many countries. The possibility to rent land provides farmers with increased flexibility in terms of production volume. Land renting may have various effects on farmland ... -
The feasibility of climate action: Bridging the inside and the outside view through feasibility spaces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The feasibility of different options to reduce the risks of climate change has engaged scholars for decades. Yet there is no agreement on how to define and assess feasibility. We define feasible as “do-able under realistic ... -
Historical diffusion of nuclear, wind and solar power in different national contexts: implications for climate mitigation pathways
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate change mitigation requires rapid expansion of low-carbon electricity but there is a disagreement on whether available technologies such as renewables and nuclear power can be scaled up sufficiently fast. Here we ... -
Measuring the change in behavior of a system with a single metric
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Loops that Matter (LTM) provides a practical and comprehensive way to understand which feedback loops are driving model behavior at different points in time. LTM describes from which loops the observed change in behavior ... -
Rendering the future governable: Navigating temporality and uncertainty in Oslo's climate transformation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper examines the procedures through which climate change can be rendered governable in the present. Climate change has generally been approached as an abstract, global, and long-term problem, thereby disconnecting ... -
Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency
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Do EU goals matter? Assessing the localization of sustainable urban logistics governance goals in Norwegian cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Sustainable urban logistics is imperative to meet urban sustainability goals. In the European context, the European Union (EU) set an ambitious target in 2011 of essentially CO2-free urban logistics by 2030. However, it ... -
Green mission creep: The unintended consequences of circular economy strategies for electric vehicles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The rapid expansion of renewable energy technologies entails massive resource challenges which are well illustrated by electric vehicles. Circular economy strategies are gaining traction as a potential solution to these ... -
Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Olive Orchard Intensification in the Saïss Plain (Morocco) Using k-Means and High-Resolution Satellite Data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Olive orchard intensification has transformed an originally drought-resilient tree crop into a competing water user in semi-arid regions. In our study, we used remote sensing to evaluate whether intensive olive plantations ... -
Securing conservation Lebensraum? The geo-, bio-, and ontopolitics of global conservation futures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The geographical concept of Lebensraum (“living space”) was coined most significantly by the German scholar Friedrich Ratzel towards the end of the nineteenth century. Through the lens of Lebensraum, Ratzel reformulated ...