Department of Geography
Recent Submissions
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The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones, Three GIS scenarios for 20 jurisdictions in the western and central Pacific region
(Master thesis, 2020-12-18)Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) are maritime territories that extend 200 nautical miles from a country’s coastline. They mandate sovereign rights over all the natural resources. For Pacific island states, these zones support ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A case study on The Vicious Cycle of Food Insecurity in Small-scale Farmer Households in Zambia
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Modeling the Impact of Big Data Analysis Investments on the Dynamics of Customer Acquisition: A Case Study of Telecommunication Sector in the United States
(Master thesis, 2020-09-02)In the age of data explosion, many firms are heavily investing in big data and big data analytics (BDA) without being able to anticipate how much value they will receive. Thus, there is a growing body of research that has ... -
Monitoring and risk assessment for groundwater sources in rural communities of Romania (GROUNDWATERISK)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In the past 100 years, a decreasing rainfall trend has been recorded on Romanian territory, a trend that continues today. Therefore, realistic estimation of the groundwater resources is crucial, especially for the rural ... -
How national parks change a rural municipality's development strategies - The Skjåk case, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The governance structure on which contemporary nature conservation policy and practice are based represents a new structure that may affect development strategies in rural municipalities. The purpose of the article is to ... -
Effects of weather and hunting on wild reindeer population dynamics in Hardangervidda National Park
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Wild reindeer have a range that extends across the circumpolar region. In the last few decades, however, populations of wild reindeer have been on the decline. The reasons for these declines are poorly understood, but are ... -
Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ... -
The Role of System Dynamics Approaches in Aquatic Disease Management: An Application to Sea Lice Control in Norway
(Master thesis, 2012-09-21)Different methodologies have been used to model the epidemiology and economics of aquaculture diseases, including input-output models, benefit- cost analysis, linear programming, simple spreadsheet-based models, compartment ... -
Framework to support personalized learning in complex systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose: Numerous studies document that students struggle to comprehend complex dynamic systems (CDS). The purpose of this paper is to describe a design framework applied to the creation of a personalized and adaptive ... -
Participatory modelling updates expectations for individuals and groups, catalyzing be-havior change and collective action in nexus governance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Participatory modeling is a potentially high‐impact approach for catalyzing fundamental sustainability transformations. We test if participation in a group system dynamics modeling exercise increases participants' agency ... -
Breaking silos: can cities break down institutional barriers in climate planning?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate and energy transformation has become one of the core issues municipalities must address, and there is a recognition that the local scale is essential if we are to address the fundamental changes needed to face ... -
Surface melt driven summer diurnal and winter multi-day stick-slip motion and till sedimentology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-08)Fluctuations in glacier motion are very common and are thought to be controlled by subglacial hydrology and till deformation. There are few instrumented studies that have monitored seasonal changes. We use the innovative ... -
Setting Priorities to Address the Research Gaps Between Agricultural Systems Analysis and Food Security Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Research report; Peer reviewed, 2019)This document assesses the current state of practice for the representation of food security indicators in agricultural systems models and provides recommendations for improvements in both model formulation and the empirical ... -
Short-term versus long-term decision trade-offs: Evidence from a model-based observational experiment with African small-scale farmers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Smallholder farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa recurrently face situations of complex and dynamic decision trade‐offs. Short‐term‐oriented activities such as fertilizer application help to cover immediate food needs but compromise ... -
Trials, errors and improvements in co-production of climate services
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change yields both challenges and opportunities. In both cases, costly adaptations and transformations are necessary and desirable, and these must be based on realistic and relevant climate information. However, ... -
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 ... -
Youth smoking and anti-smoking policies in North Dakota: a system dynamics simulation study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-20)Background: The current study utilizes system dynamics to model the determinants of youth smoking and simulate effects of anti-smoking policies in the context of North Dakota, a state with one of the lowest cigarette tax ...
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