Department of Geography
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Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Climate change mitigation requires the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Recent plans indicate an eight-fold increase in CCS capacity by 2030, yet the feasibility of CCS expansion is debated. Using ... -
Integrating distributive justice in system dynamics models of sustainability transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Social-ecological-technological transitions for decarbonisation and sustainable development goals can perpetuate or introduce environmental and socio-economic injustices. The just transitions literature provides useful ... -
Modeling the environmental impacts of Asparagopsis as feed, a cow toilet and slurry acidification in two synthetic dairy farms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Intensive dairy farming, particularly enteric fermentation and manure management, is a major contributor to negative impacts on the local and global environment. A wide range of abatement measures has been proposed to ... -
Dynamics of land access in Ghana’s real estate sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Ghana’s land governance is characterized by legal pluralism, which is saddled with weak institutional capacities, complex procedures, and high transaction costs that often curtail peoples’ desires and possibilities to build ... -
Living together but gates apart: aspirations and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in Peri-urban Accra.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Global capital investment in the housing sector has transformed major African cities such as Accra into segregated clusters of high-rise buildings and ultramodern residential areas. The development of housing projects, ... -
Overcoming collapse of farming systems: shifting from vicious to virtuous circles in the extensive sheep farming system in Huesca (Spain)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Farming systems in Europe are perceived by stakeholders as having a low level of resilience and sustainability when confronted with shocks and ongoing stresses. Specifically, European extensive livestock systems are faced ... -
When borders close: Social networks, resilience and food security among informal cross-border fish traders on the Ghana-Togo border
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Cross-border fish trade contributes to regional food security and is a source of income for informal traders. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the activities of cross-border traders were severely affected. Lockdowns and border ... -
Enhancing Plastic Waste Recycling Facility: Case-Study of Economical and Environmental Impacts Analyzed through System Dynamics
(Master thesis, 2025-01-28)Plastic waste continues to pose a significant environmental challenge, with less than 10% effectively recycled globally. In Lviv, Ukraine, limited waste sorting infrastructure and increased waste generation due to recent ... -
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 ...
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