• Market women’s skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana 

  Overå, Ragnhild; Atter, Amy; Amponsah, Samuel; Kjellevold, Marian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high consumption of fish in the country. However, ...

• Contextualities of gender in Eritrean immigrant households: Exploring empowerment through integration in Norwegian society 

  Overå, Ragnhild; Awoonor-Williams, Kelvin Edem (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  The article presents a contextual understanding of immigration and integration in Norwegian society from a gender perspective by capturing the experiences of Eritrean immigrant households when adapting to social change and ...

• Addressing the resilience of tomato farmers in Ghana facing a double exposure from climate and market 

  Benabderrazik, Kenza; Jeangros, Laurence; Kopainsky, Birgit; Dawoe, Evans; Joerin, Jonas; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Ghanaian tomato farmers are severely impacted by changing climate and related more frequent and extreme weather events such as drought and heavy rainfall. Furthermore, tomato production represents one of the main sources ...

• A Geoecological History of Høgtuvbreen: Vegetation succession on the foreland of a retreating glacier in northern Norway 

  Young, George Edward (Master thesis, 2022-08-01)

  Norway is facing massive glacial ablation, with projections of 98% loss of glacial cover by the close of the 21st century, releasing thousands of square kilometres to the progression of primary succession. Alongside this, ...

• Can sustainability certification enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers? The case of Ghanaian cocoa 

  Thompson, William D.; Blaser-Hart, Wilma; Jörin, Jonas; Krütli, Pius; Dawoe, Evans; Kopainsky, Birgit; Chavez, Erik; Garrett, Rachael D.; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Sustainability certification has been posited as a key governance mechanism to enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Whilst many certifications now include climate resilience in their standards, their ...

• Climate resilience and the human-water dynamics. The case of tomato production in Morocco 

  Benabderrazik, Kenza; Kopainsky, Birgit; Monastyrnaya, Elena; Thompson, William; Tazi, L.; Jörin, Jonas; Six, Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  In Morocco, droughts are an increasing threat affecting water availability, agricultural production and producers' livelihoods. Moreover, water demand for irrigation has led to overexploitation of the groundwater table ...

• Essays in Corporate Finance 

  Khan, Aima (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 ...

• Predicting Species and Structural Diversity of Temperate Forests with Satellite Remote Sensing and Deep Learning 

  Hoffmann, Janik; Muro, Javier; Dubovyk, Olena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Anthropogenically-driven climate change, land-use changes, and related biodiversity losses are threatening the capability of forests to provide a variety of valuable ecosystem services. The magnitude and diversity of these ...

• Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities 

  Rosales La Torraca, Rafael; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Achieving more sustainable urban freight transport is a key challenge for cities, especially with the rise of diverse urban delivery services. However, the governance of urban freight transport and urban logistics has ...

• Using microworlds for policymaking in the context of resilient farming systems 

  Herrera, Hugo; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Resilience management of farming systems requires building an understanding of the underlying drivers of the adaptive capacity of the system. In this paper, we use the concept of resilience as a framework to understand how ...

• Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands 

  Herrera, Hugo; Schütz, Lilli; Paas, Wim; Reidsma, Pytrik; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Farming systems in Europe are facing economic, social, environmental and institutional challenges. Highly intensive, climate-exposed, arable farming systems like the Veenkoloniën in the north of the Netherlands are ...

• Impacts of future climate on local water supply and demand – A socio-hydrological case study in the Nordic region 

  Lindqvist, Andreas; Fornell, Rickard; Prade, Thomas; Khalil, Sammar; Tufvesson, Linda; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  Study region Fårö island, part of Region Gotland, Sweden. Study focus Despite its importance for proactive planning and management, understanding of how future climate and socioeconomic trends may interact to influence ...

• The embedding of universities in innovation ecosystems: The case of marine research at the University of Bergen 

  Taxt, Randi Elisabeth; Robinson, Douglas K.R.; Schoen, Antoine; Fløysand, Arnt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  While historically the core missions of universities have been research and teaching, it has become increasingly recognised that universities have become significant sources of knowledge and capabilities. This third mission ...

• Freight Transport Decarbonization: How Policy and Logistics Trends Affect Achievement of Climate Objectives 

  Pinchasik, Daniel Ruben (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 ...

• Endangered Dracaena ombet Population in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, Recovers After Abrupt Change 

  Andersen, Gidske Leknæs; Krzywinski, Knut; Talib, Mohammed; Musa, Mohammed A. M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  The endangered and endemic Nubian dragon blood tree, Dracaena ombet, has been feared extirpated from core distribution areas in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan, after reported mass death events in the 20th century. Populations ...

• Lifting the fog of oil? Exploring the framing of ambitious local climate politics in an oil city 

  Oseland, Stina Ellevseth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  How can an oil city pursue ambitious local climate politics and policies? Through a critical discussion of the process and debates over the making of an ambitious climate and energy action plan (CAP) in Norway’s oil capital, ...

• Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement 

  Sareen, Siddharth; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

  As renewable energy sources increasingly outcompete fossil fuels on cost and efficiency, novel questions arise around how, when, and where renewables can displace fossil energy. We need to understand fossil fuel displacement ...

• From bushfires to misfires: Climate-related financial risk after Mcveigh v. Retail Employees Superannuation Trust 

  Colombo, Esmeralda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The year 2020 proved to be a clarion call for global society. There is no longer doubt that increasingly we are experiencing unpredictable events, known as ‘black swans’, ranging from pandemics to financial meltdowns. One ...

• Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Drivers of Obesity Using a Group Model Building Approach: A South African Perspective 

  Hendricks, Gaironeesa; Savona, Natalie; Rodriguez, Anaely Aguiar; Alaba, Olufunke; Booley, Sharmilah; Malczyk, Sonia; Nwosu, Emmanuel; Knai, Cecile; Rutter, Harry; Klepp, Knut Inge; Harbron, Janetta (Journal article, 2022)

  Overweight and obesity increase the risk of a range of poor physiological and psychosocial health outcomes. Previous work with well-defined cohorts has explored the determinants of obesity and employed various methods and ...

• Limits to (de)growth: Theorizing ‘the dialectics of hatchet and seed’ in emergent socio-ecological transformations 

  Cavanagh, Connor Joseph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

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