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Competition between biofuel and food? The case of a jatropha biodiesel project and its effects on food security in the affected communities in Northern Ghana
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)Biofuels have become an issue of much concern to policy makers, national governments and the international agencies amid discussions on climate change. Debates and discussions about the implications of biofuels are underpinned ... -
Conceptual Framework for Modeling Dynamic Complexities in Produced Water Management
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This research addresses a gap in the produced water management (PWM) literature by providing a conceptual framework to describe the connections of PWM to regional water budgets. We use southeastern New Mexico as a case ... -
Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security
(Journal article, 2020)Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided analysis and investment, these frameworks exhibit ... -
Connections between FDI, natural resource access and local development. The case of Antamina mine Peru. Are we following the correct path?
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)Through an empirical study I will try to discover the connection between FDI, Natural ResourceAccess and local Development in Ayash River Basin Communities and their relation with Antamina mine company, a Mulinational Mine ... -
Contested energy spaces. Disassembling energyscapes of the Canadian North
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-07)For decades, extractive industry developments have had direct and indirect impacts on indigenous communities in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. Yet, in a seemingly paradoxical manner and despite massive negative attention, ... -
Contextualities of gender in Eritrean immigrant households: Exploring empowerment through integration in Norwegian society
(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 ... -
Contrasting climate variability and meteorological drought with perceived drought and climate change in northern Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-08-04)The rationale of this paper is to investigate peoples’ perception of climate variability, climatechange and drought frequency and compare it with measurements of rainfall variability andanomalies in northern Ethiopia. ... -
Coping with household food insecurity during the lean season; strategies employed by smallholder farmers in Navrongo, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2017-06-21)In Ghana, smallholder farmer households are the most dominant food producers. Yet, they are the most vulnerable to of food insecurity. Seasonal food production, climate change, coupled with other social factors further ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility - re-territorialisation of global business.Grounding foreign companies in local context through CSR - the case of Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2013-04-02)Grounding foreign companies in local context through CSR - the case of Norwegian Business in Indonesia This thesis seeks to explore whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be said to have a grounding effect in ... -
Corruption - Can Brazil win this war?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)Corruption in Brazil is endemic and has increased since the end of the military transition regime in 1985, a year marked by an indirect presidential election, which was followed by the 1988 Constitutional Reform. The present ... -
Costs and dynamics of war: System dynamics approached to maritime disputes in the South China Sea
(Master thesis, 2011-11-17)Maritime sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) are complex issues of growing concern over regional and global stability. Significant possibility of high resolution conflict as an arms race has been accumulated. ... -
Cournot markets in the field: Dynamic decision- making in non-standard markets
(Conference lecture, 2017)The Cournot economic model is very useful for representing atomized markets in laboratory experiments. Ideally, such experiments are designed following a set of conditions in order to use the model properly. However, ... -
Coworking og regional utvikling - ein casestudie i norske distriktskommunar
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Coworking, ein fleksibel arbeidsplass som delast av forskjellige formar for arbeidande individ, har blitt ein meir og meir populær arbeidsplassform internasjonalt og i Noreg. Fenomenet har oppstått som eit resultat av ... -
Cradle to Cradle - Foretaksstrategier som bidrag til det grønne skiftet - En case-studie av foretak i Limburg-regionen i Nederland
(Master thesis, 2016-09-01)This master thesis is about the Cradle-to- Cradle principles and the overall circular economy. I have especially been looking into companies that have chosen to implement the Cradle to Cradle principles into their business. ... -
A Critical Geography of Compact Urbanism : Urban politics of difference in Oslo
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-16)Since the 1990s urban sustainability has become a prominent international policymaking goal and global policy discourses have encouraged people to live in cities. Compact city policies have proliferated during this period. ... -
Cross-sector Collaboration in upper secondary School vocational education: experiences from two industrial towns in Sweden and Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This study explores industry–education collaboration on vocational education and training (VET) in upper secondary schools in Sweden and Norway, with particular attention to the initiatives, organisation and operational ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Cultivation and Use of Ricebean. A Case Study of Dang District, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2008)Objectives: This research basically intends to know the cultivation and use of the ricebean in thesubsistence farming community of Dang district. The overall purpose of the study isto explore the role of ricebean in the ... -
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01)The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples ... -
Decadal Scale Changes in Glacier Area in the Hohe Tauern National Park (Austria) Determined by Object-Based Image Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-01-15)In this paper, we semi-automatically classify clean and debris-covered ice for 145 glaciers within Hohe Tauern National Park in the Austrian Alps for the years 1985, 2003, and 2013. We also map the end-summer transient ...