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Gasoline Tax? A System Dynamics Study of Private Passenger Vehicles in China
(Master thesis, 2007)Scarcity of oil and increasing demand make the crude price continue to climb,and such pressure urges our effort to reduce the reliance on oil products. As a majorconsumer of oil synthetic fuels, the transportation sector ... -
Gender and Informality in the Construction. Industry in Ghana’s Oil City Takoradi
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Gender relations and household livelihood security in Lake Kariba fishing communities, Zambia
(Master thesis, 2007)The focus of this study is the livelihoods of men and women involved in fishery relatedactivities in the Lake Kariba and in the Zambezi River, Southern Province of Zambia.The main questions concerns how norms and rules for ... -
Gendered Strategies Among Migrants From Nothern Ghana in Accra: A Case Study of Madina
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)The high level of migration of people from Northern to Southern Ghana is rooted in historical antecedents. The general objective of this study is to explore the gendered strategies of migrants from Northern to Southern ... -
The Gendering of a Farming System. A study of the relationship between gender and agricultural production in Ghana.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Gender issues have increasingly been given attention to in research on agriculture and farming systems. Prior to the 1970s, gender was rarely addressed, as economic activities and more technical descriptions were prioritized ... -
Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust ... -
The Geography of Participation: The case of Pluspetrol in Pisco, Peru
(Master thesis, 2012-05-08)This study analyses how public participation is shaped geographically in the extractive industry in Peru. Focusing on a special sector of the Camisea Gas Project, I take into analysis the different formal and informal ... -
A geography of repoliticisation: Popularising alternative housing models in Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The question of the political has gained renewed relevance in recent years. New movements are challenging what has been called ‘the post-political consensus’ and have facilitated the repoliticisation of a wide range of ... -
Getting profitable CCU off the ground: Contingent pathways and Bergen Carbon Solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)As carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) gains policy traction and pilot project funding, CCS usually gets the limelight, whereas CCU is often overlooked. CCU, if feasible, has two potential advantages: it obviates ... -
Ghana Petroleum Fund Experiment. ´Can a Petroleum Fund help Ghana manage its petroleum revenue (wealth)? An Experimental Inquiry´
(Master thesis, 2010)Ghana starts petroleum production and export business in the third quarter of2010. The management of the petroleum tax revenue is seen as timely fiscalpolicy decisions by the government and its partners. These policy ... -
Ghana's emerging oil and gas industry. Livelihood impacts of Ghana gas processing plant at Atuabo in western region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)The discovery and subsequent production of oil at Ghana's Jubilee fields came with euphoria and heightened expectations of the oil and gas sector to provide quality jobs, revenue for investment in infrastructure, education ... -
Gjennomføring av samordnet bolig-, areal- og transportplanlegging – en studie av Bergen kommune
(Master thesis, 2016-05-16)Byer med høy tetthet, gode kollektivforbindelser og korte avstander mellom bosted, arbeidsplasser og tjenester, er helt nødvendig for å oppnå bærekraftig utvikling og håndtere klimautfordringene. Samordnet areal-, bolig- ... -
Glacier fluctuations and sediment transport at Vestre Blomsterskardsbreen, Folgefonna
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)Vestre Blomsterskardsbreen is the southernmost glacier outlet of southern Folgefonna, a maritime temperate plateau glacier located on the Folgefonna peninsula in western Norway. It drains into Lake Midtbotnvatn, which is ... -
Glasial kronologi for Tveitedalen og Handelandsdalen, sørvestre Folgefonnhalvøya, i overgangen mellom sen-Weichsel og tidlig-Holocene. En kvartærgeologisk studie med vektlegging på rekonstruksjon av glasiale forhold, deglasiasjon og havnivåhistorie
(Master thesis, 2006)Studieområdet omfatter to dalfører; Tveitedalen og Handelandsdalen, lokalisert på den sørvestlige Folgefonnhalvøya i Kvinnherad kommune, Vest-Norge. Målet med oppgaven er å kartlegge glasifluviale terrasser og sammenligne ... -
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Smart electricity meters are a central feature of any future smart grid, and therefore represent a rapid and significant household energy transition, growing by our calculations from less than 23.5 million smart meters in ... -
Globalisering, et humanitær-politisk kompleks og Det internasjonale gjennombruddet
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Globalisering, makt og mening - en analyse av diskurser i Nepal
(Master thesis, 2002)Denne oppgaven tar for seg et prosjekt med utgangspunkt i teorier rundt globalisering og kulturgeografi. Studien omfatter et feltarbeid fra Katmandu, hovedstaden i Nepal. -
The Good Life does not come easily in Lithuania
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)The population of Lithuania has been declining for the last 25 years. This has mainly been caused by high emigration out of the country. In particular, of young adults seeking job opportunities abroad. This has made the ... -
Governance challenges for urban logistics: Lessons from three Norwegian cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)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 ... -
Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives and collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing ...