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Land Governance And Competition For Space In Ghana's Emerging Oil City, Sekondi-Takoradi
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Expectations have been high in Ghana since the discovery of oil and gas in 2007 in the Jubilee Field, located about 60 kilometers off-shore near Sekondi-Takoradi. Owing to the potential economic growth, the city of ... -
Land Use in the Bergen region. A System dynamics analysis of the jobs-housing imbalance
(Master thesis, 2013-05-31)The urban development in the Bergen region has been characterized by urban sprawl and undefined expansions of the urban area which gave rise to a geographic imbalance: while the city center of Bergen offers more jobs than ... -
Land-use change under a warming climate facilitated upslope expansion of Himalayan silver fir (Abies spectabilis (D. Don) Spach)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08)Global warming is triggering some species to shift towards the poles or higher elevations, but spatial translocation is also influenced by land-use regime or intensity. The Himalayan climate is getting warmer and land use ... -
Langtidseffekter av norsk bistand. En studie av fiskeriutvikling og fattigdomsreduksjon i Bahabalpur - India
(Master thesis, 2007)Utgangspunktet for denne studien er et norsk bistandsprosjekt i India. Ved å sette et sosio- institusjonelt fokus på dimensjonene som preger fattigdom i fiskerisamfunn prøver studien å komme nærmere en forståelse av mulige ... -
Large-Scale Sugarcane Ethanol Production and Its Implications to Ethiopia: A System Dynamics Approach
(Master thesis, 2017-12-21)Ethiopia imports oil products for its fuel requirements, and the demand for fuel is rapidly increasing. Research indicates that imported fuel accounts for the lion‟s share of the total import expenditure and absorbs much ... -
Late Holocene Glacier and Palaeoclimate Fluctuations at Gåbrokbreen, Austre Svartisen
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Det kan være problematisk å anta at isbrefluktuasjoner bare foregår på land, siden isbreer overkjører landformer. Isbrevann i nærheten av isbreer kan brukes til å vurdere brefluktuasjoner og paleoklima, med hjelp av ... -
Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Reconstructions in Evenes, North Norway.
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Late Quaternary environmental reconstruction using foraminifera and sedimentary stratigraphy from Kapp Ekholm, Svalbard
(Master thesis, 2014-10-19)SUMMARY The Kapp Ekholm sedimentary sections is a key location for our present understanding of the two last glacial cycles on western Svalbard. Its long sedimentary history (MIS 6 to present) and its position almost at ... -
Learning from the CO-CREATE project: A protocol for systems thinking across research (STAR)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The CO-CREATE project aimed to work with young people to create, inform, and disseminate obesity-preventive evidence-based policies using a complex systems perspective. This paper draws lessons from this experience and ... -
Legal, political and social change - The case of sexual and gender minorities in Nepal
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis examines the recent legal, political and social changes for sexual and gender minorities in Nepal. The empirical data were produced during field work in Nepal in 2010. In a short period of time the sexual and ... -
Legitimacy and accountability in the governance of sustainable energy transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)How can we enable equitable decarbonisation? There is a wide gap between power to make transformative decisions, on the one hand, and agency on the part of those affected by climate change, on the other. We converge scholarly ... -
Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy ... -
Leisure mobility: Situating emotional geographies of friluftsliv in urban mobility transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In Norwegian culture, outdoor recreation in nature – such as hiking – is an important activity tied to the production of identity and aspirations of a ‘good life’. ‘Friluftsliv’ (outdoor life) in Norwegian entails a ... -
Lifting the fog of oil? Exploring the framing of ambitious local climate politics in an oil city
(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, ... -
Limits to (de)growth: Theorizing ‘the dialectics of hatchet and seed’ in emergent socio-ecological transformations
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Linkages between Flood Events and Livelihoods of Riparian Communities in the Middle Belt of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2023-12-01)Flood events have increasingly become a globally challenge to sustainable livelihoods and development and more particularly so within the context of riparian communities in sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana. ... -
Linking the bottom-up and top-down evolution of regional innovation systems to policy: organizations, support structures and learning processes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The literature is ambiguous about whether regional innovation systems (RIS) evolve bottom-up or top-down. This is reflected in RIS policies, which tend to focus on either development of the actor level, i.e. organizations ... -
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The German energy transition has been hailed as a role model for climate action. However, plans for the construction of three large-scale Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminals are receiving strong state support. ... -
Livelihood and Common-Pool Resources. A Study of Thini Village, Mustang, Trans-Himalayan Region of Nepal
(Master thesis, 2008-05-22)Agriculture and livestock rearing are the major livelihood earning activities of many people ofTrans-Himalayan villages of Nepal, which are not possible without relying on the availability ofand the accessibility to ...