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Understanding Hydrologic, Human, and Climate System Feedback Loops: Results of a Participatory Modeling Workshop
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Groundwater depletion threatens global freshwater resources, necessitating urgent water management and policies to meet current and future needs. However, existing data-intensive approaches to assessments do not fully ... -
Understanding maternal mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda. A system dynamics approach for policy development
(Master thesis, 2014-06-02)Understanding Maternal Mortality ratio reduction bottlenecks in Uganda: A System Dynamics Approach for Policy Development. Nuwagira Cranmer Abstract. Despite all efforts initiated by government and its partners , maternal ... -
Understanding model behavior using the Loops that Matter method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-19)The relationship between structure and behavior is central to system dynamics, but effective tools required to understand that relationship still elude us. The current state of the art in the field of loop dominance analysis ... -
Understanding resilience of farming systems: Insights from system dynamics modelling for an arable farming system in the Netherlands
(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 ... -
Understanding the dynamics emerging from the interplay among poor mental wellbeing, energy balance-related behaviors, and obesity prevalence in adolescents: A simulation-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Both obesity and poor mental wellbeing have a high prevalence in European youth. Adolescents in six countries identified mental wellbeing factors as main drivers of youth obesity through systems mapping. This study sought ... -
Understanding the dynamics of Information Security Investments: A Simulation-Based Approach
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Understanding ‘night grazing’: Conservation governance, rural inequalities, and shifting responses ‘from above and below’ throughout the nychthemeron in Laikipia, Kenya
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Across much of eastern Africa, the land area coverage of private or otherwise non-state conservation areas is rapidly increasing. In Kenya, these trends have sparked renewed contestation and debate concerning the property ... -
Urban freight – a matter of concern for cities? Assessing governance for sustainable freight in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-05-24)Godstransport er av stor betydning for byliv, men behandles ikke som en «sak av betydning» av offentlige myndigheter i samme grad som persontransport. Godstransport skaper flere utfordringer for byer, inkludert økte ... -
Urban planning and the smart city: Projects, practices and politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities ... -
Using a water tank analogy to transform students’ intuitive knowledge of dynamic systems. A qualitative study of the case of motion
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-09)This dissertation is a study of the effects of a water tank analogy on students’ intuitive knowledge of basic dynamic systems of motion. Prior research from science education shows that student understandings of science ... -
Using collaborative hackathons to coproduce knowledge on local climate adaptation governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While coproduction of knowledge is growing in popularity in social sciences, and especially climate change research, we still need to better understand how to coproduce climate knowledge. In this paper, we explore how ... -
Using microworlds for policymaking in the context of resilient farming systems
(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 ... -
Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation problems: Tiger farming as a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Conservation practitioners routinely work within complex social-ecological systems to address threats facing biodiversity and to promote positive human-wildlife interactions. Inadequate understanding of the direct and ... -
Using system dynamics to support a participatory assessment of resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-28)Resilience has emerged as a buzzword among researchers and practitioners. However, despite its popularity, there has been little progress in moving it from a metaphor to applied projects. While case study research is rich ... -
Using system dynamics to understand UMG customer purchasing patterns and the evolution of Myanmar's Jadeite industry
(Master thesis, 2012-06-29)This research draws on the system dynamics methodology to investigate, through a dynamic study of Myanmar's jadeite industry that goes from the year 2000 to 2022, the causes of fluctuating purchases of mining equipment at ... -
"Ut av Syn Ut av Sinn?": En studie av søppelhåndteringen i Bhaktapur, Nepal
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Utfordringer ved offentlig-privat nettverksstyring - et casestudie fra planleggingen rundt Damsgårdssundet, Bergen
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Utviklingstrender i kulturlandskapet langs sørfjorden i Hardanger etter 1960. Kartlegging og analyse ved bruk av fotogrammetri og GIS
(Master thesis, 2005)Oppgaven er knyttet til prosjektet ”Kulturlandskap i endring i Hardanger, Sogn og Nordfjord – konsekvensar for opplevingsturismen på Vestlandet”. Målsettingen for oppgaven er å kartlegge og analysere utviklingen i ... -
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are having unprecedented impacts on people’s lives around the world. In this paper, we argue that those conducting social research in the energy domain ... -
Valorization of side streams in the food supply chain: A case study of the adoption of misshapen produce in the Netherlands
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)In a context of increasing food insecurity, this thesis introduces a case study that evaluates adoption of misshapen produce by consumers as act to counteract food wastage. Apart from some separate events that report ...