Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT)
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Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This conceptual paper reconstructs an implicit ethical claim of post-normal science, namely that knowledge produced in extended peer communities (EPCs) is both epistemically better and fairer. Post-normal science introduced ... -
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article assesses Frank I. Michelman’s constitution-centered and proceduralist interpretation of Rawls’ conception of political legitimacy and argues that it merits attention because it highlights the institutional ... -
Thinking with the primstav today
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East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper answers a call from Chinese scholars to ‘humanize Responsible Research and Innovation’; namely, to recentre the framing and practice of RRI around individuals. To do so, RRI scholars and practitioners working ... -
Discrepancy Measures for Global Sensitivity Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While sensitivity analysis improves the transparency and reliability of mathematical models, its uptake by modelers is still scarce. This is partially explained by its technical requirements, which may be hard to understand ... -
Bring digital twins back to Earth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment ... -
Mathematical models: a state of exception
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Models live in a state of exception. Their versatility, the variety of their methods, the impossibility of their falsification and their epistemic authority allow mathematical models to escape, better than other cases of ... -
An annotated timeline of sensitivity analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The last half a century has seen spectacular progresses in computing and modelling in a variety of fields, applications, and methodologies. Over the same period, a cross-disciplinary field known as sensitivity analysis has ... -
The idea of a theory of values and the metaphor of value-landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This is a conceptual and methodological paper about improving our notion of human values. While it is recognized that talk of values has become increasingly popular in many walks of life, it is claimed that this is not ... -
Co-ordinating agricultural adaptation: Seasonal forecasts and their influence on rural agricultural rhythms in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Seasonal forecasts are fast being popularised as a key tool in the enablement of seasonal climate adaptation, particularly in agricultural practice. Derived from advances in meteorological science and technology, a seasonal ... -
The pandemic state of exception: restrictions, subjectivities, and authority
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The pandemic and all of its restrictions dominated public attention and social practices for almost three years. There was declared a state of exception in many national contexts during the pandemic. A revolution took place ... -
The multi-dimensionality of value landscapes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Post-normal science (PNS) is arguably an extension of the framing of knowledge production and use which includes the close linkage of facts and values. The paper argues that PNS is an fundamentally ethical perspective on ... -
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article uses the Resilient Community Development frame to explore how the residents from two coastal settlements in the Russian Arctic cope with the long-term effects of climate change, permafrost thaw and challenging ... -
Could deep-sea mining sustain sustainability? The international seabed authority and the UN 2030 agenda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Madureira et al. (2023)published a timely article about the role of deep-sea mining in sustainable development – UN Agenda 2030. We take the opportunity to join the discussion initiated by the authors and highlight the ... -
Beyond the storm season: The polyrhythms of coastal hazardscapes on the Kū aotunu Peninsula
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, we develop an account of engaged practice of coastal conservation groups with seasonalities on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, focusing particularly on the polyrhythmicity of change in its coastal ... -
Muligheter og utfordringer ved å introdusere kjernekraft som en del av energisystemet i Finnmark, med hensyn til FNs bærekraftsmål og overgangen til en lavkarbonøkonomi - En interdisiplinær analyse av små modulære reaktorer i Finnmark
(Master thesis, 2024-12-04)Opportunities and Challenges of Introducing Nuclear Energy as Part of the Energy System in Finnmark: A Sustainable Development Perspective. This thesis investigates the potential of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as an ... -
Fragmenting forest governance: Land tenure and the REDD+ paradox in Kigoma pilot project, Tanzania
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Forest economists and governance scholars disagreed in early REDD + literature over the potentially recentralizing effects of the performance-based global forest carbon mitigation mechanism. Economists argued conditional ... -
A Framework for Local CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) in Rådalen, Norway, via Novel Ex-situ Mineral Carbonation Value Chains: A holistic approach
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)The environmental footprints left by human activities are starting to pose numerous problems inour current world. More specifically, releasing a substantial amount of CO2 to the atmosphere has posed several global problems, ... -
Business-centric Hegemony in Sustainability Disclosure: A Critical Analysis of the Scientific Discourse
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Over de siste 10-20 årene kan man observere et økende fokus på bærekraftsrapportering i bedrifter og markeder, politikk (eksemplifisert ved EUs Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) og i vitenskapene. Likevel er ... -
A Systematic Mapping of Meat Consumption Behaviours: Socio-Cultural Dimensions
(Master thesis, 2024-12-04)Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are widely used to assess climate trajectories and mitigation strategies, but often fail to adequately incorporate human behaviour and societal feedback. This thesis addresses this gap ...
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