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    • Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh 

      Bremer, Scott Ronald; Stiller-Reeve, Mathew Alexander; Mamnun, Nabir; Lazrus, Heather (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Climate adaptation governance increasingly investigates the cultural capacities of communities to cope with climate variability and change. This paper reports on research of the symbolic representations of summer rainfall ...
    • Communication as Transmission and as Ritual: Dewey’s Account of Communication and Carey’s Cultural Approach 

      Midtgarden, Torjus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Communication theorist James W. Carey distinguishes between two different views of communication in the later work of John Dewey. A transmission view takes communication as transmission of messages for the control of ...
    • Complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: Implications for European Union energy governance 

      Kovacic, Zora; Di Felice, Louisa Jane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Energy security is an ambiguous concept. Growing academic interest has aimed at defining, conceptualising and measuring energy security, often through indicators. Energy policy in the European Union (EU) is not concerned ...
    • Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes 

      Siple, Margaret; Koehn, Laura; Johnson, Kelli F; Punt, André E.; Canales, T. Mariella; Carpi, Piera; de Moor, Carryn L.; De Oliveira, José A.A.; Gao, Jin; Jacobsen, Nis S.; Lam, Mimi Elizabeth; Licandeo, Roberto; Lindgren, Martin; Ma, Shuyang; Óskarsson, Gudmundur Jóhann; Sanchez-Maroño, Sonia; Smolinski, Szymon; Surma, Szymon; Tian, Yongjun; Tommasi, Desiree; Gutierrez T., Mariano; Trenkel, Verena; Zador, Stephani; Zimmermann, Fabian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the state-of-the-art approach for testing and comparing management strategies in a way that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty (e.g. monitoring, estimation, and implementation). ...
    • Contingent faculty in ecology and STEM: an uneven landscape of challenges for higher education 

      Fetcher, Ned; Lam, Mimi Elizabeth; Cid, Carmen R; Mourad, Teresa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The number of contingent or non‐tenure‐track faculty at colleges and universities in the United States has been growing over the past several decades; they now constitute nearly 70% of the non‐student academic workforce. ...
    • Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience 

      Wardekker, Arjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both ...
    • Conversations About Responsible Nanoresearch 

      Kjølberg, Kamilla Anette Lein; Strand, Roger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-03)
      There is currently a strong focus on responsible research in relation to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study presents a series of conversations with nanoresearchers, with the ‘European Commission ...
    • Crystal ball or wishful thinking? Reference pathways as tools for net zero investing in pension funds 

      Klausen, Julie Strand (Master thesis, 2023-05-16)
      This thesis will examine the premonitions and parameters of two models for sustainable finance development: the International Energy Agency (IEA) model Net Zero by 2050, and the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) model ...
    • Current models underestimate future irrigated areas 

      Saltelli, Andrea; Puy, Arnald; Lo Piano, Samuele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Predictions of global irrigated areas are widely used to guide strategies that aim to secure environmental welfare and manage climate change. Here we show that these predictions, which range between 240 and 450 million ...
    • Datafictions: Or how measurements and predictive analytics rule imagined future worlds 

      Rieder, Gernot; Völker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      As the digital revolution continues and our lives become increasingly governed by smart technologies, there is a rising need for reflection and critical debate about where we are, where we are headed, and where we want to ...
    • The decision: Relations to oneself, authority and vulnerability in the field of selective abortion 

      Risøy, Sølvi Marie; Sirnes, Thorvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-03)
      This article is about selective abortion. It concentrates on the existential, moral and social conditions that arise when pregnant women, using prenatal diagnosis (PND), are told that there is something seriously wrong ...
    • Descriptive representation of women in international courts 

      Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • Dewey’s Conceptualization of the Public as Polity Contextualized: The Struggle for Democratic Control over Natural Resources and Technology 

      Midtgarden, Torjus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article explores John Dewey’s conceptualization of the public as polity in his lecture notes from 1928. Dewey’s conceptualization suggests an account of the democratic legitimacy of public regulation of economic ...
    • A diagnostic tool for supporting policymaking on urban resilience 

      Wardekker, Arjan; Wilk, Bettina; Brown, Valerie; Uittenbroek, Caroline; Mees, Heleen; Driessen, Peter; Wassen, Martin; Molenaar, Arnoud; Walda, Jim; Runhaar, Hens (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Urban resilience has become a popular notion among urban policymakers and scientists, as a way to deal with the many complex issues that cities face. While it has positive connotations and resonates with local urban agendas, ...
    • Do-it-yourself biology andelectronic waste hacking: A politics of demonstration in precarious times 

      Delgado Aleman, Ana Maria; Callén, Blanca (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In recent years, there has been an explosion of do it yourself, maker and hacker spaces in Europe. Through makers and do-it-yourself initiatives, ‘hacking’ is moving into the everyday life of citizens. This article explores ...
    • Editorial: High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability 

      Bremer, Scott; Wardekker, Arjan; Baldissera Pacchetti, Marina; Soares, Marta Bruno; Sluijs, Jeroen Pieter van der (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Editorial on the Research Topic High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability Climate adaptation in human systems is a process of learning and ...
    • Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates 

      Pisa, Lennard W.; Amaral-Rogers, Vanessa; Belzunces, Luc P.; Bonmatin, Jean-Marc; Downs, Craig A.; Goulson, Dave; Kreutzweiser, David P.; Krupke, Christian H.; Liess, Matthias; McField, Melanie D.; Morrissey, Christy A.; Noome, Dominique A.; Settele, Josef; Simon-Delso, Noa; Stark, John D.; van der Sluijs, Jeroen Pieter; Van Dyck, Hans A.N.S.; Wiemers, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-17)
      We assessed the state of knowledge regarding the effects of large-scale pollution with neonicotinoid insecticides and fipronil on non-target invertebrate species of terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. A large ...
    • The effects of serious gaming on risk perceptions of climate tipping points 

      van Beek, Lisette; Milkoreit, Manjana; Prokopy, Linda; Reed, Jason; Vervoort, Joost; Wardekker, Arjan; Weiner, Roberta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      A growing body of research indicates that effective science-policy interactions demand novel approaches, especially in policy domains with long time horizons like climate change. Serious games offer promising opportunities ...
    • Environmental visualizations: Framing and reframing between science, policy and society 

      van Beek, Lisette; Metze, Tamara; Kunseler, Eva; Huitzing, Hiddo; de Blois, Filip; Wardekker, Arjan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Visualizations are influential in the interaction between environmental science and policy. Research on framing in environmental visualizations (visual framing) is expanding. These studies typically focus on ‘static’ images; ...