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Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The European Union (EU) envisions a shift towards a bioeconomy to address challenges such as reducing dependence on non-renewable resources, managing natural resources sustainably and food security. As a result, biomass ... -
Fringe Biotechnology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)Recent amateur and alternative uses of wet laboratory biology techniques have been called by many names. However, none of the terms currently in use include institutional, entrepreneurial and amateur engagements in ... -
From Elite Folk Science to the Policy Legend of the Circular Economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07)This paper explores the implications of the widespread success of the term circular economy in the institutional and public debate. The concept of circular economy in itself implies a logical contradiction: on the one hand, ... -
From risk calculations to narratives of danger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The purpose of this perspective article is to provide a broader viewpoint on the contents of this special issue on ‘narratives of change’ and the role of narratives not only for climate risk governance, but also for the ... -
The Future of Sensitivity Analysis: An essential discipline for systems modeling and policy support
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Sensitivity analysis (SA) is en route to becoming an integral part of mathematical modeling. The tremendous potential benefits of SA are, however, yet to be fully realized, both for advancing mechanistic and data-driven ... -
Førende forestillinger i fosterpolitikken. En metafor- og diskursanalyse av hvordan kvinne, foster og abort blir konstituert i stortingsdebatter om abort og fosterdiagnostikk
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-08-14)Abstract Background: During the first twenty years of prenatal diagnostics in Norway, selective abortion on eugenic grounds according to The Abortion Law`s section 2c was seen as an advisable and reasonable medical decision. ... -
Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter focusses on governance of digital innovation, making two claims: first, that post - truth is not a mere surface phenomenon, but rather grounded in the general production of knowledge and ignorance. Second, it ... -
Habermas' method: Rational reconstruction
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10-07)This dissertation clarifies, discusses and elaborates on the method of Jürgen Habermas’ philosophical enterprise: rational reconstruction. The method is designed for a systematic reconstruction of the intuitive knowledge ... -
‘Healthism’ and public health in the Norwegian welfare state : A discursive theory of science approach to the translation of public health science and policy into practice
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)This dissertation employs discourse analytic reading strategies in order to examine lifestyle intervention as knowledge practices realizing public health science and policy in the Norwegian welfare state. It addresses a ... -
How often are outcomes other than change in substance use measured? A systematic review of outcome measures in contemporary randomised controlled trials
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Issues Recovery is a theoretical construct and empirical object of inquiry. The aim was to review whether outcome measures used in randomised controlled trials of drug treatment reflect a comprehensive conceptualisation ... -
Indicator development as a site of collective imagination? The case of European Commission policies on the circular economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent years the concept of the circular economy gained prominence in EU policy-making. The circular economy promotes a future in which linear ‘make-use-dispose’ cultures are replaced by more circular models. In this ... -
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Earth’s entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a global risk to key insect-mediated ecosystem functions and services such as soil and freshwater functions (nutrient cycling, soil ... -
Insect feeds in salmon aquaculture: sociotechnical imagination and responsible story-telling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Salmon aquaculture is a growing industry with increasing challenges of feed sustainability and availability. This global sustainability issue has led to calls for novel feeds. Aquafly, a Norwegian research project, has ... -
Intellectual Practicians: An Exploration of Professionalism among Upper Secondary School Teachers with Icelandic Mother Tongue Teachers as a Contextualized Empirical Case
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-21)The study Intellectual practicians explores an educational practice; more particularly that of mother tongue teachers in upper secondary school in Iceland as experienced and described by some of these teachers. The study’s ... -
Introduction. Post-truth – another fork in modernity’s path
(Chapter, 2021)This text provides an introduction to the volume as a whole, focusing on topics that were much discussed during its preparation and writing. It gives a critical overview of some main events, public and academic discussions, ... -
Investigating the process of ethical approval in citizen science research: The case of Public Health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Undertaking citizen science research in Public Health involving human subjects poses significant challenges concerning the traditional process of ethical approval. It requires an extension of the ethics of protection of ... -
Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A sustainable management of global freshwater resources requires reliable estimates of the water demanded by irrigated agriculture. This has been attempted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through country ... -
Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol’ indices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Variogram Analysis of Response Surfaces (VARS) has been proposed by Razavi and Gupta as a new comprehensive framework in sensitivity analysis. According to these authors, VARS provides a more intuitive notion of ... -
Knowledge and Its Legitimacy, an Exploratory (Meta)Ethical Framework-Based Analysis of Narratives on Coastal Flooding Risks in a Changing Climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Knowledge quality assessment (KQA) has been developed in order to analyze the role of knowledge in situations of high stakes and urgency when characterized by deep uncertainty and ignorance. Governing coastal flood risk ... -
Make Way for the Robots! Human‑ and Machine‑Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-13)This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of ‘autonomous’ robots to address what is imagined as Europe’s societal challenges. The paper describes how an emerging techno-epistemic network ...