Browsing Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) by Title
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Editorial: High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability
(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
(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
(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
(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; ... -
Epistemic injustice in the age of evidence-based practice: The case of fibromyalgia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of this paper is to analyze epistemic interactions in healthcare practices. In clinical encounters, participants exchange and interpret knowledge. Patients suffering from fibromyalgia often report that healthcare ... -
Ethical refections on the COVID‑19 pandemic in the global seafood industry: navigating diverse scales and contexts of marine values and identities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The global crisis instantiated by the COVID-19 pandemic opens a unique governance window to transform the sustainability, resilience, and ethics of the global seafood industry. Simultaneously crippling public health, civil ... -
Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Something can be gained by looking at common ethical features of different instances of quantification. While ethics of algorithms is perceived at present as an urgent issue, similar concerns can easily be associated to ... -
Expert accountability: what does it mean, why is it challenging - and is it what we need?
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Exploring Businesses’ Justifications for Sustaining and Developing Value through Climate Risk Adaptation and Mitigation - A Norwegian Savings Bank Case Study
(Master thesis, 2024-05-29)Klimaendringer øker klimarisiko for næringslivet. Dette bærekraftsproblemet er en global samfunnsutfordring, da næringslivets klimatiltak er vesentlig for å utvikle og bevare verdi gjennom tilpasning og skadebegrensning ... -
Exploring the Concept of Integrity—Toward a Craft-Inspired Interpretation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The concept of integrity is used as a psychosocial concept to describe tensions and dilemmas experienced by professional and semi-professional workers in a neoliberal working life. In Norway, the concept has even been ... -
Extended Peer Communities: Appraising the contributions of tacit knowledges in climate change decision-making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper explores the implications of assessing tacit knowledges of climatic change in extended peer communities, as applied in two European research projects on climate action. Post-normal science (PNS) proposes the ... -
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and ... -
Facing the tragedy of change in the semiotic process: The role of science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We offer an interpretation of the concepts of integrity and quality of science based on semiotics. Science is a key component of the semiotic process in society, its role being the selection of representations of relevant ... -
Feminism, Epistemology & Morality
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Filled with Desire, Perceive Molecules
(Chapter, 2022)Could there be a Taoist philosophy of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)? This chapter discusses why a molecular treatment of AML has been so hard to find but still so intensely researched, and exposes some of the ethical ... -
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 ... -
Forvaltning av Norsk Villaks - Viktigheten av lokal kunnskapsproduksjon i forvaltningen av Atlantisk villaks i Norge
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Denne oppgaven tar for seg forvaltningen av Atlantisk villaks i Norge, ved å benytte en transdisiplinær tilnærming til problemstillingen: «Hvordan kan økt vektlegging av lokal kunnskapsproduksjon, bidra til en mer bærekraftig ... -
Fra ord til handling? UN Global Compact Norge som endringsaktør for små og mellomstore bedrifter gjennom rapporteringsverktøyet «Communication on Progress».
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Businesses are expected to be responsible in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability. They are increasingly met with expectations from stakeholders and demands to report on their impact and advances, but ... -
Framing ‘Resilient Cities’: System Versus Community Focused Interpretations of Urban Climate Resilience
(Chapter, 2023)Building urban resilience to climate change and other challenges will be essential for maintaining thriving cities into the future. Resilience has become very popular in both research on and practice of climate adaptation. ... -
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 ...