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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 ... -
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 ... -
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) is one of the most central indicators informing the international development agenda. Reported annually by the Rome-based UN agencies in their flagship report The State of Food ... -
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 ... -
Hvilke aspekter av bærekraft fremmes av transformasjonsledelse, og hvordan kan dette bidra til bærekraftig omstilling i bedrifter? Kasusstudie av VILL MER
(Master thesis, 2024-05-17)FNs sjette klimarapport ble referert til som «kode rød for planeten» (UN, 2021). Rapporten gjør det klart at mulighetsvinduet for å håndtere klimakrisen er i ferd med å lukke seg raskt, og er en vekker til regjeringer, ... -
Hvordan kan aktører i Vestland bidra til bærekraftig omstilling i små og mellomstore bedrifter?
(Master thesis, 2023-04-20)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker problemstillingen: Hvordan kan aktører i Vestland bidra til bærekraftig omstilling i små og mellomstore bedrifter (heretter SMB-er). Oppgaven reflekterer erfaringer og observasjoner fra et ... -
Hvorfor ser naturmangfold så ofte ut til å tape overfor andre interesser i konsekvensutredninger etter Statens vegvesen sin håndbok V712?
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven er en kartlegging av utfordringer som bidrar til å svare på problemstillingen; ‘hvorfor ser naturmangfold så ofte ut til å tape overfor andre interesser i konsekvensutredninger etter Statens vegvesen ... -
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 ... -
Implementing co-created citizen science in five environmental epidemiological studies in the CitieS-Health project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background and aim Scientists and scientific institutions are adopting more extensive participatory models, hoping to revisit the existing relationship between science and society. Though citizen science has become more ... -
The Impossible Moderation of Pardo-Guerra. A Review of Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra’s The Quantified Scholar. How Research Evaluation Transformed the British Social Sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a Mexican born scholar with considerable experience of working in the UK, now an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, takes us on a leisurely stroll along the predicaments ... -
Improving the reliability of cohesion policy databases
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this contribution, we present an innovative data-driven model to reconstruct a reliable temporal pattern for time-lagged statistical monetary figures. Our research cuts across several domains regarding the production ... -
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 ...