Browsing Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) by Title
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The interaction between cultural heritage and community resilience in disaster-affected volcanic regions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Research on cultural heritage and disasters often focuses on the vulnerability of heritage and ways to disaster-proof it against geophysical, societal, and environmental hazards. However, heritage might in turn also increase ... -
The interdependence of substance use, satisfaction with life, and psychological distress: a dynamic structural equation model analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Introduction: Longitudinal studies with annual follow-up including psychological and social variables in substance use disorder recovery are scarce. We investigated whether levels of substance use, satisfaction with life, ... -
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 ... -
Kjønnsperspektivet i bærekraftsledelse: En kvalitativ studie om kvinnelige bærekraftsansvarliges erfaringer i norske bedrifter
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker bærekraftsrollen i norske bedrifter gjennom et kjønnsperspektiv. Med fokus på hvordan denne rollen oppleves og utføres av kvinner, skal oppgaven undersøke utfordringene og mulighetene et ... -
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 ... -
Large variations in global irrigation withdrawals caused by uncertain irrigation efficiencies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)An assessment of the human impact on the global water cycle requires estimating the volume of water withdrawn for irrigated agriculture. A key parameter in this calculation is the irrigation efficiency, which corrects for ... -
Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Current efforts towards sustainability tend to focus on maintaining existing systems and structures, by relying on reductionist approaches to problem solving. Increasingly, there is a call for more effective action in ... -
Limiting the carbon dioxide emission aboard an offshore salmon farm by introducing a wind and battery system.
(Master thesis, 2023-05-16)Oppgåva vil sjå på moglegheita til å bruke vindkraft og batteri til å avgrense bruken av dieselgenerator, og dermed kutte utslepp av karbondioksid med 80 % om bord dei planlagde offshore lakseoppdrettsanlegga til SalMar ... -
Lokalisering og implementering av FN sine berekraftsmål i regional forvalting. Eit kvalitativt casestudie av Statsforvaltaren i Vestland.
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Temaet for denne praktisbaserte masteroppgåva er lokalisering og implementering av FN sine berekraftsmål i regional forvalting. Gjennom eit kvalitativt casestudie av Statsforvaltaren i Vestland er formålet å bidra med ... -
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 ... -
Making common sense of vaccines: an example of discussing the recombinant attenuated salmonella vaccine with the public
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-10)Researchers have iterated that the future of synthetic biology and biotechnology lies in novel consumer applications of crossing biology with engineering. However, if the new biology’s future is to be sustainable, early ... -
Making Sense of Rare Earth Elements. An interdisciplinary approach to mineral resources’ ethics and governance
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This interdisciplinary PhD dissertation aims to identify and address the ethical challenges posed by rare earth elements, as a non-renewable, ill-distributed, and valuable resource. The overall theoretical framework in ... -
Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Visionary imaginaries of desirable ‘smart’ urban energy futures entice city governments into innovation and collaboration aimed at large-scale urbanism. As part of attending to actualizations and materializations of ‘smart’ ... -
Making world hunger legible : The politics of measuring global food insecurity
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-02)Indikatorar for mattryggleik og ernæring er blant dei mest sentrale måleinstrumenta for internasjonal utvikling. Forskingslitteraturen kring historiske, konseptuelle og politiske dimensjonar ved måling av svolt er likevel ... -
Mapping ethical and social aspects of cancer biomarkers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12)Cancer biomarkers represent a revolutionary advance toward personalised cancer treatment, promising therapies that are tailored to subgroups of patients sharing similar generic traits. Notwithstanding the optimism driving ... -
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 ... -
Measuring the end of hunger: Knowledge politics in the selection of SDG food security indicators
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ending world hunger remains one of the central global challenges, but the question of how to measure and define the problem is politically charged. This article chronicles and analyses the indicator selection process for ...