Browsing Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) by Title
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‘My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Citizen science is put forward as a method for extending science to include communities in learning about, and adapting to, climate variability and change in the places they live. But it is difficult to find evidence of ... -
Narrative review of citizen science in environmental epidemiology: Setting the stage for co-created research projects in environmental epidemiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Several citizen science (CS) initiatives have been adopted in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to civic concerns. Nevertheless, CS projects in environmental epidemiology ... -
Navigating Transdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities between Offshore Wind Power and Fisheries: A Qualitative Case Study of the Hywind Tampen Project
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)The world's energy landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the urgent need to mitigate climate change and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. In this context, renewable energy sources have become ... -
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus ... -
The Nexus Times
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The normativity in psychiatric nosology. An analysis of how the DSM-5’s psychopathology conceptualisation can be integrated
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) uses the conceptualization of psychopathology to make psychiatric diagnoses operational. The use of explicit operational criteria appears to ... -
The notion of ‘responsible development’ in new approaches to governance of nanosciences and nanotechnologies
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-10-08)This PhD dissertation looks at the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies (nanoST), a field that has gained tremendous political and economic momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. It is also a field ... -
On Cultures and Artscience. Interdisciplinarity and Discourses of “Twos” and “Threes” after Snow’s Two Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)At least since C.P. Snow’s seminal Rede lecture The Two Cultures, the idea of a significant difference in kind between the natural sciences and the arts and humanities has been prevalent in Western culture. A gap has been ... -
Peirce’s classification of the sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article considers Charles Peirce’s classification of the sciences from shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. The classification has two main sources of inspiration: Comte’s science classification and Kant’s ... -
The Platonism of Modern Physical Science: Historical Roots and “Rational Reconstruction”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Perhaps the most influential historian of science of the last century, Alexandre Koyré, famously argued that the icon of modern science, Galileo Galilei, was a Platonist who had hardly performed experiments. Koyré has been ... -
The politics of measurement and the case of energy efficiency policy in the European Union
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Energy efficiency is a policy strategy to make energy savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. This paper investigates the passage of amendments to the Energy Efficiency Directive during 2016–2018 as a case ... -
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The accumulating scientific evidence on global insect and pollinator decline is fuelling calls for pollinator conservation policies. A broad range of regulating and incentivising policies is undoubtedly needed to address ... -
Post-normal science in practice: Reflections from scientific experts working on the European agri-food policy nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Post-Normal Science (PNS) emphasises the need for scientists and policy-makers to iteratively co-analyse and learn together, as part of an extended peer community. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts ... -
Precise Yet Uncertain: Broadening Understandings of Uncertainty and Policy in the BPA Controversy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most studied and most controversial chemicals used by the food packaging industry, because of its endocrine disruptive properties. Part of the controversy is due to the uncertainty that ... -
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since 2018, has introduced design-based approaches to data protection and the governance of privacy. In this article we describe the emergence of the ... -
Profiteers of Ignorance: Climate Obstruction, the Micropolitics of Denial, and Power-Knowledge
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)I 40 år har en rekke høyreorienterte tenketanker sponset av store oljeselskaper sådd tvil om realitetene rundt klimaendringer og klimapolitikk i USA. Dette har de gjort ved å sette spørsmålstegn ved klimavitenskap og ... -
Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is ... -
Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The reasons for and against composite indicators are briefly reviewed, as well as the available theories for their construction. After noting the strong normative dimension of these measures—which ultimately aim to ‘tell ... -
Quantity in Old Norse and modern peninsular North Germanic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-02-08)This article discusses the transition from a system with contrastive, segmental quantity in Old Norse into the present day system characterizing most Norwegian and Swedish dialects, where stressed syllables are obligatorily ... -
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 ...