Blar i Faculty of Humanities på forfatter "Iversen, Thor Olav"
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Boundary experts: Science and politics in measuring the Sustainable Development Goals
Iversen, Thor Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) purport to cleanly separate politics and technical matters, embodied by the political negotiation of goals and targets, and the technical creation of an indicator framework. This ... -
The history of hunger: Counting calories to make global food security legible
Iversen, Thor Olav; Westengen, Ola Tveitereid; Jerven, Morten (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 ... -
Making world hunger legible : The politics of measuring global food insecurity
Iversen, Thor Olav (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 ... -
Measuring the end of hunger: Knowledge politics in the selection of SDG food security indicators
Iversen, Thor Olav; Westengen, Ola Tveitereid; Jerven, Morten (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 ...