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Supporting Newsrooms with Journalistic Knowledge Graph Platforms: Current State and Future Directions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Increasing competition and loss of revenues force newsrooms to explore new digital solutions. The new solutions employ artificial intelligence and big data techniques such as machine learning and knowledge graphs to manage ... -
Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The water-energy-food nexus concept is criticized as not yet fit for deeply integrated and contested governance agendas. One problem is how to achieve equitable risk governance and management where there is low consensus ... -
Supreme Court Justices’ Economic Behaviour: A Multilevel Model Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)Supreme Court justices are overlooked, but important, national policy-making players who render final and consequential decisions in cases on economic conflicts. The research question asks what forces explain the decisional ... -
Surface melt driven summer diurnal and winter multi-day stick-slip motion and till sedimentology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-08)Fluctuations in glacier motion are very common and are thought to be controlled by subglacial hydrology and till deformation. There are few instrumented studies that have monitored seasonal changes. We use the innovative ... -
Sustainability here and now : The governance of urban transformation in Oslo and Addis Ababa
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-11-23)For at det skal være mulig å handle opp mot klimaendringer, må problemet ses som relevant for beslutningene som tas her og nå. Tradisjonelt sett har klimaendringer blitt rammet in som et globalt problem i fjern fremtid. I ... -
Sustainability of forestry in Romania: Analysis using a dynamic simulation model; a case for public access to information on natural resources
(Master thesis, 2019-08-30)There have been ample studies on the sustainability of Romanian forestry from a qualitative perspective. Quantitative studies on Romania’s forests, however, have focused on either static analysis, or historical analysis. ... -
Sustainability reporting as a matter of social contract: management and geographical perspective
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Sustainability reports provide a demonstration of a company’s performance and impacts on environmental and social issues. In the past decade, sustainability reports have become a requirement for a company to maintain its ... -
Sustainability-oriented innovation: Improving problem definition through combined design thinking and systems mapping approaches
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract Sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) is receiving increased focus, as sustainability takes a more central role in business, development, and education arenas. SOI processes typically draw from design thinking ... -
Sustainable and healthy diets: Synergies and trade‐offs in Switzerland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Food systems have increasingly strong impacts on the environment, and they influence our human well-being. In Switzerland, food consumption accounts for one-third of the environmental impact caused by total final consumption. ... -
Sustainable Aviation Fuel in a Scandinavian Context - A Systems Perspective on Sustainable Transitions within the Aviation Industry
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)The aviation sector is a major contributor to global carbon emissions, accounting for approximately 2.5% of total global emissions. The main contributor to these emissions is the production and consumption of aviation fuel, ... -
Sustainable development goal interactions for a just transition: multi-scalar solar energy rollout in Portugal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Solar energy rollout has environmental and socio-economic impacts vital for just low-carbon energy transitions. The modular characteristics of solar photovoltaics enable multi-scalar deployment. How do environmental and ... -
Sustainable development in a megacity - Assessing a shared public bicycle scheme in Mexico City
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Sustainable development in the Lower Mekong Basin Cambodia
(Master thesis, 2017-08-23)Dette er en model som simulerer sosiale, økologiske og økonomiske konsekvenser av vannkraft utbygging i Mekong regionen i Kambodsja. Modellen er basert på Systemdynamikk og er bygget i programvaren Vensim fra Ventana ... -
Sustainable Waste Management: The dynamics of Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste in Bergen, Norway
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Svalbard – ikkje her, men der palmane er! Tilhørigheit og ambivalens. Eit studie av ´senior-ungdommen` i Longyearbyen
(Master thesis, 2007)At verda rundt oss er i stadig endring er noko vi etterkvart har begynt å ta innover oss. Eit av kjenneteikna med dei endringane vi har fått spesielt i løpet av det 20. århundre er at verda for oss framstår som mindre. ... -
Svartelistearter i Bergen - En trussel for det biologiske mangfoldet?
(Master thesis, 2015-11-17)The subject of this Masters thesis is alien species; a topic of increasing debate within the field of biogeography in recent years. Alien species are species that, aided by human activity, are able to spread beyond the ... -
Svevende forventninger. Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv og Klassekampen sin fremstilling av nettskyen: en metaforanalyse
(Master thesis, 2017-06-30)I denne masteroppgaven analyserer og diskuterer jeg fremstillingen av nettlagringstjenester i avisene Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv og Klassekampen. Dette gjør jeg gjennom en kvalitativ tilnærming og metaforanalyse av ... -
Svovel i stratosfæren som klimatiltak - En økonomisk analyse
(Master thesis, 2009-06-02)Relativt nylig har svovel vært foreslått sprøytet ut i stratosfæren for å redusere strålingen fra solen og for dermed å redusere den globale gjennomsnittstemperaturen. Sprøyting av svovel i stratosfæren faller inn under ... -
Swiss and Norwegian regions in Brussels: How and why do the regions of associated member-states of the EU mobilize in Brussels?
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)Why do the regions of Norway have regional offices in Brussels while the Swiss regions do not? The research done in the thesis features one of the first analyses done on regional mobilization from countries currently not ... -
Swiss private banking, market forecasting and analysis: A systems dynamics approach
(Master thesis, 2013-06-27)The Swiss private banking industry has been always known as one of the leading off-shore private banking centers. During the last five years, however, the market entered a phase of fundamental change. Global economic ...