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The Challenges of greening energy: Policy/industry dissonance at the Mongstad refinery, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)The interaction between policy making and industry is a key to understanding the conditions for ‘greening’ contemporary energy systems. This article uses efforts toward greening the Mongstad oil refinery in Norway as a ... -
Challenges of Implementing Peace Accord: The Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) was designed to maintain peace and security in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region. The study examines the extent of policy output of the CHTPA implementation in terms ... -
The challenges of women participation in local governance: the case of Accra and Tamale metropolitan assemblies
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)The woman in Ghana hews the wood, carries the water, satisfies the man, produces and takes care of the child to continue the family tree and manages all house chores. All these are justifications that she can be put in a ... -
Challenges with Scaling Scrum to Large-Scale Software Development: A Case Study
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)Agile software development methods have become popular since the introduction of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Agile methods, such as Scrum, are originally created for small co-located teams but have been adopted to large-scale ... -
Challenging Normativity: Emergent Socialities, Hope and Social Freedom
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Challenging the Gaze. The study of a Socially Conscious Photographic Initiative based in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2011-06-23)The aim of this thesis is to consider the real life interplay between ambitions and restrictions to aDhaka based photographic initiative, with the core objective to contest stereotypicalrepresentations of Bangladesh in ... -
Change in Local Voluntary Associations
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A changed welfare-state: Sweden through the 1980s
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This thesis seeks to contribute to the important debate regarding whether who governs matter, and if the relationship between the government and labor unions affect economic performance. The research question is: "Did ... -
Changes in funding of higher education and research: stronger governmental steering and organisational control of higher education institutions and academic behaviour?
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-19)Funding of higher education and research has experienced substantial changes in the last decades. Although there is variation across European countries, a stronger competitive element increasingly characterises higher ... -
Changes in health-related rehabilitation trajectories following a major Norwegian welfare reform
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background In this study we investigated the health-related rehabilitation trajectories of young Norwegian adults between 2004–2019. The study period is interesting because it overlaps with an extensive welfare system ... -
Changes in online course designs: Before, during, and after the pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The switch to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic became for many university instructors a necessity to familiarise themselves with the institution’s online learning management system (LMS). This switch ... -
Changes in the landscape in a protected area in the Peruvian rainforest and the impact on the local population: case of the Mishana community
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)This research focuses on the landscape change in a small community (Mishana) located within inside a protected area (Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve), in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru. The landscape is formed by the ... -
Changing Attitudes towards Government Responsibility for Social Welfare in China between 2004-2014: Evidence from Three National Surveys
(Journal article, 2022)Social policies in China have expanded rapidly since the early 2000s, broadening welfare provisions aiming to improve citizens’ well-being in a context of rapid development and increasing inequality. How people see the ... -
Changing conditions for political practice: FDI discourse and political spaces for labor in Bolivia
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-18)Various authors have pointed out that the complex processes of globalization arebringing about general shifts in political practices. In particular, these processes areseen to have weakened traditional practices relating ... -
Changing Forestry Governance in Nepal Himalaya. Interactions of Community Forestry with REDD+ and Traditional Institution
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-21)Although traditional institutions remained involved in the management of local forests in some areas of Nepal Himalaya, Community Forestry (CF) is now a well-established formal forest management institution of the country. ... -
Changing Narratives. Five Essays on Hollywood History
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Changing Narratives? An Analysis of the Effects of the European Debt Crisis on the European Integration Narratives of the SPD and the CDU/CSU
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)With this thesis I aim to investigate the effects of the European debt crisis on the European Integration narratives of political parties. Taking an actor centred view on European integration, a qualitative analysis of the ... -
Changing Salty Food Preferences with Visual and Textual Explanations in a Search Interface
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Salt is consumed at too high levels in the general population, causing high blood pressure and related health problems. In this paper, we present results of ongoing research that tries to reduce salt intake via technology ... -
Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article seeks to explore if and how period specific conditions affect young women’s thoughts about their future lives. A contextualist analysis is done of a small sample of biographical interviews with Norwegian women ... -
CHASSIS guideline
(Others, 2012-11-09)The Combined Harm Assessment for Safety and Security of Information Systems is a method for performing safety and security requirements elicitation. This document describes the guideline for applying the method.