Blar i Department of Geography på utgivelsesdato
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New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that concentrate human and financial resources and needs. ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Dynamic implications of the biological link between bovine milk and meat production for operationalizing the planetary health diet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The EAT–Lancet planetary health diet (PHD) provides guidelines on a global scale and calls for red meat consumption to be halved. Operational PHD guidelines at country level have yet to be determined. Here we argue that ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Optimizing national border reopening policies in the COVID-19 pandemic: A modeling study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-30)Objective: After emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions, countries worldwide have sought to reopen as quickly as possible. However, reopening involves the risk of epidemic rebound. In this study, ... -
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 ... -
From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-16)Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming a widely recognized approach to urban sustainability. Most of the literature and policy handbooks on the topic emphasize the importance of participation in some form but interpretations ... -
The potential for transformative adaptation : Collaborative spaces and collective value development in local climate adaptation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-10-20)Behovet for klimaomstilling, -tilpassing og -handling for å kunne handtere konsekvensane av menneskeskapte klimaendringar og tap av biologisk mangfald har aldri vore større. Dette prosjektet utforskar korleis heilskaplege ... -
Governance learning from collective actions for just climate adaptation in cities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-30)Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives and collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing ... -
A Geoecological History of Høgtuvbreen: Vegetation succession on the foreland of a retreating glacier in northern Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-08-01)Norway is facing massive glacial ablation, with projections of 98% loss of glacial cover by the close of the 21st century, releasing thousands of square kilometres to the progression of primary succession. Alongside this, ... -
Freight Transport Decarbonization: How Policy and Logistics Trends Affect Achievement of Climate Objectives
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-14)The transport sector is a major and growing contributor to climate change, requiring large and rapid emissions cuts to keep 1.5ºC global warming pathways within reach. Indeed, transport is attributed a prominent role in ... -
Planning to transform : Exploring the role of climate and energy action plans in municipal low-carbon transformation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-18)The point of departure of the present thesis is to understand local efforts towards low-carbon societies from the point of view of municipalities. Both the theoretical and empirical focus is placed on the municipality as ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-02-11)Firm value creation and maximization is the primary objective of any firm and the most debated issue in corporate finance. Firms operate in the market to create value for the stakeholders. Valuation plays its role in many ... -
Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Healthcare is complex with multi-professional staff and a variety of patient care pathways. Time pressure and minimal margins for errors, as well as tension between hierarchical power and the power of the ... -
Household Vulnerability to Flood Disasters among Tharu Community, Western Nepal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Monsoon floods are frequent in the Tarai region of Nepal and claim thousands of lives and substantial numbers of properties every year. Certain human activities are more affected than others in the case of the same hazard. ... -
Who is “The Child”? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While the substantiation of “best interests” has received much attention, the question of how “the child” is conceptualised to ensure any action taken or decision made is in the particular child’s best interests has been ... -
Applying a systems perspective to understand the mechanisms of the European School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background For the past two decades, the percentage of European children who consume fruit daily has remained at around 40%, despite numerous school-based policy efforts and interventions. This study aimed to apply a ... -
Age, origin and palaeoclimatic implications of peri- and paraglacial boulder-dominated landforms in Rondane, South Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Boulder-dominated landforms of periglacial, paraglacial and related origin constitute a valuable, but often unexplored source of palaeoclimatic and morphodynamic information. The timing of landform development initiation ... -
Pteridophyte species richness in the central Himalaya is limited by cold climate extremes at high elevations and rainfall seasonality at low elevations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)There is a consensus that climate factors strongly influence species richness along elevation gradients, but which factors are crucial and how they operate are still elusive. Here, we assess the relative importance of ... -
Geodiversity and biodiversity on a volcanic island: The role of scattered phonolites for plant diversity and performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Oceanic islands are cradles of endemism, contributing substantially to global biodiversity. A similarity in magmatic origin translates into high global comparability of substrates of volcanic islands on the oceanic crust ...